IBS Group Holding Limited has resumed preparations for the initial public offering (IPO) of Luxoft Ltd., Vedomosti reported, citing two sources close to the company and a manager of an unnamed investment bank. The manager added that the organizers of the IPO remain to be named. The source close to the company’s investors stated, "We never really stopped this process." The source also added that the IPO will occur closer to the summer 2013. IBS Group Representative, Yevgeny Kutilov, and Head of VTB Capital’s Direct Investments and Special projects department, Timofei Demchenko, refused to comment to Prime News.

IBS Group announced that Luxoft partnered with Sitecore to help its clients create highly innovative and unique marketing instruments. By seamlessly integrating proven web content management with customer intelligence, Luxoft is now able to work with clients to generate a single view of a customer that drives more meaningful interactions, increases conversions, and builds loyalty. In December 2012 Luxoft completed the first in Russia integration project for one of the large retail banks in Russia, Promsvyazbank. Using the ground-breaking Sitecore website platform, a team of Luxoft developers created a highly-innovative, high-load website that has become a new data aggregator and marketing instrument for the bank. This was accomplished by leveraging Sitecore’s Customer Engagement Platform to deliver the most relevant content to customers at any point of interaction, through any communication channel – the web, email, mobile, social and offline. Luxoft seamlessly integrated Promsvyazbank’s web portal with several banking systems that provide exchange rates, real-time market data, and geo-location data for ATMs and the offices of partnering organizations. Additionally, Luxoft laid the groundwork for content targeting by storing visitor location and banking product preferences. This project has been honored a "Russia Outsourcing Award 2013" as the best project of the year in IT and Marketing.

IBS Group announced that IBS IT Services, a member of IBS Group, and Parallels, Inc. have signed an agreement to develop and promote a cloud solution for corporate virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). The companies will invest USD 1.2 million in the project and ensure certification of the developed solution for local use. The project is expected to take two years. The solution to be developed by IBS IT Services and Parallels will be used for building VDIs of almost unlimited scale, up to hundreds of thousands of virtual desktops. Along with that, the chosen approach will allow clients to deploy a VDI two times faster, reduce hardware management costs, ensure a higher level of cyber security, and increase efficiency of user software and data management. With a VDI solution in place, users can connect to their virtual desktops in a corporate private cloud from any geographic location that has Internet access, and from any device, including smartphones, tablets, and mobile computers.