"If you are speaking with a Russian who is an IT specialist, this means that he has received one of the best world-class educations in this field. This also means that he has read an incredible amount of American literature on computer technology; therefore, practically no language problems will arise. All of the Russian IT enterprises with which I’ve been associated have employees who can speak and write wonderfully in English. There was one project, in which I was involved, that was proceeding according to the wishes of the client. Endless and (almost) daily telephone conversations between Copenhagen and St. Petersburg were carried on in English. The average Russian you may meet on the street doesn’t speak English well at all. The difference is that when you speak with IT professionals, you are talking with that part of the population, which has received the highest level of education".
Sten Falling, CEO of Astenit.
"The Russian team have worked very hard on AV Publish and contributed a lot of original ideas to it".
Stefan Roever, President and CEO, Navio Systems, Inc.
"Navio is pleased with the results of our Lanit-Tercom partnership. The Russian team became an extension to our own development team, contributing their leading-edge skills and energy to help with our software development efforts.They were very knowledgeable and contributed to the development of our AV Commerce suite of services, which is used today by many large media companies and content providers".
Tammy Artim, Executive Vice President, Navio Systems, Inc.
"If I hadn’t found this Russian company, Relativity Technologies wouldn't exist. Other technology companies have to cut developers, quality assurance people and customer support staff, and this directly impacts their ability to innovate, support customers and survive".
Vivek Wadhwa, CEO of Relativity Technologies (interview by Associated Press)
"Our association with Lanit-Tercom has successfully demonstrated how a science-intensive operation can be directed to resolve a complex business challenge. For many years our collaboration has been built on a clear product management plan that conforms to international standards. Our close cooperation with the Russian development team has supported the execution of the plan and led to the creation of a friendly relationship. We have been pleased with the Lanit-Tercom development team's ability to respond to emergent technical and business requirements".
Peter Mollins, Relativity Technologies
"A key requirement for working with Laerdal Sophus is to work using our agile development model. This model (see http://www.agilemanifesto.org) is crucial to Laerdal Sophus’s efficiency and ability to deliver quality software. Agile development is a challenge in any company, but especially so when development is spread across several physical locations: Denmark, St. Petersburg and Bangalore, India. Lanit-Tercom and Laerdal have succeeded in finding and growing the right agile people to manage the ODC. Another achievement of the Russian ODC has been the ability to work very well together with Laerdal’s other ODC in Bangalore.
The recent successful installation of the Competence Management System in Australia is only the last in a series of successful deliveries by our ODC in Russia. The Australian project demonstrated that the ODC can even be relied on to interact directly with customers on our behalf. Currently development is going on in Russia in co-operation with programmers in the Washington D.C. branch of Laerdal – again with Russian project management.
In summary, Lanit-Tercom has succeeded in building a very responsible, agile, productive and dedicated team in St. Petersburg."
Tommy H. Olesen, Outsourcing Manager, Laerdal Sophus