Ukraine - An Emerging IT Outsourcing Destination

Steady tendency towards business globalization, including software-intensive high technology software development, has been established over the past few years.
By: Ivanna Zhyljuk
 
March 6, 2012 - PRLog -- Currently, offshore IT outsourcing has become an area of emerging interest. It is a modern business phenomenon obtaining significant attention, especially from a wide range of European and North American companies. It is often chosen by enterprises in order to concentrate on core business competencies.

Affordable Top Notch IT stuff. Outsourcing software development is a renowned IT trend with still undiscovered potential. Companies are striving to gain an access to world-class software engineers at affordable cost. Actually, labor cost savings may reach up to 70% for routine low-level tasks in comparison with on-shore software development in the USA and Western Europe. Enterprises are able to deal with their growing manpower resource shortages and cut on operational and administrative costs significantly. Moreover, present business pressures force company executives to search for top-notch staff with in-depth experience and creative approach.

Higher Software Quality. More and more often managers choose to outsource projects to offshore vendors. Offshore software development (http://www.abtosoftware.com/services/offshore-software-de... a great way to access a large pool of talented engineers. Currently, developers utilize cutting-edge software development tools and programming languages. Java application development outsourcing is a wide-spread phenomenon, as Java is one of the most popular programming languages. Nowadays you can outsource almost everything. Appropriately chosen development tools can guarantee your project’s success. For example, .NET software development is usually utilized for building a set of web based and desktop applications.


Why Outsource Software Development to Ukraine?

Ukraine is the second largest European country in terms of territory. It is located in the geographical center of Europe and has a population of around 47 million people.

Ukraine has emerged on the international IT software development market relatively not long ago. But it has already won a reputation of innovative technology skills and ideas provider.

Take a look at some of the key benefits of software outsourcing to Ukraine:

Strong educational and technical background. Ukraine has an edge over many competitors due to high level of education including technical and IT-related specialities. The literacy rate makes almost 98% in Ukraine, in comparison to only 52% in India, one of the offshore outsourcing market leaders. Ukrainian developers often possess an applied mathematics and physics background, which is traditionally considered to be beneficial to the growth of the computing industry. Moreover, Ukrainian higher education system foresees foreign language courses for students studying computer disciplines. Consequently, software developers obtain adequate language skills.

R&D and Innovation-driven software development. Ukrainian IT companies have strong advantage in R&D software development due to education specifics and long research and development tradition. This embraces in-depth scientific knowledge allowing developers to conduct specific researches for a wide range of industries. Ukrainian software developers possess creative non-standard approach towards solving science-intense sophisticated tasks.

Cultural & business principles proximity. Many European and US-based companies have already established or are planning to make business contacts with Ukrainian software outsourcing service providers. Historically Western Ukraine has tight links with Europe and similar culture and business values. This simplifies communication and mutual understanding with potential partners. Moreover, a number of Western companies have established their presence in Ukraine. Among them are such renowned companies as Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Ericsson, Siemens, Kraft Foods, Cisco Systems, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, GE and Mittal Steel.

Excellent creative stuff at a reasonable cost. Affordability of the labour force has become a prime motivation for many businesses to consider outsourcing their projects offshore. The Ukrainian labour cost is significantly lower than those in Northern America and Western Europe.
This actually leads Ukrainian offshore market to fast and sustained growth.

Industry analysts predict permanent growth of demand for software outsourcing development due to ever-growing opportunities in international IT services and software development work. Companies utilize software application outsourcing to maintain their position in highly- competitive business environment. Ukraine with its excellent human resources and reasonably low labour costs can become one of the leading outsourcing destinations to watch for.

Ivanna Zhyljuk, Marketing Specialist at software development company (http://www.abtosoftware.com), Master of Political Sciences, specializing in analyzing and examining company's marketing and promotional potential.
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