improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message sibers group ltd. type privately held company industry it services it consulting it outsourcing founded 31 july 1998 1998 07 31 founder yuriy bannov headquarters akademgorodok novosibirsk russia services information technology consulting services solutions and outsourcing . number of employees 125 2010 1 website www.sibers.com www.sibers.de www.sibers.ru sibers is an information technology outsourcing company that is headquartered in akademgorodok silicon taiga russia . currently sibers is one of the largest it outsourcing companies in russia with development offices located in akademgorodok novosibirsk barnaul and bishkek kyrgyzstan and a total of 120 employees as of 2010 . sibers also has representatives located in australia germany and the united states . the company operates under its registered trademark name hirerussians 2 as well . history edit sibers was established in 1998 by a few math graduates of novosibirsk state university who decided they wanted to run their own it business . they joined forces to create one team of software developers and become employed by the american company iwc interactive web concepts thus forming the iwc russian division . the developers 5 of them working in one office in akademgorodok russia completed projects provided to them by their single client iwc . this was the team s first step to creating what soon became known as key soft ltd. and would later become sibers . the founders started the company with nothing more than an initial investment from their own personal savings . citation needed in the late 1990s during the dot com boom 3com corporation bought iwc including its russian division . 3 it was at this time that all employees became official contract workers of the 3com corporation . it was during the spring of 2001 that the russian team now composed of ten employees became an independent offshore software development company known as key soft ltd. this was the same year key soft registered with elance and created their own profile to gain their first independent contracts . citation needed in 2005 an effort to unite a circle of russian software developers key soft created its virtual service outlet called hirerussians . following iso international organization for standardization and cmm capability maturity model standards key soft delivered hundreds of projects for retail oil gas security finance real estate health care industries education and entertainment for children and adults . the key market at this time was the united states only . citation needed as a result of this development key soft underwent re branding in 2006 when key soft was officially renamed sibers . 4 the new name reflected the geographical location of the company and differentiated it from the numerous xxx soft teams that were popular at that time . the company now employed 70 developers and managers and continued to grow by widening its presence on elance as well as other online and offline marketplaces . the company gradually continued to expand the range of key territorial markets to include canada england france and scandinavia . in 2006 sibers earned its first million dollars on elance and became one of the site s top providers . after almost a year of consideration sibers trademark was registered 5 6 for outsourcing in the field of software development in 2008 by uspto . sibers then entered the german it market with a new regional website www.sibers.de and solutions for green it in november 2008 . 7 at the same time the sibers company has been marked as one of the leading contributors to the fast growing it market in novosibirsk . 8 references edit iaop 2010 top 100 rising stars entertainment & media sibers is ito company with most personnel in russia uspto tdr document viewer tdr.uspto.gov registration certificate for hirerussians 3com acquires internet consultant iwc to enhance global e networks strategy ; acquisition strengthens 3com s ability to deliver total e business solutions company business and marketing edge work group computing report find articles at bnet findarticles.com key soft re branded to sibers uspto tdr document viewer tdr.uspto.gov registration certificate for sibers sibers software company registers its trademark by sibers group ltd 1888pressrelease . com ready for action with sibers green it services and new german website prlog.org november 25 2008 report it companies of novosibirsk and novosibirsk region in russian 54 . rosfirm.ru external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sibers & oldid 668411578 categories international information technology consulting firmsoutsourcing companiessoftware companies of russiainformation technology consulting firms of russiacompanies established in 1998multinational companieshidden categories articles needing additional references from march 2011all articles needing additional referencesarticles with a promotional tone from may 2011all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2011articles with unsourced statements from june 2015articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 june 2015 at 03 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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