Software-Development Services that Meet Highest Global Standards

EST Computers has made a name for itself as a provider of exceptional software-development services for customers worldwide. The company specialises in B2B services and works with a number of clients in the U.S. healthcare industry.

Dr. Ioachim Drugus, founder and CEO, is a well-known pioneer in Moldova’s ICT sector. “After a career in the US for seven years, I returned to Moldova and set up this company; because here is my home, and since this country offers high-quality labour at competitive prices. Those companies which choose outsourced software services from Moldova can count on quality at very attractive costs,” Dr. Ioachim Drugus states.

Since the company’s main customers are in America, the company develops B2B software in compliance with the American X12 electronic data interchange standard. However, both X12 and EDIFACT – the standard compliant with EU criteria and recommended by the UN for worldwide use, have the same foundational principles and the transition to EDIFACT is “doable.” Therefore, Dr. Ioachim Drugus is sure that EST Computer is ready for cooperation with foreign companies interested in B2B based on EDIFACT.

Besides outsourced services, the company is working on its own science-consuming hi-tech solutions. As an associate researcher of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Dr. Ioachim Drugus is focused on modelling natural languages – one of the active directions of research at IMI. The research results from IMI are implemented into several projects which in turn, attracts professional researchers and university graduates. Even though this activity does not bring profit, he regards it with the same importance as the basic activity on outsourced services. Furthermore, this activity helps select gifted young people and prepares them for future projects.

Dr. Ioachim Drugus thinks this direction of R&D is very important and provides the reason that Europe has the largest linguistic diversity in the world. “This technology means Europeans could both enjoy speaking their native languages and enhance their intercommunication, if computers serve as their omnipresent interpreters. Imagine yourself speaking English over your mobile with an interlocutor speaking Swedish, and you both perfectly understand each other. This will become a reality as soon as intelligent software is developed,” he says.  Dr. Ioachim Drugus is open to working with investors and partners from Western Europe, and considers this project as a first priority project for investment.

He believes, that “the risks for investments in Moldova are significantly lower than in other regions, due to low costs and professional labour. As to quality, the fact that numerous American healthcare organizations and companies are using software developed in Moldova, speaks for itself.” His dream is that, in several years, Moldova will become the “Software Klondyke” of Europe.