Type | Holding |
---|---|
Industry | Computer hardware Computer software Consulting IT services |
Founded | Minsk, Belarus (January 13, 1994)[1] |
Headquarters | Minsk, Belarus |
Key people | Igor Mamonenko, Co-founder and executive chairman; Andrey Grigortsevich, Co-founder |
Employees | over 1,200 (2007) |
Website | www.belhard.com |
Belhard Group is a Minsk, Belarus-based and ISO 9001-2001 certified IT-holding, composed of more than 10 branch establishments with more than 30 activities. The parent enterprise Belhard Group (joint-stock company) was founded in 1994 by Igor Mamonenko and Andrey Grigortsevich.
Contents |
The parent enterprise is a member of Minsk Department of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry[2] and a silver partner of Hewlett-Packard.[3]
In 2006 Belhard Group became a participant of the Fourth Annual Survey on Russian export market of software products, services and solutions made by RUSSOFT, a multi-national trade association of software companies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.[4]
In 2007 BelHard Development (holding division) was registered as a resident of the Belarus High Technologies Park (HTP),[5] which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko compares to Silicon Valley.[6] The decision about company registration was taken by the HTP supervisory board.[7]
In 2004 consulting company Marketvisio conducted research in order to examine development tendencies of the Belarusian export-oriented software market. This research was conducted with assistance of the Group of Experts: SaM-Solutions, ScienceSoft, BelHard Group, IBA, EPAM Systems and System Technologies.[8] According to the data of the market experts, Belhard Group is export-oriented company: export of IT services and products is the main business for most it. Experts’ rates represent market shares for Belhard and other Belarusian leading companies (see pie-chart “The leaders of Belarusian export-oriented programming market”).[9]
In 2005 Belhard referred to medium-sized European IT outsourcing providers, involving no more than 400 people in IT staff.[10]
Today Belhard Group provides the following services[1]: