Arcadia, ZAO - Sample Projects & Case Studies

Mobile app for HRM system

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Mobile app for a large-scale system providing automation of work time registration, managing information about employees and other HR-related functions. The mobile solution allowed to extend functionality of business application by giving employees convenient access to work information from their smartphone. Technologies & tools: Android, MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, Java, JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC 3, CSS, HTML5, http, https, Internet Information Services (IIS), jQuery, WCF, Android SDK, jQuery UI, Android Development Kit, Android Virtual Devices, Eclipse, MS SQL Management Studio, MS TFS, MS Visual Studio Custom software development | Mobile applications | .NET | HRM

Apr 02, 2012
Arcadia, ZAO in 2011: Mobile Development Added to Service Offering

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In 2011 Arcadia, ZAO paid special attention to mobile technologies. With B2B sector more and more often embracing iPhone, Android and other phone apps in their day-to-day business, mobile development became an integral part of Arcadia`s service offering in custom complex business applications development. Besides, Arcadia increased income and staff, approved certification according to new rules of Microsoft Partner Network and gained a number of new clients.

Feb 01, 2012
Arcadia Among Sponsors of Baltic Scientific Engineering Contest

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, ZAO sponsors the VIII Baltic Science and Engineering Fair which takes place in St. Petersburg State University on January 31 — February 3, 2012. 328 schoolchildren present their own scientific researches: 269 research works in natural and exact sciences (math, physics, chemistry, computer science, engineering) as well as history. Applications are assessed by well-known scientists, teachers and businessmen. See also: Baltic Scientific Engineering Fair web-site (in Russian).

Dec 21, 2011
Russian IT Industry Celebrates 20 Years in St. Petersburg

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

On Friday Dec. 16, members of the RUSSOFT association joined friends, colleagues and other well-wishers at the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Russian software development industry. 1991 was a starting point for a number of new type of businesses in Russia: export-oriented, high-tech companies daring to compete with world IT leaders. The founder of Arcadia, ZAO, Arcady Khotin, also commented in an interview for SPBIT.ru: Of course, 20 years is a significant date… From those companies which started in 1991 — it's possible that some of them would be less successful if we wouldn’t join our efforts: first, it was “Fort-Ross” (since 1999), then — “RUSSOFT”. Congratulations and best wishes of success to all companies celebrating their 20-year anniversary in 2011! See also «RUSSOFT» press release .

Nov 22, 2011
The 8th Annual Survey of the Russian Software Export Industry

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

RUSSOFT Association presents the results of the 8th Annual Survey of the Russian Software Export Industry. St. Petersburg is among the leading Russian cities both in IT services exports and IT education. View PDF report (11 MB)

Re-engineering Auto Insurance Automation Application

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Re-engineering and data migration of auto insurance modules of a legacy insurance automation system from FoxPro to .NET. Arcadia implemented the following features: policies input, search, view, printing on blanks data import/export, MS Excel reports user management drawing bills software updates printed forms designer. Besides, Arcadia's task included changes of business processes. Technologies & tools: MS Windows XP, MS Windows Vista, MS Windows 7, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, ADO.NET, Perpetum Soft Report Sharp Shooter, WinForms, MS Visual Studio, MS TFS, Seapine Test Track Pro Re-engineering | Desktop applications | .NET | Insurance automation

Medical Data Exchange Module Using HL7 Protocol

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Problem : The client develops and produces medical equipment for digital imaging (radiography, angiography, etc.) using software application developed in-house. The client needed to enable data exchange between this internal application and other medical information systems (MIS). Solution : To solve the task, Arcadia developed a COM module using HL7 protocol — a widely accepted standard for interoperability of health information technology. The module included the following features: Encoding & decoding messages (packages) determined by HL7 standard version 2.x & 3.0 Converting packages to|from application format used in the medical equipment produced by the client (using XML|XSLT) Flexible (extensible) definitions for a set of conversion patterns. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, С/C++, XML/XSLT, COM/DCOM, COM+, Win32 API, ActiveX, TCP/IP, MS Visual Studio, Seapine Test Track Pro, Subversion, CVS Custom software development | Desktop applications | Healthcare

Aug 16, 2011
Arcadia at ICGSE-2011: How to Cope with Cross-сultural Misunderstandings

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Svetlana Kazanskaya , Director for Business Development at Arcadia, ZAO, made a report at 6th International Conference on Global Software Engineering: “Human Behaviors in Distributed Development Environments”. In this report, Svetlana gave short overview of different aspects of cross-sultural and personal differences and shared some real situations from Arcadia’s experience.

Mobile Enablement of Electronic Document Management System for Insurance Company

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

iPhone, iPad, Android and WinPhone7 for a large Electronic Documents Management system developed by Arcadia for a major insurance company. The solution was developed as mobile application with access to database through SOAP web service. Technologies & tools: Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, VB.NET, Java, native C, Objective C, Apache, http, https, Android SDK, Google SDK, iOS SDK, ASIHTTP, Windows Phone Developer Tools, XML Web Services, Silverlight, WPF, Google libraries, MS Visual Studio, XCode, Eclipse, Android Development Kit, Android Virtual Devices, Eclipse, XCode, Unit Tests, Eclipse, Seapine Test Track Pro, Subversion, MS Excel Custom software development | Mobile applications | .NET | ECM & document management solutions

Electronic Document Management System for Insurance Company

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

A complex electronic document management solution for a major insurance company, including the following components: • a web portal • a set of desktop applications with access to database through SOAP (Web Service) • several add-ons for Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server Platform, MS Office System, C#, VB.NET, Transact-SQL, Visual C++, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET, Servlet, Internet Information Services (IIS), WCF, ASP.NET Web Service, ASP.NET Handlers, COM/DCOM, MSXML, MSMQ, Win32 API, ActiveX, Adobe Acrobat SDK, SoftPro Select SDK, WinForms, WPF, Infragistics NetAdvantage controls suite, MS Visual Studio, InstallShield, Windows DDK, nUnit, Seapine Test Track Pro, MS Visual SourceSafe, Subversion, custom build tool Custom software development | Desktop applications | Web applications | .NET | ECM & document management solutions

May 17, 2011
Doing Business in Russia

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

KPMG in Russia prepared a practical guide that provides a brief economic overview of Russia and introduces the tax and legal issues important for those who are planning to do business in this country.

Online Security Solution

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Development of one of the modules of security management system used by millions users worldwide. Arcadia's team works in close co-operation with the client and actually became a part of distributed development team. Technologies: C++, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, Qt, Windows, Linux, Sprint framework Custom software development | Desktop applications | Web applications | Mobile applications | Java/J2EE | Online services | Security & data protection

May 03, 2011
Participation in Application Developer Days-2011

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Pavel Voronov, a project manager at Arcadia, ZAO, made a presentation on Application Developer Days Conference (April 29-30, 2011 in St. Petersburg, Russia). He shared his vision of problems and solutions in the area of software packaging for Windows Platform.

