Kiev, May 6, 2008 – By the results of the “Central & Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review ‘2007”, conducted by Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative with the support of information portal ITONews.eu, Baltic Outsourcing Association (Lithuania), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (Romania) and JNN Consult Ltd (Bulgaria) – in 2007 IT Outsourcing market of the Central and Eastern Europe reached a volume of 3 bln. US dollars.

The research was conducted in August-February 2007-2008. National IT associations, as well as the largest IT companies, from 16 countries of the region responded to the survey. The main goal of the research was getting a whole overview of the potential of CEE as a cluster of provision of the nearshore IT outsourcing services for the EU countries and offshore outsourcing services for the USA.

The research examined key development indicators of IT Outsourcing market in Central and Eastern Europe region: market volume, number of professionals, number of IT companies providing outsourcing services, cost of one professional for the end customer. Independent experts Christian Berner, Natasha Starkell, Parvis Hanson, and Maryna Yaroshchuk provided their views on the IT Outsourcing markets of Central and Eastern European region.

In accordance with experts’ opinions, main indicators of IT Outsourcing industry development take Central and Eastern Europe to the level of such global outsourcing centers as India, China, and Russia.

The data, presented by the largest IT companies and national IT Associations showed that in 2007 IT outsourcing market volume of CEE region reached 3 bln US dollars. Among 16 examined countries, the leading in market volume were: Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic. Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Poland and Bulgaria were in the lead regarding the number of IT companies. The attempt was made to calculate also minimum and maximum annual cost per service of one IT professional for the end customer in each of the countries. Among the most “expensive” countries were Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic and Estonia. Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Hungary, Bulgaria were the countries with the greatest number of IT professionals involved into IT outsourcing less the administrative personnel.

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As Victor Maznyuk, President of Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative, noted, this research was conducted for the medium and small companies which purchase IT Outsourcing services. We hope that free distribution of this research will help SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) companies in selecting right partners in the Central and Eastern Europe.

The full version of the research “Central & Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review ‘2007” is available at the website www.ITONews.eu.

Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative

Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative is a leading Ukrainian alliance of offshore software development and IT outsourcing providers. The mission of the alliance is to promote Ukrainian software development companies in the global market.

Hi-Tech Initiative provides the Ukrainian software developers with the opportunity to enhance their business in the areas of IT outsourcing and offshore programming by using the partner network and marketing channels of the Initiative in the external markets.

Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative provides the services in establishing partnerships, collaborating in IT projects implementation, assisting in BPO between Ukrainian and western companies.

Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative is an organizer of annual Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum – IT business forum dedicated to promotion and development of Ukrainian software development and outsourcing market.

ITONews.eu

ITONews.eu – information analytic platform about IT Outsourcing in Central and Eastern European countries. The main aim of ITONews.eu is to show activities of IT companies, providers of outsourcing services the most widely and impartially, and to serve as a place for IT outsourcing services providers and customers meetings.

The portal, that started its work in 2008, contents daily updatable news, press-releases, analytic materials, information about global and regional events concerning IT outsourcing.

ITONews.eu gathers, analyzes and distributes information about IT outsourcing markets in CEE countries. The main objective of the information portal is formation of the complete view on the potential of CEE region – the promising cluster for outsourcing services provision and creation of common information flow from Central and Eastern Europe.
Iryna Dubeniuk
“Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative”
mail: IraD@hi-tech.org.ua
www: www.hi-tech.org.ua
office: +380-44-458-1753
adress: 28, Mashinostroitelnyj lane,
Kiev, Ukraine
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June 8, 2010 – Bucharest – IBA Group, one of the largest IT service providers in Central and Eastern Europe, has become the hundredth company registered in the catalogue ITOlist.eu. Among the hundred registered companies which provide outsourcing services, there are 33 companies from Ukraine, 25 companies from Romania, and 10 companies from Belarus.  The Central and Eastern European (CEE) region is one of the most fast-developing providers of nearshore IT outsourcing services for the EU countries and offshore IT outsourcing services for the American and Asian countries.  

A major objective of the catalogue ITOlist.eu is to create a full base of IT outsourcing service providers from Central and Eastern Europe that will allow consumers to facilitate the search of the right partner. The catalogue ITOlist.eu includes company profiles with information about companies, their services, technologies, clients and projects. The providers are able to add video presentations and publish advanced company profiles. The clients are able to use the multilevel search, view provider profiles, send requests for collaboration or IT projects implementation.

