Apriorit tallies up 2011

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Created on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:21

Apriorit, big Ukrainian outsourcer and provider of the exclusive research and development solutions, evaluates its trajectory in 2011 and defines it as the year of the stable growth.

Geographically, Apriorit made a special accent on Europe this year, expanding its client base to France and intensifying work with the Great Britain partners. While the company continues successful collaboration with the clients in India and South Korea, USA – possessing the biggest share in the company’s client base – remains the strategic direction of Apriorit business development now and for the upcoming years.

In 2011, Hypertection – the market pioneer solution, hypervisor-based antivirus system for virtual environments – came into the world. Hypertection start-up, a subsidiary of Apriorit, had a successful start attracting at once significant attention of the virtualization market leaders. This young company anticipates 2012 to become a year of great partnership and intensive growth. Moreover, the work on Hypertection solution helped the Virtualization Direction of Apriorit development to become shaped and independent unit of the company, possessing its own labs, knowledge base and technologies.

This year, Apriorit has continued to work on an interesting scientific project together with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (South Korea).  It lies in the area of Virtualization for mobile devices. Last year, Apriorit project team completed the solution to switch between two Android OS on an ARM-based mobile device. In 2011, more complex solution was introduced, supporting now also Windows 7 OS and x86-based tablets. This ground-breaking technology is being commercialized, and at the moment, it has drawn attention of the top hardware manufacturers.

Considering the specialists with high skills and knowledge to be the most important resource in R&D business, Apriorit continues its work in the educational context of Ukraine. Two series of the traditional Apriorit developer course were held in 2011, and about 100 students, who had successfully passed the entrance test, attended the free lectures and worked on the teaching projects in Apriorit labs with the leading specialists of the company as their tutors. 2012 is planned to become the first year, when Apriorit developer and tester courses are held not only in Dniproperovsk, where the company is headquartered, but also in Zaporizhia, where the second Ukrainian development office of the company is situated.

“Work with the future specialists is very important”, says Dennis Turpitka, CEO of Apriorit. “We are trying not only to give some advanced C++ knowledge, or teach them driver development. We offer them technical English lectures, we try to tell about basic principles of work with business clients, work in process. This is the base for the successful work in any modern IT area, actually”.

ISTQB Certification Campaign Starts

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Created on Monday, 30 May 2011 11:05

In order to deliver the software of the best quality to its customers, Apriorit’s QA Department has started the long-term campaign of standardization of Quality Assurance knowledge and educational processes in the company. ISTQB Software Testing Certification by the International Software Quality Institute was chosen, as it is global, credible and trusted world-wide. When working with the certified specialists, customer can be sure that they have an internationally approved knowledge base and can resolve any typical and untypical software testing practical task in the most efficient and risk-minimizing way.

As the first step, 7 leading specialists of Apriorit’s QA Department successfully passed CTFL exam and obtained the Foundation Level qualification. Also the inner educational and tutorship processes have been adjusted in correspondence with the ISTQB programs.

It is planned that all Software Testers of Apriorit will obtain ISTQB certification of the levels, which meet their position, and after that the certification will constitute a part of the professional development of each specialist in the company.

New AutomateIT! Release

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Created on Wednesday, 19 August 2009 16:18

The new alpha version of AutomateIT! was released recently - v. 0.9.5.

We've made some improvements and add the support of the new methods and properties:

• CHPageBreaks::Add
• COORows::put_IsStartOfNewPage
• COORows::get_IsStartOfNewPage
• CPageSetup::put_PrintArea

You get download source files and the program itself from our SourceForge page.

Prize winning article again!

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Created on Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:51

Our article “How to develop your own Boot Loader” has won two CodeProject awards at one time: it became the “Best C++/MFC article of June 2009” and also the “Best overall article of June 2009”.

In this article our junior specialist Alex Kolesnyk discovered the first steps and first basics of low-level programming – using the example of Boot Loader application. Readers liked his “Hello world… from the low level!”: for somebody it was the voice of nostalgia, for somebody – really first words from low-level programming.

We are glad that people got interested with our article: we like challenging tasks and promote gaining knowledge to solve them. Low-level programming is interesting, useful and absolutely non-trivial field we like working in.

Read this article and other ones – written by our specialists to share sweet things from our R&D scope – at Our Articles and Case Studies sections.

Our article won The Code Project Best C++/MFC article

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Created on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:51

The article "Driver to Hide Processes and Files" written by our specialists won the prize as The Code Project Best C++/MFC article of January 2009.

This article is based on the student project that we introduced in our ApriorIT Education section. The authors of this project works in ApriorIT now as the Junior Software Developers.

The article has been viewed for about 11 000 times during the period from January 21, when it was posted, till February 23, when the prize was announced.