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Tapping Ukraine’s IT Potential

Ukraine’s IT outsourcing sector has exploded over the last 10 years to top $1bn in 2011, capitalising on the strong science schools inherited from the Soviet Union. Looking to the future, the sector has the potential to become a real force for Ukraine’s modernisation if it can meet some challenges. IT outsourcing is one of [...]

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“Exploring Ukraine. IT Outsourcing Industry”: The Volume of IT Outsourcing Services Provided in Ukraine Has Grown by a Factor Ten

Over the last eight years, the volume of software development and IT outsourcing services the Ukraine has provided has grown by a factor ten, according to the “Exploring Ukraine. IT Outsourcing Industry” report, just published by Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative, leading association of Ukrainian software development and IT outsourcing companies. In 2011 the volume of IT [...]

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Steps For Being Successful In Outsourcing: Part 1

In today’s world, outsourcing can be a very good way of income. But for that, you will have to do it in the proper way. Because, the path of outsourcing is filled with a lot of dangers. For doing outsourcing properly, you will need to ensure the following things: 1. Organize your team properly. 2. [...]

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Mega IT Outsourcing Deals Move Offshore

An analysis of second quarter outsourcing deal activity reveals an increase in billion-dollar-plus deals, all of them awarded outside the mature U.S. and European markets. Mega-deal outsourcing deals–those contracts with a value of $1 billion or more-picked up in the second quarter of 2012, according to the quarterly Global TPI Index. Five mega-deals were signed [...]

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10 Rules for Successful IT Outsourcing Services

According to The Computer Economics IT Outsourcing Statistics 2011/2012 study the amount of organizations that outsource IT work is increasing every year. The percentage of their total IT spending going to service providers rose from 6.1% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2010 and then leveled out, showing no year-over-year growth in 2011 and expected to [...]

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Why Russia – Outsourcing Industry

Russia is one of the fastest growing destinations for quality IT offshore outsourcing, and the business environment has matured to the point where it has come to be considered a credible location for outsourcing software services. Russia is seen as a good place to solve complex technical problems because of its highly skilled talent pool. [...]

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Outsourcing Software Development Firm: Advantages and Disadvantages

Software development firms are very much required for the better working of any company, outsourcing these facilities are sometimes beneficial and sometimes not so good. In this article, let’s see the different advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing software development firm: Advantages Lower Operating Costs: The costs of operating these services are less as when outsourcing [...]

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How to Win at the IT Outsourcing Negotiating Table

If CIOs want to get the most from IT outsourcing deals, they need to treat negotiation as an organizational business process–with training, tools, and processes–rather than an IT purchasing arrangement. Who’s your best outsourcing deal negotiator—Hank, the ‘people guy’ that everyone loves? Is your negotiating tool kit limited to your RFP templates and supplier scoring [...]

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Region Poised to Become a Major Outsourcing Centre

It’s music to the ears of those trying to staunch brain drain in the Balkans. Analysts at the Gartner company, a leading firm that assesses the global information technology market, are forecasting that this year, more than 23% of the world’s investments will be spent on IT outsourcing, or approximately 697 billion euros. Outsourcing is [...]

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Ukrainian IT Industry to Keep on Growing in 2012-2013

In the last two years Ukrainian IT market has been recovering after a sharp decline experienced in 2009. The market will continue to record double digit growth rates in 2012-2013. The macroeconomic and political situation will remain of crucial importance in the country. Current situation and key trends According to the latest report “IT market [...]

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