DataArt announced a formal technology partnership with TENNIS.com (http://www.tennis.com), the leading tennis site on the internet, and the Official website of TENNIS Magazine.

For the high volume traffic periods surrounding this year’s US Open – the largest tennis event in the world occurring through September 7 in Flushing Meadows (New York), DataArt worked with the TENNIS Company’s internet development team to optimize TENNIS.com’s network configuration for peak loads, made enhancements to the site’s content management system and improved the performance of areas of the site hosting live scores from the US Open. Additionally, DataArt worked to integrate services from technology providers on the TENNIS.com site that pulled in just released images and news stories for all the top players in the game.

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New York, NY - DataArt, a New York-based high-end software outsourcing provider with development centers in Russia and the Ukraine, secured a $4 million private equity investment round, and is aiming to close an additional $2 million in the near future.

The first outside capital investment DataArt has taken since the company inception in 1997 will be used to strengthen sales and marketing efforts in high-end applications development and to support geographic expansion of DataArt’s delivery capabilities in Eastern Europe.
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DataArt was selected to Global Services 100 List for the second year in a row, and was once again recognized as a leader in Emerging European markets.

“We’ve been consistently ranked as one of the top IT providers,” said Michael Zaitsev, CEO of DataArt. Read more...

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DataArt continues to support academic initiatives in Russia, and was the general sponsor of the Fifth Annual all-Russia Informatics Olympiad in the city of Voronezh, where the company has an R&D center.

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DataArt COO Mikhail Zavileysky was a distinguished speaker at the 2007 Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum (UOF), where he lead a business seminar entitled Alternative Business Models for Market Competition.

Zavileysky discussed proven business models that allowed DataArt to become one of the leaders among Eastern European providers, with 14 consecutive quarters of organic growth, which include human capital management, investment strategies and CRM & networking as means for increasing market penetration.

The sold out presentation also addressed investment strategies of different providers, as well management and protection of assets. Zavileysky illustrated his points with case studies from DataArt history, including successful crisis management during the Internet crash; creation of Mail.ru, the largest online portal in Eastern Europe, and further expansion into key verticals through the expert use of business networking and CRM systems.

“DataArt has been represented in the Urkaine for less than a year, thus it is imperative for us to keep a hand on the pulse of Ukrainian outsourcing,” said Mikhail Zavileysky, DataArt COO. “We were thrilled that our colleagues found our ideas relevant and case studies worthy, and appreciate their invaluable input on organizational and technology practices. Special thanks go to representatives of Microsoft, who are true facilitators of developing the industry’s ecosystem.”

The objectives of The Annual Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007 in Kiev are to boost the market for software development and outsourcing services, to discuss global trends in IT markets, and to address current issues in the outsourcing arena.

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The 2008 Outsourcing World Summit is being held February 18-20, 2008 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Florida.

This year’s topic is Built for Change: Reconceptualizing the Corporation in an Era of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Globalization.

The 2008 Outsourcing World Summit

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September 18, 2007. New York, NY

DataArt, a high-end software outsourcing company, was chosen by Orbian, a leading global supply chain finance company, to partner with Orbian in the development of the next generation of its supply chain financing solutions.

Originally launched as a co-venture by Citibank and SAP AG, Orbian Corp. (www.orbian.com) is a privately held company that combines cutting edge technology with innovative funding capabilities to deliver automated trade payment solutions to buyers, and efficient access to cheap working capital to suppliers. Orbian's solutions enable suppliers to leverage their buyer ' s cost of capital to significantly reduce their financing costs relative to traditional methods of receivables financing.

DataArt was chosen as a strategic partner to help with the evolution of Orbian's technology platform which leverages the buyer's existing investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and enables buyers to transmit approved payables and associated remittance information to their supply chain at the point of invoice approval in a secure and automated fashion. Orbian then benefits the entire supply chain by providing low-cost, non-recourse financing through highly effective and secure proprietary processes and technology.

The current Orbian system configuration is a multi-tier system built on EJB 2.1 technology, which is being migrated to EJB3. The processing and reconciliation of cash movements is handled using standard SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI) functionality. The User Interface (for both end-users and Orbian back-office personnel) is built with a standard mix of JSP, JSTL, and Struts with Tiles.

