EPAM Expertise in Scrum Recognized by Software Magazine by Including its Proprietary SDLC Platform into the List of Best Scrum Tools in its "Taking a Scrum Approach to Product Development" Recent Article

Newtown, PA — October 11, 2010 — EPAM Systems, Inc., the leading software engineering and IT Outsourcing (ITO) provider in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has announced today that its proprietary SDLC management platform, Project Management Center (PMC), has been included in the "Buyers Guide: Software Development and Project Management Tools and Services" in its recent article "Taking a Scrum Approach to Product Development" by Software Magazine — the Software Decision Journal — home of the Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software product and services companies.

EPAM has continuously refined its internal development tools to keep pace with the evolving demands of its client engagements, integrating up-to-date methodologies with a real-word appreciation of market needs. This forward-looking investment is well represented in EPAM's Project Management Center (PMC) — a robust web based SDLC collaboration platform addressing the needs of Global Delivery Model (GDM) for organizing, coordinating, and tracking the delivery process of complex geographically distributed projects allowing different types of development paradigms working together.

EPAM's embrace of Scrum methodologies was driven by the need of the global clients for a more flexible approach to software development to better meet the dynamic requirements of their diverse businesses and day-to-day realities of globally distributed development teams. Through the experience of addressing many challenges in these client engagements, EPAM developed a deep, practical understanding of distributed Scrum practices and implemented those within its toolsets.

"EPAM's accumulated expertise in Scrum methodology, coupled with the comprehensive set of tools found in PMC, allowed us to take on complex and mission critical engagements that would fall outside the capabilities of many of our competitors. It is also an important factor behind EPAM's recognized leadership in Outsourced Product Development and large geographically distributed application development engagements," said Balazs Fejes, EPAM's CTO. "Having Software Magazine recognize our proprietary platform among best toolsets on the market further validates the quality behind our services, and underscores the value and expertise we bring to every client we work with."

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Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal, has been a brand name in the high-tech industry for 30 years. Softwaremag.com, its Web counterpart, is the online catalog to enterprise software and the home of the Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and services companies. Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com are owned and operated by King Content Co.
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EPAM Testing and QA Center of Excellence honored in the 2010 International Business Awards

Newtown, PA — October 4, 2010 — EPAM Systems, Inc., the leading software engineering and IT Outsourcing (ITO) provider in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), announced today that its Testing and QA Center of Excellence has earned a Distinguished Honoree medal in the category "IT Department of the Year" in The 2010 International Business Awards, a global business awards program honoring great performances in business.


EPAM's Testing and QA Center of Excellence (CoE) is the largest stand-alone testing organization in Central and Eastern Europe. Established in 1999, the software testing CoE has grown to over 1,000 seasoned test professionals offering a comprehensive set of services covering functional and performance testing, automated testing, localization testing, mobile and security testing, and cloud/SOA testing. In addition EPAM test engineers have the deep understanding of specific business domains needed to provide quality services in such complex vertical segments as Investment and Retail Banking, Business Information Services and Media, and Travel and Hospitality among others.


Today there are dozens of leading software product companies as well as Fortune 1000 corporations that utilize various testing services provided by EPAM independently or in combination with other EPAM software engineering offerings.


"This award validates EPAM's leading position as a provider of independent testing services among global ITO vendors. It recognizes not just over ten years of EPAM's experience in this field, but also our top level expertise with market leading advanced testing tools and multiple technology platforms, EPAM's rich set of proprietary testing frameworks and methodologies developed internally to address many complex and unique client requirements, and also the availability of EPAM's SDLC management platform used in most of our engagements to bring complete transparency and traceability to the testing process," noted Andrei Savastsiuk, Director, Testing and QA at EPAM.

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