When Printable purchased PrintCommerce 3.0 software from Collabria, it included eCatalog, eProduction, and eGateway modules. STC with ArgusSoft was working on PrintCommerce 4.0, the latest version of PrintCommerce software, which includes the aforementioned products and eTracker with the latest technology. Doctor, Professor Efim Oykhman has been involved in software development for over 30 years. He was one of the most well-known and respectful scientists in the Soviet Union, but it was a new economy for everybody. With Peter’s help and support Efim Oykhman built ArgusSoft from the ground up. Now ArgusSoft employs over 150 software engineers and has completed over 100 successful projects. ArgusSoft develops and supports SUN, Microsoft, Rational, Gensym, and Oracle platforms and was been ISO-9000 certified in 1998. Peter Oykhman is President of Software Technology and Consulting (STC) - the US based selling and consulting unit of ArgusSoft. Do many US firms use Russian companies for software development? Everybody heard about very smart and talented software developers from Russia, but Russian companies who do software outsourcing are not that well known. They’ve got much less attention from the press than for example Indian outsourcing companies. Russian companies tend to stay in the shadow so far. So, STC markets the programming skills of Russian engineers? STC, Inc. started in the spring of 1998 in Maryland. It was a sales company for ArgusSoft one of the largest and oldest Russian software houses. STC has successfully worked in the US market since. Now STC is not only a sales force for ArgusSoft, but also a consulting company. Last year STC brought a group of system analysts from Russia. Their job is to build a specification for the projects, which will be developed in a Russian facility later. Also those experts are helping customers reengineer existing applications, BPR and BPM if necessary. ArgusSoft is a ten year old Moscow based company. ArgusSoft was founded in 1991 in the beginning of Perestroika. It has a registration number in the first dozen for such companies. It was a time when the Soviet Union collapsed; nobody knows what to do and how to work in the new environment. In the meantime there was a huge unrealized intellectual potential available. As a result of Collabria’s demise, are you now entering the web based e-print market on your own? We were the development team for Collabria for a number of years. Now when Collabria is no longer around STC will make an appearance in the market. Specifically in the print industry, you are well known for the 4.0 java based version of Collabria’s system. Printable did not buy that solution as they have a prior version from Collabria. What will you do with this technology? STC presents a number of solutions for the printing industry. Easy Web Print Solutions 1.1 – a complete suite of products, which includes Product Catalog, Order Processing, Inventory Management, Imaging Service and Project Collaboration software. You can see a demo version at http://angel.argussoft.ru:9001/wps/index.html. Product Catalog supports supply chain of any length from supplier, via any number of resellers up to the buyer with every link in the chain capable of control of the price, discounting, product substitution etc. Order Processing gives every member of the supply chain a complete control of the status of order from requisition and Purchase Order to Sales Order and Work Order, Job Ticket, Packing Slip and Invoice. Does it contain Inventory Management? Inventory Management part keeps track of Quantity on Hand and Back Orders. Imaging Service is an organic combination of Digital Asset Manager with Image Preparation and Imposition Management components. Completely web-enabled, Easy Web Print Solution 1.1 has been built using the latest technologies, such as XML+XSL, Enterprise Java Beans, JSP, Servlets and others. Multi-layered architecture with clear separation between presentation, workflow, business and data access layers gives the system an incomparable flexibility of working on different platforms with almost any relational database. System could be easily branded to bear your corporate identification or translated to any number of foreign languages simultaneously using built-in personalization manager.