"Making a blanket assessment of falling pricing levels is generally inaccurate and misleading," says David Brown, EquaTerra's managing director of financial architecture. "Prices have, in general, declined, but it's very situational to specific service providers and specific buyers."

Once the business demand for IT services starts growing in an economic recovery, it's far too late for the in-house IT department to ramp up to meet that demand. The time to prepare for a recovery is just before the recession starts to bottom out, according to a recent report by Gartner Inc. analysts Ken McGee and Mark Raskino.

It is believed that governmental support is very essential for any country to promote the sector’s growth and develop itself into an attractive outsourcing destination. At present, governments of certain countries carry on a series of incentives to boost their outsourcing industry. In this way they prove to be a great support for software firms by further providing all the basic facilities required for an outsourcing company to flourish thus playing a major role in contributing to the success and well-being of IT outsourcing. Read the information below to learn more about the current state of governmental IT outsourcing support in Belarus:

Belarus

On September 22, 2005 the President of Belarus signed the Decree “On the Hi-Tech Park”. The Decree was aimed at boosting the competitive power of the national new and high technology-based sectors, developing modern technologies and expanding their exports, as well as attracting to the sector both Belarusian and foreign technologies. Click links below to learn more about the current state of governmental IT outsourcing support in Belarus and some other countries Belarus, Ireland, Brazil, China, India, Mauritius, Ghana, Russia, Canada

This fact is certainly of great importance for the company. “The Global Outsourcing 100 helps companies easily identify those partners that will help them emerge as leaders,” said IAOP Chairman Michael Corbett and chair of the judges’ panel. Intetics is glad to announce its inclusion in The 2010 Global Outsourcing 100 list compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). This ranking recognizes the world’s best outsourcing service providers and advisors and is based on the information given by each company on its application in combination with unbiased research and customer references.

In this post you will discover the information worth your attention. At present Intetics is the only company from Eastern Europe that has managed to win the European IT Excellence Awards 2010. Intetics’ partnership with IMPAQ UK has been judged to be a winner of the European IT Excellence Awards 2010 in the Best Solution Provider Category: Data & Information Management. Actually, these are the first pan-European awards which recognize the crucial role that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Solution Providers play in the delivery of real world solutions.

Interested in what is going on in the financial sphere? Then the post below may be worth your attention. On March 18, 2010 Intetics participated in the BITS Vendor Management call and delivered its presentation there. The main aim of BITS, as a division of The Financial Services Roundtable and a not-for-profit industry consortium, is to facilitate cooperation between the financial industry and information technology providers. At present BITS numbers one hundred members who are the representatives of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Intetics in the person of Alex Golod, Intetics VP, Global Delivery, and Georgy Li, Intetics Area Manager took part in the BITS Vendor Management call delivering a 30-minute presentation “Outsourcing to Eastern Europe: Financial Services Industry Perspective”.

In IT outsourcing efficient collaboration between the customer on the one hand and the project manager of the IT vendor company on the other hand is a critical factor for success. Often customers from Western Europe or United States try building collaboration with IT vendors in Eastern Europe without taking into account specifics of the project managers’ mentality and cultural differences. This leads to confusion, miscommunication and missed expectations.