Infopulse Ukraine is one of the largest Ukrainian outsourcing software development providers. The company was founded in 1992. For the day being it employs more than 120 software development professionals. According to the resent research carried out by Gartner group September-November 2003 Infopulse is included in top five companies of Ukrainian offshore software industry. Case studies provided by Infopulse are selected by Gartner and included into the PR-reports to represent Ukrainian IT-industry on foreign markets. Infopulse holds ISO 9001:2000 certificate.

Infopulse offers a full range of services in outsourcing software development. The main activities are:

- Tailor-made software development
- Enterprise application integration services
- Business analysis and IT consulting
- Software design, implementation, testing integration, maintenance and support
 
By combining high skills of our professionals with the opportune and proven in practice development methodologies we approach high efficiency of a software development process which together with competitive prices, allows us to compete on domestic and worldwide markets successfully.

 Areas of expertise:

- Enterprise management software
- Financial software
- Billing systems
- E-business systems:
- SCM solutions
- Call centers
- Healthcare solutions
- HRM solutions
- Configuration management
- Embedded software
 
Technologies:

Infopulse is focusing on the following major architectures – J2EE, .NET and technologies - COM/DCOM/COM+, CORBA, RMI, SOAP, XML.

We are working in the following operational environments: Windows family, *NIX family, OS/390, VxWorks.

Languages used for development are: Java, JavaScript, JSP, XML, ASP, JScript, Perl, VBScript, VBasic, Cobol, C#/?++,.NET (ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc), HTML, WML Script, WML, etc.

Application servers used in n-tier architectures - Oracle iAS 9i, Oracle iAS Wireless Edition 9i, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Microsoft's MTS, JBoss.

For database-tier we use Oracle DB 8i (8.1.6/8.1.7), MS SQL Server (6.5, 7.0, 2000), Informix, DB2 (version 5), Versant.

 Kiev, Ukraine

Kiev is well known as one of the strongest scientific centers in the former Soviet Union countries. With the strong educational system and growing economy Kiev became one of the capitals of offshore software development in Western Europe.

Key figures about Ukrainian economy:

 Ukraine demonstrated outstanding macroeconomic performance against a backdrop of financial stability
 
 In 2003, Ukraine’s economy expanded by 9.3%, following 4.8% growth in 2002 and 9.1% the year before
 
 As in the previous years, strong GDP growth was supported by a 16% increase in industrial production
 
 Foreign investment activity has been increasing in recent years, with cumulative FDI since independence reaching  USD 6.7 billion (USD 140 per capita)
 
 Political stability and strong economic performance along with the improving investment climate contribute to strong FDI growth
 
 Most attractive industries: energy, IT/telecommunications, manufacturing, trade, and construction
 
 As a result, Ukraine is one of the fastest growing economies in the world

 Key Strengths of Ukraine’s High-tech Sector:

 Large scientific and technological capital and impressive technology resources, with about 10,000 IT specialists graduating annually from 315 universities
 
 Large, well-educated, technologically qualified and inexpensive talent pool
 
 1,350 scientific organizations, employing 450,000 people, 295,000 directly involved in R&D; that’s 40% more than in the UK
 
 Ukraine has the 4th highest IT IQ in the world (2002 Global IT IQ  Report by Brainbench)
 

 Ukrainian IT Industry Legacy:

 Ukraine plays an important role in global IT development since 1957 when first computer was developed in Ukraine
 
 One of the biggest and oldest Cybernetics centers of ex-USSR (the Glushkov Institute) is located in Kiev (founded in 1957)
 
 Theory of programming, optimization and system analysis, automation theory and even CD ROM invention owe a lot to Ukrainian scientists
 

 Location

Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland and Russia. Ukraine is in GMT+0200 time zone, which enables convenient communication with European customers.

The majority of software development companies today are located in the capital city of Kyiv. Kyiv is approximately 2 to 2.5 hours from the major Western European capitals with flights arriving almost daily.

 Links

http://research.techinvest.com.ua/eng/result.html - the summary of Gartner research, concerned to outsourcing software development industry in Ukraine

http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en - government portal

http://www.mfa.gov.ua/eng/ - ministry of foreign affairs

http://www.ukraine-gateway.org.ua/ - Ukrainian web-portal – different info

http://www.kyivpost.com/ - the newspaper

http://www.unian.net/eng/ - news-agency

http://www.ukrbiz.net/eng++/index/first/ - business portal

http://www.finance.com.ua/en/ - financial Info

http://www.ukrainefare.com/  - travel info

  Contacts an location

Adress: 24 Polevaya str., Kyiv 03056, Ukraine
Phone: +380 (44) 457 9523
Fax: +380 (44) 457 8856

E-mail: info@infopulse.kiev.ua

Web Site: http://www.infopulse.com.ua