Meet SoftElegance at Retail Business Technology Expo

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Andy.Starzhinsky

SoftElegance is going to participate at RBTE 2014

Retail Business Technology Expo 2014 is the largest gathering of the retail industry in Europe. RBTE is the must visit event for European retailers who want to keep up to date with all the latest solutions available to help then grow their business, improve productivity and improve the customer experience.

RBTE in 2014 will take place 11th-12th March at Earls Court, London, with over 9,000 visitors expected. “If you need to know what’s working, what’s not, what new, who’s innovating and winning and how they are doing it, the key to successful international expansion, what the future looks like, how to reduce costs while delivering an outstanding customer experience – then you need to visit RBTE.”

retail business technology expo

SoftElegance is the company with great success in development of custom software solutions for retail industry. With almost 15 years experience to develop and successfully launch custom software products for our customers from retail industry.

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10 IT Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2014

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Andy.Starzhinsky

CIO and IT experts about IT outsourcing trends in 2014

According to CIO.com and several other IT outsourcing experts this will be the year of robots and customers, more control in all outsourcing areas.

10 IT Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2014

We suppose that our readers are familiar in IT outsourcing, and many of you might be enough the headlines to watch 2014 IT outsourcing trends, and just ‘one twit description’ for all of them

The IT outsourcing trends are:
1) The Rise of the Machines — It’s about robots.
2) Hybrid Offshoring Heats Up — It’s about in-house and outsourcing combined teams.
3) An Increase in Insourcing — It’s about from 20 to 30 percent will be brought back in-house.
4) Service Integration Comes Home — It’s about taking on integration service back home.
5) The Cloud Gets Grounded — It’s about doubt that cloud computing is here to stay.

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E.U. will have a gap of 900 thousand IT pros in 2015

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Unemployed in Europe Stymied by Lack of Technology Skills

This is the headline of The New York Times’ article about lack of IT professionals in Europe.

In Dublin, for example, about half of information technology jobs were being filled with foreign workers for a lack of skilled applicants. The European Union lacks qualified IT workers to fill jobs in the growing ITC sector.

Many Jobs In Europe Go Begging For Skills

“In all countries, there is an expectation that many of the new jobs created will be in the knowledge-intensive economy,” said Glenda Quintini, a senior labor economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. “But we are seeing a worrisome skills mismatch that means a large number of unemployed people are not well prepared for the pool of jobs opening up.”

Please see the original article Unemployed in Europe Stymied by Lack of Technology Skills for more details, or use software development outsourcing services.
Or see our previous post “outsourcing vs H-1B visas in 2014” that there will not be enough qualified IT jobs candidates to fill the vacancies in the U.S.

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2013 IT year in numbers

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Major IT facts, news, and statistic for 2013

In the last days of 2013 we publish some most interesting facts from IT industry in numbers.

2013 IT year in numbers

Our leader is the fact about Healthcare.gov: “500 million lines of code behind the beleaguered Healthcare.gov website. Programmers spent most of October and November debugging and rewriting the code to get the site up to speed.”

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SoftElegance at Prof IT Days 2013

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Day of IT Career is for people who work in the field of Informational technologies or are interested in IT

December 21-th 2013 at «Intershik» Gallery, Vinnytsia, Ukraine took part the Prof IT Days 2013. During the event the representatives of leading IT companies make presentations, conduct seminars, trainings, and master classes.

SoftElegance is proud to be the part of the event, present their software development services, and share some useful information about software development outsourcing.

SoftElegance at Prof IT Days

SE at Prof IT Days

Thank to organization committee — Vinnytsia IT Academy, sponsors, and participants.

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TECNA’s poll results, outsourcing vs H-1B visas in 2014?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Technology companies are looking to hire more employees over the next year, but worry that there will not be enough qualified IT jobs candidates to fill the vacancies.

Technology Councils of North America: Members of TECNA, with the support of CompTIA, conducted the second annual National Survey of Technology, Policy & Strategic Issues that focuses on issues that are critical to the tech industry.

1763 technology executives took part on a survey, and for “Workforce gains” over the next 12 month 63% said they are hiring staff for positions newly created or additional headcount.
34% of executives will likely use H-B1 visa’s opportunity, but 43% will unlikely use it.

there will not be enough qualified IT jobs candidates

The CIO.com conclusion is that in a contemporary economy, technology companies are looking to hire more employees, but worry that there will not be enough qualified candidates to fill the vacancies.

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How Donald Knuth tried to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Andy.Starzhinsky

Funny story about ‘The Art of Computer Programming’, famous Knuth’s book.

I had around 15 minutes between the meetings few days ago. In the office we have library which contains dozen computer books before nineties and till up-to-date. Some of them, like programming on ADA, inside Windows 95, or brochure ‘*.asp vs *.aspx pages’ are obviously outdated. But there are many fundamental books out of time, one of them is ‘The Art of Computer Programming’, by Donald Knuth.

Pierre de Fermat and Donald Knuth

It’s not so easy thing to understand Knuth’s ‘The Art of Computer Programming’. In the University life reading of it considering you as a real geek. And I was happy to had a chance to evaluate how my mind has changed for more than 10 years period.

During flipping I was really surprised to see the well-known formula as an exercise:

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Report from Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Andy.Starzhinsky

In June 2013 SoftElegance attended Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit

Gartner.com: “Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013 will help I&O leaders apply authoritative thinking, leading-edge strategies and tactical best practices to their enterprise I&O planning and initiatives.”

SoftElegance at Gartner cover

We’re really glad and satisfied attending Gartner’s event. We heard a lot, new and proven concepts, future and predictions. One of the first keynotes was about what does the future hold for Infrastructure and Operations?

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SoftElegance at Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Andy.Starzhinsky

We are proud to participate at Gartner IT I&O Management Summit

This year SoftElegance will participate at Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit. It will take place 18-20 June 2013 at Orlando, FL.

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Gartner IT I&O 2013

Gartner.com: “Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013 will help I&O leaders apply authoritative thinking, leading-edge strategies and tactical best practices to their enterprise I&O planning and initiatives.”

We hope to see you in June at Orlando. Please, find the latest news about Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013 at our software development outsourcing blog.

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TOP IT U.K. outsourcing stories of 2012

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Andy.Starzhinsky

£38.7bn UK’s total production came from IT outsourcing

Research into the UK outsourcing sector found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some £38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market conditions, reshaping itself to give customers what they want.

The past year has seen the public sector feature heavily in outsourcing news. The government wants to cut costs, so it has been trying outsourcing models. At the same time, it is putting pressure on its suppliers to do more.

Based on ComputerWeekly’s “Top 10 IT outsourcing stories of 2012”

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