The daylong phpDev event attracted over one hundred participants, filling the Hotel Victoria conference room to capacity with speakers, lively discussions, questions and useful information. Requests to participate exceeded capacity by over two hundred percent. Intetics provided the conference with monetary support, strategic guidance, administrative assistance and technical expertise.

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the conference, the primary organizers from Intetics, Artiom Visotskiy and Alexey Klimko, are actively planning to make phpDev into an annual event. “We are ecstatic to enjoy such incredible interest in our conference and the topic of PHP development in general,” said Visotskiy, Senior Software Engineer, and founder of the new online LAMP-technology community at http://phpdev.by/. “In the future, we would like to increase the number of attendees in order to exponentially benefit from an expanded pool of expertise and new ideas about PHP development.”

Most of the speakers at the conference were from Intetics. They covered topics such as project management in PHP initiatives, the new features of PHP 5.4, SPL introduction, using Git to keep a project on track, introduction to PHP-architect, and various uses of the Zend Framework and Sphinx. All of the speakers engaged the audience in thought provoking ways, not only through the information conveyed, but via humor and openness. Intetics looks forward to supporting future PHP Development conferences in Belarus and the Ukraine, as well as the growing PHP community.

“Intetics actively supports the PHP community and the development of PHP because it has grown so dramatically to become a platform of choice for many of the Open Source enterprise systems being deployed today,” said Boris Kontsevoi, President of Intetics. “The phpDev conference is to be applauded for creating a collegial but professional atmosphere that also successfully maintains a high level of technical discussion.”

As with previous Discover IT Belarus events, the primary goal was to familiarize German business leaders with the dynamic IT industry in Belarus. It also provided a forum in which they could learn more about the opportunities available to efficiently outsource software development to highly skilled specialists in Belarus.
The event afforded Intetics’ representatives an excellent opportunity to meet with decision makers from key German companies, especially those in Bavaria, present the company’s capabilities, and discuss ways in which Intetics could help them better achieve their business objectives. Intetics already has several excellent clients in Germany and related countries, which helped make this event even more productive.

Intetics is extremely pleased to participate in the Discover IT Belarus series of events in Europe, not only for the direct opportunity it provides to market the company, but to help familiarize European business communities with the outstanding quality of software development and other IT services in Belarus. Intetics is committed to helping create more opportunities for Belarusian IT specialists and, in turn, improve the country’s economy for everyone.

With our ODT, Intetics’ clients receive complete infrastructure and administrative services provided by the most talented and experienced team of software professionals dedicated exclusively to their projects. Although remotely located, the ODT operates like part of the client company – but with all the advantages of outsourcing – and allows the client to perform as a truly global company.

Intetics’ clients can now follow the “official” ODT symbol to facilitating efficient team creation and long-term partnering.

Five myths of cloud computing – HP – IThound.com.

Overview

Many admit to the haze surrounding cloud computing. This white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing.

While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations?

The main objectives of portal ITONews.eu are to form the complete view on the potential of the CEE region, the promising cluster for outsourcing services provision, and to create the common information flow about IT outsourcing from Central and Eastern Europe.

The website has a new look and additional features designed to improve usability. The new cleaner and less cluttered design allows for easier navigation and provides enhanced functionality. Intuitive navigational tools, new fonts, and updated graphics and layouts will help site visitors access information more quickly and easily.

Visitors to the site are able to explore the region for the updates and developments IT outsourcing industry through news, press-releases, publications, videos, analytic materials. ITOnews.eu also contents useful articles and other interesting information and shows the activities of companies from the region the most widely and impartially. General information about CEE countries with data about markets volume, number of companies and employees is placed in separate profiles that allows as more detailed as possible to learn about advantages of each country, regional news are devided by countries as well. Users can find the information about past and upcoming outsourcing regional and global events on the website. There is also a quick access to other CEEOA projects such as catalogue of IT outsourcing companies from Central and Eastern Europe – ITOlist.eu (http://itolist.eu).

Recognizing the importance of online communication, different social media components were integrated to the ITOnews.eu portal that allows for sharing the information in social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc and though many other social media tools

Having a well-organized and well-built website is a vital tool for any organization, product or service to showcase its ability to deliver compeling communication. It is supposed that portal ITONews.eu will become the indispensable information source for consumers of professional outsourcing services that are interested in business development or finding partners in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as for analysts.

About ITOnews.eu

ITONews.eu is information analytic platform about IT outsourcing in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. ITONews.eu is the project of Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA).

The main objectives of portal ITONews.eu are to form the complete view on the potential of the CEE region, the promising cluster for outsourcing services provision, and to create the common information flow about IT outsourcing from Central and Eastern Europe.

About CEEOA

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) was founded in 2008. The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA), Czech ICT Alliance, Belarus Hi-Tech Park, RUSSOFT Association (Russia) and ASPIRE – Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland).

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) brings together the Associated bodies of the CEE region in a powerful, active and developing association to exchange thought leadership and network to position the Central and Eastern European region as competitive alternative to other global IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing destinations.

Intetics was ranked 465 with software revenue of $7.6 million. The ranking is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2010. This includes revenue from software licenses, maintenance and support, training, and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware.

“This prestigious recognition underscores the fact that our focus on quality, efficiency and depth of expertise in developing teams for customers continues to pay off in repeat and new business,” said Boris Kontsevoi, President of Intetics. “Achieving such growth would not be possible without highly dedicated employees who deliver excellent customer service.”

The 2011 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $541.5 billion worldwide for 2010, representing approximately 10 percent growth from the previous year’s list,” says John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com.

“The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers, and IT staff research and create the short list of business partners,” Desmond says. “It is a quick reference of vendor viability. And the online version, to be posted soon at www.softwaremag.com, is searchable by category, making it what we call the online catalog to enterprise software.”

IDG Connect, a global IT and business research company, has recently surveyed 3169 IT professionals from 105 countries in order to benchmark their opinions on today’s global IT skills landscape.

According to the survey findings, 50% of the survey respondents believe that Europe currently has a medium volume of IT vacancies and almost 70% think that senior technical skills are the most demanded ones in Europe in 2011.

Regarding the employment problems in Europe, slightly more than 70% of respondents blame the economy, more than 40% of participants blame the poor IT training, almost 35% – lack of interest in IT careers, more than 30% – brain drain, around 40% – rapid market expansion that does not allow IT skills to keep up and 50% of survey participants believe that IT employment problems occur due to the entry level workers (Generation Y) that have a different work ethic compared to older employees.

Regarding some country-specific findings, the following trends are observed:

• Germany is facing a shortage in supply of the senior IT skills
• Norway is facing an explosively expanding market which makes it difficult for IT headhunters to keep up
• Belgium is facing centralization of resources and missing a strong decision-making power
• Cyprus is missing an understanding of how to combine IT and business processes in the real world

More global findings are available in the “IDG Connect Special Report: The Global IT Skills Landscape, Summer 2011”.

Source: IDG Connect