Auriga celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. It has been 25 years filled with challenges, opportunities, and many significant milestones. Today, according to numerous expert ratings, Auriga is one of the leading global outsourcing companies, and it carries out projects for large international companies. All this has been possible thanks to the enthusiasm and commitment of the company’s founder, Dr. Alexis Sukharev, and his colleagues, who were convinced from the start that Eastern European software developers could surpass those of India, the absolute leader in software development outsourcing.
How It All Began
Auriga was founded in 1990 when Dr. Alexis Sukharev and his colleagues became interested in the prospect of carrying out software development projects for a new type of customer: international companies. This business model had been successfully implemented in India then, but it was a completely unknown territory for Eastern Europe. Competition with Indian outsourcing companies was inevitable, so finding something to make European software development stand out was necessary. Dr. Sukharev was convinced that the strong fundamental engineering education and the cultural similarities with Western traditions could be great advantages in this dynamic market.
Auriga’s First Projects
The first project involved designing and implementing a database application for Hewlett-Packard to track contracts with outside consulting companies and independent contractors for several HP entities, monitor completion time and project status, and generate reports on project financial status. After a couple of years of collaboration, Auriga became Hewlett-Packard’s exclusive regional business partner.
The first year’s milestones included, for example, a project for ADE Corp. in statistical process control and quality assurance solution design and maintenance and the development of real-time system-level software for Aquila Technologies Group, Inc.
Later, in 1995–96, Auriga began collaborating with Interleaf (later acquired by Broadvision) and Lynx RTS, Inc. (later rebranded as LynuxWorks Inc. and renamed Lynx Software Technologies Inc. in 2014). Twenty years later, Auriga still works on projects for these companies.
Auriga Today
In the last 25 years, Auriga has transformed into an innovative and dynamic company. It is a leader in the software development outsourcing market and is regularly highly ranked in the Global Outsourcing 100 and Global Services 100 ratings. We have several engineering development centers in Eastern Europe, Lithuania, and the USA.
A quarter of a century later, Auriga continues to do what it does best: managing teams of talented engineers who create new projects for our clients. It doesn’t matter if the projects involve development or testing, migration or maintenance; our customers—whether they are financial services providers, embedded systems vendors, or medical equipment manufacturers—can be sure of the high quality and reliability of their solutions. It might sound cliché, but Auriga keeps up with the times, knowing its way around numerous up-to-date technologies and solutions and taking part in projects in the area of mobile, cloud, and wearable technologies as well as the Internet of Things.
We have been developing software for various vendors for 25 years. We survived a number of crises, found our own niche, and now we continue to grow, solving tasks for our clients, helping them find the competitive edge that will help them become market leaders or keep their leading positions.
We can find many reasons for Auriga’s success. But the key element is that we have been moving forward from the past into the future, doing what we like, supported by the traditions while attracting new talented specialists who are genuinely interested in the success of the company and its clients, – said Vyacheslav Vanyulin, Auriga’s General Manager.
