

Сompanies are outsourcing their IT processes because they don’t posses the technical skills in-house.
Continue readingAccording to new research from TNS Gallup, the largest public opinion and market research company in Lithuania, more and more business organizations opt for an outside company specializing in IT.
Continue readingThe IT market in Macedonia declined 2.9% year on year in U.S. dollar terms to $159.05 million in 2008.
Continue readingThe research “Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2008” provides an evidence of the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in the Central and Eastern Europe. The CEE cluster becomes the real player on the global outsourcing market. The clients are getting more interested in the “nearshoring” to the CEE region than in the offshoring to India or China.
Continue readingThe research “Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2008” provides an evidence of the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in the Central and Eastern Europe. The CEE cluster becomes the real player on the global outsourcing market. The clients are getting more interested in the “nearshoring” to the CEE region than in the offshoring to India or China.
Continue readingThe market for IT outsourcing service providers in the CEE region is growing at a fast rate, one that is ahead of average rates worldwide. The main factor of growth is that Eastern European companies offer the valuable model of outsourcing services – “nearsourcing”.
Continue readingMarket value is the main indicator of the development of IT outsourcing services providers market in the country. The scope of final IT products in 2008 served as the basis for the calculation of market volume. Other sources of estimations were the total number of professionals and the average rates on the national market. The use of open analytical reviews, data received from the national IT associations and expert opinions allowed adding more precision to this index. Each country’s IT outsourcing market volume is indicated in USD Mln.
Continue readingNumber of companies is one of the key indicators of the country IT outsourcing market development. When calculating the number of IT companies, we counted IT and software development companies providing outsourcing services who had a staff of more than 10 employees. A relatively low threshold was deliberately taken in order to provide a complete market snapshot for each country.
Continue readingWhen calculating the number of professionals, we considered only those IT specialists involved in IT outsourcing services, not administrative personnel. Other data sources used in estimations were general information about each country such as population, as well as review respondents’ feedback on the number of companies and the average number of employees in each of them.
Continue readingThese are the amounts the end customer pays for the services of an IT specialist annually including salary, taxes, facilities, etc. An attempt was made to calculate both minimum and maximum annual rates for an IT professional in each of the countries. Findings are indicated in USD.
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