Time Schedule Master

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Client needed a new common scheduling and resource-planning functionality implemented as web service. It should have modern graphic user interface (Silverlight) that can be shared between a number of applications included into the suite. Arcadia's task included implementing whole stack of layers of scheduling module. Special features include: Server side paging and sorting (this allows to show huge databases) Lambda expressions as universal search criteria (specifications) Technologies & tools: MS Windows 7, MS Windows 2008, MS .NET, C#, MS SQL Server, Oracle (PL/SQL), XML/XSLT, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Internet Information Services (IIS), WCF, ADO.NET, ASP.NET WebForms, LINQ, Entity Framework, MS Managed Extensibility Framework, Enterprise Library, Silverlight Toolkit, MS Visual Studio, MS TFS, ReSharper, MS Visio, MS SQL Management Studio, DevArt Entity Framework Provider for Oracle, FxCop, MS SQL Server Profiler, MS Team Build Custom software development | Web applications | .NET | HRM

Document Flow System: Fine Art Insurance

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Document flow system in the domain of fine art insurance for artists, museums, private collectors, dealers, framers, libraries, collectors. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS Windows Server 2003, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server Platform, C#, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET MVC 2, AJAX, CSS, jQuery, MSXML, ADO.NET, LINQ, Entity Framework, WCF, XML Web Services, jQuery UI, MS Visual Studio/2010, MS Visual Studio 2010, FxCop, MS TFS, MS Team Build Custom software development | Web applications | .NET | Workflow & BPA | Insurance automation | ECM & document management solutions

Apr 11, 2011
Arcadia Attained Gold Competencies in the New Microsoft Partner Network Program

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

According to new Microsoft Partner Network rules, Arcadia, ZAO has Gold Software Development competency Gold Web Development competency Silver Independent Software Vendor (ISV) competency

Apr 08, 2011
Arcadia and finalSoft Collaboration on German Market

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, ZAO and finalSoft, GmbH agreed on collaboration in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Through this partnership, Arcadia is going to further promote it's custom software development services on European market.

17 Mar, 2011
Arcadia, ZAO — Results of 2010

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, ZAO summed up the results of 2010: stable financial situation, prolonged contracts with main clients, a number of successful custom software development projects with new clients and a new vertical expertise — insurance automation.

Employee Management Tool

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The client had a legacy business application developed on Centura platform for human resource management. It allowed to manage information about company employees (current and former): search, edit, display, add new employees. This module was part of a complex HRM system used by thousands of customers. The client decided to create a new app based on a new platform providing the same functionalities plus new features to keep up with the market and changing customers` needs. Besides, the new application provides services to several other business applications developed by the client. Arcadia`s team, in close collaboration with client`s in-house development team, developed a new application on modern MS .NET platform which provides all features of the old application plus new features required by the client. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, Silverlight, WCF, RIA Services, Silverlight Toolkit, MS Visual Studio, MS TFS, MSUnit, MS Visual Studio Team System Test Edition, MS Team Build Custom software development | Implementation of new functionality | Web applications | .NET | HRM <

Course and Competency Management Modules

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Development of additional modules for existing HRM system allowing to manage training courses and employees' competencies. Technologies & tools: MS .NET, MS SQL Server, DotNetNuke (DNN), Centura, C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, Transact-SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle (PL/SQL), XML/XSLT, ASP.NET, AJAX, CSS, DHTML, Silverlight, ASP, COM/DCOM, MSXML, Win32 API, CDO; ADO.NET, Cryptography algorithms, LINQ, Entity Framework, WCF, XML Web Services, Enterprise Library, Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, MS Visual Studio .NET, MS TFS, ReSharper, MS Visio, InstallShield, MS Project Server, .NET Memory Optimization Tools, FxCop, nUnit, TrackRecord, Test Track, MS Visual SourceSafe, MS Team Build, Visual Build Pro, MS Project Custom software development | Desktop applications | .NET | HRM

Pharmaceutical Data Retrieval Tool

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Software tool for pharmaceutical research: user-friendly search wizard allowing high-performance data retrival from large (up to 1 TB) databases provided by different vendors. Technologies & tools: MS .NET Framework, MS SQL Server, Oracle, C#, Transact-SQL, PL/SQL, ADO.NET, LINQ, WebForms, FxCop, nUnit, Ants Profiler, Memory Profiler, Test Complete, JIRA, Subversion, MS Team Build, CruiseControl .NET, Green Hopper Custom software development | Desktop applications | .NET | Pharmaceutics

Software for Dehumidification Control

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Client had a VB6 desktop program for automated selection of drier solutions according to target room conditions, ambient weather conditions and a catalog of available drier units. Some time ago the Client started moving to Intranet-based solutions. Main tasks of the project were: to implement the required functionality of existing software on new platform — Microsoft Silverlight 4 to improve business logic of the application. Technologies & tools: MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, Transact-SQL, ASP.NET, Silverlight, ADO.NET, ASP.NET WebForms, LINQ, WCF, MS Visual Studio, MS SQL Management Studio, Subversion Re-engineering | Web applications | .NET | Intranet | Workflow & BPA

Virtual Learning Environment

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), used by millions users, is contantly evolving. Thus it needs additional features to be implemented regularly. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server Platform, C#, С/C++, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, MySQL, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET WebForms, AJAX, CSS, DHTML, jQuery, Flash, Cloud e-mail (Google and Microsoft), Exalead Enterprise Search, COM/DCOM, MSXML, MSMQ, LDAP, ADO.NET, LINQ, WCF, XML Web Services, jQuery UI, MS Visual Studio, MS TFS, ReSharper, CodeSmith Code Generator for .NET, MSUnit, Rally, MS Team Build, Accept 360 Software re-engineering, implementation of new functionality, data transferring | Web applications | .NET | Education & e-learning | Online collaboration tools | SaaS

Collaboration Portal for Child-Care Facilities

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Client had a goal to develop new software system aimed to address day-to-day needs of child-care organizations, their employees and relatives of children they serve. The system was built from scratch on top of MS .NET Platform; detailed technical requirements were developed by Arcadia in co-operation with the Client. Typical deployment is to serve about 250 child-care organizations with 25 000 employees, 37 000 children and 180 000 children relatives. Technologies & tools: MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server, MS IIS, MS Windows Indexing & Search Service, NHibernate, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MS Visual Studio, TestTrack Pro, Subversion Custom development of a collaboration portal on .NET platform, system analysis | Web applications | Education & e-learning | Online collaboration tools

Jan 10, 2011
Musical New Year in Arcadia

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

It has become a tradition in Arcadia to meet the coming year with dancing and singing, and the 2011 was not an exception. Far from the office and computers, the whole Arcadia's team (plus some of spouses and children) gathered to celebrate the coming holidays. They all danced, singed and joked about the most important things in their lives: software development projects.

