A new name for a new year – Mirasoft becomes Levi9 Ukraine

The General Staff Meeting was held at newly re-branded Levi9 Ukraine, former Mirasoft Group, to present the results and achievements of this year, declare organizational changes and share plans for year to come.

Yuri Kovalenko, CEO of Levi9 Ukraine used his speech to congratulate employees and emphasize that despite the global economic downturn this year became successful and company has showed a steady growth in terms of financial results and personnel indicators. "This year was marked for our company as a special as we celebrated our 20th Anniversary and remain the oldest among East European Outsourcers" – said Mr.Kovalenko.

By stressing the global impact on industries and companies by the economic crisis Mr.Kovalenko praised the commitment and dedication of the people employed by the company, saying that employees are the foundation of everything that makes Mirasoft a great company. Mr.Kovalenko also extended his thanks to the company’s partners and customers for their support during the past year, and wishes them all the best for Christmas and New Year.

During the meeting the following topics were outlined:

Organizational changes

After long common work and fruitful alliance with one of the leading European IT service networks, Levi9 Global Sourcing, the company accepted an acquisition proposal and companies completed the merger, with Mirasoft Group became a part of Levi9 Network. Re-organization and re-branding procedures were completed on November, and Mirasoft Group officially became Levi9 Ukraine.

This consolidation will definitely bring considerable advantages for both companies and their clients. Since both had always adhered to best practices in software engineering and project management, the integration of teams and projects was smooth and harmonic.

Levi9 Global Sourcing leverages its optimized delivery model with strong engineering talent and domain expertise of nearshore locations across Central and Eastern Europe. With headquarters in the Amsterdam and representative network in Germany and Belgium, Levi9 combines on-site presence of software architects and project managers with nearshore development teams to help its clients optimize engineering costs structure and streamline productivity under the highest standards in software development and IT maintenance.

Prospects

Levi9 Global Sourcing is planned to expand its service capacities in Ukraine. The new business activities refer to the service delivery, which is to include application services, IT support and system maintenance designed to fit specifications and customization requirements of the Dutch commercial and government sectors on a long-term basis. Being traditionally strong in application services on Microsoft .NET and Java Enterprise platforms, with over fifteen years of practical experience the company covers almost entire range of needs of modern IT enabled organization.

Clients

The company has strengthened its contracts with long standing clients and started up new partnerships with new clients, among which two highly-innovative companies specialize on electronic medical solutions and electronic payments and data storage respectively. By bringing its proven expertise in Healthcare and e-Commerce sectors the company enhances operational and innovation capabilities of its new partners, while optimizing cost structure.

Partnerships

During this year the company proves its status as Micrsoft Gold Certified Partner, successfully certified its product for Windows Vista program and attained two new Microsoft competences: Advanced Infrastructure Solutions and Networking Infrastructure Solutions.

For now the company awarded by the following Microsoft competencies:

  • Networking Infrastructure Solutions
  • Advanced Infrastructure Solutions
  • Data Management Solutions
  • Information Worker Solutions
  • ISV/Software Solutions
  • Custom Development Solutions
  • Business Intelligence
  • Small Business Specialist Community.

All these competences demonstrate the highest level of company’s technical expertise and the ability to provide robust business solutions utilizing highly-innovative Microsoft technologies. While certification of developed solution Spectator – specialized search tool build on MS platform emphasizes that the solution has met explicit Microsoft standards for partner-developed software and demonstrated development quality and compatibility with Microsoft Vista, on which it runs by passing through the various testing procedures conducted by Microsoft testing authority.

The company also extended its memberships in SUN Advantage Program. Having more than a decade of experience in various Java development projects and closely cooperating with SUN through its Partner Advantage Program the company runs Java Competency center focused on Enterprise Java & J2EE platforms and related technologies.