BUSINESS PROFILE SEAVUS

Website: www.seavus.com
E-mail: info@seavus.com

About us

Mr. Igor Lestar (Swedish citizen with Macedonian origin) is one of the company cofounders. The company has been established in 1999 and it immediately opened offices in Malmo (Sweden) and Skopje (Macedonia). The initial idea was to have high quality software development for the extremely competitive Scandinavian market (only web portals in the beginning and complex enterprise solutions today).

Nowdays is Seavus a Software Consulting and Development Company which provides a full line of services to design, develop, implement and maintain Business Support Solutions (BSS) for our Partners and Clients around the world.

What makes us different?

- The Seavus Group is owned by the company management itself, which means that we can make projections far in the future, not just for the next earning predictions call, stock market or shareholder report.
- Through our Headquarters in Sweden, offices in several European capitals and USA, we are always near our customers.
- The business concept is based on enhanced customer partnerships - we aim our development team and customer’s team becoming one united team.
- We build relationships that last.
- Our unique experience gained from projects performed in different countries creates a clear business advantage for our customers.
- We establish high quality services at considerably competitive prices. Our near-shore concept brings improved business value to our customers. The Seavus Group has research and development centres in among others Skopje (Macedonia) and Nis (Serbia).

Why nearshoring in Serbia and Macedonia?

- Same time zone,
- Cultural similarities,
- Excellent English,
- High quality of education and the unexploited human capacity,
- Academic cooperation with all technical universities in the region (access to knowledge),
- Competitive pricing.

Our achievement in Serbia

SIEPA (Serbian government agency attracting foreign investments) invested in the new “Seavus Serbia” in 2007. This is still one of the biggest investments of the Serbian government in the IT field.

Our services and solutions

Our services and solutions include Resourcing, Business Process Optimization, Application Management, Software Development, Quality Assurance and System Integration.

Resourcing
Seavus highly skilled ICT experts are driven by the goal of creating business value for the customers. We help the customers achieve their objectives by decreasing overall resources cost and delivering projects on-time and within the estimated budget.

Business Process Optimization
We create a best practice optimized process - an efficient process that provides consistent and measurable results each and every time it is executed. Our enhanced Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution offers an extended integration platform to standardize customer’s IT and Application Development Processes. ALM is the cornerstone of every successful software development organization.

Application Management
We offer Application Management services; an all-in 24x7 maintenance solution from a single provider for the entire IT infrastructure. These services enable long-term investment profitability in a heterogenous IT landscape. We have specialized in Application Maintenance services for various BSS platforms in the telecommunications industry – billing systems, order management systems, etc.

Software Development
Over the years, the Seavus Group has acquired specialized knowledge in key BSS-systems and platforms. We have also worked closely with our partners to develop several pre-defined special packages. In addition to this line of specialized offerings, we also provide customized developments based on:
• Embedded software development
• .NET development
• Java development
• C++ development
• Web-development

Quality Assurance
Seavus best practices combined with our Application Lifecycle Management methodology result in a unique approach: introduction of testing and Quality Assurance (QA) plans together with development procedures very early in the development process. We work together with our customers to ensure that all activities necessary to design, develop, implement and test a product or service are effective with respect to the entire IT ecosystem, its performance and functionality.

System Integration
System Integration is basically a process of functionally linking different computing systems and software applications. Our system integration service provides the framework and tools needed to ensure that all delivery units are aligned within the enhanced business processes. We enable the customers to benefit from integrated solutions with strong business value.

Our products

Seavus Project Viewer is a complete viewer for Microsoft® Project files that facilitates excellent cooperation in projects where the project stakeholders need to view and share information given from project management. This is a desktop application that enables project team members to open, view, and print the native.mpp files. It is an easy-to-use application that does not require a previous installation of Microsoft® Project. For more information please visit: www.seavusprojectviewer.com

Seavus ProjectOffice.net is a web-based project management solution that provides collaboration features bundled with essential project management functionality. ProjectOffice.net is an intuitive, easiest to use project management tool that will bring tangible results to your work. ProjectOffice.net enables individuals and teams to create projects and tasks, assign tasks to project members, track time, expenses and issues, as well as use wikis to boost collaboration and knowledge sharing. No previous experience or special training is required to start working with ProjectOffice.net. With ProjectOffice.net you create and manage: Projects; Tasks; Time; Issues; Wikis. For more information, please visit: www.projectoffice.net

Ppwa is a Microsoft Project® Web Access add-on. Users, who need decent printing of their Gantt charts, can print project plans with the same visual style as Microsoft® Project. Print for Project Web Access allows you to print entire project plan or select specific project information and print your customized view. You can print exactly what you need, preview what the paper will look like, get a full Gantt chart print and customize the outcome. For more information please visit: www.printforprojectwebaccess.com

Seavus Executive Summary is an add-in for Microsoft® Project that is designed to provide summary reports for project, middle and top managers with important information about the project tasks, resources and assignments. SES has three main sections: predefined reports, report templates and comparison reports. With SES the user can obtain all vital project information with just one click. For more information please visit: www.seavusexecutivesummary.com

Callisto is a cost effective solution that makes telephony easier. We integrate customer’s telephony, Internet and Intranet systems in one solution. This mash up provides an upgrade to all systems and ensures complete interoperability. Callisto CTI helps companies optimize communication both internally and externally, specifically within a front office/call center business environment. For more information, please visit: www.seavuscti.com

Seavus Easy Update a MS® Project add-in, designed so team members can update their tasks directly from Seavus Project Viewer and send them to project managers on e-mail. Project managers can then receive project-related information and present relevant information to top management. Seavus Easy Update presents a collaboration opportunity for project managers and team members, so they can share project related information, including project status and tasks. For more information, please visit: www.seavuseasyupdate.com

Our partnerschips and customer references

Seavus has more than 2.000 customer references to date and many more in the pipeline. Some of our customers are:

Telecommunications
- Tele2
- T-mobile
- Ericsson Mobile Platforms
- Hutchinson (Hi3G)
- Sony Corporation
- Motorola
- Virgin mobile
- IMP

Software/Internet
- IBM Corporation
- ASAP Software
- BEA Systems
- Tyco Corporation
- Touchplay Music
- iSite

Oil & gas exploration
- Chevron Corporation
- BP
- Maersk Oil
- EnCana Corporation
- TransCanada Pipeline

Automotive industry
- Ford Motor Company
- Volvo
- Skoda Praha a.s.
- Alcoa Worldwide
- Michelin
- Honda

Pharmacy
- Bayer
- NORIT Americas Inc.
- AstraZeneca

Financial and consulting services
- Thomson Financials one of the world's leading information companies, focused on providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers),
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- HBOS Treasury Services
- Honeywell AB
- VARTA Microbattery GmbH

Other (Industry)
- Ugland Marine
- Louis Poulsen
- HOH WaterTechnology
- Boblbee
- Swarovski AG
- Bulgari
- Direct Wines

International organizations
- USAID (United States Agency for International Development),
- UNDP (United Nations Development Programme),
- WB (World Bank), European Agency for Reconstruction,

The Seavus Group has sold software licenses to more than 150 companies from the Fortune 1000 list. Today our products sales are in the range of a couple of thousands licenses per month and are steadily growing with new product releases.