Dec 21, 2010
15^th Investment Potential Ranking of Russian Regions by Expert-RA

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

According to Rating Agency “Expert-RA”, St. Petersburg is a region with high potential (2 nd rank in Russia) and moderate risks .

Multiple Hotel Room Reservation

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The client is a hotel offering to it's guests unusual pricing options which are not available in standard hotel room reservation applications: price of the room rental is not strictly linked to the number of guests; additional services are not included into the price but are ordered as separate items instead. Thus, the hotel developed it's own online reservation system matching its unique offerings. Still, the system needed improvement. The client's web-site allowed reservations of one room at a time. According to client's requirements, Arcadian team implemented the following new functionalities: 1) Multiple room reservation for one customer. This feature required changes in user interface, business layer, database structure and communication protocol with Amadeus Property Management System. 2) Possibility for registered users to log in and make a reservation without paying it online. Instead, they receive invoices later. Technologies & tools: MS Windows Server 2003, MS .NET, C#, MS SQL Server, ASP.NET, ADO.NET Implementation of new functionality | Web applications | .NET | Online services

Nov, 2010
St. Petersburg ranked 33 in the Top-100 Outsourcing Cities

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

According to the survey summary , the slowdown in outsourcing activities of 2009-2010 is a period of transition, paving the way for widespread transformation of outsourcing models. This year the list of outsourcing cities expanded from 50 to 100. St. Petersburg moved 6 rows up in the ranking thus landing on the 33th place in the global top 100 list of outsourcing cities . According to Global Services Media publication, “ the high technical graduate output is one of the major contributing factors which moved its ranking up ”. Detailed “ Outsourcing Compendium ” shows St. Petersburg among the 6 European Centers of Excellence with core specialization Engineering Design and R&D services. The list of international companies established here includes Intel, Motorola, Sun, Boeing, HP, Auriga, Google, Luxoft, EPAM and Arcadia.

CRM Robot

Ulyana Bashkina — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A custom business application for automated gathering and summarizing of information on all available insurance options for a client. Implementation of the system reduced work-time and number of mistakes manyfold. Technologies & tools: MS Visual Studio, WatIn, TRAC, Subversion, Ant, MS .NET Framework, MS SQL Server, MS Windows Server Platform, IIS 6.0, C#, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET, Ajax, CSS, jQuery, WCF, Web Services, ADO.NET, LINQ, Entity Framework Custom software development | .NET | Workflow & BPA | Insurance automation

Nov 26, 2010
10 facts about St. Petersburg, Russia

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

General information about St. Petersburg: infrastructure, economy, investment opportunities and other facts from ModernRussia.com

Hotel Booking Module for Travel Planning Web-site

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia's team developed hotel reservation search and booking module for e-tickets purchase and travel planning web service. The module can connect to different booking adaptors (TransHotel, AcademService, etc.) thus providing the most wide range of offerings for the clients. Besides, the system allows online payments through Assist system. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, Kentico, C#, JavaScript, Transact-SQL, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET WebForms, AJAX, CSS, jQuery, WCF, MSMQ, ADO.NET, LINQ, NHibernate, Reactive Extensions, Unity Application Block, jQuery UI, MS Visual Studio/2010, ReSharper, nUnit, MS Visual SourceSafe, Subversion, NAnt Custom software development | Web applications | .NET | Online services | Travel

Invoicing System for a Courier Company

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The client provides car courier services. The costs of delivery services are invoiced to the customers. As every delivery usually amounts to a small sum of money and courier customers usually request them several times a month, the courier services invoices its customers once in a fixed period of time instead of sending invoice for every delivery. According to the client's request, Arcadia's team developed a Windows application for facilitates the process of invoicing with the following main functionalities: reading the invoicing data from files in CSV format generating invoices based on the data monitoring payments handling reminders printing exporting to Finvoice (an XML standard format for electronic invoices). Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, Transact-SQL, XML/XSLT, ADO.NET, WinForms, MS Visual Studio/2010, MS Visual SourceSafe Custom software development | Desktop applications | .NET | Financial

Jul 6, 2010
5th quality assurance course for ITMO students in Arcadia: focus on SCRUM

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, ZAO has finished the project of University ITMO students` training “Quality assurance in a SCRUM team developing business applications” performed with assistance of “RUSSOFT” association . 15 students went through the course; later they are going to have internship in the company as well.

May 28, 2010
Special Report from Denmark: The small Russian export miracle

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In 2010, May Uffe Gardel, a journalist at Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin, visited Russia and interviewed a number of Russian software development companies. He found that there are already a number of successful samples of collaboration of Russian software developers with Danish companies: collaboration portal for child-care facilities and children's parents ; Ikea directories, mobile TV etc. Another special report, Modern Russia , tells about Russia in whole — “a neglected R in BRIC”, which is now more than corruption and oligarchs. The trade between Russian and Denmark includes a lot of various products, some major Danish companies (Carlsberg, Rockwool, Grundfos, Danfoss and F.L. Smidth) have great business in Russia. The great trade opportunities of doing business in Russia are enhanced with special services for Danish companies — such as Own Man in Russia.

May 19, 2010
Arcadia, ZAO — Changes in Top-management

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Arcady Khotin, the founder of Arcadia, has left the position of the General Director which he was holding since the foundation of the company 17 years ago. The new General Director appointed is Sergei Baklan, former Executive Director of the company (since 1998). Arcady Khotin, as the main shareholder, is going to take part in the strategic management of the company.

Apr 13, 2010
Arcadia, ZAO — Results of 2009

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, ZAO, one of the leading custom software developers, summed up the results of 2009. Despite the hard economic situation, the company kept its key clients and continued a slow, but steady growth. At the same time, Arcadia continued investing in employee qualification and improving marketing strategy — in spite of a burden of the office relocation.

Jan 11, 2010
Acting New Year in Arcadia 2010

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

According to the old good tradition, at the end of year Arcadians gathered to celebrate the coming New Year, to thank the old year for everything and (of course!) to demonstrate their talents in some new areas.

Dec 28, 2009
7 Arcadians Became Certified ScrumMasters

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

7 Arcadia’s employees went through two-day course “ScrumMaster Certification” during AgileDays’09 conference in Moscow (December 2009).

Dec 20, 2009
Arcadia Moved into New Office

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Software Re-Engineering Consulting Project: Insurance Automation System

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Since foundation, in-house team of the client developed 19 applications to work with different kinds of insurance which became out-of-date and difficult to maintain. The client needed to decide whether to re-engineer and continue maintaining internal application or migrate to a ready solution. For that, the client needed to estimate possible budget for moving the system to a new platform. Arcadia’s consulting deliveries included: Description of software architecture of a would-be new system Description of how different modules of the system will interact in transition period Project plan with estimations of cost and time for every stage of the project. Software consulting | Desktop applications | Insurance automation

Implementation of Existing Compiler and IDE on .NET Platform

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia’s client develops programming language and IDE with a long history. To use the advantages of the .NET Framework, it was decided to redesign the language and to implement the IDE on .NET platform. The task included • new programming language compiler implementation; • new programming language IDE implementation as plug-in for existing IDE. Technologies & tools: C#, MS Windows, SharpDevelop, MS .NET, MS SourceSafe, TestTrack Pro, MS Visual Studio Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | .NET | Developer tools, compilers & IDEs

Nov 10, 2009
Fast and Flexible: Seminar “Nearshoring and Agile”

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Advantages of Agile methodologies can be successfully combined with the benefits of nearshore software development — this was the main idea of the seminar conducted by Arcadia, Inc. and Prisma Consulting in collaboration with Arcadia's long-term clients — F-Secure and Aditro.

