Exigen taps growing European services market

IDGNS: Until now there have been differences between the two businesses. Exigen Latvia does business process streamlining, Dati was a systems integrator.

Miloslavsky: There were two different accents [and] both skill sets are required. Dati Exigen is an excellent projects company, they know what project management is. Exigen developed innovative new technologies. That skill set is in demand in Dati solutions as well. Dati is getting into data warehousing, etc, where Exigen solutions are needed.

IDGNS: Dati Exigen recently signed an agreement to provide services to Sweden's telecommunications group, TeliaSonera. That may require both of these skill sets.

Miloslavsky: Exigen Latvia has been executing some projects for U.S. telcos, so we have the vertical knowledge that we can apply to the Dati business. From the point of view of U.S. businesses, they know we have a 'factory' in Eastern Europe, so that doesn't change, but the Dati side gets the Exigen skills. That means we can offer a customer like TeliaSonera not only application maintenance and upgrade skills, but we can also use knowledge from Exigen to suggest improvements in business processes.

IDGNS: Have you evolved from the "application factory" model often seen in Eastern Europe?