ENTERPRISE NEWS
Mobile apps recruitment drive
Russian services
merger helps EU sales
EUROPE
RUSSIA
DEXTERRA, maker of software for mobile
platforms, is building out its links to partners, both THE merger between Exigen Services and StarSoft
large and small. By supporting a wide variety of Development Labs has brought expected benefits,
mobile devices, it is working with ISPs and partners managers told media last week. Over the last year,
such as Accenture, Capgemini and Vodafone in turnover of the companies, which united under the
the enterprise space. A recruitment programme is name of Exigen Services in January 2007, increased
expected to push into vertical industries as well as by 40% to more than $70m (€45m).
increasing overall market penetration. In the near future the company will open new
The ISVs and VARs across Europe with mobile R&D centers in Russia and abroad, including a
expertise are in its sights, although it already admits center in Asia, it says.
that it is getting a faster roll-out in the emerging experience to further develop Dexterra’s mobility “From 2003-2006, StarSoft grew by 74% a year
countries, usually by global business moving in. partnership with Vodafone, which helps Vodafone and turnover increased from $3m to $20m. Then
With regional recruitment of ISVs, it expects to be enterprise customers extend applications such as we were faced with a lack of sales representatives
able to provide a small set of quality applications, SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce to mobile devices via a in the EU, and a lack of marketing professionals.
which is what the channel finds most useful, says hosted service. We needed resources and technologies for
Matthew Moore, VP product marketing.
www.dexterra.com development, and so we looked for a partner,”
On the back of what it claims is a string of Nikolai Puntikov, president of Exigen Services for
customer successes in the EMEA region, Dexterra
OUR ANALySIS
Eastern Europe told media.
has expanded its executive team by appointing Exigen Services focuses on software outsourcing
Rikke Helms (above) as MD its EMEA division. Rikke An interesting company and technology, it claims and system integration, providing solutions for
Helms. who is well known in the business, having to have cracked the problem of providing access the financial, health, telecommunications and
held previous senior positions at organisations such to business applications from all those different entertainment industries and has 17 offices in total.
as Borland, Vodafone, IBM and Cable & Wireless, mobile devices, all running different operating Half of its turnover last year came from seven
will play an integral role in accelerating Dexterra’s systems, coping with security, odd screen sizes etc. research centers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
expansion across the EMEA region as the company Rikke Helms is on board to deliver the big names New centers were opened in Minsk and Nizhny
looks to take greater advantage of business such as Vodafone. This has some potential for the Novgorod. The St. Petersburg office employs
partnerships and move towards an indirect sales smaller partners whose customers are asking about about 700 people and it will continue to expand its
strategy. mobile access and particularly the ISV community presence in Russia, it says.
In particular, she will use her previous with applications that need “mobilising”.
www.exigen.ru
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enterprise news round-up
BeyondTrust, maker of Least Privilege member executive council with the intention
creation and use of business mashups. Users
Management solutions, has signed with of broadening the appeal of the organisation.
and consulting and channel partners will
enterprise distributor Arc Technology in the The changes have seen six of the members
be able to find, buy, and sell pre-packaged
UK. stepping down. The ISA aims to promote
Mashups, Web services, and professional
the interests of the software and IT services
services—without incurring any fees or
Steria has a new Centre of Excellence in industry and provide member companies with
commissions from Serena.
Luxembourg for Java agile development. It access to a number of key stakeholders and
aims to offer industrialisation of the process services.
Symbian has launched a Symbian Ready’
of development and code generations.
technology validation program to give its
Luxoft, Russian provider of application and
ecosystem partners the chance to showcase
Switzerland-based Day Software, a Global product development services to clients
solutions to potential customers and decision
Content Management Software and Content such as Deutsche Bank, IBM, UBS and others,
makers in the mobile space.
Infrastructure Software specialist has has opened a new delivery centre in Ho
appointed Erik Hansen to its board. Until Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The opening marks
Mobile phone provider Sony Ericsson
the beginning of 2008 he was Senior Vice the first time an Eastern European software
registered a 47% profit drop for Q1 ‘08 due
President and General Manager for EMEA at service provider has established a presence in
to problems with apparent slowing market
Interwoven. Vietnam, it says.
growth in mid-to-high end phones in markets
where Sony Ericsson has a strong presence.
The Irish Software Association (ISA) has Serena Software now has a Mashup Exchange
It also had higher R&D investments, the
appointed seven new members to its 17- - an online marketplace to accelerate the
company says.
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