The true success story of how BAVIN's business angel Yury Gursky turned his overweight problem into Bestseller iPhone Application
31 August 2010 infoDev A client company of infoDev's Global Network member, Belarus Hi-Tech Park, has produced a new
31 August 2010 infoDev A client company of infoDev's Global Network member, Belarus Hi-Tech Park, has produced a new
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31 August 2010 infoDev
A client company of infoDev's Global Network member, Belarus Hi-Tech Park, has produced a new "All-in Fitness" iPhone application, hitting the top of the Healthcare & Fitness category in more than 40 countries and making it into the Top 50 of all iPhone applications and games in more than 30 countries, including the USA.
Adapted from Belarus High Tech Park press release (July 2010), Belarus High Tech Park website and Viadem Media website. All-in Fitness application photo from Apple website.
Viaden Media has been a member of the Belraus Hi-Tech Park since 2007, the same year it claimed copyrights for its cutting edge technologies in online gambling and real estate property search. Viaden Media has more than 10 years experience of professional online casino software development for clients worldwide.
Viaden Mobile, one of the leading companies in its field, has reached a new level of application development. It focuses on the tremendous opportunities offered by applications for mobile phones and has produced a range of Viaden mobile applications for iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad and Android.
~Individuals and interactions over processes and tools ~ Working software over comprehensive documentation ~ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation ~Responding to change over following a plan.
The All-in Fitness smart application combines the ability to match exercise modes with personal needs and abilities and to keep track of consumed calories. All-in Fitness includes more than 50 ready-made workouts for any level of fitness and also an in-built algorithm for choosing the most suitable exercise program depending on your parameters. 148apps.com, one of the leading iPhone applications websites, names All-in Fitness as the best choice for fitness-frequenters.
Viaden Media aims to follow the newest web design and software development methodologies, creating new advanced project management systems to improve the quality of online game software and customer service. These include Agile Methods, WikiMedia software, Jira Studio, as well as Google services from corporate mail to analytics.
Yury Gursky, Viaden Media Mobile Department Head: ”This is our 4th product within 2 months, that has been highly appreciated by a Cupertino-based company. We’ve even gotten into the Staff Favorites and this is a highest possible product quality evaluation. As for Top-100, this is our 5th application listed in ratings starting May this year, if to include iPad products.“
By the end of this year Viaden Media plans to increase the number of released applications by 100 and become the biggest in-house mobile applications developer in Belarus and Russian Federation.
About Belarus Hi-Tech Park
On September 22, 2005 the President of Belarus signed the Decree “On the Hi-Tech Park”. The Decree is aimed at boosting the competitive power of the national new and high technology-based sectors, developing modern technologies and expanding their exports, as well as attracting to the sector both Belarusian and foreign technologies.
At its first stage, Hi-Tech Park will host legal entities or individual entrepreneurs engaged in:
As the next stage the Belarusian government considers adding medical & biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, integrated green technologies as well as other future-oriented activities to the high priority areas of the Hi-Tech Park activities. Hi-Tech Park is keenly interested in R&D projects in various science-intensive areas.
Today, there are 78 residents registered at the Hi-Tech Park, representing more than 6300 employees.
As for the various types of investments attracted to the Belarusian IT sector, 52% of the resident companies at the Hi-Tech Park were set up by Belarusian investors, 26% by foreign investors (100% foreign capital) and 22% were established as joint ventures.
A total of goods produced (works performed, services provided, intellectual property created) at the Hi-Tech Park in the year 2008 increased by 1.8 times as compared to 2007. The share of export in the total amount of production was 85%. During 2005-2008, the exports of HTP residents grew twofold, annually.