UNIPRO Celebrates 30 Years: "Times Change, and We Change With Them!"

In mid-November 2023, our company, the Novosibirsk Center of Information Technologies "UNIPRO," celebrated its 30th anniversary. Our software development expertise is highly specialized and in demand, with much work still ahead.

In the early 1990s, economic reforms encouraged the creation of the first IT companies, which had the opportunity to develop rapidly in a new industry for the country. The Novosibirsk Center of Information Technologies (NCIT) "UNIPRO" was one of the first in Western Siberia. It grew out of the Soviet supercomputer project "Elbrus," where Novosibirsk engineers developed compilers and interpreters for Fortran and other languages, mathematical libraries, and other software. These competencies became in demand globally, attracting major international clients like Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Google.

Over the past 30 years, "UNIPRO" has become an expert in several IT fields. In addition to system software and certification testing systems, business management systems and scientific software packages and applications have gradually emerged.

Bioinformatics, mathematical libraries, and modeling software have grown out of close collaboration between programmers and scientists from the Novosibirsk Science Center. For 20 years, the company has been developing its own products in these areas. The bioinformatics platform Unipro UGENE, launched in 2008, is used by molecular biologists worldwide. The universal solver USPARS has been utilized by a major Russian state corporation since 2022.

New processor architectures require the development and adaptation of high-performance system software. "UNIPRO" regularly takes on new projects in this field. Recently, the company developed a complete set of system development tools (SDK) for AI-oriented processors and provided support for all tools across several generations of this specific architecture.

"UNIPRO" excels at working with a wide range of clients—from large corporations to smaller companies. Long-term partnerships in most projects are a testament to the reliability and quality that remain the company's top priorities. Since 2012, the company has been developing system software—virtual machines and compilers for Java, JavaScript, C#, and mathematical libraries for the Russian "Elbrus" processor architecture, in collaboration with MCST.

In the last two years, "UNIPRO's" order portfolio has significantly shifted toward Russian organizations. New projects are driving the development of the company's software engineers' competencies.