Sergei Levteev, President of IBA Group, comments: “This year, we are participating for the first time in the research organized by the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association. We believe that the inclusion of our company in the two information resources of the association, namely the report “CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2009″ and the catalogue ITOlist.eu, will grant us access to the additional groups of outsourcing service consumers across the globe. We also support the idea that we need to promote Central and Eastern Europe as a promising destination for the world IT outsourcing industry.”

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Some information gathered in the online survey http://research.ceeoa.org will be used as source information for the report “CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2009″ – annual review of IT outsourcing service providers and markets in 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

CEEOA invites all outsourcing service providers from the CEE region to participate in online survey for the research “CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2009″ – http://research.ceeoa.org. Each company-respondent that completes the survey will get a free profile in online catalogue ITOlist.eu and the brief company profile in the report.

About СЕЕОА

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008.  The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE – Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the main objectives of CEEOA is to promote the Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and to increase services delivery quality and volume to the recognized standards.

About IBA Group

IBA Group is one of the largest IT service providers in Eastern Europe performing software development, migration, maintenance, support, and IT consulting services with more than 2,500 IT and business professionals. Headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, IBA Group has offices and development centers in the United States, Germany, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Russia. IBA Group focuses on mainframe systems, enterprise applications, web-based solutions, SAP and other ERP systems, Lotus technologies, and business intelligence. IBA has achieved SEI CMMI Level 4 and is ISO 9001:2000- certified. IBA Group serves clients in more than 30 countries across diverse markets and industries, including banking, railway, telecommunication, manufacturing, healthcare, trade, and public sectors. IBA Group is recognized by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) as one of The Global Outsourcing 100 in the Leaders Category in 2010, ranks #1 in the neoIT and CMP’s Global Services 100 – 2007 in the category TOP 10 TO WATCH IN EMERGING EUROPEAN MARKETS, and is a Software 500 company. For more information, visit http://www.ibagroup.eu

Central And Eastern European Outsourcing Association – About the Author:

Marina Osadchuk
Marketing manager
CEEOA
Email: m.osadchuk@ceeoa.org
Phone: +380 44 458 1753

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Hungarian Outsourcing Association (HOA) together with Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA) will partner the Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007 (http://www.outsourcing-forum.com.ua) – 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.

About Baltic Outsourcing Association

The Baltic Outsourcing Association is an independent non-for-profit professional advisory body, which promotes and shares the best practices, benefits and innovative solutions in outsourcing business, provides relevant information and practical tools both for Outsourcing Services Providers and Buyers, promotes regional and international networking that builds operational value by promising and delivering high quality products and services at fair prices over the time and by building strong economic, technical and social ties among the members.

BOA provides through their Board members and Partners who are experts in their specific areas of operations ranging right from Market research and analysis, Marketing communications, Strategic and operational business development, business Legal and Software development solutions.

About Hungarian Outsourcing Association (HOA)

HOA is a professional and independent organization that promotes and supports all the opportunities in the area of Outsourcing to local and international companies, customers and suppliers also. HOA was founded in 2004 by the leading Hungarian and multinational companies.

The Association is not strictly focused on any single business industry. The main driving principle is outsourcing. Association unites the companies of different type and specialization – logistics, production, HR, financial, Hi-Tech and other. HOA also provides an opportunity to set up collaborative efforts that span multiple sectors and facilitate complex outsourcing offers

HOA has already established a professional forum which provides companies concerned with an appropriate framework for discussing outsourcing-related issues or common problems, whether it will be primarily professional ones, or relating to the foreign market.

About Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative

Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative is a leading Ukrainian alliance of offshore software development and IT outsourcing. The mission of the alliance is to promote Ukrainian software development companies in the global market.

Hi-Tech Initiative provides the Ukrainian software developers with the opportunity to enhance their business in the areas of IT outsourcing and offshore programming by using the partner network and marketing channels of the Initiative in the external markets.

Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative provides the services in establishing partnerships, collaborating in IT projects implementation, assisting in BPO between Ukrainian and western companies

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16 December, 2009 –  Kiev – Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association are to host a set of webinars designed to present IT outsourcing potential of the largest countries from Central and Eastern Europe. The webinars are scheduled for January 2010 through March 2010 and will provide the presentation of  the opportunities for IT outsourcing development in the countries of the CEE region – Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria. The national industry associations will host the separate webinars on each country presentation.

The main objective of the webinars is to popularize the Central and Eastern European region as a provider of offshore and nearshore outsourcing IT services. The participants of the webinars will be able to receive the detailed information about each country from the region, learn the advantages of business setting up and development in the countries, level of attainment and number of the graduates of IT professions. The speakers will present the main centers of IT outsourcing in the countries and the most significant case studies.

