The offshore BPO industry has grown by more than 35 percent over the last three years to reach revenues close to US$28 billion in 2007.
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IDC’s IT Security Roadshow has become the seminal annual event for CIOs and IT managers looking for the latest information on IT security trends and wanting to meet IT security gurus and industry professionals.
Continue reading SoftServe, Inc., a leading software development company and consultancy, announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Fort Myers, Florida.
Continue reading TEAM International will be participating in the 2008 Gartner Outsourcing Summit in Washington, D.C. on May 19 – May 21.
Continue reading EXPERT VIEW:Ukraine is set to benefit most from the new value chain in IT services
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CIO’s in Western Europe, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are facing a serious challenge. In 2007, for the first time since the peak of the internet bubble in 2000, the demand for IT specialists exceeded the supply. The last BITKOM survey indicated that 43% of the German companies encounter serious difficulties in finding appropriate IT staff.
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In our advisory work at GoalEurope when IT executives came to us to help find the best possible location to outsource software development, we often recommended Ukraine.
Continue reading EXPERT VIEW: Offshoring to New Shores, Nearshoring to Central and Eastern Europe
May 5, 2008 No CommentCentral and Eastern Europe (CEE) is an important region for services offshoring. The imports of IT-based services from Central and Eastern Europe into the EU-15 rose by an average of 13% per year between 1992 and 2007. Imports from India, by comparison, increased only slightly faster during the same period at 14% per year.
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In the era of global knowledge-based economy, informational technology (IT) plays a unique role in increasing competitiveness of all the different sectors of the economy and the country as a whole, because IT helps to spur productivity in the production process, to bring businesses to the global level, to make government more transparent and keep society informed.
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Market volume is the main indicator of the development of IT Outsourcing industry in the country. The scope of final IT products in 2007 served as the basis for the calculation of market volume. Other estimation sources were the total number of employees and average rates on the country market.
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COUNTRY ANALYSIS: IT Outsourcing Number of Companies in CEE Countries in 2007
May 5, 2008 No Comment
Number of companies is one of the key indicators of the country IT Outsourcing market development. When calculating the number of IT companies, considered were only the IT and software development companies providing Outsourcing services and with the staff of more than 5 employees.
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