Oct, 2009
St. Petersburg among top outsourcing destinations

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The study “Top 50 Emerging Outsourcing Cities” by Global Services — Tholons, published in October 2009, ranked St. Petersburg 31 st and noted Russia among “next 5 offshore nations”. According to the research, “Russia continues on the path of becoming one of the leaders for hitech R&D outsourcing in the world. Russia’s deepening service delivery expertise and rich talent pool have made the country a research factory for top organizations like Intel, IBM, Motorola, Samsung and Google. Being a part of the Eastern European outsourcing region has also enabled Russia to collectively share the niche service characteristic for the offshoring and outsourcing industry. The country, however, stands out in the region due to its capacity to fulfill large-scale, highvalue services, though the processing of such services are coming at an increasingly higher cost (as compared to smaller Eastern European delivery locations). Notably, St. Petersburg is among established top 5 outsourcing cities in the areas of engineering services and health-care services, holds the 1 st place among the top 5 established R&D outsourcing centers and is mentioned among the top emerging cities in the area of product development. The report adds: “The educational structure of St. Petersburg is capable of generating skills required to develop the city as one of the most potential outsourcing cities for product development.”

Oct 12, 2009
Invitation to AgileDays'09 (Moscow, December 09)

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The conference is dedicated to practical aspects of Agile software development. You will hear presentations of real Agile practioners - representatives of both small companies and huge corporations like Microsoft, Amazon, Yandex etc. You will see not only pure success stories, but also the problems they encountered and the ways of solving them. Finally, you can become a certified SCRUM-master during a special training course.

Sep 22, 2009
Arcadia Took Part in PNP-summit as an Official Sponsor

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. was an official sponsor of Patterns & Practices Summit Russia organized by Microsoft and CarreerLab. P&P Summits are regularly held in the USA and Canada. The Summit is designed first of all for Architects, Tech Leads and Senior Software Developers. It received a warm welcome from Russian software developers, because it allows to get a lot of valuable information for effective project realization and company development in short time. Arcadia's employees were among PNP-summit participants. See Microsoft press-release (in Russian) .

Investigation: Replacement of Legacy Software by 3rd Party Application

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Since foundation, in-house team of the client developed 19 applications to work with different kinds of insurance which became out-of-date and difficult to maintain. Now the client needed to make the right decision on possible ways how to renovate their current software application and reach their business goals. Arcadia investigated the architecture of the client’s applications, data interaction between modules and interviewed key client’s personnel for collecting business requirements. Based on the investigation results Arcadia suggested several solutions. Software consulting | Desktop applications | Insurance automation

Scientific Web Portal

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Internet portal for Russian Institute of Literature hosting one of the largest archives of ancient Russian manuscripts and documents. The portal allows to store and publish unlimited number of documents. Special tasks included automation of information loading process and publication of “parallel texts” — original Ancient manuscripts with translations into modern Russian. Technologies & tools: MS Visual Studio, MS SQL Server, DotNetNuke, MS .NET Framework, VB.NET, C# Custom development and web-design | Web applications | .NET | DNN | Online services | Science & culture

Sep 2009
Arcadia: a Case Study in Navigating the Turbulence of Post Soviet Russia

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The monthly COOK Report on the Internet Protocol: Technology, Economics and Policy published an interview with Arcady Khotin , founder and CEO of Arcadia, Inc. The story tells about the history and business model of Arcadia and looks into the elements constituting successful offshoring business and long-term relationship of a software development company with its customers built on trust and understanding.

June, 2009
Innovation infrastructure in St. Petersburg

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

One of the first Russian regions with ambitious plans for innovation capacity building can be found in St. Petersburg. In this report , the main emphasis is on studying the attractiveness of innovation infrastructure in St. Petersburg from foreign managerial perspective. The purpose of the study is to indicate the solid building blocks for a functioning St. Petersburg innovation infrastructure, and the key challenges which concern or hold back foreign companies.

Jun 13, 2009
Where and How Software People Met

Ulyana Bashkina — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

«... I've missed about a half of interesting presentations. That's because there was unreally many interesting people in the hall... After my own presentation I met with Arcady Khotin. If there is still somebody who does not know that: Arcady was in the team of software engineers who made the 1st Russian localization of MS DOS. We were told this story when we studied in the institute. While studying there, I worked for a month as an intern in Arcadia, which was run by Arcady Khotin. And now I got an opportunity to meet this legendary man personally. In result, we had a very interesting conversation; besides I met two very sympathetic Arcadia's managers - Natalia and Oksana...»;

May 22, 2009
Arcadia's Microsoft Gold Status Confirmed

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Corp. has confirmed Arcadia's Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status

Corporate Intranet Migration

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Due to the fact that the portal used the old version of MOSS (MS SharePoint), the client's intranet portal needed enhancement of usability and functionality. This task included: • Implementation and enhancement of the corporate intranet portal functionality using modern technologies; • Data migration of all intranet sites to the new platform without stopping the functioning of the intranet portal. Technologies & tools: MS SharePoint Re-engineering legacy software, data migration | Web applications | Intranet | MS SharePoint | Online collaboration tools | ECM & document management solutions

CRM System Based on MOSS

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadian developers participated in the development of various parts of a CRM system. Generalized set of features of the developed CRM systems includes contacts, customers, orders, invoices, activities, customer service, sales pipeline, calendar, tasks, surveys, wiki, forums, workflow, notifications, reporting, KPI. Technologies: MS SharePoint Server Custom software development | Web applications | MS SharePoint | Workflow & BPA

Invoice Handling Application

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The invoice handling application processes electronic input documents as well as paper invoices allowing scanning, OCR, and workflow the documents. Specific approval hierarchy process and configurable escalation rules have been implemented in the system to support company’s business process. Technologies: MS SharePoint Server Custom software development | Web applications | MS SharePoint | Workflow & BPA | Financials & accounting

Feb 10, 2009
Arcadia, Inc.: Results of 2008 Year

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

After 2009 New Year celebrations and vacations, Arcadia, Inc. returned to work and summed up the achievements of 2008 year. The results are impressive in spite of the fact that for many companies the year brought troubles and anxiety. In 2008 Arcadia increased its turnover and staff, continued co-operation with key long-term customers and won a tender for a new long-term project.

