2 April 2008
EPAM Systems Acquires B2BITS Corp., a Leading Provider of Solutions and Consulting Services to the Capital Markets
EPAM establishes a Capital Markets Competency Center, led by
industry veteran Mark Bisker, strengthening the company's offering
for clients in the Financial Services sector where EPAM already has
over 600 engineers providing development, maintenance, and support
services to leading firms.
Lawrenceville, NJ - April 3, 2008 - EPAM Systems, Inc., the leading
global software outsourcing services company with over 4,000
engineering staff across Eastern Europe, announces the acquisition
of B2BITS Corp., a provider of solutions
and consulting services to Capital Markets organizations within the
financial services sector. B2BITS has been delivering pre-built
solutions, customizable frameworks, specialized testing tools as
well as process consulting for Client Connectivity, FIX, FX,
Options, Fixed Income, market data feeds, exchange gateways and
electronic payment services since 2000.
This acquisition combines the sector leading domain expertise of
B2BITS, their renowned high-performance products and EPAM's highly
scalable and cost efficient development groups of 600+ software
engineers developing, maintaining and supporting mission critical
applications for Financial Services clients. EPAM now covers the
entire value chain from domain knowledge and process consulting
through customized high-performance architecture as well as
development, testing and 24/7 support.
Mark Bisker, CEO of B2BITS Corp. and industry veteran with over
25 years experience of leading technology development organizations
at such companies as Schwab Capital Markets and Lava Trading heads
EPAM's new Competency Center.
Competency Center consultants will be located in all major
financial centers across the US and Europe, while production and
support teams will be tightly linked into EPAM's distributed
development organization in Eastern Europe to combine cost
efficiency with domain knowledge and high-performance ruggedized
SLAs.
"The management and consulting teams from B2BITS significantly
enhance EPAM's expertise and capabilities in this important market
segment. This underscores EPAM's focus and commitment to enhance
our offerings beyond traditional custom development and support
services, and become a key partner of the Capital Markets industry
for providing true full service and delivering high-value systems,"
noted Arkadiy Dobkin, CEO and President of EPAM Systems.
"By leveraging the scale and experience of the most disciplined
and efficient software engineering organization in the region, we
can now better leverage our domain knowledge and consulting skills
for the Capital Markets on a larger, more predictable and scalable
level than previously, equally benefitting our current and future
clients. We can now more rapidly broaden our domain expertise and
enhance our pre-built solutions and platforms to further extend our
unbeatable value proposition," said Mark Bisker, CEO and President
of B2BITS Corp.
About B2BITS
Founded in 2000, B2BITS offers consulting and development
services as well as proven performance leading technology for FIX
products, exchange adapters, trading software, and other financial
messaging protocols for large and small brokers and hedge
funds.
In 2000, B2BITS revolutionized the Financial Information
Exchange (FIX) protocol sector when it released an open source
version of its first FIX engine. In 2005, B2BITS became one of only
four official certification vendors endorsed by FIX Protocol Ltd.,
the official FIX standard setting organization.
Over the years, B2BITS has developed or licensed solutions and
provided consultancy to many leading organizations in the Financial
sector, including, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, SunGard,
and ABN AMRO.
www.b2bits.com
About EPAM Systems
New-Jersey based EPAM Systems is independently recognized as the
leading global provider of software development outsourcing
services from Russia, Hungary, Belarus, and Ukraine. EPAM harnesses
the largest resource pool in Central and Eastern Europe, combined
with the strongest onsite management and delivery capabilities in
North America and Europe.
In "The 2008 Global Services 100 list" EPAM was rated for the
third time the top Central/Eastern European service provider and
was the only CEE IT outsourcer included in the global Top 10 "Best
Performing IT Services Providers" category.
In "The 2007 Global Outsourcing 100" EPAM was rated the top
Central/Eastern European and Russian ITO service provider and was
the only CEE/Russian IT outsourcer included in the Leaders
category. EPAM is also the sole CEE/Russian IT outsourcing company
listed on "The 2007 Top 50 Best Managed Outsourcing Vendors" by
Black Book of Outsourcing.
EPAM's customer base includes industry leaders such as Thomson
Reuters, London Stock Exchange, Renaissance Capital, Fitch Ratings,
Algorithmics, Troika Dialog, Colgate-Palmolive, British Telecom,
Hotels.com, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Schlumberger, ScrewFix,
AeroMexico, and Halliburton, and technology leaders such as SAP,
BEA Systems, Microsoft, and Oracle.
www.epam.com
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