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26 Mar, 2012

How social networking improves e-commerce?

iTechArt Group specializes in delivering a full spectrum of e-commerce solutions based on leading industry's top-ranked commerce platforms and open-sourced packages including Oracle ATG Commerce, Magento, Ubercart and Multifront.

Our solutions meet any online store's needs such as product and inventory management, order fulfillment tracking, discount and promo code framework, user-friendly shopping cart, dynamic shipping and tax calculation, as well as seamless and easy to use payment processing.

Social networks connect people with shared interests and form new target groups for retail business. Consumers make purchasing decisions based on trust factor developed within their social group that shares ‘customer-made’ marketing as well as real and relevant feedbacks about products and services. 

In March 2012 iTechArt has released an advanced set of accelerators that helps us provide complete e-commerce solutions with advanced marketing services such as newsletter management, coupon and special offer notifications, integration with social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, business intelligence and advanced reporting. Striving to take full advantage of improved e-commerce tools and social networking we have managed to capture the essence of shopping as a social activity.

We are working together with our clients and technology partners to mix commerce and social media technologies and build tools to expand and revolutionize e-commerce to effectively reach out to more consumers and ensure fast and substantive ROI. We understand that new wave of promising opportunities has emerged by integrating e-commerce and social media. iTechArt possess all essential skills for keeping you on the crest of the wave.

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20 Jan, 2012

iTechArt Partners with 10gen on MongoDB

iTechArt Group, one of the largest system integrators and a leader in the IT consulting market in Eastern Europe is proud to announce their most recent strategic alliance with 10gen, creators of the NoSQL open source database MongoDB.

10gen develops MongoDB, a relatively new breed of database, and offers production support and training for the open source database. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms who have invested in established leaders such as Oracle, Cisco and Apple as well as rapidly growing internet companies like Zynga and Twitter.

iTechArt has been working hard to keep up with the latest technologies, to attain certifications, and establish partnerships that are crucial to supporting our clients and providing them with the best products the market has to offer. MongoDB is a practical database designed to handle the problems that engineers in the real world have. MongoDB is designed by people who’ve built large-scale web apps, and want to build the perfect database for the web apps that they were building and to solve practical problems that their clients actually have.

The partnership between 10Gen and iTechArt will significantly expand the range of portal solutions delivered to the North American market, and more importantly, will enable our clients to increase efficiencies using MongoDB.

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15 Dec, 2011

iTechArt Group proudly participated and sponsored a roundtable discussion with PluggedIn Ventures entitled Mobile Marketing: where is 2012 going to take us?

New PluggedIn’s Roundtable, a premier exclusive networking event, focused on Mobile Marketing was held on December 13 in New York, NY.

iTechArt Group was proud to participate for the first time as a sponsor of the event and meet the industry leaders and executives who have been blazing the way in the tablet industry. PluggedIn’s Roundtable is a monthly opportunity for the founders of hi-tech companies, angel investors, and industry executives to get together, exchange experiences, share opinions, ideas and perspectives on various issues.

The roundtable discussions with PluggedIn Ventures are driven by a single topic of conversation and attract those interested in the particular market being discussed. That time, the participants addressed the issues of Mobile Marketing and debated how companies big and small, global and local should jump into the mobile game and which strategies could be applied so as to become the winners in this game.

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13 Oct, 2011

iTechArt and GAIN Capital to Fuel FOREX.com Application Development with Release of FOREXTrader for iPad

iTechArt and GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc launch new FOREXTrader Application for iPad which allows trading, accessing real-time market information and effectively performing technical analysis on Apple's tablet device.

iTechArt has excelled in developing partnership relations with GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc, one of the foremost providers of online trading services.

Within a framework for cooperation, both companies have been engaged in developing mobile interfaces for the FOREX.com, a leading online foreign exchange trading platform. Since early 2010 iTechArt has already released FOREXTrader for iPhone and FOREXTrader for Android applications, and currently has been operating a dedicated development team to enable the iPad users to enjoy all the benefits of the software solution.

