SoftServe's 14 Years of Considerable Success

On July 6, 2007 SoftServe, a leading provider of outsourced software development services in Eastern Europe, celebrated its 14th birthday traditionally gathering all co-workers from throughout of Ukraine at Viking Bay resort outside Lviv.

During 14 years of delivering top-notch software development services, SoftServe has accomplished over 1500 successful projects for over 100 clients. Last year in SoftServe’s history has been a period of tremendous work, high pace of growth and numerous achievements.

The company continued its regional expansion, establishing new development facilities in Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi, increasing the number of employees up to 900 during last six months. Being a bold innovator in diverse fields, SoftServe launched SoftServe University, the first Ukrainian educational institution of this type purposed for improvement of developers’ knowledge, gaining technical experience and retraining.

Based on results of “Global Services 100” of 2007, a list of world’s most innovative service providers prepared by neoIT and CMP Technology, SoftServe was ranked No. 2 in “Top 10 to Watch in Emerging European Markets” category and No. 7 in “Top 10 Leaders in Human Capital Development” category.

In 2007 SoftServe also re-enrolled as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with the most Microsoft Competencies achieved among IT companies in Ukraine. Another well-earned success was that SoftServe was named as the Finalist for the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in Custom Development Solutions, Web Development, with its RE3W application for real estate business.

In his official greeting speech, SoftServe’s President, Taras Kytsmey put strong emphasis on corporate values of the company that contribute to the outstanding achievements and guide co-workers in their professional activities. “In the nearest future the strategy of the company will be aimed on aggressive growth and differentiation, bringing about further advancement of technologies and tools of development, and even more efficient communication with our clients. We expect continuous and steady growth of the company in the nearest future with up to 50% for this year, securing consistent position of SoftServe in the world IT outsourcing market,” he said.

Mr. Taras Vervega, SoftServe’s EVP in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development, added: “The number of our projects is steadily increasing; therefore, we are focused on expansion and steady improvement of development process efficiency. Our paramount priority is to deliver together with top quality of software applications, appreciable business value in order to provide high level of client satisfaction.”

Top management expressed gratitude to the growing high-skilled team of SoftServe whose bright enthusiasm, strong persistence and lustrous talent create sophisticated cutting-edge solutions enabling excellent deliveries to company’s clients.