SoftServe - a Major Player of Ukrainian IT Outsourcing Market. Results of Year 2006.

According to The Global Outsourcing Report – marketing research of world market of offshore programming – SoftServe is defined as one of the major players of Ukrainian IT outsourcing market and one of the most perspective company of this sphere in Ukraine. For Y2006 SoftServe demonstrated the increase of main parameters of its growth.

If we analyze the results of the last 5 years we can see that growth of the export of IT segment where SoftServe is working became the biggest in Ukrainian economy and represents an average growth of 44% annually.

The strategy of our company was always based on competition in quality of the developed software, complexity of the projects and speed development. We are glad that our strategy allowed our company to enjoy high growth rate. This year the number of our employees increased up to 700 people. Correspondingly, we continue to prove our status of the biggest and best IT company in our segment. Two more software development centers were opened: one in Dnipropetrovsk and another in Ivano-Frankivsk. It is necessary to mention that three of our development centers already operate in Lviv and Rivne, as well as sales and marketing offices in Kyiv (Ukraine), Boston and Santa-Ana (USA).

One more trend in IT sector – the increase of company’s investments for the education of its personnel. To increase a professional level of our prospective specialists this year we launched SoftServe University that includes SoftServe IT Academy Program, Microsoft IT Academy Program, SoftServe Language School and SoftServe Certification Center.The mission of this institution is to help students and young specialists gain knowledge and merits, as well as getting Certificate of International IT-professional.

SalesWorks™ system has become one of the biggest successes of SoftServe. It was the finalist of Microsoft Partner Program Awards for a “Technology Innovation Partner of the Year” in the “Mobility Solutions” category.

Taras Kytsmey, President of SoftServe: “Looking back at Y2006, we can see how much we achieved. But at the same time we understand that our main challenges are ahead. We have big potential and all necessary prerequisites to become a world level leader and affirm our positions in the conditions of world competition”.