Europeans Unhappy and Look Beyond India

According to Forrester Research at least 60% of the polled European companies are willing to outsource to destinations different from India.

The volume of India’s ITO and ВРО service reached 14 billion euro in 2008 with UK, Germany and France making 11, 7 billion. However not many European buyers show loyalty to Indian service providers. The polled companies plan to continue engaging outsourcers from different countries, but very few mentioned India as their preferred offshore outsourcing destination.

Analysts believe that language barriers and challenging tasks to organize cooperation with providers from other countries are additional barriers for the expansion of Indian service business in Europe. The outsourcing model successfully employed by Indian IT service providers on the North American market doesn’t looks successful in continental Europe. As Forrester Research analysts emphasize, business of European companies differs from the American model and optimal outsourcing schemes should vary in these regions as well. So far Indian IT service providers have employed the American model in Europe. In particular, they keep launching client support offices in their target markets in order to solidify their market position locally.

Source: CNews

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Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference Gains Momentum

The 5th Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia (CEE-SECR 2009), the key software event in CEE region, was held in Moscow at the end of October. What initially was positioned as a Russia focused event back in 2005, gradually evolved into a large-scale regional software developers’ conference attended by over 500 software experts from 15+ countries.

The conference is an excellent meeting point for software professionals from Central and Eastern Europe and Russia providing them with an opportunity to share valuable experience and best practices, discuss challenges and innovations, to communicate with colleagues, find partners and clients.

This year the agenda, to say the least, was full. Keynote speakers from Google, IBM, Microsoft, Tibco and other companies covered such hot topics as the synergistic effect of Agile-CMMI combination, Enterprise Security Assessment Sharing system, best practices in software architecture, including Total Architecture approach, new content-based communication services, and testing software. Russia and Eastern Europe at large are nowadays listed among the most favorable and fastest growing software outsourcing spots gaining increasing attention of Western clients.

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ICT Sector as a Tool for Overcoming Crisis

Recently RUSSOFT Association and Brazilian Association of Information and Communication Technology Companies (BRASSCOM) held a video conference "BRIC IT-Initiative". IT community members from New-York, Hong-Kong and Saint Petersburg discussed the importance of joint efforts of BRIC countries aimed at the development of ICT sector as a tool for overcoming crisis and its consequences, as well as for building the New Economy based on knowledge and innovations.

In the course of the conference the text of the appeal to the governments of BRIC countries to develop the IT sector and to support international cooperation between these countries in the ICT field was approved. This appeal was also approved by the China Council for International Investment Promotion (CCIIP).

One of the speakers of the conference, Valentin Makarov, President of RUSSOFT, said: "The opportunity created by IT has to be seen by the national authorities and decision makers as a priority and tools for both - recovery from the crisis and creation of New Economy based on Knowledge and Innovations. This is especially true for the BRIC countries, once the emerging economies need a broad support from the Government in order to intensify the implementation of IT into their respective countries and to expand their competitiveness in the global market".

Another speaker, Wolfgang Petersen, EMEA SSG Director of Intel, noted: "….the other thing that is definitely worth for investing resources is software development. We see a strong raising opportunity in the software development area for BRIC countries which are the source forge for the world."

Source: RUSSOFT

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