E-mail Archive

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Email Archive consists of a plug-in for MS Outlook that allows users to send copy of emails to a MOSS-based archive system. Email Archive stores the emails and allows users to share, search and categorize emails. Technologies & tools: MS SharePoint Custom software development | Web applications | MS SharePoint | ECM & document management solutions

Accounting Solution Re-engineering

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Moving a complex accounting solution to .NET platform. The product is aimed at SMEs and specialized accounting firms, provides full accounting functionality customized to specific country requirements and consists of a number of modules which can be purchased separately. Arcadia's team provided full cycle of re-engineering and data migration services. Besides, new functionality was added to the application in course of development. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET, MS SQL Server, C#, Transact-SQL, ADO.NET, LINQ, Entity Framework, WCF, XML Web Services, WinForms, WPF, Enterprise Library, Telerik RadControls for WinForms, MS TFS, ReSharper, MS Visual Studio, MSUnit, MS Team Build Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | .NET | Financials & accounting

Learning Materials Repository

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Learning materials library is a MOSS-based application that provides users with an environment to store learning materials and collaborate on development of course content using share and search features of the MS Office SharePoint server. Technologies & tools: MS SharePoint Custom software development | Web applications | MS SharePoint | Online collaboration tools | ECM & document management solutions

HR Portal for MOSS

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Developed HR portal includes the following set of features: • recruitment and hiring — CVs, HR tests, interviews and verification results • new employee adaptation program, trainings • HR personal files, personal appraisals, performance reviews • time tracking and overtime • vacation request form • surveys, news and announcements. Technologies & tools: MS SharePoint Custom software development | Web applications | MS SharePoint | HRM | ECM & document management solutions

Jan 11, 2009
Dancing New Year in Arcadia

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

As usual, at the end of the year Arcadia's team gathered to celebrate the coming Happy New Year. it turned out that Arcadia's software developers and testers, project managers and business analysts are not only first-class professionals, but also talented dancers!

Travel Management System

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Client develops an international travel management solution. The main goal of the project was to enhance usability for end users and to implement new, up-to-date, version of application based on modern technologies. Technologies & tools: .NET Framework, ASP.NET AJAX, SQL Server, Oracle, Telerik Web Controls, MS Visual Studio, MS Visual SourceSafe, TestTrack Pro Usability improvement, re-engineering | Web applications | .NET | Financials & accounting | HRM | Workflow & BPA

Fixed Assets Management Application Improvement

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Fixed assets accounting application developed using FoxPro 9.0 language as a client/server application on Microsoft SQL Server (2000, 2005) needed a number of improvements. Arcadia's team provided: • additional functionality to the previous version of the application • improved usability • compatibility with the newest versions of operating systems • a number of additional special features improving functionality of the application. Technologies&tools: MS Windows Server 2003/2008, MS Windows XP/Vista, MS Visual FoxPro, MS SQL Server, InstallShield, MS SourceSafe, TestTrack Pro, Terminal server Implementation of new functionality, usability improvement | Desktop applications | Financials & accounting

B2B Trading Web Portal

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Development of a B2B web-portal implementing the client's idea to create an innovative trading platform for a large segment of the B2B service market. The platform covered different kinds of services available in the market and provided functionality needed for exchange between market players. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, IIS, C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML Transact-SQL for MS SQL Server, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, DotNetNuke Custom software development | Web applications | DotNetNuke | Online services | SaaS

Dec 2, 2008
Working for the Future: Arcadia's Collaboration with Foreign Universities

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On November 21 Arcadia, Inc., one of the leading custom software development and IT-consulting companies of St. Petersburg, opened its doors to European students again. Arcadia’s participation in learning programs of foreign universities has become a good tradition. The company management is confident that this co-operation not only with Russian but also with foreign universities deepens and strengthens international business links and creates good image of Russian business abroad, as today’s students are going to become managers, specialists and businessmen in future.

Data Query Wizards

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A non-expert tool for data retrieval and analysis of statistical data about patients for pharmaceutical research. The query wizard applications are implemented as plug-ins to the existing spreadsheet application on Customer's side. During development Arcadia's team focused on the user-friendliness of the user interface, algorithmic quality of the code and the overall resulting performance. Technologies & tools: Tortoise SVN, Visual SVN, JIRA 3.7.x, MS Visual Studio, MS Windows XP, Oracle 10g/11g, MS SQL Server, .NET Framework, C#, Oracle Data Provider for .NET Implementation of new functionality | Desktop applications | .NET | Pharmaceutics

Oct 21, 2008
Arcadia and Finnish Students: Meeting Russian Business

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A group of European students from Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences visited Arcadia, Inc., during their study tour to St. Petersburg. As usual, Arcadia became part of the learning process for the future managers and businessmen, helping them to get a general picture of Russian business.

Sep 16, 2008
150th Arcadian Came into Existence!

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. celebrates a sort of anniversary — or “digiversary”, to be more exact. A 150-th employee joined our team, while at the start of the year there were less then 140 of us. Our tight-knit collective keeps on growing and, as always, will welcome with open arms (as well as with fascinating work and cheerful corporate parties) new qualified specialists of any gender and age — the list of open vacancies you can find here .

Sep 03, 2008
Arcadia, Inc. Top-management Visited Karelian Office

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Top-managers of Arcadia, Inc. visited Petrozavodsk to meet personally the employees of the new office and tell them about the company and work processes. The office, which opened in June, has already hired 6 employees (5 programmers and 1 quality manager) specializing in SharePoint technology.

Aug 28, 2008
Arcadia, Inc. Releases a Free Tool for IT Project Managers

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc., one of the leading developers of custom software in St. Petersburg, has announced release of Anacta Tools — a set of applications distributed as freeware, which should make life easier for software development managers. The tool kit includes Anacta Book, Anacta Time and Anacta Metrics — easy-to-use applications for accurate calculations, storage and comparisons of work-time statistics and source code metrics for different projects and project stages. You can download the installation package and find project documentation on the Anacta web-site dedicated to the project.

Jul 7, 2008
Quality Assurance Students from SPbSU IFMO Get Work Experience in Arcadia

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New summer internship program for SPbSU ITMO Quality Assurance students started in Arcadia Inc. The program is part of continuing (since 2000) co-operation between Arcadia, Inc. and the St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (SPbSU ITMO, former LITMO) aimed at raising quality of education for IT-students.

Media Encryption Solution

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Enterprise Media Encryption Solution for protecting USB devices, portable hard drives and CD/DVD drives. The Solution solves problem of unauthorized data access by delivering the ability to encrypt data on any storage device or media. This capability allows employees to safely transport and use data on portable media and securely distribute data via email. Technologies & tools: SVN 1.4 (Subversion), Visual C++, TestTrack Pro, MS Windows, kernel mode file system filter driver, system services, DDK 6000-6001, SDK, STL, Windows Explorer context menu plug-ins Custom software development | Desktop applications | Security & data protection

Jun 9, 2008
Arcadia Starts «Karelia center» in Petrozavodsk (Karelia)

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In June, 2008, Arcadia, one of the leading software developers in St. Petersburg, has opened a regional department in Petrozavodsk (Republic of Karelia). With the new regional office, Arcadia will be able to use strategic advantages of the region, while local specialists will get excellent employment opportunities, providing them with professional development and adequate remuneration.

