Home » 2011 (Page 2)
Russia Has Produced Global IT Leaders in Last 20 Years

Russoft and leading players in the Russian IT industry gathered in St. Petersburg on Friday, 16 December to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of the country’s software development industry. It was in 1991 that home-grown companies first began to spring up in Russia to build their business on high-tech solutions aimed at the [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
Krakow: The Next Big Thing in Outsourcing

Poland is a key market for software outsourcing in Eastern Europe and a favorably located entryway into the region with the business style and culture that has a lot in common with Western Europe and North America. Poland’s highly concentrated IT marketplace is one of the most preferred outsourcing destinations nowadays increasingly attracting overseas attention. [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
Apriorit Tallies Up 2011

Apriorit, big Ukrainian outsourcer and provider of the exclusive research and development solutions, evaluates its trajectory in 2011 and defines it as the year of the stable growth. Geographically, Apriorit made a special accent on Europe this year, expanding its client base to France and intensifying work with the Great Britain partners. While the company [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
Know If the Outsourcer Is Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a competitive business and providing services with aggressive pricing is always a critical factor in winning business. All companies look for methods to reduce their costs and outsourcers are no exception. To maintain their aggressive stance, outsourcers are following trends in the computer industry and using services in the cloud. Cloud services are [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
Ask “Why Outsource?”

Asking the question “Why Outsource?” would seem to be counter to general economic movements and run against prevailing industry beliefs. Many companies are outsourcing as standard procedure, following industry trends. Yet, the question needs to be asked. After all, call centers have been supporting the needs of customers since the telephone was offered to the [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
Stefan Bumov, Executive Director of the Outsourcing Company Sofica Group, Comments on the Proposed Reforms of the Investment Promotion Act

Certification of investors The new point of support on which the focus will fall on identification of the appropriate for certification investors and state support will be the number of generated working places. A certificate for the class A and B will be issued at covering the minimal level of investments and realization of a [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
IBA Implements Information Analysis System to Manage Railway Cargo Transportation

On December 15, IBA put into production the Information Analysis System to Manage Cargo Railway Transportation (IAS MCRT) at Belarusian Railway. In cooperation with Belarusian Railway, IBA developed a concept and prototype of the Information Analysis System to Support Management Decisions on Cargo Transportation at Belarusian Railway (BR). The joint project to implement the system [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
12 IT Outsourcing Predictions for 2012

In 2011, the IT outsourcing industry was marked by smaller deals, leery customers, profit-squeezed IT service providers and a lot of cloud computing talk. Much of that could continue next year, but as our 12 predictions for 2012 indicate, you can expect some new IT outsourcing developments–maybe even a few firsts. The IT outsourcing industry [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
IT Outsourcing in Ukraine: Prospects and Expectations

Outsourcing has been and remains the most promising trend in the IT-industry. Ability to see this introduced in 2009, when the background of general decline in the cost of information technology segment of the IT-outsourcing to keep up the pace. Having survived the crisis, outsourcing, and to this day remains one of the key drivers [...]

Continue reading Continue reading
IAOP Releases Top Outsourcing Trends to Watch for in 2012

The New Year will bring new business realities, delivery models, destinations and technologies to the outsourcing industry, according to the fifth annual trend predictions released today by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®). While the uncertain economy and the elections will impact the industry, the winners will be: locations in the U.S. and near [...]

Continue reading Continue reading