Ciklum Reference List January 2010 Ciklum is very pleased that a number of our clients have agreed to let new potential clients contact them for feedback on Ciklum and the services we provide. Please note that the list below is just a sample from our current 100+ clients‟ portfolio. Please contact us directly for assistance if you feel that you need additional or specific industry/company references. Several other clients of Ciklum are happy to give the one-on-one references, but for various reasons they prefer not to be listed in this “public” document. Best Regards, Torben Majgaard Founder and CEO of Ciklum E: [email protected] Customers‟ References Lasse Meilsoe, Administrative Director Country: Denmark Phone: +45 39 56 39 55 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 33 specialists Technologies: Java, J2EE, Web Development www.2mba.dk 2MBA works with Ciklum as of February 2005 and during the peak workload times it had 60 people on the nearshore team. Professional Software Development for Business 2MBA is a digital consulting company that works with strategic communication Applications and branding. Furthermore it offers development of professional software solutions like online booking and portal systems and digitalization of processes. Read 2MBA case story Bent C. Kjeldsen, Development Manager Country: Denmark Phone: +45 2010 44 88 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 16 specialists Technologies: VB.Net (2.0), SQL Server 2005, Asp.Net. WebServices, XML www.intranote.dk “When Intranote established an outsourcing team in Kiev in 2005 it was done without visiting Ukraine. Thanks to thorough preparations and firm cooperation Software Development for with Ciklum‟s professional Human Resources department, Intranote was able to Knowledge Sharing deal with the challenges of setting up an entire development team in Ukraine remotely…” Read Intranote case story - 1 - www.ciklum.net Harald Riis Thomsen, Owner & Founder Country: Denmark Phone: +45 2425 25 25 E-mail: [email protected] Team Size: 3 specialists Technologies: J2EE, IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2 www.cc-interactive.com When the company was founded in 2006 its entire research and development department started right away at Ciklum. Sales Support Systems Development for Call Centres "What I like about Ciklum's model is that it's transparent. You see, what you get. And what you get is an employee for a certain price with administration, office facilities and everything included. And most importantly – it works," says Harald Riis Thomsen, the Owner and Founder of CC-Interactive. Read CC-Interactive case story Jorgen Franck, SW Manager Country: Denmark Team size: 5 specialists Platform: .NET Framework 2.0, Microchip PIC, ATMEL AVR Technologies: Windows Forms, GDI+, ADO.NET www.zen-sys.com “Following the recommended best practices from Ciklum has resulted in Wireless Mesh nearshore operations reaching the productivity level comparable to an onshore Networking Technology team in less than two years and making the Ukrainian team an invaluable and integral part of Zensys‟ development department. The productivity of my team in Ukraine is as what I would expect from a Danish team but the total cost of ownership is only about 50% of what I would have to pay in Denmark! I can't imagine not having my nearshore team aboard.” Read Zensys case story Thor Angelo, Managing Director Country: Denmark Phone: +45 70 23 00 44 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 13 specialists Technologies: ASP, ASP.NET, MS SQL, Trados www.languagewire.com LanguageWire has cooperated with Ciklum since May 2005. The team in Kiev has helped LanguageWire to stay in front of the technology development in the Leading Provider of Translation translation industry. Special credit is given to the team‟s work on LanguageWire & Other Language Services Globalisation Platform that has made a great impact on the company‟s success today. LanguageWire is a leading provider of translation and integrated language technology services. - 2 - www.ciklum.net Ogi Bataveljic, CTO Country: United Kingdom Phone: +44 1234 783822 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 4 specialists Technologies: ASP.NET 3.5, WinForms (.NET 2.0), Java 1.5, SQL Server 2005 MiLife has been building its development team in Ukraine with Ciklum to complement its staff in the UK since March 2008. Towards the end of 2008, looking for ways to improve the quality of their deliverables MiLife came for help www.milife.com to Ciklum Services and Consulting department. Using the best practices Ciklum has generated over years, the solution turned to yield great results: “The bottom Online Coaching System line is that not long after we extended our team with a QA manager we saw two main benefits: the quality of the delivered software went up, as did the productivity (initial assessment suggests an improvement in the region of 20- 30%)..." Read MiLife case story Dan Kjaergaard, Consultant Country: Denmark Phone: +45 33 25 65 55 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 32 specialists Technologies: C#, VB, XML www.traen.com Traen started working with Ciklum in February of 2005. Development and