Testing Tool for E-learning

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Project tasks included (1) development of a new version of the testing tool (part of Virtual Learning Environment) allowing to create more flexible and complicated instruments to assess knowledge and learning results of students, and, therefore, get better learning process feedback; (2) migration of existing data to new formats. Technologies & tools: MS Windows XP/2003, MySQL, MS IIS, .NET Framework, Adobe Flash Player, MS Visual Studio .NET TestTrack Pro Implementation of new functionality to the existing web application, data migration | Web applications | .NET | Education & e-learning

Bibliographical Catalog for Scientific Institute

Ulyana Bashkina — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Bibliographical Catalog is a software application designed for collecting bibliographical records as well as maintaining, retrieving and managing these data. The previous version of Bibliographical Catalog application was developed using FoxPro language and worked only on DOS operation system. Arcadia's team moved the application to modern platform, improved usability and added new functionality to the system. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS .NET Framework, MS SourceSafe, MS SQL Server, Bugzilla Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | .NET | Other business areas | Science & Culture

IT Request Handling

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Client, a medium-sized IT company, has a complicated internal information system based on MOSS portal which had to migrate onto a new platform. Thus, maintaining smooth operation of the system during migration was a challenge. To solve this problem, the internal technical support process was overhauled, automated and optimized to raise productivity and reduce time needed to cope with arising problems. Technologies & tools: MOSS, Workflow Foundation, MS Visual Studio, MS .NET Re-engineering legacy software, data migration | Web applications | MS SharePoint | Intranet | Workflow & BPA

Mar 9, 2008
Arcadia Celebrates 15-year Anniversary!

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia celebrates 15-year anniversary on the 9th of March, 2008. We would like to express our gratitude to those people who contributed a lot into the development of the company and helped Arcadia to occupy that important position at the market that the company possesses today. The history of Arcadia is the history of success. Undoubtedly, we faced a lot of difficulties on our way to it. Together we had overcome all the obstacles and became a united team with the common goal. The history of Arcadia is unique and absorbing. Now we would like to refresh in memory how the story began 15 years ago…

Oct 19, 2007
MBA Students Visited Arcadia this Summer Again to Make a Consultancy Project

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A group of EMBA students from Cass Business School of London visited Arcadia this summer. This year 60 students were sent to Russia within the bounds of their studying program to learn the peculiarities of the companies operating in the emerging economy. Arcadia hosts Cass Business School students for the second year already. Such mutually beneficial cooperation provides students with excellent base for preparing for their annual research and the company with the recommendations of highly qualified professionals who have wide experience in executive management in different business fields. Source: CNews (in Russian)

Sep 23, 2007
Arcadia at MobileMonday Global Summit'07

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MobileMonday Global Summit / MoMo St.Petersburg took place in the A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communications, in the very heart of St. Petersburg, near the St Isaac's Cathedral on September, 10-12 . Arcady Khotin, General Manager of Arcadia Inc., the founder and initiator of MoMo St.Petersburg, says: "I like the format of these events, when colleagues from the same or close industries encounter in informal atmosphere and have an opportunity talk shop or just chat about their common problems and accomplishments in person".

Document Archive Application

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A flexible system used for storage, searching and retrieval of almost hundred fixed document types and an unlimited number of own ones. The main goal of the project was to convert database storage from Trip into MS SQL Server. Implementation was based on the previous version of the application. Technologies & tools: MS Source Safe / VSS Connect, TestTrack Pro, IntelliJ IDEA, Ant, MS Windows XP/2003, MS SQL Server, Apache Tomcat, Java, JavaScript, XML, XSL Software re-engineering, implementation of new functionality, data transferring | Desktop applications | ECM & document management solutions

Jun 20-22, 2007
Arcadia Participated in RUSSOFT Forum 2007

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia successfully participated in RUSSOFT Forum 2007 which was held in Hotel Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya on 21-22, June. General Manager of “Arcadia” Mr. Arcady Khotin moderated the panel “Nearshoring to Russia from the Northern Europe” where colleagues from Denmark, Norway and Germany were involved.

May 8, 2007
Arcadia Inc, Ardin Software Oy, and F-Secure Corporation

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A long-term cooperation agreement has been signed by Arcadia, Inc. (one of the leading software development firms in Russia), Ardin Software, Oy (Arcadia's Finnish agent) and F-Secure Corporation (one of the largest IT companies in Finland). The agreement covers cooperation in software development and maintenance projects.

Mobile Learning Service

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Client maintained a huge web-based learning service supporting almost entire learning process for teachers and students. The new mobile project was intended to give the students possibility to read their learning mail, download materials, get and execute basic types of tasks and do other important operations from their mobile phones. Technologies & tools: MS Visual Studio 2005, EMS Manager, FxCop, ASP.NET Mobile, C# .NET, MySQL Custom development and enhancement | Mobile applications | Education & e-learning | SaaS | Distance education

Dec 27, 2006
ICT Leaders Discuss Opening Finnish Innovation Centre in St Petersburg

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A senior delegation of Finnish government and ICT leaders met with Russoft and Ardin Software representatives to discuss the opening of a Finnish Innovation Centre in the city. The meetings took place at the headquarters of Arcadia Inc.

Oct 23, 2006
Pushkin in Arcadia. Next Step

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia and the Pushkin House (Institute of Russian literature) concluded a state contract on realization of a project “Informational support of the Pushkin House scientific research” which is carried out within the framework of the Institute’s IT-modernization program.

Sep 26-28, 2006
Ardin Software and Arcadia Took Part in Helsinki ICT Week

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Among the speakers on September 26 were Arcady Khotin, the Managing Director of Ardin Software, and Antti Akras, the head of a partnering company ACD Consulting. They delivered a message and made a presentation titled “Vendor Management in Multi-Sourcing of Software Projects”.

Sep 18, 2006
Another Mobile Monday Event in St. Petersburg

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This MoMo's topic was mobile applications and Arcadia acted not only as a technical sponsor of the event, but also as one of the main speakers.

DVK School Management System

Ulyana Bashkina — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A school management system managing all aspects of school life: financials, scheduling, school tasks, grades, etc. According to the client's request, the system was created as a desktop application providing data exchange with the server for all users (teachers presparing for classes, students doing hometasks, administrators) not only from school but also from home computers through desktop interface. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, C#, MySQL, Crystal Reports, InstallShield, Adobe Reader, Agilix InfiNotes, Infragistics NetAdvantage Custom software development | Desktop applications | Education & e-learning | Online collaboration tools

Jul 3–7, 2006
A Group of EMBA students from Cass Business School (London, UK) at Arcadia

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In April 2006 Arcadia organized a workshop with the representatives of the University of Applied Sciences, Kouvola, Finland; this discussion on business issues was fruitful for both sides and gave the company an opportunity to test its marketing strategy on the perception of young BBA specialists from Northern Europe. This time Arcadia was subject to a British outlook on its major assets and working methodologies.

