The world IT outsourcing services market includes a number of countries and regions which due to their specific conditions are attractive for starting such a business.

Nobody can tell more about the market than the representatives of a given industry. Below we provide the summary on the trends in software outsourcing customers’ behavior that we find important to share with you

According to the Gartner’s 2010 European Outsourcing and IT Services Priorities Survey, the end of 2010 could signal the end of slow growth and a return to real economic growth — or the onset of the next financial crisis.

Outsourcing services are increasingly penetrating the business practices of a wide-range of companies. Transfer of non-core and IT activities on a long-term basis to independent contractors allows the business to focus on its core business activities.




Belarus Hi-Tech Park, Belarus

Belarus Hi-Tech Park, Belarus

HTP Belarus (http://www.park.by) provides special business environment for IT business with incentives unprecedented for European countries.

The resident companies of Belarus Hi-Tech Park are exempt from all corporate taxes, including VAT and profit tax, as well as customs duties. Individual income tax has a fixed rate of 9 % for the employees of Belarus Hi-Tech Park companies.

Belarus Hi-Tech Park possesses the right of granting taxation preferences on a systematic basis. According to the special Law these conditions are valid till 2020.

Unlike many parks in Europe or Asia, Belarus HTP is a virtual hi-tech park. It means that the legal conditions of Belarus Hi-Tech Park are valid within the whole territory of Belarus. No matter where a company is located within Belarus, if it deals with engineering and software development – it can become a resident of HTP. This principle enables use of the educational, scientific, professional and infrastructural potential of the whole country.

Currently among the residents of Belarus Hi-Tech Park there are companies engaged in software development, IT-consulting, embedded software development and providing other IT-services both for domestic and foreign market.

First residents were registered in 2006. Currently 88 companies are registered as the Park's residents. Half of Belarus HTP resident-companies are foreign companies and joint ventures.

The export share in the total production volume is 80 per cent. Today they have customers in 52 countries around the globe.