Five Ukrainian IT-companies are in world's Top-10 Software Application Testing Firms

Research Company Clutch, based in Washington, has published the ranking of the best companies in the field of software testing. All in all it is mentioned 25 companies from all over the world.

It is noteworthy that nearly half of the top-10 is represented by Ukrainian outsourcers. They are: N-iX and Eleks from Lviv, Trust Sourcing from Kyiv, eGo Creative Media Solutions from Dnepropetrovsk and IT Craft from Kharkov.

https://clutch.co/developers/testing/leaders-matrix

ALMOST 200 STUDENTS PASSED SUMMER TRAINING CLASSES AT SIGMA SOFTWARE IN 6 MONTHS

July 21, 2015

In the mid-July the summer training classes at Sigma Software Kharkiv and Kyiv offices came to its end. 130 students from Kharkiv National Aerospace University, Kharkiv National Polytechnic University, Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and Kyiv National Aviation University were trained by company`s experts in the fields of .NET and Java. The winter training classes 2015 gathered 65 students, giving a total almost 200 future specialists, who passed practice at Sigma Software.

The students of the 2-4 years of study were invited to receive their first experience, as well as to get acquainted with the current processes and technologies in IT. Sigma Software experts of Senior and Middle levels mentored the students, shared experience. Apart from that, a series of seminars on usability, prototyping, and front-end development were held.

Summer internship is a great opportunity to meet the best students, get to know them personally, and select candidates for the further training. Last year about 100 students took summer training classes at the company, this year the number has already doubled. It will grow even more, as we plan to launch .NET internship in early August for the students of Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv universities.

“The number of students, which come at the company is growing every year. It is not only because our company is developing, opening new offices in Ukraine, launching cooperation with new higher educational establishments. It is because the level of the students becomes higher from year to year. We meet a lot of talented minds, who are pleasant to work with,” says Nataly Potapova, Head of Training Department at Sigma Software.

SIGMA SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTED A COMPREHENSIVE INTRANET PORTAL FOR A GLOBAL MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY

July 17, 2015

In late June Sigma Software team in cooperation with Sigma IT Consulting has successfully accomplished the development of a sophisticated intranet portal for a leading medical technology company, which delivers innovative products and solutions that contribute to quality enhancement and cost efficiency within healthcare and the life sciences.

The portal is intended for more than 15 thousand Customer`s employees working in over 40 countries. It enables the company`s specialists to review news feed, filtered according to the office location, review colleagues profiles and learn company`s hierarchy, watch video, browse events calendar, upload documents, create and fill in online forms, conduct surveys, look through the job opportunities in different locations and apply by sending own CV. The main content is loaded on a web page dynamically, so the user doesn’t need to wait until the entire page loaded to see the content. This is really important in the areas with low Internet channel capacity.

The portal has a solid and handy search that was implemented as the mix of two Cloud services — Azure Search to search through content and SharePoint Online Search to search through people`s profiles.

The team has been working for four months to deliver the solution by the end of June. Sigma Software specialists used the whole stack of the latest Microsoft technologies, including EPiServer 8.0 and Entity Framework 6, as well as JavaScript frameworks. The portal is hosted in the Cloud and integrated with Customer`s Aсtive Directory.

Responsive design makes it really easy for all Customer`s employees to access the portal anytime and from any device. It is now in the process of deployment. In the future, the Customer plans to add even more useful features to the portal, including a forum.

“Effective information management is one of the strongest competitive advantages for businesses and organizations today. Sigma Software has an extensive experience in developing various intranet and extranet portals. We apply best practices and the latest technologies to make it really easy for our Customers to handle corporate information,” says Anatoly Kochetov, Head of Microsoft Solutions Department at Sigma Software.

Luxoft moved 536 engineers from Russia and Ukraine

The company wants to be closer to customers and to avoid country risk

Offshore software developer Luxoft transported 536 developers from Russia and the Ukraine to Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. This is stated in the financial statements of the company for fiscal year 2015, ended March 31, 2015. In the current fiscal year, the company plans to take out of Russia and Ukraine more employees.

This is a part of Luxoft’s program “Global Upgrade”, which assumes employees to be spread across regions in order to reduce operating and macroeconomic risks. In the long term Luxoft wants to have no more than 25% of the company's personnel in each office, the report said.

In Ukraine today operates 42% of the company's personnel. Last year this share was 49%, while in Russia this figure was reduced to 25% against 30% in the previous fiscal year, according to company statements.