Jun 19, 2006
Arcadia Acted as a Sponsor of the Mobile Monday (St. Petersburg) Event

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Mobile Monday (MoMo) is an informal event for ICT companies, which started in 2000 in Helsinki, Finland, and since then has been held monthly in different parts of the world (U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia).

May 31 – Jun 2, 2006
Arcadia, Inc. at Russian Outsourcing & Software Summit 2006

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The latest summit of Russian software developers was dedicated to the possibilities and prospects of domestic software field and particularly the export of products and services. Among the participants of the forum there were representatives of the largest Russian companies as well as foreign customers and business analysts. One of the main points of discussion was the role of Russian software export compared to that of the regions – traditional IT suppliers (India, China).

May 24, 2006
Personec Group and Arcadia, Inc., 5th Anniversary of Cooperation

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Since 2001 Personec Group (then Tieto Enator) have been outsourcing various IT projects to its Russian partner Arcadia, Inc. Personec - the leading provider of HR and payroll management solutions in the Scandinavian market, and Arcadia – one of the most experienced payroll software-makers, united their efforts to achieve great productivity and mutual satisfaction, even more than that!

May 15, 2006
ITMO Students Successfully Passed Software Testing Course

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The “Software Testing” course, organized by Arcadia, Inc., in cooperation with St. Petersburg State University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) is over. The majority of students passed their tests successfully and therefore learned the fundamental notions of quality assurance in theory and had a chance to implement them in practice.

May 3, 2006
Pushkin House Activities (in Russian)

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc., took up the assignment of maintaining the Pushkinskij Dom web-portal according to the federal grant conditions.

Apr 21, 2006
Start of Software Testing Course in ITMO — Arcadia's Contribution

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

It has been two and a half months since Arcadia, Inc., in cooperation with St. Petersburg State University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) started a students' educational program on the subject of “Software Testing”. This project has been running successfully on mutually beneficial basis.

Feb 8, 2006
Arcadia and ITMO co-operation program (in Russian)

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

It has been two and a half months since Arcadia, Inc., in cooperation with St. Petersburg State University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) started a students’ educational program on the subject of “Software Testing”. This project has been running successfully on mutually beneficial basis.

Case Handling Document PreProcessor

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 24 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The former procedure of registering new messages or documents as Cases (or as new records in existing Cases) demanded a lot of manual work to fill in all required fields. Case Handling Document PreProcessor (CHDP) application was intended to simplify the process of registering and updating new Cases in the Customer's Case Registering System. Technologies & tools: MS Windows Server, BizTalk Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | Workflow & BPA | Government

Fixed Assets Management Application Re-Engineering

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Migrating a Fixed Assets Management application from FoxPro to SQL Server. Besides, the project covered a number of enhancements to the applications functionality, such as: ASP and Citrix enhanced support; XML import/export to 3rd party systems; update to license generation/support; new SQL Server based backup/restore functionality; enhanced user management and security. Technologies & tools: MS Visual FoxPro, MS SourceSafe, TestTrack Pro, InstallShield, Citrix MetaFrame, MS Windows, MS SQL Server, Terminal Server Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | Financials & accounting

Formula One, First Impression to Stingray

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The objective of the project was re-engineering chart and grid functionalities in the presentation layer of both 2- and 3-tier versions of an existing HRM application. Technologies & tools: MS Windows, MS Windows Server, MS Visual Studio .NET, MS SourceSafe, TestTrack Pro Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | .NET | HRM

Controlled Substances Return System

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The Client — company specialising on disposal and recycling of controlled substances — needed an application for automation of internal business processes, as relying on paper documentation resulted in considerable loss of time. The goal of the project was to develop a software system for exchanging Advanced Shipment Notifications and Purchases between Purchaser (the Client) and Suppliers (Client's customers). The system was developed according to the obligatory requirements defined by DEA for systems working with controlled substances. Technologies & tools: C#, MS Visual Studio, MS SourceSafe, csUnit, TestTrack Web Custom software development | Desktop applications | Pharmaceutics

Aug 3-4, 2004
Arcadia, Inc. Participated in the Test Summit in Savonlinna, Finland

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

For the second time Arcadia, Inc. and Ardin Software Oy, Finnish marketing and project management company established by Arcadia, Inc. in year 2002, participated in the Test Summit organized as regular event by the independent software testing company SoftaTest.

Jun 15, 2004
Arcadia, Inc. at Fourth «Russian Outsourcing and Software Summit»

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Events like ROSS help consolidate the market players, foster the knowledge exchange, raise the awareness of Russian developers' capabilities, and promote Russia's popularity as an outsourcing destination.

May 29, 2004
Merger of RUSSOFT and Fort-ROSS

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Sat, 29 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Two largest Russian associations of software development companies, Consortium "Fort Ross" and RUSSOFT, decided to merge.

May 27, 2004
Arcadia has Confirmed ISO 9001:2000 Certification

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Thu, 27 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia has just successfully passed the ISO 9001:2000 audit. The Quality Management System developed by Arcadia, Inc. for software design, development, testing and delivery has been confirmed to operate in compliance with international standard ISO 9001:2000.

Online Order Management Tool

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Implementation of new functionality to online order management tool. The tool integrates information from the order and production systems and provides commercial and residential customers with 24-hour access to real estate transaction processes and documents. Software re-engineering | Web applications | Online services | Workflow & BPA | Real estate

POS System

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Development of multi-user, multi-lingual distributed Point of Sale (POS) computer system: order entry via PPC, order processing via PPC and PC LAN, data storage and handling, synchronization/updating of all remote field data to the corporate or home/office-based LAN. Windows 98/NT/2000/CE, C, MFC, XML, TCP/IP level communication, HTTP level communication, CE driver for native CE database, OPOS-based access to POS specific software Custom software development | Desktop applications | Other business areas | Retail | Sales automation

Nov 10-11, 2003
Arcadia Participates in Russian IT Season

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. participated in the seminars-presentations in Finland and Sweden in the frame of the Fourth Consecutive "Russian IT Season" arranged to unveil the benefits of software development outsourcing to Russia.

Testing of Video Streaming Products

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Client needed to test (1) a new product for faster streaming video delivery based on MVQ technology, (2) a new Java applet. The project required a huge number of tests under many different Web browsers and operating systems. Quality assurance (testing) | Web applications | Online services

Jul 29-30, 2003
Arcadia, Inc. Participated in the Testing Summit in Savonlinna, Finland

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Testing Summit was organized by SoftaTest, an independent software testing company located in Savonlinna, Finland. Many well-known Finnish companies (including Nokia, Conformiq Software Oy, Tesnet Finland) and their guests attended the Summit to share their knowledge and practices in the software testing for terminal manufacturers, telephone operators, and software development companies.

