SoftServe Celebrates its 12th Anniversary

July 8, 2005 - SoftServe, the leading software development company in Eastern Europe, celebrates its twelfth anniversary and marks more than a decade of considerable success and firm commitment to superior services and first-class expertise in outsourced software development.

It is a deep-rooted and time-honored tradition at SoftServe to celebrate Company Anniversary in early July every year. It is one of the most cherished opportunities for SoftServe employees to unwind, and a wonderful chance for its senior management to self-reflect and to set milestones for future development. They truly say, one has to know the past to understand the present, and to deserve a better future.

For this reason, it makes great sense to look back and to trace the origins of SoftServe, as a successful business venture. The company was established in 1993 with a vision to provide first-class services to clients worldwide and to become an industry leader in software development outsourcing. The company owes great thanks for the bright start to the profound zeal of its initial co-founders; as well as to the fact of fruitful collaboration with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Incubator Center, and an excellent delivery to the first client - the world-famous General Electric.

After 12 years of hard work and a strong commitment to high quality and superior services, SoftServe can boast a number of achievements: 600+ of projects completed worldwide for over 100 IT companies; 500+ of qualified managers, consultants, analysts, and highly-skilled software engineers; 2 development centers in Lviv, Ukraine; 3 representative Sales & Marketing offices in Boston, MA; Santa Ana, CA; and Kyiv, Ukraine. SoftServe is ISO:9001-2000 certified since 2003, and has CMMI Level 4 assessment planned for the first quarter of 2006. The company has earned the status of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner; IBM PartnerWorld Member; AmCham member; and is IT Ukraine Association co-founder. It is worthy of note that we were also marked as the major player in Ukrainian IT outsourcing industry by the Global Outsourcing Report 2005.

SoftServe President, Dr. Taras Kytsmey makes a shrewd observation: "The major result of our hard work and enthusiasm is that we were able to not only survive fierce competition in the IT services industry, but also managed to be recognized as one of the largest IT companies in Ukraine and a significant player in the world software outsourcing."

Mr. Taras Vervega, SoftServe Executive Vice President in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, adds: "We were able to achieve this great success, thanks to the highly-skilled SoftServe staff that thrives on the excitement of collaboration, demonstrates unrivaled and up-to-date industry knowledge in software development, builds sophisticated, cutting-edge solutions, and creates client satisfaction. Other two defining variables in SoftServe's success formula would be: the polished software manufacturing cycle, and a strong management team."

In a word, 2005 was another great year for SoftServe, due to lustrous talent and tremendous effort of our growing team, deep commitment from our many satisfied clients, and a number of positive trends in IT outsourcing worldwide.

At SoftServe, we identify ourselves as a great team of agents of change, and a big and supporting family of friends. We are always excited to celebrate the Company anniversary and welcome this holiday with delirious joy, great amusement, open hearts and dazzling smiles. We love this day of the year the most, and believe that despite of the fact that Birthdays make people older, they are good for us, as they take us a step further in the direction of our dreams...

Moreover, a birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. So we tend to enjoy the trip!