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.
CEEOA announces the launch of new information analytical portal about IT outsourcing in the Central and Eastern European countries, ITOnews.eu http://itonews.eu.
Low-cost, highly skilled IT labour and a relatively close proximity to the UK is making Eastern Europe an increasingly attractive destination to UK businesses for offshoring IT services.
Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative (http://www.hi-tech.org.ua) is a leading Ukrainian alliance in Offshore Software Development and IT industry.
Main mission of alliance is to promote Ukrainian software development companies to the outer markets.
Hi-Tech Initiative offers Ukrainian software development companies an opportunity to enhance their IT potential in outsourcing and offshore programming by utilizing a partner network and Initiative's marketing channels on the foreign markets.
Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative provides services in establishing partner relationship, collaboration in IT projects implementation, work in the sphere of business process outsourcing between Ukrainian and western companies.
The members of Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative are 46 software development companies, outsourcing services providers that have about 3500 employees.
Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative objectives:
setting up and development of international connections in the sphere of software development;
creation of a possible image of Ukrainian software development on the foreign markets;
search and selection of partners supplying IT outsourcing and BPO services in Ukraine;
finding investors into Ukrainian software development industry;
establish stable channels for exchanging information with foreign markets;
promote development of hi-tech industries in Ukrainian economy;
promote the export potential of Ukrainian enterprises engaged in hi-tech industries;
promote utilization of scientific potential in products of the Ukrainian hi-tech industries;
encourage advanced training of hi-tech professionals.
