OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2014. A festive ceremony to award the winners of the contest Golden Byte 2014 was held in Minsk, Belarus. Conducted among the members of Belarusian High Tech Park (HTP), the contest is designed to evaluate the achievements of Belarusian IT companies.

 HTP instituted the Golden Byte contest to encourage IT companies that have achieved outstanding results in promoting the development of the national IT industry and production of export-oriented software, as well as in attracting foreign investments to the IT sector of Belarus.

Based on the results of the contest, the leaders of the Belarusian market of software development and IT solutions were selected in seven categories, namely:

Largest Solution Provider for the Belarusian Market

Best Exporter of the Year
Best HTP Regional Center
Best HTP Development Center
For Contribution to Development of IT Education
Product of the Year
Discovery of the Year.

IBA IT Park, one of the IBA Group’s centers of expertise, became the winner and received the Golden Byte 2014 award in the category The Largest Solution Provider for the Belarusian Market. Within the category, IBA IT Park was competing with Sberbank Technologies, System Technologies, Softclub development center and EPAM Systems.

The selection of the finalists and the winner was based on the volume of implemented projects in the Republic of Belarus in 2013.