Similar to its iPhone and Android versions, FOREXTrader for iPad provides mobile traders with the possibility to manage their accounts, to track market dynamics in real-time mode, to view dynamic charts for different time intervals, as well as access news through Dow Jones newsfeeds and streaming market commentary via GAIN Capital's proprietary FOREXInsider.


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30 Aug, 2011

iTechArt Turns to NoSQL Development, Diversifies Services for Tech Startups

iTechArt has extended its database development expertise to embrace MongoDB, a powerful NoSQL database platform, striving to reinforce its value proposition for technology startups whose business strategies depend on cutting-edge open source technology.

iTechArt is actively exploring the NoSQL platform landscape and has recently been involved in a variety of specialized industry events. On August 19, 2011, iTechArt was represented at NYC Startup Crawl, an event organized by 10gen, creator of MongoDB, to highlight prominent businesses - Business Insider, Crowdtap, Yodle, and a few others - using the technology in production.

"The event provided a very interesting perspective on how MongoDB empowers real-world teams to meet the challenges inherent to developing and maintaining today's dynamic and interactive web applications," said Jesse Landry, a business development manager at iTechArt. "The business- and technology-related insights gleaned through face-to-face encounters with these remarkable teams have immediate value to us as a company with a strong focus on serving the needs of web-oriented technology startups."

NoSQL and MongoDB skills round out iTechArt's web application technology expertise, which spans the PHP, Python, and Ruby scripting languages and their respective frameworks, including Zend, Django, and Rails, as well as open source database technology.

To date, iTechArt has provided product development co-sourcing solutions to a number of startup technology businesses, including, most recently, the LiveComplete social networking service.

MongoDB, released in 2009, is an open source document-oriented database platform designed for use with interactive, performance-sensitive web applications.
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07 Jul, 2011

LiveComplete Wins 2011 Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup Award

We are excited to announce that LiveComplete Inc., one of our long-term technology partners, has won a 2011 Red Herring Top 100 North America Technology Startup Award.

iTechArt was selected by LiveComplete Inc. as a strategic engineering and outsourcing partner when the LiveComplete contextual discovery and social shopping platform was at the earliest stages of its lifecycle.

Livecomplete is an interactive platform enabling users to discover information, socialize, connect, and shop based on their specific interests and goals. At the core of the platform is a proprietary personalization technology. The LiveComplete service has recently entered its limited beta testing phase.

Red Herring's Top 100 awards celebrate the most promising privately held technology ventures regionally - in North America, Asia, and Europe - as well as globally. Winners are selected from hundreds of applicants based on their innovative accomplishment, financial performance, management, strategy, and industry integration. Since 1996, Red Herring awards have marked the innovative potential of a number of industry visionaries, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Skype.

We have been strong believers in the success of this ingenious idea from the very start and are extremely proud to hear that LiveComplete was recognized with one of the industry’s most coveted awards. We are convinced that the platform is off to a great future.

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04 Jul, 2011

iTechArt Hones Its Skills Providing Integration Solutions for Oracle's ATG Web Commerce

An integration solution delivered by iTechArt has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle's ATG Web Commerce platform.

The Oracle Validated Integration status means that the solution is technically sound and answers Oracle's stringent quality requirements.

One of Oracle's recent acquisitions, ATG Web Commerce is among the six new products added to the Oracle Validated Integration program, which is designed to ensure that third-party solutions interfacing with Oracle software are standards-compliant, reliable and maintainable.

"We are excited to have provided one of the earliest Oracle Verified Integration solutions based on the ATG Web Commerce platform. This achievement marks an important milestone for us as a provider of implementation and integration services for Oracle's commerce platform," said head of iTechArt's Java EE / Oracle ATG Web Commerce practice. "I believe that with the competencies acquired throughout our collaboration with the Oracle ATG Web Commerce team in our co-sourcing projects, we are uniquely positioned in this service area to help software vendors and business customers to make the most of the ATG software suite.”

iTechArt has been working with Oracle's ATG Web Commerce platform (formerly ATG Commerce) since early 2010 and launched its dedicated platform-specific integration and implementation services in 2011.

