21-Mar-05

Switzerland promotes Ukraine

The annual and the world's largest IT trade show CeBIT 2005 dedicated to the progress in the sphere of high-technologies took place since the 10th till the 16th of March in Hanover, Germany. The fact that this year it was opened by the Chancellor of Germany — Gerhard Schroeder — highlights the importance of the fair.

An exhibition proved to be rich in business contacts with representatives of companies from Western Europe and USA. It was established more than one hundred business contacts aimed both at the development of eSP Consortium export business and the integration of program systems and IT-consulting into Ukrainian and CIS markets.

In the course of an exhibition the meeting of collective exposition of program members with Swiss government delegation headed by the Minister of Economy of Switzerland Mr. Joseph Deiss was held under the auspices of SIPPO.

Achievements of eSP Consortium in bridging productive and friendly business-dialogue between Switzerland and Ukraine were particularly notable among other SIPPO member-companies.

During the meeting with Mr. Deiss, Vladimir Beñk (Business Development Director of eSP Consortium) highly appreciated a considerable assistance of the SIPPO organization in providing favorable conditions for the development of IT-products and services being imported into Switzerland. Specifically, the gross sales of IT-services rendered by eSP Consortium increased by 35% in 2004 owing to the expansion of partnership with enterprises of Switzerland and other countries of Western Europe.

Swiss government delegation was also represented by: Mrs. Elisabeth Zoelch-Balmer, Minister of Economy in the canton of Bern, Mr. Kurt Zibung, Minister of Economy in the canton of Shwits, Mr. Walter Duss, Vice-President of Simsa (Swiss association of interactive media applications and software manufacturers), Mr. Boyko Doytchinov, Head of SIPPO' partnership programs and other official persons.

About eSP Consortium

eSP is an international Consortium of top-quality Ukrainian and American software development and hi-tech companies, specializing in professional software services, custom software solutions and business process outsourcing across vertical markets.

Originally founded in 2000, today eSP Consortium employs over 150 IT professionals jointly covering a wide area of technologies and target business expertise. The members of Consortium are Eclipse SP, MBS, The KIT Group, SoftPro Workgroup, Insart, Finport Technologies, Inc. and Macfadden & Associates, Inc.

The eSP Consortium is the full member of a number of national and Russian IT associations, including the Ukrainian national association of IT services and products exporters “IT Ukraine”, Ukrainian Software Development Alliance “Silicon Taiga”.