Short Overview of St.Petersburg IT Market Trends Andrey Narvsky, COO eVelopers Corp. anarvskyevelope

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Short Overview of St.Petersburg IT Market
TrendsAndrey Narvsky, COOeVelopers
Corp.anarvsky_at_evelopers.comwww.evelopers.comFe
bruary 4, 2004
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St.Petersburg a stunning location for SWD

• well developed IT community
• great source of highly qualified workforce
• great source of young well-educated people
• good location for multinational IT companies and
  investments in IT and Telecom
• mature software vendors delivering to F100
  clients
• cultural capital of Russia

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St.Petersburg IT community Fort Ross Consortium

• Consortium of 36 leading software developing
  companies from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine,
  employs more than 3000 engineers
• Covers about all areas of IT competence
• Based on World leading Universities in
  mathematics and IT development
• Member of all-Russian IT Association (APKIT) and
  National Software Development Associations
  RUSSOFT

Source http//www.fort-ross.ru
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St Petersburg IT Workforce

• Approximately 30-35 of all the income from
  offshore programming in Russia is generated by
  St.-Petersburg-based providers
• 200 companies in software development, with more
  than 6.000 engineers
• 30 companies - IT outsourcing and Software
  Products active players on the International
  market

Source Outsourcing-Russia.com
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SWD Businesses in St.-Petersburg
Source Fort Ross St.Petersburg IT Market Survey
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St Petersburg source of potential IT workforce

• The number of engineers in software development
  who graduate every year is approximately 1500.
  The number of IT-related specialists is up to
  12000 per year (Source Outsourcing-Russia.com)
• Main suppliers of the new IT workforce 6 world
  class universities of St.Petersburg
• St.Petersburg Universities are the winners at the
  ACM Collegiate Contests, Absolute Winners (Gold
  and Silver medals)

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Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contests

• 2000, Orlando World Champions St. Petersburg
  State UniversitySilver Medal St. Petersburg
  Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics Among
  winners Moscow State University, Novosibirsk
  State University
• 2001, Vancouver World Champions St. Petersburg
  State UniversityGold Medal St. Petersburg
  Institute of Fine Mechanics and OpticsAmong
  winners Moscow State University, Ural State
  University, Southern Ural State University
• 2002, Honolulu World Champions Shanghai
  JiaoTong University, China
• Silver medals Saratov State University
  (European Champions),
• Among 10 winners Moscow State University, St.
  Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and
  Optics,
• 2003, Beverly Hills
• World Champions Warsaw State University
• Gold medals Moscow State University, St
  Petersburg State University of Fine Mechanics and
  Optics
• Silver medals Saratov State University

http//acm.baylor.edu/acmicpc/finals/default.htm
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Big IT companies already located in St-Petersburg

• Borland, LG, Lucent, Motorola, Sun, TeliaSonera
  and others
• Why good infrastructure, scalable highly
  qualified workforce, good price/performance
  factor, good geographical location

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St.Petersburg mature vendors deliver to F100
clients

• 30 companies - IT outsourcing and Software
  Products active players on International market
• CMMi certified vendors including 5th level
• ISO 90012000 certified vendors

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St.Petersburg software vendors deliver to
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Main geographical areas of outsourcing
Source Fort Ross St.Petersburg IT Market Survey
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St.Petersburg Cultural Capital of Russia

• Traditionally close to Western culture
• Good geographical position
• St. Petersburg- one of the most beautiful cities
  in the world which is worth visiting

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