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Your Source for Successful Solutions. The History Over the Last 10 Years. In 1996 a local Armenian startup was created. Its customers were companies in the US and Canada. The team was early adopter of many modern technologies, Java, XML, Web Services and other innovations.
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The History Over the Last 10 Years • In 1996 a local Armenian startup was created. Its customers were companies in the US and Canada. The team was early adopter of many modern technologies, Java, XML, Web Services and other innovations. • In 2000, Brience Inc., a US based mobile software solution provider acquired the company. During 2000-2002, Brience Armenia developed platforms for wireless web access for well-known US companies like Ingram Micro, Applied Materials, CNN, CNet, T-Mobile, Windham hotels, Washington Mutual, CISCO and others. • In 2002, Brience Armenia was acquired by Lycos Europe and renamed to Lycos CJSC. • Lycos Armenia grew together with the Lycos Europe network and collaborates with competence centers in Gutersloh, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and Paris for the development of its core services: search, communication, communities and operations and customer care. • Lycos Europe was founded in May 1997 as a joint venture between Lycos Inc., USA, and Bertelsmann AG, Germany. Lycos Europe is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and on the Paris Stock Exchange. • Sourcio is Lycos Armenia spin-off which is also backed by the World Bank funded venture fund and USAID
Experienced Management • Hovhannes Avoyan CEO and founder • Founded the company in 1996 • Grew a 5 person team into a 220 people company • Held the VP and Managing Director positions at Brience and Lycos Europe • Executive trainings e.g. Harvard Business School • Visiting lecturer at Armenian and US Universities • 24 years in CS and Software Engineering • Armen Gharibyan CTO • 20 years of CS experience • Managed software engineering teams of up to 50 members
Creative Team with Advanced Skills • Ajax based rich web user interface • Lamp (Linux, Appache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl), Java, JSP, Oracle • Web frameworks (Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSF etc.), mobile technologies (j2ME), XML, J2EE, JMS • Application servers – JBoss, BEA, Geronimo • Many open source products and technologies. Open source CRM, EMR, CMS (e.g. Plone/Zope) • Web Services • Web applications, esp. large scale/high load/high availability, • Clusters and Message based systems
Large list of Accomplished Projects • Brience mobile platform • Lycos Europe products in the following 6 areas: communications and email, community (chat, dating), hosting, mobile applications, shopping and billing • Mission critical and high load applications. E.g. Lycos chat currently powers Yahoo Europe chat • Dimoco - SMS applications for telecom • Cisco Inc. SNMP applications for network management • Spotigo J2ME Java for mobile phone applications • Variety of large and small scale projects for local and international clients • Data server support and product maintenance (2000 servers in Europe)
Project Management Process • SRS • Development • Testing and QA • Technical writing • Deployment • Support during the operation
Modern Methodologies • Rational Unified Process • Agile methodologies (Extreme programming and SCRUM) - depends on project • CMM level 2/3 (internal) - repeatable processes, mostly documented
Weekly Consolidated Status Reports also Delivered to Customers
Bug tracking and Testing Tools for Better Quality To name a few tools: Mantis JUnit JMeter Maven Eclipse
Internal QA Tools Helps to Manage Large Number of Test Cases
Intranet Portal – Single Point of Entry to Company Information
Thank You for Your Attention Contact in Armenia Sourcio CJSC 123 Hovsep Emin str. Yerevan 375051, Armenia Tel.: +374 10 21-97-95 Fax: +374 10 21-97-99 E-mail:info@sourcio.com URL:http://www.sourcio.com Your Source for Successful Solutions Contact in Austria System Five Information Technology GmbH 1100 Wien, Wienerbergstrasse 11 Tel.: +43.1.99460.6226 Fax: +43.1.99460.5000 Contact in Canada Thomas International Inc./ACITIP 3531 Richmond Road, Suite 100 Ottawa ON K2H 8H8 Tel.: + 1 (613) 265-7000