June 23, 2008

Accelerance CEO, Steve Mezak, has won a 2008 Goddard Award for professional achievement from his alma mater Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The announcement was made at the annual reunion luncheon and awards ceremony in Worcester, Massachusetts earlier this month.

June 16, 2008

Steve Mezak will be featured as a software outsourcing expert on ExpertCEO. ExpertCEO is a private on-line community where senior executives can confidentially exchange ideas with peers, locate trusted resources, ask questions of experts across a range of relevant disciplines, and quickly solve real-world business problems. The site is filled with relevant and insightful discussions on a wide range of topics including off-shoring, Series A financing costs and executive compensation. Please visit www.expertceo.com or go directly to www.expertceo.com/user/register to apply for membership.

May 20, 2008

Steve Mezak will be speaking at the International Software Development Outsourcing Conference. His agenda topics include, "Is Outsourcing Right For Start-Ups?" and "How to choose outsourcing partners".

April 30, 2008

Steve Mezak will be speaking at 11:30 a.m. in Las Vegas for the Software 2008 Conference. The topic will be "Sinking Like a BRIC - Better Choices than Brazil, Russia, India and China"

April 15, 2008

Accelerance is currently being featured on SoftwareCEO.com in an article titled "Free Jumpstart for Finding Outsourcing Partners". The site offers business advice, discussion forums, research, news, online seminars and links to software-specific resources.

April 1, 2008

Accelerance, the company dedicated to taking the risk out of outsourcing software development globally, announced that it will provide one month of free unlimited access to the 40 members in its Global Partner Network beginning today.

March 15, 2008

Accelerance sponsors the P-CAMP Unconference for Product Managers
This is a free Saturday event, where participants propose their own topics, run discussions and panels, and network with peers. Accelerance is organizing a session on “How to use a global team to create your software product.”

March 7, 2008

Steve Mezak will be speaking on "Offshoring: Pro's and Con's" at the SD West 2008 Conference in Santa Clara, CA from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The session discusses the benefits and the issues involved with offshoring of software development. Where should you offshore? Popular countries are compared, including India and China. What are the real cost benefits? Steve and fellow panelists will discuss when it does and does not make sense to move software development or testing offshore with real-world examples.

February 21, 2008

Accelerance will sponsor the SD Forum Event, Software Engineering Management SIG featuring guest speaker, Dr. Ivar Jacobson, founder of Ivar Jacobson Consulting. The event starts promptly at 7 p.m. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m.

February 20, 2008

Steve Mezak is speaking at the Go-to-Market Symposium hosted by Mexico-IT in four cities in Mexico about Why U.S. Companies Will Outsource to Mexico.

February 13, 2008

Accelerance, the company dedicated to taking the risk out of outsourcing software development globally, has expanded its presence in Latin America, approving eight new members – two each from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico – to join its Global Partner Network.