Altoros

Altoros Systems

Company type	Privately held companies
Industry	Software development IT consulting Web development
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Massachusetts , United States
Number of employees	over 150 (2009)

Altoros Systems is a global software product development company that provides focused software product engineering, independent quality assurance, and testing services to software organizations and information-driven enterprises. Areas of expertise include Microsoft .NET, Java/AJAX, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Adobe Flex/Flash, and mobile technologies. Altoros focuses on developing software products for ISVs and interactive agencies.

Technology Focus

Microsoft .NET

The company helps ISVs develop .NET-based applications and provides the entire software product life-cycle management, including design, development, and quality assurance. Altoros's expertise in Microsoft technologies involves .NET Framework 3.5, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), WCF (Windows Compact Framework), WinForms, LINQ, ASP.NET, DynamicData, Silverlight, C#, and VB.NET.

Java/J2EE

Altoros helps technology-centered organizations deliver Java/J2EE software products. Altoros’s contributions to these companies have ranged from supplementing in-house development teams to managing the entire product development life-cycle. This involved a broad range of Java technologies, such as Spring Framework (including Spring MVC), Hibernate, iBatis, JSF, Struts, and Tapestry.

Altoros is a co-founder of Apatar, Java-based open source data integration project.

Mobile, Wireless, and Embedded Development

Altoros helps ISVs develop and port applications for handheld mobile devices. The team of mobile developers at Altoros provides expertise in Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, C++, C#, and CF 2.0/3.0 software programming, including mobile UI design and components development.

Ruby on Rails

Altoros Systems provides outsourced Ruby on Rails development including Ruby Web 2.0 programming, Ruby on Rails conversion/porting, writing GUI on Ruby, Ruby on Rails e-commerce, and more.

Adobe Flex

The team of Adobe Flex developers at Altoros focuses on Rich Media Application and Adobe AIR development. Altoros’s expertise includes Flex + Java, Flex + PHP, and Flex + .NET programming, together with live streaming media support and Flex UI development.

History

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Altoros now has representative offices in Tampa, Florida, and a software development center located in Eastern Europe (Minsk, Belarus).

In July, 2008, Altoros became a resident of Belarus High Technologies Park.

Supporting Technology Community

Altoros is an active member of MASSOFT (Massachusetts Software and Internet Council), a leading software trade association in Massachusettes, and NEBATA (New England Business and Technology Association), a leading technology trade association in New England.

Altoros is a co-founder of Belarus Java User Group, which unites Java developers in Belarus and lists more than 300 Java specialists. Altoros is also an active partner of Belarus .NET User Group and Adobe Flash Platform User Group.

Altoros is a co-founder of Apatar, open source data integration project used by 10,000+ companies woldwide.

References

• "Open source companies to watch"
• "Young software exec moves to open source model"
• http://news.tut.by/it/113456.html
• http://news.tut.by/it/111841.html
• "developerWorks Interviews: IBM Business Mashup Challenge winners"
• "When Offshoring Goes Bad"
• "High Tech Park Residents Participate in Microsoft BizSpark"
• http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/news.asp?id=10003&date=02.12.2008%2017:13:00
• http://intranetblog.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/3/17
• http://news.belta.by/ru/news/econom/?id=367695
• http://www.cnews.ru/reviews/?2006/06/21/204077
• http://netnews.by/2009/05/09/adobe-3-dnya-i-6-dokladov-skoro

External links

• Altoros Official Web Site
• Apatar Open Source Data Integration
• Belarus Java User Group
• Belarus .NET User Group