OREANDA-NEWS. July 19, 2012. IBS Group, a leading software development and IT services provider in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that Luxoft, a member of the IBS Group and a global provider of advanced application and product development services, has been presented with the IT Outsourcing Project of the Year award for its work with Hotwire Inc. by the European Outsourcing Association (EOA), reported the press-centre of IBS Group. 

The EOA awards honors best practices, innovators and leaders in the outsourcing industry. Luxoft’s work with Hotwire was chosen based on the demonstrated excellence in helping the client-company to meet and exceed its business objectives. Together, Luxoft and Hotwire are working on development of a state-of-the-art back-end system featuring front end, internal portal for salespeople and suppliers, and new CMS.

Commenting on EOA Award, Dmitry Loschinin, Vice President of IBS Group, CEO of Luxoft said: “This award is a tribute to Hotwire as a partner and to our people, who made this success possible. We look forward to our continued partnership with Hotwire and to many more award-winning projects.”

As a provider of Agile software development services since 2004, Luxoft is one of the first European companies to recognize the potential of Agile methodology.  Luxoft helped Hotwire to switch its development from traditional waterfall methodology to Agile model and to quickly realize the benefits of Agile without a negative impact on product delivery or the business. As a result of partnering with Luxoft and switching over to Agile development model, Hotwire was able to speed up its time to market, reduce business risks, extend the delivery of business critical features, lower the development costs and increase its car business.

“Luxoft continues to demonstrate strong level of commitment and responsiveness as well as close alignment to our strategy and goals.  For over 6 years now Luxoft has been providing us with engineers who offer quality work and innovative ideas. Our success on a Hotwire Car Team is another example where the partnership has helped our business to move to the next level in product development and delivery. We are looking forward to continuing our collaboration and are going to engage additional Luxoft teams in 2012”, said Roman Kaplun, Director of Engineering Services at Hotwire, Inc.