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Ukraine & Belarus - Facts

Both countries boast a 98% literacy rate with 87% of high school graduates going on to higher education. Of those, 35% choose information technology related disciplines.

 

Ukraine & Belarus not yet has experienced a high demand for the use of their software engineers, as countries like India and China have. This results in higher availability of technical resources in close proximity to major European capitals.

 

At this time there are few large software development shops in Ukraine & Belarus. The majority of companies have between 20 and 50 persons, with only a few firms having 250+ persons and several others that are five persons or less. Given the depth of IT resources available in the market, smaller firms can ramp up quickly by tapping the available pool of talent.

 

According to the employment agency ANCOR, the biggest demand for IT professionals in Ukraine & Belarus is for experienced programmers in Web development, Database specialists and Unix-administrators. Specific experience is being requested in: ERP, CRM, WebLogic, WebSphere, Microsoft .Net Framework, Open Source, PHP/MySQL, etc.

 

India - Facts

The Indian government is aggressively helping to develop the offshore development sector, which now accounts for more than 10% of the value of all Indian exports.

 

The Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) is one of the strongest industry groups in the World. India has an excellent university support system that works closely with leading hardware and software manufactures. During the year, the number of quality certified software companies from India increased to over 170; Fifteen Indian companies now have the unique distinction of a SEI-CMM Level 5 certification. (Only 23 companies worldwide have achieved level 5 Certification). 6 Several areas are customers for offshore services namely the US, Western Europe and Japan, with the US being the largest market. With regard to the US market, India enjoys first-to-market advantage and owns anywhere from 80 percent to 95 percent of the U.S. offshore market. It also has the advantage of possessing a large, English-speaking population and government very interested in developing and maintaining their status as an IT powerhouse.

 

Benefits
  • Availability of resources
  • Databases of thousands of programming, design, and translation professionals
  • Labor Costs
  • Technical excellence
  • R & D focus
  • Strong fundamental education
  • Experience with complicated projects
  • European culture
  • Proven cost benefits
  • Location
  • Business travel
  • Availability of local professional organizations
  • Reduced taxes
  • Reduced management expenses
  • Facility cost savings are passing through
  • Reduces required on-site equipment-frees up existing resources for local use
  • Eliminates related equipment costs
  • Reduces burden of local personnel, facilities, equipment support staff international culture
  • Multilingual and native speaker stuff
  • Ability to add required equipment, software and associated personnel

 

Addressing Risk by Mitigation
  • Business and management skills
  • Bandwidth costs
  • Industry association development
  • Lack of certification organizations
  • Brain drain
  • Cultural differences
  • Reduces efficiency
  • Increased monitoring
 REMEDY

With us foreign country legal and regulatory issues do not exist for a customer due to the fact they are making a deal with USA company. Piracy issues remain a fairly serious Problem. Piracy is slowly on the decline after the US and EU imposed sanctions upon Ukraine last year for this.

It is common place for Belarus, India and Ukraine to utilize pirated software. Now our partners only use licensed software and will keep it that way!