Intelligence Soft FAQs

Our office and development center is located in St.Petersburg - Russian cultural, scientific and educational center and the second biggest city. The city is known for its universities and other educational institutions thus providing us with the access to well educated and experienced human resources. St.Petersburg location in the North-West region of Russia simplifies communication with our clients from Scandinavian countries, Germany, UK and other Western Europe countries. (more)

If you expect a steady flow of work using consistent programming languages and operating systems for the period of one year or more, it may be good idea to have Intelligence-Soft set up an offshore team dedicated exclusively to your company. Required number of developers is not important – the size of your team may start even from one engineer. Your will have an opportunity to manage the work of your team members as if they were your own employees. (more)

Yes, INTELLIGENCE-SOFT does business with companies from USA, Canada, Western Europe and Australia. Since 1994 INTELLIGENCE-SOFT successfully operates at the offshore software development market providing our customers with reasonably priced high quality software products and services. Our clientele - small and medium sized businesses ordering custom software development services including desktop, web and mobile applications and cloud solutions. Visit our web site to find more details about our clients and completed projects. (more)

Russia has a 80-year history of manufacturing computers and producing original software for them. For many years Russian universities put into the market more and more high qualified IT professionals to satisfy the growing needs of military enterprises and research institutes in human resources. Political and economical changes of recent years caused serious production cutback in many branches of industry. As a result thousands of well-educated and experienced engineers became unemployed or underemployed. It means that today it is much easier to find a high-qualified programmer or WEB-designer in Russia than in any other country.

Another important reason attracting customers to Russian offshore software development market is a relatively low level of programmer’s salary and small overheads. It allows to minimize expenses that in many cases is the determinant. (more)

Here is the extract from our standard software development agreement answering to this question:

“Customer may, in its sole discretion, request that changes be made to the Specifications, or other aspects of the Agreement and tasks associated with this Agreement. If Customer requests such a change, Developer will use its best efforts to implement the requested change at no additional expense to Customer and without delaying delivery of the Software. In the event that the proposed change will, in the reasonable opinion of Developer, require a delay in delivery of the Software or would result in additional expense to Customer, then Customer and Developer shall confer and Customer shall, in its discretion, elect either to withdraw its proposed change or require Developer to deliver the Software with the proposed change and subject to the delay and/or additional expense.” (more)

Intelligence-Soft accept payments in US dollars or Euro by means of wire transfers to our bank account. (more)

While cost savings were the primary reason companies outsourced offshore in the early 1990’s, in recent years priorities have been changing. Top reasons for offshore outsourcing according to the International Outsourcing Study completed by Colorado Institute of Technology are:
- Lower labor cost
- Staff augmentation
- Access to high quality employees
- Access to new technologies
- Localization
- Extend hours/coverage
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St.Petersburg is rich in IT professionals. Russian oldest and most respectable centers of education – St.Petersburg State University and St.Petersburg Technical University (former Polytechnic Institute) are located in our city. In addition to these two, every year more than 20 St. Petersburg Collages and Universities train thousands of software professionals having B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. degree in computer science.
Another important factor is St.Petersburg’s favorable geographical position in the North-West of Russia, very close to Scandinavian countries and not far from other European countries. Its seaport, International airport, large communication infrastructure attract foreign customers. (more)

It is a very common question. Offshore development model is a joint effort and we welcome all our clients to work in close association with our team from the very initiation stage. We are even ready to take up your requirements verbally and put them into proper documentation formats in order to reflect your needs. We put all our efforts to analyze your business needs and then start working from there. We, along with you, will undergo a brain storming process to bring the best of outputs. (more)

Our agreements with our customers assume that all source codes, graphic images, files, databases, documents and other materials developed under the terms of the agreement become the sole property of the customer upon completion of the development and receipt of final payment. (more)

Main distinctions between INTELLIGENCE-SOFT and other vendors are:

- high-educated English-speaking personnel specially trained for the collaboration with foreign customers. Each of the developers has from 3 to 12 years of working experience in offshore software development companies and upgrades his or her professional skills regularly visiting training courses and studying contemporary technical literature.


- well-established development procedures based upon the proprietary quality assurance system and the requirements of international standards


- web-based Project Management System that provides INTELLIGENCE-SOFT developers and client company personnel with comprehensive and easy-to-use environment for day-to-day project management, monitoring and communication. The system arms geographically distributed development team with advanced methodological approach and planning discipline. It supports full project lifecycle from preliminary negotiations and concept to post-delivery maintenance and support. (more)

Intelligence-Soft development methodology assumes following of conventional Western standards in planning of the development process, in execution of administrative, financial and technical documents. Our technology of the development doesn’t differ in any way from that in other industrial countries.

Furthermore, if our customer has any special demands to forms and contents of the documents (for example, internal company’s standards) we are ready to follow these demands as well. (more)

Yes it is true. Such well-known corporations as Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Lucent technologies, IBM, SCO, Lynx, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Intel, HP, Rockwell, Samsung, Boeing keep long-term co-operation with Russian programming teams employing from 10 to 300 developers each. (more)

Yes, INTELLIGENCE-SOFT does business with international companies. Furthermore, since 1994 we only deal with clients located outside of Russia. Our clientele consists of private companies located in Western Europe, USA, Canada and Australia including software development and IT consulting companies, aviation and industrial enterprises, financial and insurance companies, wholesale firms, real estate and travel agencies. Visit our web site at intelligence-soft.com to find more details about our clients and completed projects.
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