Why Romania and local context (Sibiu)
Software Outsourcing in Eastern Europe
IT companies from the European Union have been focusing lately in partnerships with software development companies from Eastern Europe, looking for the ideal balance between quality results and project budget. In this context, Romanian companies are the ideal providers of nearshore / offshore software outsourcing, representing software development as well as maintenance and support.
Why IT outsourcing Romania?
According to international outsourcing and nearshore / offshore experts, Romania is in the top providers of software and software related services. This is due to dynamic small and medium enterprises specialized in software development and highly qualified human resources.
"Better than India"
Offshore Romania 2003, a report by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) presents Romania as the ideal outsourcing alternative to India, due to the lower costs and to the rich supply of IT specialists with excellent technical and linguistic skills.
"Outsourcing Romania" is a paradigm that presents an ever increasing appeal for software houses and customers from Western Europe and North America
Advantages of Outsourcing in Romania
As a nearshore software development destination, Romania is particularly attractive for European small and medium enterprises (from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and so on) who wish to outsource custom software development. Companies choose Romania as nearshoring / offshoring destination because:
- up to 75% cost cuts compared with similar resources from Western countries
- Romania has become EU member on January 1st 2007, making it easier and safer to work with Romanian software companies
- Romania has a reservoir of creative and rigorous specialists, with solid language skills and experience in international team and custom software development projects
- Romania has a European culture and civilization
- nearshore development in Romania means just one hour time difference from Central Europe and two hours time difference from GMT
- Romania is a few hours flight from Europe.
- Romania is the ideal destination for nearshore / offshore software development.
Romania is the ideal destination for nearshore / offshore software development.
IT Local context – Sibiu (Hermannstadt)
As to the IT activity, Sibiu has a significant IT movement, mainly because of the two universities, internationally acknowledged
"Lucian Blaga" University reunites 20 faculties and more than 43.000 students. Inside the university we find IT institutions: Faculty of Computer Science, and Faculty of Informatics.
