23rd July 2009 – Kiev – The research on Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review is 2008, “a testament to the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in Central and Eastern Europe. The CEE-Cluster is the real player in the global outsourcing market. Customers are increasingly interested in the “near-shoring” of the CEE region than in the offshoring to India or China. Customers are getting more sophisticated in their business. It has been a shift from simple cost savings as a motivation to evaluate the experience of the outsourcing service and efficiency of cooperation between the client and provider teams. The advantages of the CEE countries and cultural compatibility with Europe and North America, technical and business experience are of great value for the customer. One of the main objectives of the research by the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) with the support of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) is performed to the holistic view of the potential of CEE region as a global cluster provide for the provision of Nearshore IT outsourcing for the Western European countries and for offshore IT outsourcing for the North American market. “CEE IT Outsourcing Review is in its second year. The 2007 research report “Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2007″ indicated that it consumes a lot of interest from clients outsourcing services and research company. After positive feedback for the 2007 report, the Commission decided to CEEOA an annual report on ‘IT Outsourcing CEE Review “, which in this report in 2008. “CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2008″ was conducted in January and July 2009. The National IT and outsourcing organizations, the largest outsourcing companies and independent experts were asked to the respondents. The Ukrainian software development company WEB100 NET Technology Center (http://www. Web100. Com. UA), offshore outsourcing services and employs in the development of IT solutions for B2B communications and business solutions for Social Media approaches offer the sponsored research. The research examines the main indicators for the development of the IT outsourcing market in the 16 countries of Central and Eastern European region, including the market value, the number of specialists, the number of IT companies offering outsourcing services and market rates. “CEE IT Outsourcing Review contains detailed country profiles, expert estimates on the development outsourcing market in recession time, their opinion on the new trends and forecasts for the rest of the markets, profiles of the leading outsourcing companies in the region. Victor Maznyuk, President of Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative, a founder CEEOA commented: “Outsourcing industry in the Central and Eastern Europe does not suffer much during the financial crisis. At the beginning of 2009 there were small number of outsourcing companies closures . The outsourcing industry always expected from the outsourcing players to meet the needs of our customers quickly and to control costs. After a great experience in development in the competitive market for outsourcing services provision was told the Eastern European companies to work successfully, as during the recession period of time without drastic measures and substantial economic changes. Overall, the crisis of the effect of the improvement in the industry. The number of IT professionals has slightly increased, their salaries and rent underwent minor drops. This allows companies the cost of services reduce and be confident during the recession period. I can say without doubt that outsourcing industry prepared for the increase of services in value terms to the upcoming economic recovery. “The official version of the research” Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2008 “addressed to the available information portal ITONews. eu (http://www. itonews. eu) and the CEEOA website. About CEEOA Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www. ceeoa. Org) was founded in 2008. The association’s members are leading national IT outsourcing and associations in the Central and Eastern Europe, including Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-Tech Initiative, Hungarian Outsourcing Association and Industrial Services (HOA), Employers Association of Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgaria Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE – Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the main aims is to promote the CEEOA Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and the provision of public services to increase the quality and scope of accepted standards.