The webinars are intended for  the audience of outsourcing services consumers, who are looking for the opportunities to collaborate, set up R&D offices in the CEE countries, and those who are interested to start working in the IT outsourcing industry.

Mr. Saulius Masalskis, Chairman and Managing Director of Baltic Outsourcing Association, noted, “It is our first series of online presentations on the general overview of the CEE countries, but we intend to hosting the webinars on continuing basis with the detailed reporting about the separate market segments and presentations from the leading CEE companies. The webinar format allows us to be more closer to our clients and to cover the sector of middle and small business, which is still not enough using the advantages of outsourcing for their business activities.”

The series of webinars will consist of 6 independent webinars, first of which will be held on 13th of January.

Webinars schedule and organizers:

13 January, 2010 – Ukraine, the webinar is hosted by Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative

27 January, 2010 – Romania, the webinar is hosted by Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry –ANIS

10 February, 2010 – Hungary, the webinar is hosted by Hungarian Service and Outsourcing Association – HOA

24 February, 2010 – Lithuania, the webinar is hosted by Baltic Outsourcing Association – BOA

10 March, 2010 – Poland, the webinar is hosted by Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies – ASPIRE

24 March, 2010 – Bulgaria, the webinar is hosted by Bulgarian Web Association – BWA

Attending of the webinars will provide an opportunity to make the first step in  the collaboration with outsourcing companies from Central and Eastern Europe.

All webinars are free to attend. Register for the webinars now! (http://ceeoa.org/en/news/ceeoa-news/registration-webinars-ceeoa/index.html)

About CEEOA

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008.  The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE – Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the main objectives of CEEOA is to promote the Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and to increase services delivery quality and volume to the recognized standards.

Marina Osadchuk
CEEOA
email: m.osadchuk@ceeoa.org
website: http://ceeoa.org

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“Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review” is the project of the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA). The main objective of this research is formation of the complete view on the potential of CEE region – the promising cluster for nearshore IT outsourcing for the Western European countries and offshore IT Outsourcing for the US.  “CEE IT Outsourcing Review” is one of the few public researches which covers the situation on IT outsourcing market in the Central and Eastern European countries and is a good information source for those who are willing to find IT outsourcing services providers in the CEE region.

As a professional body, CEPIS is actively involved in promoting Professionalism in IT practice amongst its Members. This occurs through regular European-wide events and specific publications including UPGRADE , the computer science journal for informatics professionals CEPIS is committed to supporting the development of Education and Research into Informatics in the academic field and the promotion of Professional Skills certifications, including EUCIP. These three focus areas of Professionalism, Education & Research, and Skills form the core activity of CEPIS in achieving its mission of improving and promoting high standards amongst Informatics Professionals.

Julian Seymour, General Manager of CEPIS, strongly believes that the review is very useful, and timely  in light of global recession. As many companies are looking for more innovative cost effective solutions ,Central and Eastern Europe has the potential to become one of the most important outsourcing hubs in the world. CEPIS recognises the challenges and the opportunities in and the contribution to the growth of highly skilled professionals and the development of IT industry on the broader European level. which exists within the region.

The research is undertaken by the CEEOA members – Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Baltic Outsourcing Association, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association, Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry – ANIS (Romania), Bulgarian Web Association, and Association of IT and Business Process Services Companies – ASPIRE (Poland), and sponsored by Ukrainian IT outsourcing company NET Technology Center WEB100.

The national IT associations, as well as the largest IT companies and experts contributed to the research and provided their views on the IT outsourcing market development in 2008 and new tendencies for 2009.

The Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review is freely distributed. The official version of the research will be published on the information portal of the CEEOA – ITONews.eu (http://www.itonews.eu)

About CEPIS

The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) (www.cepis.org) is a non-profit organisation seeking to improve and promote a high standard among informatics professionals in recognition of the impact that informatics has on employment, business and society. CEPIS is comprised of 36 national informatics associations representing over 300,000 informatics professionals from 33 countries across greater Europe. It provides a coordinated voice on the views of European informatics professionals on major issues to European Institutions.  CEPIS is also responsible for the highly successful ECDL and EUCIP Programmes and produces a range of research and publications in the area of skills.

About CEEOA

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008.  The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies in Poland (ASPIRE). One of the main objectives of CEEOA is to promote the Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and to increase services delivery quality and volume to the recognized standards.

Contact Information:

CEPIS – Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
Tel: +32 (0)2 772 1836
Fax: +32 (0)2 646 3032
E-mail: info@cepis.org
Web: www.cepis.org
Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA)
Phone: +380 44 458 1753
Fax: +380 44 501 5548
E-mail: ceeoa@ceeoa.org
Web: www.ceeoa.org

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