One of the world’s leading software developers will be located in the Ingria technopark
The Ingria Technopark and the American IT Company, DataArt signed an agreement of intend, as a result of which DataArt plans to place a development center in Saint Petersburg in 2013.
Plans call for the construction of the first facilities in the Nevsky district of Saint Petersburg, opposite the "Ul. Dybenko" metro station to begin in 2012, and for the project to be completed in 2013. After these facilities come online, DataArt is prepared to consider the possibility of placing an office at the technopark facility, if its infrastructure will satisfy the company’s needs. The Company’s Petersburg development Center, which current occupies more than 1,000 square meters, will be located in the Ingria technopark. The plans call for DataArt to increase its rented space in the Technopark.
– "DataArt has become the second international company, after Microsoft, to announce plan to open a location at the Technopark," said Anton Potapov, the General Director of the Ingria Technopark, Anton Potapov, "this is one of the leading software developers in the world, the company has Russia routes and major international experience and connections; practically all of its clients are located abroad. DataArt’s experience in bringing products onto international markets will be useful for the startups of the Ingria business incubator, which have high export potential."
DataArt develops customized software for financial institutions and technology companies, working in the fields of Finance, Mobile Solutions, Online Travel, medicine, internet projects and mass media.
– "We have begun to work with "Ingria", sharing experience with Russian startups. Since the creation of the first version of Mail.Ru, more than 200 startups from the USA, Great Britain and other countries have worked with DataArt; for us, this amounts the excellent experience with advanced technology and business models. For young companies, DataArt, acts not only as a contractor, but as a partner, and consultant and, sometimes, an investor. The environment of the technopark, which will be created by both innovative companies, startups and recognized leaders of the industry, is quite attractive for us" commented Mikhail Zavileiskiy, the General Director of DataArt.
Additional Information:
The Ingria Technopark is being created as part of the federal program for the development of high technology technoparks, on a 45 hectare site in the Nevsky district of Saint Petersburg, across from the "Ul. Dybenko" metro station. The volume of investment in the project amounts to 30 billion rubles, 66% of which consist of private funds, and 34% of investments from federal and regional budgets. The construction of the first stage of the Technopark, an administrative building and two business incubator buildings with an instruction center will begin in 2012. The Technopark’s first pilot project, the Ingria business incubator, has been operating since 2008. As of the beginning of April, 70 residents have operated in the business incubator. In the summer of 2011, as part of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Microsoft company signed a cooperation agreement with the government of Saint Petersburg, in accordance with which the corporation will open its own technological center in the Ingria technopark.
DataArt has been developing customized software in the fields of Finance, Telecommunications, Online Travel, Mobile Solutions and mass media since 1997. The company’s headquarters is located in New York; and its development centers are located in Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Kiev, Kharkov, and Kherson. The company has a representative office in London (Great Britain) and an agency in Zurich (Switzerland).
Business Week magazine called DataArt one of the best developing outsourcing companies in the world. For the fifth time, DataArt made the CMP's Global Services 100 list of the 100 leaders of global outsourcing, and occupied the highest rungs of that. In 2010-2011, DataArt became one of the top three best IT-employers in Ukraine according to a rating produced developers.org.ua, and the top 10 best employers in Russia according to HeadHunter’s rating.
Contact Information:
The Ingria Technopark
Denis Gavrilov
PR Specialist
Telephone: (812) 313-10-85
Mobile telephone: 8-911-288-22-18
DataArt
Anastasia Podolskaya
PR-Manager
+7(812)3334440
pr@dataart.com
www.dataart.ru/press-center