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1992

Launch in Novosibirsk of NOVOSOFT software development company specializing at custom software development and its own product line.

1992 – 2002

By the year of 2000 the company hires the 500th highly qualified software engineer. Virtually all business domains are covered by offering services.
Gartner’s Research Note ranks Novosoft Inc. among Russia’s top five software development companies.

2002

As a result of continuing business diversification Novosoft was split up into several separate business units.
One of the largest department with specialization in custom software development in telecom domain was reorganized into Fortess.

2005

Launch of Fortess office in Germany. Fortess enables a new business model – nearshore software development, emphasizing much closer collaboration between companies and extensive possibilities of work at customers’ offices.

2008

Launch of IT consulting & staffing services oriented on companies that cannot transfer projects offshore for many reasons and need temporarily engineering staff onsite.
Launch of independent testing services as a logical expansion of extensive experience in quality assurance of development projects.

2009

Creation of “Mobile” R&D center to enable fastest adoption of newly appearing platforms to our customer’s needs


App Entwicklung
2010

Joined APP ENTWICKLER VERZEICHNIS

Fortess today

  • Major IT employer in Siberia with low attrition rate
  • Wide international presence
  • Core expertise in telecom and mobile software engineering
  • Complete set of testing and validation services
  • Successfully complied to strict quality standards for medical equipment, aircraft & military industries’ programming
  • Strong football and cheerleading teams :)