why Romania?
Outsourcing to Romania is one of the best solutions for foreign companies for many reasons:
- Romanian programmers are high-tech, creative and reliable professionals
- The quality of programming is one of the best in the world
- The IT Romanian school is well known in US, Canada, Australia, Germany, France and other EU countries
- The prices are much lower in Romania comparing to any western country
- Romanian graduates are multi-lingual
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Romanian IT – real facts
Romania ranks 6th PLACE IN THE WORLD and 2nd PLACE IN EUROPE in terms of professional competence and intelectual training. According to a global IT IQ report made by Brainbench, Romanians already dominate Europe with more than 16,000 certified specialists.
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Microsoft works with Romania
More than 300 Romanian people and a whole community of software developers work for Bill Gates in Redmond. The most eloquent acknowledgement of Romanian specialists` quality and creative potential is Microsoft`s decision of buying GeCad`s RAV antivirus technology which was integrated in 2004 in Microsoft Security Solutions.
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Oracle aims to help push Romania into becoming the Silicon Valley of Central and Eastern Europe " according to Giacoletto
Executive Vicepresident for Europe, Middle East and Africa. The firm has opened 3 Oracle Services and Technology Centers in Bucharest Financial Plaza to supply services to clients all over Europe to prop up this target.“ Romania has a good tradition in mathematics, a large population and a Government motivated together to make a mini-Silicon Valley for Romania” said Giacoletto to BBW.
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New outsourcing rival - Romania
Offshore Romania 2003, a report by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), confirms that ROMANIA IS NOW THE IDEAL OUTSOURCING ALTERNATIVE TO INDIA, with costs almost 50 per cent less. It claims that not only is the cost of using and providing IT services in Romania much cheaper than in India, but the country is also home to an abundance of well-educated and highly skilled workers who have a better understanding of Western European culture than their Asian counterparts.
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Most Innovative Product
In 2002, another Romanian antivirus solution was awarded the “Most Innovative Product” Prize by the most important European competition for IT excellence and innovation, the European Information Society Technologies Awards. This was the first East-European Winner at The European IST Awards.
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High level of education
Romanian students WERE GRANTED 1ST PLACE IN THE WORLD for Oracle's educational programs. The awards were granted on February 17th 2004, celebrating the opening of Oracle Services and Technology Centers in Romania. In 2003, the Romanian Olympic team of informatics has won the 1st place among the 71 participating countries at the International Olympiad of Informatics in Wisconsin (USA), together with the American and South Korean teams. The Romanian students have won two gold and two silver medals. This was the first time when Romania has been awarded the 1st winner among all nations, although every year it has gained one of the first 5 positions.
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Romanians - Best linguists in Europe
Romanian graduates are multi-lingual (first place in the Certificate of Proficiency in English exam at Cambridge University) and world class in competence (ranking 4th and 11th at 1999 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ). According to a study made by this organization 60% of the Romanians speak a foreign language, usually English. Some 25% of them speak 2 foreign languages (usually English and French), while 4% of them speak more than 2 foreign languages.