HRM and Payroll Application Re-Engineering

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Client's Human Resources Management & Payroll System required redesign to minimize efforts to perform regular updates. Besides, the System needed more flexiblity, better usability and easier integration with other business applications of the Client. Technologies & tools: MS SQL Server, Delphi, T-SQL Software re-engineering | Desktop applications | Financials & accounting | HRM

Jun 25-28, 2003
Arcadia, Inc. at Software Outsourcing Summit 2003 (St. Petersburg)

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Software Outsourcing Summit is organized by the "Fort Ross Information Technology Services" consortium and the National Software Development Association "RUSSOFT". The Summit took place in Zelenogorsk, a picturesque suburb of St.Petersburg.

Mar 12-19, 2003
Arcadia, Inc. Participated in CeBIT

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. participated in the international exhibition of information and telecommunications technologies CeBIT.

Mar 3, 2003
Solit Group Announces Creation of a European Support Center

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Solit Signs an Alliance with Arcadia, Inc. of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Business Applications Suite for Groove™

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Customer needed to develop a business applications suite for Groove™, including a CRM, a document management system, a file management tool, a set of shortcuts to most often used Groove items and a technical support center. The task required fast adoption of the new (for 2003) technology and working with requirements which were evolving in the process of development. Technologies & tools: Groove Workspace, GDK (Groove Development Kit), COM, ATL, XML, JavaScript, C Custom software development of a set of business applications | Desktop applications | Workflow & BPA | ECM & document management solutions

Jan 14-16, 2003
Arcadia, Inc. at Comdex Scandinavia 2003

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. participated in Comdex Scandinavia 2003 - the main IT exhibition in Scandinavian countries. The Comdex Scandinavia is a perfect meeting place to contact with the players of the Scandinavian IT industry.

Corporate Training Administration System

Ulyana Bashkina — Sun, 08 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT

An easy-to-use internal system for streamlining administration, billing and scheduling of corporate IT training courses. MS Jet, MS VB, MS Visual Studio Custom software development | Desktop applications | Workflow & BPA | Corporate trainings

Oct 22-23, 2002
First Russian-German Symposium on Information and Communication

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. will participate in the First Russian-German Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies.

Menu System and Web Applications Framework

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT

The project task was to develop a Web Applications Framework Software Development Kit (WAF SDK). It was needed to simplify the implementation of uniform web applications based on Client's Application Framework. Technologies&tools: Oracle, MS SQL Server, VB.NET, VB6, JavaScript, MS Visual Studio, XML Custom software development | Desktop applications | Developer tools, compilers & IDEs

SQL Query Designer

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT

A platform-independent application for easy management of SQL database queries from distributed applications. Technologies & tools: Java 2, SUN JDK 1.4.0, XML, JDBC, SUN JavaHelp, JUnit, Swing, Apache ANT Custom software development | Desktop applications | Java/J2EE | Developer tools, compilers & IDEs

Internet Translation Server for Unix

Ulyana Bashkina — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

The Client developed Internet Translation Server for Windows intended for text and URL translations via internet/intranet. Windows-specific functionality problems and the desire to attract Unix-using customers forced the company to start developing a Unix-based version of the Internet Translation Server. Technologies & tools: Linux, GNU C, TCP/IP, Apache, Perl Custom software development | Web applications | Online services | Machine translation

Jun 6-7, 2002
Arcadia, Inc. Participated in Second Software Outsourcing Summit

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

The Software Outsourcing Summit was organized, already for the second time, by the consortium "Fort Ross Information Technology Services" and the St. Petersburg City Administration. More than 200 software development companies and IT associations took part in the Summit.

Mar 13-20, 2002
Arcadia, Inc. Participated in CeBIT

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. participated in the international exhibition of information and telecommunications technologies CeBIT. The main goal of Arcadia's participation was to create awareness among German companies about the services Arcadia provides.

WebGuerrilla Search Engine

Ulyana Bashkina — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

A custom search engine developed by the Client needed a number of modifications. One of the main tasks was to make the engine's relevance algorithm adjustable, so that it would be possible and easy to customize the order in which the search results would be returned. Technologies & tools: FREE BSD, GNU C, TCP/IP, Apache, PHP Software re-engineering | Web applications | Online services | Search engines

SyncAgent for Data Management

Ulyana Bashkina — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

A system for remote data management — a distributed multi-tier business application with desktop, web-based and mobile clients intended for data exchange. The distinguishing feature of the system was the use of remote devices that would store, process and synchronize data. Technologies&tools: OS WinCE 3.0 (Pocket PC), Palm OS, C++, MS embedded Visual Tools, Metrowerks Code Warrior for Palm OS, SyncML Custom software development | Mobile applications | Other business areas

Name Registry System

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

A number of the Client's products were usually installed on the same machine. Names of the variables were required in many different contexts. This caused multiple problems in cases when there was a name conflict between different programs. To solve the problem, Arcadia's team developed a web-based registry system and installed it on the Client's corporate intranet. Technologies & tools: MS IIS, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, ADO DB, MS Access Custom software development | Web applications | Developer tools, compilers & IDEs

Data Security Management Framework

Ulyana Bashkina — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Development of a centrally-managed data security framework capable of managing multiple applications running on multiple operating systems. The solution is able to integrate with different enterprise management systems. The framework is based on the three-tier architecture that consists of the agent software, installed on the end-user machines, management server, and a management console. Technologies & tools: C++, cross-platform development, RPC, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP, Windows Networking, ISAPI, Java Custom software development | Desktop applications | Java/J2EE | Security & data protection

AOL Mail Poller & Web-based Mail Pollers

Ulyana Bashkina — Mon, 04 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

To facilitate e-mail access via the portable devices, the client's service collected customers' e-mails to a special server. Special programs (pollers) retrieved customers' e-mails from different mail systems and delivered them to the server. The main problem was to create a poller for the AOL mail system because AOL did not open its protocol to the public. Another challenging task was retrieving information from web-based mail systems. Technologies: Solaris, C, sockets, TCP/IP spying tools, Perl, HTTP Custom software development | Mobile applications | Online services

Jan 22-24, 2002
Arcadia, Inc. at Comdex Nordic 2002

Ekaterina Dobrovolskaya — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Arcadia, Inc. had a great success at the COMDEX exhibition. We are happy to see that interest in our services from Swedish companies has grown dramatically over the last couple of years. COMDEX once more demonstrated that software development outsourcing indeed becomes one of the main global trends in the IT industry of the 21st century.

RapidPRINT

Ulyana Bashkina — Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Print jobs caused serious administrative and bandwidth problems in the Client's wide area network (WAN). Arcadia developed a solution to the problem including 2 server components and a client application. Technologies: MS Visual C++, MS SOAP SDK, Citrix Virtual Channel SDK Custom software development | Desktop applications | Other business areas