Wednesday, November 8 2017 14:55

ArmInfo. At the Microsoft Innovation Center, the winners of the innovative ideas and  programming contest Hackathon, awarded with the help of Beeline, were awarded prizes. As the press service of Beeline told ArmInfo, the winner - the Lezoo team received a cash prize of $ 3 thousand, and the Iterate and Megista teams that shared the second and third places received $ 1 thousand each.

According to the source, the Lezoo team within the framework of this  competition developed a solution that allows not only to make group  calls, but also to have simultaneous interpretation. The solution  presented by the Iterate team will allow subscribers, viewing ads to  collect points, which can then be exchanged for minutes of telephone  conversations. And the developed product of the team Megista allows,  based on the monitoring of the subscriber's data, to offer him the  most advantageous tariff plan of this operator.

"For the business, digital solutions are the guarantee of the future,  and it is very important that the tradition of development and  application of such solutions is formed in Armenia." As a company  representing the sphere of information technologies and  telecommunications, we are clearly aware of the importance of digital  solutions and contribute to their development in Armenia, "said  Beeline in Armenia Andrey Pyatakhin.

After awarding prizes, Beeline Director General in Armenia Andriy  Pyatakhin and Director of Microsoft Innovation Center in Armenia  Artashes Vardanyan discussed the potential of the market with the  winning teams to cooperate with them, further develop their developed  products.

Note that the competition of innovative ideas and programming  "Hackathon" was held on October 20-21 this year. in the Center of  Creative Technologies "TUMO" with the assistance of Beeline and  Microsoft Innovation Center. Of the teams submitting the application,  25 were selected, 25 who were to develop experimental versions of the  solutions within 24 hours and submit them for evaluation to  specialists. As criteria for the title of the winners were determined  the innovation of the idea and the degree of practical applicability  of the work, which was completed in 24 hours.

We remind that "VEON Armenia" CJSC (Beeline trademark) belongs to the  Veon group of companies, which is one of the world's largest  integrated telecom operators. The group includes communications  companies providing voice and data services based on a wide range of  wireless and fixed-line technologies, as well as broadband Internet  access to more than 200 million subscribers in Russia, Italy,  Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia ,  Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The companies of  the group provide services under the brands Beeline, Kyivstar, Wind,  Mobilink, Banglalink and Djezzy.