Outsourcing to Poland
What makes a successful company?
Last month Future Processing was ranked in 12th place in the Polish index and 22nd in the overall Central Europe Deloitte Technology Fast 50. We are also the highest ranking Polish software company in the index. For me this is a real watershed moment both in my personal career and also the history of Future Processing. While I have for several years felt that Future Processing is a highly successful business, these awards give some independent credence to that.
Poland beats other EU countries to top spot in FDI rankings
Pats on the back all round, here in the Polish outsourcing industry. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Poland has become the most attractive foreign direct investment country in the EU. The Conference’s annual FDI survey, published in World Investment Report at the end of July this year, shows that Poland has moved up to sixth place in the world in terms of the most attractive FDI host countries as perceived by multinational corporations. The Czech Republic is the only other EU member state from Central and Eastern Europe in the top 20, in 17th place.
Software Outsourcing to Poland
Key facts about the country Population: 39 million Language: Polish, but English is spoken by most business people Capital: Warsaw Key development centres: Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Gliwice and Wroclaw According to IDC, Poland is not just an alternative offshore location, as its value-proposition is not only driven by scale and low-cost, but by “highly-motivated and educated staff, at prices comparable to other offshore destinations”. Poland has been a member of the European Union for several years now and is very well integrated into Western Europe. Many Polish software developers have worked in other European countries for some time before returning home. Consequently Polish software development outsourcers offer a similar working culture and practices to…
Offshore Development
European Innovation
Deborah Nazareth (UK PR Manager) with input from other Future Processing employees. On Thursday last week I attended the Deloitte Technology EMEA Fast 500 Awards and Dinner in London and was delighted to see Future Processing come in at number 249 in the rankings. It was a great evening with good food and drink, interesting speakers and the chance to meet people from other technology companies. During the evening, one of the speakers remarking on the rich seam of innovation in the EMEA technology industry as demonstrated by the 500 finalists, almost seemed surprised by this. I was a bit taken aback by their tone of voice. True the top – read largest – technology…
Future Processing employee wins global algorithmic competition
Jakub Nalepa, a Polish software engineer at Future Processing, achieved the best result in the prestigious international competition for algorithmicists organised by the renowned Norwegian SINTEF project in 2011. Nalepa improved the previous record for a single instance of benchmarking problems by 30% – a considerable margin in this discipline.
A new supplier management model?
I recently read an article on the US website CIO about IT outsourcers offering themselves as service integrators – essentially having one supplier co-ordinating or managing all the others on behalf of the customer. It seems that large IT services companies, like Cap, Accenture and Infosys are trying to get a piece of this action. Interestingly we too were asked by one of our current customers to help with the management of another supplier based in Ukraine. The cultural and geographical proximity of Poland and Ukraine, coupled with the limited level of English language skills at their other supplier, made this an attractive position to our customer. I, on the other hand, have my doubts…
Is outsourcing a first step in reducing IT costs?
At the end of September analyst firm Gartner published a paper outlining 10 steps to reduce IT costs by 25%. All the steps in the guide are good ways to cut costs, particularly at a time when IT budgets are under pressure again. But what jumped out at me, was how little importance was given to outsourcing in the list of steps. Multi-sourcing was mentioned as number 10:
