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IBA Group is a Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

/Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

ian company, an alliance of IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

companies that perform offshore

Offshoring

Offshoring describes the relocation by a company of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting. Even state governments employ offshoring...

, near-shore and on-shore projects. IBA Group serves clients in 30+ countries across diverse markets and industries, including banking, railway, telecommunication

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...

, manufacturing

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

, healthcare, trade

Trade

Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and...

, and public

Public

In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individuals, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science,...

.

IBA has offices in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

and development centers in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, Belarus

Belarus

and Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

. In 2005, after the Czech Republic became a member of the European Union, IBA Group relocated its headquarters to Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

.

IBA Group is engaged in bespoke software development, system integration

System integration

In engineering, system integration is the bringing together of the component subsystems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system...

and product development, and provides distribution

Distribution (business)

Product distribution is one of the four elements of the marketing mix. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user.The other three parts of the marketing mix are product, pricing,...

services. The IBA international clients are companies that outsource their software development to offshore or near-shore service providers, while its local clients are mostly banks, manufacturing, and transport enterprises that want to streamline their business processes. Globally, IBA operates as an outsourcing service provider and locally as a system integrator

System integrator

A systems integrator is a person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together, a practice known as System Integration...

, value-added reseller

Value-added reseller

A value-added reseller is a company that adds features or services to an existing product, then resells it as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution...

, and original equipment manufacturer

Original Equipment Manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by a company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name. OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product. When referring to automotive parts, OEM designates a...

Focus Areas

Mainframe systems and applications
Enterprise applications and web solutions
SAP
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

solutions and other ERP
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

systems
Lotus
Lotus Software
Lotus Software is a software company with headquarters in Westford, Massachusetts...

technologies
Business Intelligence
Business intelligence
Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
Tivoli solutions

Skills

IBA employs over 2,500 IT and business professionals. Most of them are university-educated programmers with around 30 holding a PhD in computer science. The IBA specialists are qualified in a variety of computer platforms, operating systems, programming languages, tools, and technologies. -->

History

IBA was founded in 1993 as a joint venture between IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

and two Belarus

Belarus

ian IT enterprises, namely the Computer Research Institute and the Minsk Computer Production Association. In 1999, IBM

IBM

withdrew as a part owner of IBA, however, remains an important business partner

Business partner

Business partner is a term used to denote a commercial entity with which another commercial entity has some form of alliance. This relationship may be a highly contractual, exclusive bond in which both entities commit not to ally with third parties...

for the company.
IBA experienced a rapid growth and now belongs to largest IT service providers in Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

Training and education

IBA Group specialists are educated in the training centers of IBM, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

, Lotus

Lotus Software

Lotus Software is a software company with headquarters in Westford, Massachusetts...

, SAP

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

, SAS

SAS Institute

SAS Institute Inc. , headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig...

, Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Novell

Novell

Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...

, and 1C

1C Company

1C Company is one of the largest independent Russian software developers and publishers. Its headquarters are in Moscow, Russia. It is best known outside of the former Soviet Union as a video game developer whose presence has come to dominate events like the KRI, and whose products have begun to...

. The IBA programmers are also trained at the IBA Training Center.

The IBA Training Center features:

- A testing center authorized by Thomson Prometric

- A testing center authorized by Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE is an electronic testing company owned by British media company Pearson PLC. Founded in 1994 by E. Clarke Porter as Virtual University Enterprises, the company now operates in 165 countries with more than 5,000 authorized test centres ....

- A regional Cisco Networking Academy

Cisco networking academy

Cisco Networking Academy, a global education initiative from Cisco Systems, offers networking programs, like the CCNA and CCNP courses, which prepare students for the certification exams of the same name, and other computer-related courses...

