The product
The people who design an interface are the people who answer for it a year later. That is what makes a shortcut cost something at the moment it is taken.
AKOVANA, UAB · VILNIUS · KHARKIV / EUROPE
The company behind the products.
Twenty-three years of engineering, thirteen of them spent operating our own software. This is where that came from and what stays with the team after a launch.
01 / ORIGIN
Started in Kharkiv.
Registered in Vilnius.
AKOVANA is an independent European technology company. It began in 2003 as a small group of developers in Kharkiv, building web software for other people’s products.
In 2013 that group shipped something of its own. MyOwnConference launched as a webinar platform, and from that day the servers, the incidents, the support load and the cost of acquiring a customer all became the company’s own problem rather than a client’s.
The company was registered in Lithuania as AKOVANA, UAB in 2012 and works from Vilnius and Kharkiv. Four more products have followed the first, and the practice they are built on is the one that started two decades earlier.
02 / TIMELINE
Twenty-three years, in six moments.
Three of them were decisions and two were not. The ones that were not are the ones that shaped how the company operates, and the last is simply where all of it leaves us today.
A small group of developers came together in Kharkiv and started building web software. The engineering practice the company runs on today is the one that formed here.
- Place
- Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Work
- Web software
- Team
- A small group of developers
AKOVANA, UAB was entered in the Lithuanian Register of Legal Entities. That gave the practice a European base to operate from and a legal identity that has not changed since.
- Registered
- 11 September 2012
- Place
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Company code
- 302859437
MyOwnConference launched as a webinar platform. From that point the company was no longer only building software, it was running it.
- Product
- MyOwnConference
- Category
- Webinars and video conferencing
- Change
- From building to operating
The pandemic moved meetings, classes and conferences into the browser. Capacity had to follow in weeks rather than in planning cycles.
- Load
- Sudden and sustained
- Response
- Capacity ahead of demand
- Lesson
- Headroom is a feature
The war in Ukraine forced the company to streamline how it operates and to redesign the product around what people actually use.
- Operations
- Streamlined
- Product
- Redesigned
- Team
- Partly relocated
Signal latency is under one second, a next-generation dashboard is in development, and every product the company sells runs on machines it administers itself.
- Signal latency
- Under one second
- In development
- Next-generation dashboard
- Operated by
- The team that built it
03 / CONTINUITY
Nothing is handed over.
The usual arrangement ends at delivery. Ours does not, because the same team is still holding the thing years later.
The infrastructure
Servers, monitoring and incident response stay in house. An outage is the team’s own night rather than a ticket sitting in a vendor’s queue.
The demand
Search, paid acquisition and analytics sit with the same team, so what the product does and what the campaign promises cannot quietly drift apart.
04 / LEGAL
Company details.
- Legal name
- AKOVANA, UAB
- Registration code
- 302859437
- Registered
- 11 September 2012
- VAT
- Not a VAT payer
- Registered address
- Didžioji g. 18, LT-01128 Vilnius, Lithuania
- Jurisdiction
- Republic of Lithuania · European Union
- Phone
- +370 5 207 8287
- Correspondence
- contact@akovana.com
05 / CONTACT
Let’s discuss the system behind your next product.
Tell us what the system has to do and where it has to hold. You get an engineering answer, not a sales deck.
contact@akovana.comAKOVANA, UAB · VILNIUS · KHARKIV / EUROPE