ATG Web Commerce is a market-leading online commerce software package currently used by mid-sized to large multi-channel retailers worldwide. Since January 2011,  ATG Web Commerce is part of the Oracle software product portfolio.

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04 May, 2011

FOREXTrader for Android Launched

iTechArt has completed an early availability version of GAIN Capital's FOREXTrader application for Android.

The application, launched globally on April 27, 2011, takes advantage of native OS capabilities to provide a secure environment with full-fledged FOREX.com trading functionality, which was previously unavailable for Android users, limited to the mobile browser to access their accounts.

Similar to its iPhone counterpart, FOREXTrader for Android enables traders to receive real-time rate updates, view dynamic charts for different time intervals, place orders and trails while on the go, as well as access account balance and P&L information. Other features include live Dow Jones newsfeeds and streaming market commentary via GAIN Capital's proprietary FOREXInsider.

iTechArt has been operating a dedicated development center to support various FOREX.com mobile solution initiatives across device platforms since early 2010.

"Our mission is helping GAIN Capital to build and implement a maintainable product strategy, accommodating the advanced needs of today's mobile users," says the project manager of iTechArt's FOREXTrader team. "The recent FOREXTrader launch reflects this ongoing commitment and will be definitely well-received by a rapidly growing Android user base among FOREX.com traders. However, this is just an initial stride into the Android arena, and in the upcoming months we will continue collaborating with GAIN Capital to evolve the FOREXTrader experience on Android as well as on iOS devices."
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  Who Works With Us

  • GAIN Capital
    In early 2010, iTechArt was selected as a strategic outsourcing partner by GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a pioneer in online forex trading. GAIN Capital provides execution, clearing, custody and technology products and services to an institutional client base including asset managers, broker/dealers and other financial services firms. GAIN also operates FOREX.com, one of the largest and best-known brands in the retail forex industry servicing customers in over 140 countries.
  • Oracle's ATG Web Commerce
    Oracle's ATG Web Commerce is the industry's top-ranked commerce solution that powers the world's best brands, and delivers a consistent, personalized cross-channel customer experience. ATG Web Commerce offers a complete commerce software platform that enables you to deliver a personalized customer buying experience across all customer touch points, including the web, contact center, mobile devices, social media, physical stores, and more. Our 50+ Oracle ATG technology engineers with deep experience in eCommerce and eBusiness participated extensively in the development of Oracle ATG Commerce solutions for Visa, American Express and other well-known brands. All integration solutions delivered by iTechArt achieved Oracle Validated Integration status with Oracle's ATG Web Commerce platform.
  • friendlyway AG
    friendlyway AG is one of Europe's leading companies providing interactive internet kiosk and digital signage solutions to a number of high-profile customers, such as BMW, MTV, Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Boeing, Siemens, and Fortis. friendlyways outsources a large part of its IT and product development projects to iTechArt.
  • 10gen
    10gen is the initiator, contributor and continual sponsor of the mongoDB project. 10gen offers subscriptions that include production support, commercial licensing, and MongoDB Monitoring Service. MongoDB is an open source, document-oriented database designed with both scalability and agility in mind. 10gen is backed by leading venture capital firms who invested in established leaders like Oracle, Cisco and Apple as well as rapidly growing internet companies like Zynga and Twitter. iTechArt’s experts work with 10Gen team in NoSQL, Big Data, and cache systems engineering to build high performance and scalable solutions. NoSQL and MongoDB skills round out iTechArt's web application technology expertise, which spans the Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby languages and their respective open source frameworks.
  • Communication Devices, Inc
    CDI is a global leader in network security solutions with a customer base that includes AT&T, Bank of America, British Petroleum, Credit Suisse, Saudi Telecom, and Verizon. iTechArt provides legacy software migration and on-going maintenance services for the company's core software products.
  • Oracle Partner
  • SAP Experts
  • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
  • PHP Experts
  • Mobile Application Development