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Romania is known as a country based on a scientific education. In Romania one can find much more Engineers than in other outsourcing destinations. Romanian population is also known as possessing great linguistic abilities. The majority speaks English and German. From the perspective of technology and geography Romania is considered by the high tech corporations to be the perfect place to outsource software development.
Stephanie Overby, CIO.com analyst – Romania Outsourcing Scorecard
Romania is an attractive destination for Europe because of proximity and well-developed English and Western European language skills. Romanian IT professionals consistently place in top rank at global programming competitions. Romania has the most IT professionals per capita in Europe, according to Brainbench. Outsourcing services in Romania can provide highly trained software developer teams.
Eachan Fletcher, director of Betfair development in Romania - BusinessWeek, June 29, 2007
- “Romania has high-quality skills available, it has relatively untapped potential as an offshore location and it is a recent EU member.”
- "The quality of the people is really high. They have a fantastic university [in Cluj City - Babes Bolyai] and they have a really great engineering programme. They are of the calibre of the guys in London."
- Some of the skills Betfair is tapping into in Romania include Microsoft .Net and SQL, Java and specialist areas such as mobile driver development.
- Betfair said it will continue to expand the Romanian facility in blocks of 50 people in line with product roadmap demand.
Outsourcing Romania - “Better than India”
Offshore Romania 2003, a report by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) presents Romania as the ideal outsourcing idea, an 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.
Outsourcing Romania - Impressive Linguistic Skills
The Eastern European Translators Association classed Romanians as the best speakers of foreign languages in Europe (60% of the Romanian people speak a foreign language, 25% of them speak 2 foreign languages and 4% of the Romanian people speak more than 2 foreign languages, according to a study by this organization).
Outsourcing Romania - Excellent Overall Value
Romania's IT experts not only earn accolades worldwide for their professional and linguistic competences but Romanian's IT experts also command pay rates comparable to those in China and India. Furthermore, Romania’s convenient location would considerably shorten business trips from the European space. Finally, cultural gaps that might hinder your communication with Chinese or Indian partners are virtually non-existent when dealing with Romanians.
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