Delivery of During the peak workload times the team in Ukraine was reaching 67 full-time IT Business Critical specialists. Software Solutions Traen Group develops and delivers business critical software solutions. The main areas are electronic case and document handling (ESDH, EDH), scanning solutions output management, internal intranet and portal solutions. Jens Peder Persen, Project Manager Web: Denmark Phone: + 45 72 14 4123 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 7 specialists Technologies: Java, ERP & CRM systems development www.exceldata.com Excel Data is a Danish private company established in 1989. Company produces Business Intelligence Area, Business Intelligence, Budgeting and CRM module build systems and sells them in Selling a Module Build System Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and France. It has been working with Ciklum since 2002 and has a good long term experience. Ciklum team participates in development of Java based Business Intelligence and Budgeting Systems. - 3 - www.ciklum.net Bo Altofte Hansen, Director Country: Denmark Phone: + 45 75 53 23 59 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 1 specialist Technologies: .NET, C#, SQL Indicom is a web agency specializing in web projects and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Indicom was one of the first companies that started using www.indicom.dk Ciklum Team Infrastructure (CTI), an integrated bundle of best practice tools within software development, introduced at Ciklum in the last quarter of 2008. CMS and Web Agency “If I should describe the biggest benefit of CTI in a few words it would be transparency and measurability, because the tools gives us a good - and required - overview of procedures, helps us to determine goals and estimate deadlines and thus helps us track each part of the development process…” Read Indicom case story Jorgen Ostergaard, CTO & Co-Founder Country: Switzerland Phone: +45 70 22 83 00 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 8 specialists Technologies: C#, .NET 2.0, WinFX "In 2002 we started a software development team with Ciklum and within a year we had a fully operational 6-persons development team. www.wendia.com Our team in Ukraine which is today is up to 8 people is a natural part of our company‟s culture and activities, and is indeed a business equivalent to our in- Software House, Specialized in house employees. The quality and productivity we experience is fully in line with Service Management Solutions what we have back home in Switzerland. With Ciklum we gained the advantage of having our own resources at a lower cost as well as an opportunity to focus on our core activity, avoiding administrative issues that have been taken care of by Ciklum,” says Jørgen Østergaard, the CTO and Co-Founder of Wendia. Read Wendia case story Anders Bondorf, CEO Country: Denmark Phone: + 45 3527 2408 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 17 specialists www.maconomy.dk Technologies: JDK 1.6, Swing, JIDE, XML Global Provider of Industry- Maconomy is a global provider of business management solutions for project and Specific Solutions knowledge intensive organizations (Professional Services Organizations). Today more than 100,000 users around the world use Maconomy‟s solutions to power their daily work. Maconomy has been successfully working with Ciklum for more than two years now. - 4 - www.ciklum.net Glen Mansberg, Administrative Director Country: Denmark Phone: +45 3613 2444 E-mail: [email protected] Team Size: 4 specialists Technologies: SQL, VB.Net, C#/ASP.Net, .NET (1.0., 2.0.), MS SQL Server (2000, 2005), MS Exchange Server 2003 Founded in 2000, The Danish IT company, Mutax, began outsourcing with Ciklum www.mutax.com in late 2006 strictly to lower costs. But since then Mutax has found skills in Ukraine which can't even be found in Denmark. The company was one the first Time Management and Project users of „Peak Resources‟, the service introduced at Ciklum at the beginning of Handling Systems Development the 2007. This service allows Ciklums‟ clients to make temporary use of an expert with rare and highly specialized skills when an immediate problem needs to be solved. Mutax has already used Peak Resources several times with great success. Read Mutax case story Morten Raaschou-Jensen, CEO Couontry: Denmark Phone: +45 70 20 67 50 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 2 specialists Technologies: MSSQL, WinForms, WebServices, WinServices, XML/XSL www.ihmedical.dk Image House supplies a complete line of products for fertility clinics and research Imaging Solutions for Medical in ART for image recording, visual analysis and resulting data analysis that ensure Professionals maximum consistency and objectivity wherever they are used. Image House works with Ciklum since February 2006. Sten Selin, CEO Country: Sweden Phone: +46 706 490 601 E-mail: [email protected] Team size: 5 specialists Technologies: Java www.viskan.se "First contact with Ciklum was in August 2006 and very soon thereafter the first employee was hired… For a smaller business as Viskan, India Experts in Retail and Mail was not an option when taking travelling and other practical issues in account.