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January 14, 2003
Datalex forms partnership with offshore software firm
News from Travel Technology Update: - Datalex,
the travel and transportation technology provider, formed a partnership
with EPAM Systems, a software developer based in Minsk, Belarus,
and Moscow and offices in Princeton, N.J.
The partnership will integrate EPAM's Content Management System with
Datalex' Internet booking engine technology.
Datalex and EPAM worked together for about a year on the
development of LasVegas.com. the recently relaunched destination site.
Datalex' booking engine technology, based on Web services, facilitates
complex searches on the site for "everything Las Vegas has to offer."
It uses enriched information and image resources on hotels and
room configurations and enables bookings to be made at a variety
of shows and entertainment.
EPAM's contribution was a flexible Content Management System that
allows rapid updates of features and content while maintaining
high performance and stability on the site. It implemented an
automated content import and intelligence utility that serves
as the hub for all external content.
Neil Beck, chief executive officer of Datalex, said the two
companies have different but complementary skills and experience
and decided to "parlay that into new opportunities."
"We both have lots of contacts, and we can offer a wider
portfolio of products rather than piecemeal solutions," he
said. "We can offer a sort of one-stop shop."
Arkadiy Dobkin, chief executive officer of EPAM,
added that if the two companies took on a new project
along the lines of the LasVegas.com project, "it
would be much easier to integrate" their activities,
resulting in a faster time to market.
Beck said Datalex benefits "selfishly" from the
partnership through an inexpensive addition to its team resources.
"We are larger in terms of revenue, but EPAM has 500 people to our 200," he said.
At times, Datalex experiences "a huge spike in the need for
engineering resources." Datalex can use EPAM's people on an ad
hoc basis even if EPAM is not directly involved in a project, Beck said.
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