Following Orbian’s recently announced partnership with one of the world's leading spend management solutions providers, DataArt assisted in the integration of the Orbian system with the partner's supplier network. The challenge was to seamlessly combine the capabilities of the two parties and deliver a single interface to customers resulting in a unique, full-service offering incorporating purchase-to-pay automation and working capital management.

"DataArt provides Orbian the opportunity to team with a highly talented firm that shares the same views on the use of technology as an enabler, with skills and experience in the financial services sector, and an underlying belief in the value of partnership," said Dean Miller, Deputy Chairman of Orbian.

Commemorating its 10 years in business, DataArt has hosted St. Petersburg Dialogues Symposium which brought together renowned international speakers from the IT industry. The Symposium, held at one of St. Petersburg historical mansions, showcased a distinguished group of prominent technologists from around the world who discussed the most imperative issues of global sourcing, innovation and technology today.

Jamie McLellan, CIO for Europe, Africa and Middle East at Ogilvy, opened the Symposium with a presentation Deploying Technology for a Global Company: Innovation and Change Management, outlining Ogilvy’s success in managing 497 offices in 125 countries supporting more than 2,300 clients, and over 14,000 employees worldwide. According to McLellan, the global challenge is managing needs & wants as well as expectations concerning IT, which in turn brings the issue of affordability and compatibility. According to McLellan, demand generation, consumerism and evolution are the key drivers for innovation.

Alexei Miller, Executive Vice President at DataArt, the host organization, described the evolution of software outsourcing industry through the prism of DataArt’s 10 year history. The path from generic software work in the late-90s, fuelled by internet technologies boom and sobered by the following crash, the industry as a whole has taken a more mature, quality-driven position. DataArt continues to innovate, building itself as a high-end provider of “expertise-based outsourcing” services. Miller covered two major trends which will affect the industry in the next decade: (1) the changing vendor landscape – the shift from all-India strategy to global multi-sourcing, involving emerging geographies such as Eastern Europe and (2) the shift in the risk/responsibility equation; whereby vendors take on more responsibility and move from staff augmentation to application outsourcing service model. DataArt sees itself as an “enabler” – a vendor that helps companies use these trends to use global resources for tasks that were previously thought not suitable for outsourcing.

Dr. Christian Oversohl, Vice President and Head of Sapient Europe, spoke about managing distributed teams and projects. After listing numerous challenges to an outsourced project, from lack of executive support, clear business objectives, process and methodology to user and client management and cultural differences, Oversohl pointed that the basis for selecting the right offshore partner is the need to focus on the “real cost of ownership” for offshore projects, not simply cutting cost as usually thought. Sapient’s Global Distributed Delivery Model ensures smooth bridging of continents and cultures in delivering projects, where a united team and common methodology are the basis for success, and cultural differences are taken into consideration.

Jean-Francois Loche, Vice President and CIO of Nissan Europe, made an overview of his organization's broad use of technology outsourcing over the years. He highlighted the differences in outsourcing approaches by major Nissan divisions - the U.S., Asia and Europe and described how outsourcing blends in with Nissan core business planning process. Loche described Nissan IT group's BEST value up strategy, including key components Business Alignment, Enterprise Architecture, Selective Sourcing and Technology Simplification.

Dr. Gernot Gmelin, Head of Global New Technologies, Technology Architecture and Strategy at Novartis Pharma AG, presented his company’s outlook on changing technology environment and emerging information security threats. His presentation included examples of how a large organization such as Novartis educates its employees and partners on various aspects of information security.

Key not speaker, Mark Minevich, Founder and Executive Chairman of Billion Minds Foundation discussed globalization. In his presentation, he outlined the mission of BMF to promote the sustainable development and growth of a global economy of six billion minds through social knowledge entrepreneurship and socially responsible investments, and pointed that technology is an important enabler of this mission.

The event also included two panels, The Impact of Technology on Globalization of Financial Services, moderated by Orest Kyzyk of OMK Associates, and Russia’s Role in Global Innovation, moderated by Heidi Brown, Senior Reporter at Forbes Magazine.

This is the first even of such magnitude hosted by DataArt, and represents the company’s vision for using global resources in high end technology tasks. Participation of prominent technology executives from around the world reaffirmed that vision. The company plans to organize the Symposium annually in one of its four locations worldwide.