New York & London - DataArt, a high-end software development company with R&D centers in Eastern Europe, completed development of Newslive for London-based Ebiquity.
Newslive is set to revolutionize the PR and reputation management industry by giving clients a single point of access to editorial content across every news medium – press, TV, radio, internet, blogs, Web based video and wires – in near real time. Newslive eliminates the need to use multiple monitoring agencies: content from every news medium is delivered straight to a single, supremely easy-to-use online interface, continuously updated on a minute-by-minute basis.
DataArt contributed to the development of all the modules comprising Newslive, including media monitoring and marketing campaign management tools. The system’s customizable Web 2.0 interface provides access to a centralized news library from a number of media sources and allows users to search through all indexed media, storing relevant items in personal folders. The users can generate statistics and reports based on the stored news items, and export them via e-mail on an ad-hoc or scheduled basis to pre-selected recipients. Newslive is the only editorial monitoring service to offer clients a combined reputation score - Cross Media Index - for press, TV, radio and the internet.
"Reputation monitoring and management is more important today than ever before. In Newslive, DataArt has helped us create the most complete and sophisticated media monitoring system on the market. We've had fantastic feedback from both new and existing clients," said Chris Hanage, Sales Director, Ebiquity Newslive.
"DataArt prides itself in helping clients achieve their goals in technology innovation," said Eugene Goland, President of DataArt. "We’re delighted that our engagement with Ebiquity resulted in a product that has its clients raving."
About DataArt: DataArt (www.dataart.com) is a high-end software outsourcing company with industry-specific expertise in financial technology, telecom and media sectors. The company specializes in enterprise application development, system integration and business automation tools. In 2006-2008, DataArt was named one of the world's top emerging outsourcing providers by BusinessWeek, CMP's Global Services 100 and by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Headquartered in New York City, DataArt runs R&D centers in Russia and the Ukraine and maintains offices in London, UK.
Media Contact: Vica Vinogradova 212-378-4108 x 4014vica@dataart.com
DataArt completed development of Newslive for London-based Ebiquity. Newslive is set to revolutionize the PR and reputation management industry by giving clients a single point of access to editorial content across every news medium – press, TV, radio, internet, blogs, Web based video and wires – in near real time. Newslive eliminates the need to use multiple monitoring agencies: content from every news medium is delivered straight to a single, supremely easy-to-use online interface, continuously updated on a minute-by-minute basis.
“Reputation monitoring and management is more important today than ever before. In Newslive, DataArt have helped us create the most complete and sophisticated media monitoring system on the market. We've had fantastic feedback from both new and existing clients," said Chris Hanage, Sales Director, Ebiquity Newslive.
“DataArt prides itself in helping clients achieve their goals in technology innovation,” said Eugene Goland, President of DataArt. “We’re delighted that our engagement with Ebiquity resulted in a product that has its clients raving.”
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Alexei Miller, DataArt's Executive Vice President, talks to Steve Hamm, a senior technology writer with BusinessWeek, about the impact of financial crisis on IT outsourcing providers.
"The global financial meltdown is shaking up the IT off-shoring industry, and it’s not just India where uncertainty about the future reigns. I got on the phone with Alexei Miller, an EVP at DataArt, the New York-based but Russia-centered boutique outsourcing firm. Miller, who was in St. Petersburg, was cautiously optimistic. Still, DataArt has put all of its expansion plans on hold.
A lot of the company’s clients are in the financial services industry, though none of its biggest banking clients, such as BNP Paribas, have been hit hard. (A couple of hedge funds that DataArt did some work for actually went out of business late last year, but it had minimal impact on the firm.) Miller predicts a couple of quarters of chaos, then a recovery. “A lot of people (on Wall Street) will get burned but it won’t kill the business,” he told me. “After this madness is over we hope to ramp up after about six months.” In the meantime, DataArt is playing it safe. It raised about $6 million from private equity investors over the summer--as a financial reserve to cushion it in the event of a slowdown. Revenues grew so fast in the first half that it's on a pace to hit $18 million this year, up 50%, even though revenues have been flat for the past three months and could slow in the next couple of months.
The company, with 450 employees, has programming offices in Russia and Ukraine, and was planning on establishing an office in Belarus. Those plans are on hold now. Also, it had started marketing in France and Sweden, but will pull back now. Its main markets are the US and England. DataArt learned some important lessons from the crash of 2001/02. Back then, most of its clients were dot-coms, and it lost 95% of its business in two months. Now it's much more diversified, with clients in financial services, health care, media, and travel. For determined companies, difficulty only makes them stronger."
Alexei Miller, Executive Vice President at DataArt, and Suhail Nabulsi, a Managing Director at Accretive Technologies, contribute a byline article to Dealing With Technology, the Incisive Media publication dedicated to the trading technology for the sell-side. The article, “Capacity Management: Voices from the Trenches”, discusses benefits of predictive technology and system re-engineering vs. refactoring.
“In recent years, as data volumes explode and latency requirements tightening ever further, most firms find themselves constantly upgrading mission critical systems. Too often, it takes shape of a massive revamp of systems from scratch, often with a complete re-write of software code and purchasing a new set of hardware. Multi-year development and testing efforts result in a system with only a few years of active life, only to be replaced by a new system, a new multi-year effort and multi-million dollar investment,” writes Miller. “Opportunities provided by a gradual improvement and optimization of an active system—a process commonly called re-factoring—are often overlooked. Specifically, processes requiring real-time analytics such as correlation analysis, and massive data processing often benefit materially from applying smarter mathematical algorithms to select areas of existing code base, rather than re-writing the whole package on a fancier platform.”
DataArt announced a new addition to its roster of service offerings: implementation and customization of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which includes CRM workflow configuration and development, installation, data migration and mining, as well as CRM reporting and development of custom Microsoft Outlook plug-ins.
The full potential of Microsoft Dynamics CRM is achieved when all customer tracking systems are integrated into a comprehensive CRM strategy. DataArt's background in database design, implementation and maintenance coupled with a vast experience in data warehousing and online analytical processing allows us to develop effective CRM systems tailored to specific business needs of our clients.
For further information, please see Microsoft Dynamics CRM .
