Hungarian Outsourcing Association (HOA) together with Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA) will partner the Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007 – the annual IT business forum aimed at coverage and development of Ukrainian software and outsourcing services market.

This year the Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum is going to be held for the fourth time on the 1st and 2nd of November in Kiev.

The Forum is aimed at boosting the software development and outsourcing services market both in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. A separate session of the Forum will be dedicated to the discussion of the global trends in IT markets and current issues of IT outsourcing.

The Forum organizers are the Ukrainian Hi-Тech Initiative (www.hi-tech.org.ua), an alliance of the leading Ukrainian IT and BPO services providers, and marketing communications agency “PR Kvadrat”, an organizer of the large scale and specialized PR and BTL events.

Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum is mainly aimed at ITO and BPO services development in Central and Eastern Europe. This year Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA) and Hungarian Outsourcing Association supported the event among other partners.

“We regard participation in the UOF ‘2007 as an opportunity to share the benefits in outsourcing business, improve outsourcing business management level, sales and marketing technique, communicate the best outsourcing practices both in ITO and BPO services, which all together undoubtedly are critical to build and grow competitive outsourcing services enterprise on the local and international markets. 

For Ukrainian outsourcing services providers from different industries we are ready to become a reliable and effective channel for entering the EU market. A key advantage of the Coalition is that it enables the appreciation of economies of scale within the function and can enable multifunction working, e.g. linking Market research and Marketing communications, or Strategic business development and business Legal together, where there is the potential to create synergies” – said Saulius Masalskis, Chairman and Managing director of Baltic Outsourcing Association.

Within the Forum Mr. Masalskis and BOA team are going to hold several round-table discussions regarding Facilities Management Processes Outsourcing, and dedicated to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), during which there will be highlighted BPO management and development specifics in the EU countries.

Attila Suhajda, President of the Hungarian Outsourcing Association, noted: “We promote and support any business opportunities in the sphere of outsourcing. That is why we are certainly happy with such a partnership. We believe that the Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum is a possibility to exchange valuable information about the market status. Our intention is to present to the local and foreign Forum participants all advantages of outsourcing, inform them about the status of IT and BPO services market in Hungary, as well as to brief on the investment climate of the country.