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APLANA Software is a rapidly growing Moscow based software services company, member of a leading Russian technology group I.T.Co. The company provides high quality software services for global customers with a focus on custom software development, maintenance and testing and is recognized for high effectiveness of production processes, excellence of customer relationships and communications as well as high flexibility in resources allocation.

QUALITY OF SERVICE

The high quality of Aplana services is confirmed with the ISO9000:2001 certification for software development and maintenance processes granted in 2002 by TUV Cert, Germany - one of the world’s most trustworthy certification bodies - and well-established project infrastructure ready for implementation of large-scale and long-term projects. Over 5 years, APLANA has implemented over 200 projects, including enterprise level and federal level projects with a workload of 100, 200 and 300+ man months.

CUSTOMERS

APLANA’s mission is to create and modernize information systems to ensure their maximum efficiency for our customers’ business by using best software engineering practices and open standards. Our target is not only to reduce development costs and shorten the time-to-market for our customers, but also to help our customers to gain a competitive advantage within the market through the efficient use of innovative solutions. Aplana aims to solve customer problems rather than selling specific skills or products by using a flexible project organization structure.

Aplana’s services are recognized by many multinational companies such as General Electric, TetraPak, Procter&Gamble, Wrigley and major Russian enterprises, including MTS, TNK-BP, YUKOS Oil Company, Central Bank or Russia, Sberbank of Russia.

MARKET POSITION

With over 5 years in offshore outsourcing, APLANA Software is ranked as one of the top 5 Russian software services exporters and is repeatedly referenced in white papers on Russian software services by Gartner Group, Aberdeen Group, Forrester Research, AMR Research and IDC. Aplana is a recognized certified partner of Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and an active member of many leading industry associations (Russoft, Fort-Ross). For over 3 years, Victor Weinstein,CEO at Aplana Software, has been elected member of the board of association of Russian outsourcing suppliers - RUSSOFT.

In July 2004 APLANA Software won in two categories of the Microsoft® Partner Program Awards 2004 – ‘Winning Customers Award’ and ‘Customer Experience Award’ - given for its recent project based on .NET and web-services technologies. With this award, APLANA Software became the only Russian software vendor honored with Microsoft Partner Awards in 2004.

According to recent studies done by the major Russian publishing house, Kommersant (2003, 2004), Aplana Software was rated as the most efficient company among Russian software services providers.

CORE COMPETENCIES AND SERVICES

APLANA has advanced competencies in SFA/CRM solutions; BPM automation; Workflow and EDMS; data management solutions; Mobile/PDA development; as well as in financial, manufacturing and telecom domain areas.

Technology focus is .NET; J2EE/J2ME; Oracle; IBM WebSphere/Lotus technologies. Most of our recent projects are implemented based on open standards and web-services technologies. Aplana employs visual modeling tools to produce detailed descriptions of the future system functionality in order to better define the requirements. Prototyping is also used to provide intermediate versions for user interface, functionality and business logic of the system.

APLANA is very strong in building multi-technology solutions and is well-experienced with large-scale re-engineering and maintenance projects In addition to the proven software engineering and maintenance capabilities, APLANA has its own Testing Center and provides a full range of Quality Assurance and IS testing services. In alliance with its partners APLANA also provides globalization/localization services.

DIFFERENTIATORS AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

A recent IDC survey of global offshore vendors - “Worldwide Offshore Service Provider Profiles" – profiled APLANA among 21 global offshore vendors and highlighted APLANA differentiators as diversified portfolio and focus on developing deep customer relationships, particularly with its ‘mid-market’ target market. The report also cites a strong price/quality ratio as another company differentiator. Additionally, APLANA is recognized for high development productivity and flexibility in resources allocation.

High Effectiveness and Development Productivity. Aplana Software repeatedly shows the high efficiency rates among Russian service companies. The Company has achieved a high level of internal efficiency not only due to its well-established production processes and high competence of its employees, but also due to a simplified organizational structure with no excessive levels of hierarchy, and an efficient information infrastructure fully automating all principal production and business processes.

Flexible ODC resources allocation model. Aplana's key customers are offered a unique delivery model - “dynamic development center", where advantages of a long-term cooperation are combined with flexibility of the project model. For customers it means that managing Aplana’s development team does not require extra resources for ODC establishment and operation but allows for using all advantages of permanent collaboration. This model is already approved with a number of customers and partners, including GE and GRT. At the beginning of the engagement, Aplana builds a core team. Then staff training programs are kicked off, along with long-term joint resource and workload planning. During the project, the core team stays in close communication with the customer and works to transfer the customer's corporate culture and standards to the entire project team.

Mature customer relationship processes. In order to develop deep customer relationships, Aplana works to provide its clients with a clear view into the company's processes through transparent communications and real-time information exchanges. Another important factor of success is the tailoring of Aplana’s existing software development process to the customer’s corporate standards including quality assurance standards and applications design policies.

Aplana Services

Customers and Projects

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