About us

Blandware is the combination of profound educational background and R&D traditions in alliance with the world famous creativity of Russian developers enable us to deliver the utmost IT solutions to meet the most demanding requirements set by your business.

Mission & strategy

To help enterprise clients design, build, and maintain software solutions delivering measurable business benefits with creativity, collaboration, process discipline, and best price-performance.

Build on established offshore outsourcing benefits such as cost management, quality development, and timely delivery to create a global model for collaborative software development.

How it works

Blandware uses an effective work model that allows us to deliver the most sophisticated projects for clients located all over the world in time and within budget. To provide maximum synergy we set up a team assigned to work exclusively with you. Such a team essentially becomes well integrated and accepted in your organization, ensuring well-managed knowledge transfer while leveraging the pre-defined cost-effectiveness of the offshore model.

Because the relevant knowledge transfer and content-sharing are crucial to any project, we have developed effective methods which provide for consistent interaction. Blandware will set up the necessary communication vehicle, allowing you to monitor the status of the on-going project and collaborate remotely. Effective communication and efficient service derive from the team-building principles we apply in our work ethic. The methods and tools we use to support overall project execution allow us to successfully manage any communication obstacles.

Careers

Everyday we work to produce state-of-the-art technology. Our most powerful instrument is the brain. Our most valuable asset are the people dedicating their brains to the production of state-of-the-art technology. Our objective is to create an environment where everyone is involved and contributes to the perfection of the solutions we provide to our customers. And it is our great belief that the challenges we take on are viable only when treated by team players.

Blandware is a strong team of professional developers, all of diverse backgrounds and expertise, but with a common passion for IT wonders. We are a company where everyone counts and makes difference, initiative is welcome and hard work is rewarded.

Why outsource to Russia?

Blandware is based in Russia, the country, which has been globally renowned for its world-class expertise in complex software engineering and R&D projects.

For a few past years Russian software development industry has enjoyed real boom due to the stabilizing economy and the government's particular attention to the development of IT sector. Russian export market of software products, services and solutions is growing at a rate, which appears to be higher than the world's market altogether and the export of the software development outsourcing countries competing with Russia globally. Quite recently Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced Russia to have reached the third place in the orders amount of custom software development worldwide, following only such well-established outsourcing countries, as India and China. At present time Russian business environment observes sufficient amelioration, which can be illustrated by rapidly growing and modernizing infrastructure reflected in:

• governmental program for building research and technology parks, as well as the creation of special economic zones. As a result at least 7 technoparks are planned to be launched in 2008.
• state huge investment to support the sector of information technologies.

In recent years Russian export of licensed software has grown impressively. Such Russian companies as ABBYY, PROMPT, Kaspersky laboratory, Speech Technology Center actively develop, produce and distribute their software products on the markets of the developed countries. Besides, more and more world's biggest foreign companies open their research and development centers in Russia, making the country an outsourcing hub. To name a few, such companies as Google, Intel, Alcatel-Lucet, Samsung Research Center, Sun Microsystems, IBM and many other set up and run their R&D centers in Russia.

Western European and American companies recognize the following key advantages of Russian outsourcing companies:

• low level of staff turnover;
• well-trained technical specialists with strong skills in designing and developing complex systems, engineering application software;
• capabilities for handling complex R&D projects and adopting to customers' changeable needs.

Russian scientists' achievements in aerospace and defense industries are universally recognized all over the world, the country exporting to India large amounts of its military equipment designed for sales abroad. For the last decades the Indian Air Force has been equipped with air complexes created in Russia and lots of Russian-made aircraft are used in the Indian Navy. Russia is estimated to be the third in the world by number of scientists per capita and its higher educational institutions are quite known for its quality science and engineering education.

