SoftServe Hosts Successful Client Conference
Fort Myers, Florida / December 18, 2008
SoftServe, Inc, a leading multinational software development and consulting company, hosted its first client conference on December 7-9 at Ritz-Calrton Hotel in Naples, Florida. The event's theme was "Transforming experience into business value."
"Successful clients are the foundation for the future growth of SoftServe. That is why we feel it is very important to start providing gatherings such as this conference, where they can share their thoughts and ideas to help shape the future roadmaps of our services," said Taras Vervega, EVP Business Development, SoftServe, at the conference opening.
The two-day event began with a keynote presentation from Frederic D. Mapp, CEO, Quality Service Solutions. Fred presented on how companies can improve business processes and implement technology that is directly tied to business strategies to achieve a sustained competitive edge. With more than 40 years of experience in IT, Fred Mapp has been a frequent guest speaker at CIO conferences and numerous industry seminars.
Panel discussions featuring the speakers, Lori Holmes, Managing Consultant, Q/P Management Group, and Mark Pushinsky, Consultant, ScrumTraining.com, followed the keynote address. Lori Holmes also hosted the panel session on metrics in outsourcing the following day.
Throughout the first day, attendees also had the opportunity to attend SoftServe session "Rethinking Usability" and the session by Neal Reizer, VP R&D, Allscripts, who spoke on the long-term client relationship with SoftServe.
A representative from Microsoft Corporation, Murray Gordon, ISV Architect Evangelist, presented a panel session entitled "Software + Services". Murray has co-authored three publications in the past two years, two titles for Microsoft Press and his most recent title for O'Reilly Media, Sharepoint 2007: The Definitive Guide.
Microsoft presentation was followed by panel session on using multi-level continuous integration for distributed development hosted by David Jabs, VP Engineering, AccuRev, another client of SoftServe. David was one of the founding architects of IBM Rational ClearCase at Atria Software and is a co-inventor of two ClearCase patents.
The working agenda was finalized by SoftServe session, entitled "Ukraine Today and Tomorrow" presented by Wilf Voge, SoftServe's Account Executive with significant knowledge of Ukrainian history and culture and experience of its reality.
The participating clients found the event excellently organized and appreciated the opportunity of interacting with SoftServe management and exchanging thoughts with each other. Furthermore, the participants considered valuable the presentations by recognized industry speakers and hearing about SoftServe's own strategic initiatives that would help them see potential opportunities across their own businesses.
"In order to help our clients be successful in the dynamic global marketplace, we have always favored an open dialogue that gives us insight into their needs, wishes and problems," said Taras Kytsmey, SoftServe's President at the event. "That's why we consider this conference a powerful driver for further improvement of quality of SoftServe services".
About SoftServe, Inc.
SoftServe is a leading global provider of proven high quality software development, testing and consulting services. At SoftServe, we are passionate and committed to bringing the best commercial software to market for new and established independent software vendors and software-enabled businesses. To accomplish this, we created AbilitonTM, an approach that develops an assessment and certification framework making it simple to create the right standards, certifications, tools and team structure to repeatedly deliver development success for our clients. Through the years, SoftServe has partnered with hundreds of companies globally on a wide range of products and technologies, successfully completing over 2000 projects. Founded in 1993, SoftServe is headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, with an award-winning development organization based in Ukraine and the Philippines. For more information, please visit www.softserveinc.com.