IDG News Service - EBay plans to announce a deal to sell its Skype voice-over-IP service to a group of private investors, The New York Times reported on its Web site, citing people briefed on the company's plans.

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Cost management is one of the hottest areas in IT. When it works, IT can actually gain a stronger position. After all, you can't replace someone who understands the specifics of how both sides work and uses that knowledge to continuously improve cost effectiveness.

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Calling India for help desk support is one thing, but accessing SaaS applications offshore may be another

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'Outcome-based' contracts are all the rage, but there's often a big gap between what CIOs say they want and what they're ready to do.

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“Our excellent relationship with DPC DATA, an established provider of data and research to the financial industry, demonstrates the benefits they found in working with an outsourcing provider with domain expertise,” said Eugene Goland, president of DataArt. “The financial market has been a main area of our expertise for a number of years, enabling us to help clients optimize time to market and minimize software development risks.”

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To get more specifics, I solicited advice from Eugene Goland, founder of the Offshore Outsourcing Best Practices (OOBP) group, an association of small- and medium-sized businesses aiming to educate the small-business community in the art of offshoring.

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On the surface, it seems like an open and shut case: Financial juggernaut Goldman Sachs accuses its former programming whiz Sergey Aleynikov with trying to steal its super-fast, high-volume trading code.

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IDG News Service - Gartner Inc. raised its revenue forecast for the global chip industry today, saying stronger than expected demand for PCs, LCD TVs, mobile phones and other devices in the second quarter boosted demand for chips.

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IDG News Service - IBM's recently announced plans to buy SPSS, maker of specialized analytics software, will result in a wave of further consolidation in the space, according to a new Forrester Research report.

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H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2009 limits employers' ability to place H-1B applicants at another company without a waiver from Labor Department

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In the competition to bring in the best clients, create great relationships and hold on to them, innovation is flourishing. The outsourcing relationship, the services and the products suppliers offer are all benefiting from this competition-fuelled inventiveness.

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HA NOI — Software companies will experience extreme difficulty in 2009, said a report by the Viet Nam Software Association and US-based International Data Corporation (IDC).

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The economic slump has triggered a whole ripple of business process re-engineering decisions. One of these major decisions taken, that seem to be quite a trend with most contemporary business houses, is the increasing uptake of IT outsourcing.

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IBM's acquisition of SPSS is the first wave of a trend driven by a need for deeper insight into future events and unstructured information

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The IT services market will soon change drastically due to factors including global demographics and new delivery models, says Forrester Research's Christine Ferrusi Ross. Here's advice on how IT leaders can get ready.

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InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame recognizes the 36 most important free open source software projects in history (and today)

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Softline Venture Partners объявляет о начале приема проектов на рассмотрение и инвестиции в независимых разработчиков программного обеспечения на территории Вьетнама. Вьетнам стал первой страной за пределами СНГ и Балтии, в которой Softline Venture Partners осуществляет рассмотрение проектов.

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IT offshoring may boost outsourcing of another kind: medical tourism

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New reports include recommendations for software vendors to crack down on piracy, hold off on the rush to cloud computing, and outsource back-office processes

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Outsourcing relationships and destinations are changing, and vendor management is as important as ever, according to new analyst reports.

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IDG News Service - Online retail spending in the U.S. declined slightly in the second quarter compared to a year earlier, a sign that economic difficulties are still affecting this market, comScore said today.

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Large U.S.-based technology companies and Indian IT outsourcing firms are paying close attention to proposed legislation aimed at tightening restrictions on and increasing oversight of the non-immigrant professional visas they use to place foreign professionals in roles stateside.

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Increasing language enrollments may signal future U.S. workers to apply for jobs in San Francisco, Delhi and Dubai

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DataArt Opens Fourth Development Center, in Kharkov (Ukraine) - July 26, 2007.

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. Symposium Speakers and Panelists Jamie McLellan, Ogilvy Europe Vica Vinogradova, DataArt Christian Oversohl, Sapient Alexey Miller, DataArt Symposium Audience Mark Minevich, Billion Minds Foundation Jean-Francois Loche, Nissan Europe Gernot Gmelin, Novartis Russia Innovation Panel Financial Technology Panel Symposium Reception

New York, June 13, 2007. – DataArt, high-end custom software development company, has received Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status and proved a new competency, Data Management Solutions (Business Intelligence). To secure this level of certification, DataArt had achieved a status of Small Business Specialist while receiving high scores in Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) program.

Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and provides the closest working relationship with Microsoft. At this level, DataArt will have access to the resources and support needed to stand out in the marketplace, including a Technical Services Coordinator and access to the Partner Knowledge Base, which in turn become an additional support for 5customers.

Designed for technology partners with proven competency in implementing Microsoft SQL Server solutions that feature data warehousing, business intelligence, online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, and decision support, the competency has two areas of specialization: Business Intelligence, and Database Solutions. With proving this competency, DataArt solidified its standing as one of the leading technology providers in the segment
“While proving its credentials for Microsoft Gold Partner Program, DataArt went through a rigorous customer satisfaction review process,” said Eugene Goland, President of DataArt. “I am especially pleased that the bulk of customer references came from DataArt’s financial services clients, for whom DataArt has recently implemented several custom solutions based on Microsoft .NET 3.0 technologies and the latest BI platform.”

DataArt is a high-end custom software development 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. Headquartered in New York City, DataArt runs state-of-the-art R&D centers in St. Petersburg and Voronezh, Russia, and maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in London, UK. In 2006-2007, DataArt was named one of the world's top emerging outsourcing providers by BusinessWeek, CMP's Global Services 100 and International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.

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