- Oracle

Oracle Corporation

–authorized training center. Courses in Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

, Solaris, and MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

- IBM

IBM

–authorized training center. Training on PMP

Project Management Professional

Project Management Professional is a credential offered by the Project Management Institute . , there were 393,413 active PMP certified individuals worldwide...

program, courses in System administration in Lotus Domino 7 and IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0. Programming Using Base Classes for Java

- SAP

SAP AG

-authorized training center

- Apple Authorized Training Center (AATC). Training in Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

and Final Cut

Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors...

and Aperture software for professionals

- Microsoft

Microsoft

-Authorized Training Center

- Novell

Novell

-Authorized Education Center

- Symantec

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

-Authorized Training Center.

University relations

Today, seven IBA-created joint laboratories function in the Belarusian State University

Belarusian State University

Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...

, the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics

The Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, also known as BSUIR , is a scientific and educational center in Minsk, Belarus The Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, also known as BSUIR , is a scientific and educational center in Minsk, Belarus The...

and the Gomel State University

Francysk Skaryna Homiel State University

Francisk Skorina Gomel State University is a university in Gomel, Belarus....

. IBA is the general sponsor of the student team of the Belarusian State University

Belarusian State University

Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...

that won gold medals at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered computer programming competition among the universities of the world. The contest is sponsored by IBM. Headquartered at Baylor University, with autonomous regions on six continents, the ICPC is directed by Baylor Professor...

in 2004 and bronze medals in 2008.
Since 2008, IBA CZ, development center of IBA Group in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, jointly with the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University

Masaryk University

Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university , it now consists of nine faculties and 42,182 students...

and IBM

IBM

Czech Republic, organizers Software Summer Camp for students in Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

Awards

European Outsourcing Association Awards. Corporate Social Responsibility: Finalist. http://www.eoasummit.com/awards/
Leaders Category in The 2011 Global Outsourcing 100 by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).http://www.iaop.org/Download/Default.aspx?ID=1535
IT Europa's 2011 European IT Excellence Awards: Winner. Category: ISV, Relationship Management.http://www.iteawards.com/
Software Magazine's Software 500 rating: Growth Leader in the Outsourcing Services category http://www.softwaremag.com/L.cfm?Doc=1286-10/2010
The 2010 Global Services 100 list: 100 Companies That Define Global Outsourcing. http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/GS100/2010-GS100-List/The-2010-GS100-List:-100-Companies-That-Define-Global-Outsourcing/26/57/9917/GS100806828646 Category "Leaders: Central and Eastern Europe". http://microsites.globalservicesmedia.com/gs100/register.asp?5E5F5F115B5D5B115E
Leaders Category in The 2010 Global Outsourcing 100 by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). http://www.iaop.org/content/23/152/2040/ The 2010 Global Outsourcing 100 Sub-Lists: Best 5 By Industry Focus – Companies: Automotive; Best 20 by Industry Focus: Leaders – Technology (Hardware & Software); Best 10 by Service Area: Leaders – Research & Development Services; Best 5 by Region Served: Companies in Eastern Europe; Top 10 List “Climbers”. http://www.iaop.org/content/23/152/2041/
IT Europa's 2010 European IT Excellence Awards: Finalist. http://www.iteawards.com/winners-finalists
Brand of the Year as Best Employer in 2009 in Belarus. http://www.bestbrand.by/sobbrand/paketi/
The best provider of IBM solutions in Belarus in 2009, 2007, 2004 and 2000. http://ibagroup.eu/en/about/recognitions/
Global Services 2007. Top 10 to Watch in Emerging European Markets: Winner.http://www.globalservicesmedia.com/Content/general20070521184.asp
Belarusian Government awards for achievements in quality assurance in 1999, 2002, and 2005.http://belarus.iba.by/iba_web/main.nsf/news/en.news03_12_2005.html
Javaworld Editors' Choice Award (1998) for alphaWorks Suite of Components developed by IBA and IBM. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1998/jw-12-choice98winners2.html

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Focus Areas

Skills

History

Training and education

University relations

Awards

See also

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