Analytics

Yekaterinburg, the Urals’ largest city, has been listed in the most recent Innovation Cities Global Index by 2thinknow; Moscow and St. Petersburg are also on the list.

The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has released its list of companies included on the 2013 Global Outsourcing 100 ranking of the world’s top outsourcing providers. The ranking is an independent assessment of the capabilities of outsourcing service providers and advisors.

This year seven Russian companies including Artezio, Auriga, EPAM Systems, First Line Software, IBA, Luxoft and Reksoft have all been named to the list.

According to a new study released by Orange Business Services — a division of France Telecom dedicated to B2B services — the Russian cloud services market is expected grow by almost 330 percent in the next four years. Demand, the report says, will be mainly for SaaS (Software as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).

A new report on St. Petersburg-based IT exporters has just been released. Titled “St. Petersburg: Software and Information Technology Services Industry,” it is an industry overview and catalogue of export oriented companies and promising start-ups in the city. The publication was developed as part of the inelegantly named “Enterprise Europe Network Russia, Gate2Rubin Consortium, Module A Regional Center St. Petersburg” – a program run by the St. Petersburg Foundation for SME Development and financed by the city’s Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade.

Investors now have a new instrument to identify and assess startups: the Russian Startup Index (RSI), which was tested for the first time last week at the Open Innovations international forum in Moscow.

The index rates each startup with a combination of letters, from “AAA” (most attractive) to “D” (expected to fail), in a way that mimics the rating of companies by financial rating agencies. RSI is based on a sophisticated methodology that includes information declared by, or collected from, the startups themselves as well as individual assessments by industry experts.

For the past ten years, HP has been the only foreign company to appear in the list of top service providers in Russia. Now, according to new research released by IDC, the company has failed to maintain its position, dropping out of the list of leaders in 2011.

HP, which released the first beta version of its Open WebOS and got into trouble with its attempt to enter the tablet market, has warned of record losses of almost $9 billion.