Monthly Archives: February 2005

Nextate, a Romanian outsourcing provider has announced he opening of a new subsidiary, Nextate (UK), in central London. Continue reading →

Thanks to the wonderful support of the people from Frost &Sullivan, i was able to find out and publish unique information on concrete numbers of the IT outsourcing industry to Romania. Continue reading →

Frost & Sullivan has published a report on Global Offshore Outsourcing and Offshoring of IT Labor Markets. It has a very interesting list of figures for us, such as Number of IT Jobs Acquired by Subsidiaries and Outsourcers Based in Romania, Value of IT Jobs Exported to Romania, but these are not freely available (the report costs 4,495 USD). Continue reading →

The Economist Intelligence Unit has just published the report “CEO Briefing – Corporate Priorities for 2005â€?. One of the key findings is that competition intensifies for global offshoring in 2005. On respect to offshoring to Romania, we are placed on the 14th position with 7.08 while Czech Rep. is 3rd (the highest among Eastern European countries) with 7.26 and India first with 7.76, all close figures. Since i felt that 14th place is not very good, i decided to have a deeper look into the document and find out the reason for this rather poor ranking. Continue reading →

The Capital magazine had this week a very nice story describing how an American IT entrepreneur came in 2000 to Bucharest and with an initial investment of 500 000 USD has opened a business which last year had a turnover of 1mil USD. Continue reading →