The availability of a large number of extremely professional engineers, mathematicians and other technical specialists in Russian IT industry is due to an existing substantial science base and strong fundamental education in science and technology, inherited from the Soviet Union. It's essential to point out that the share of Russian participants in the world programming championships among universities worldwide and other programmer's contests never ceases to increase, Russian universities' teams taking top positions in the competitions. Russia produces a greater number of well-trained graduates in science and engineering subjects than most European and Asian countries, forming competent and highly skilled IT manpower. Moreover, since 2005 to date the software developer population has been considerably increasing in number, which makes Russia’s developer population one of the fastest growing in the world.

Thus, the principal benefits of outsourcing to Russian software companies are:

• highly qualified talent pool of engineers, developers and other technical personnel with deep fundamental knowledge which helps them meet various demands of IT industry and keep up with technology changes, both nation and worldwide;
• proficient language skills of IT personnel enabling flawless interaction with client organizations;
• Whereas such large outsourcing countries as China and India are bound with eastern traditions, quite different to the West, Russian business culture is quite compatible with one of the US and Europe. This keeps project execution in line with the international standards and provides full-fledged interaction and clear understanding of customers' needs.
• Unlike India and China, Russia's obvious proximity to European countries is a significant point in effectuating projects within required terms and communicating promptly with customers, eliminating most possible inconveniences.

Why outsource to Izhevsk?

Our company's office is based in Izhevsk, a highly industrialized city, home to a number of major industrial enterprises in such sectors as automobile manufacture, arms manufacture, machine building, power engineering, production of military equipment. There are also 2 world's largest weapons manufacturers, producing almost any type of firearms being adopted by the Russian Army — The "IZHMAH" plant and the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant. Izhmash specializes in rifle manufacturing, its most well- known products being:

• Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD)
• Makarov pistol

Besides, Izhmash, as well as The Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, are the global producers of the worldwide famous Kalashnikov assault rifle AK-47, which is adopted by the forces of hundreds of countries around the world. The legendary designer of AK-47 and lots of other rifles, Michael Kalashnikov, is the honorary freeman of Izhevsk. On the whole, the very history of the city is tightly connected with the engineering industry. It had been an arms complex and quite an important industrial city long before the Soviet times, but only since then did it become one of the key cities of arms and machinery manufacturing. During Soviet times Izhevsk was a closed city, due to the large amount of military manufacture, and a great weapon support during World War II. Postwar years gave a growth to a number of industrial giants, which enriched and expanded the industrial complex of the city: to give an example, during the two last decades there was an intensive development of the electronic engineering.

Nowadays Izhevsk still continues to function as a scientific, industrial and cultural center of the Udmurt Republic in Russia. It hosts a considerable number of complex industrial manufacturers, distinguished not only within the country, but outside as well. The Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant "Kupol" is one of the most important military R&D enterprises, producing and supplying the "OSA" and "TOR-M1" air defense missile (ADM) systems for Russian defense complex. The range of products of the manufacturers also include medical equipment, spacecraft on-board radio navigation and control systems, motorcycles, automobiles, machine tools, automatic machine guns and other weapons, oil industry equipment and much more.

Due to such a dense concentration of industrial enterprises, the higher education in engineering and science has always been on the main focus, aimed at training and producing a large number of engineers. Needless to say, such substantial science base, raised up in Soviet times, benefits to the level of students' competence and training in mathematics, physics, computer science, electronics, and related sciences. To give an example, students of the Izhevsk State Technical University have been taking part in International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals for quite a long time and attaining more than encouraging results, which you may check out by following the links below:

No wonder such broad and profound fundamental education, provided by the educational system, equally supplies highly-skilled engineering and science workforce not only to the sector of motor-vehicle building or weapon manufacturing, but to its local IT industry as well. Another thing worth mentioning about is of course the lower pricing of IT services in Izhevsk which provides foreign customers considerable cost-saving.

And this is what Blandware is built on – top-notch project performance, quality programming at relatively low cost, team of highly skilled technical personnel, efficient methodologies, time and cultural proximity, making our company a valuable destination of outsourcing offshore software development and other IT related services.