Contribution of Ukraine to the world outsourcing market makes about 500 million dollars. On the whole the world demand for such services makes at present more than 60 billion dollars a year. Such are the expert data, announced by the organizers of the IV Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum, which will be held in Kiev on November 1-2, 2007.

Although China, India, Canada, Russia and Israel are traditionally world leaders in the field of outsourcing, Ukraine is also among the first ten countries-suppliers of outsourcing services. More than 20 thousand Ukrainian specialists are employed in this sphere, the majority of them being eminently qualified personnel.

Outsourcing is transmission of a range of company-customer internal services to an exterior contractor, that includes the services on the basis of use (for example lease) of its (company-customer) software products, applications, hardware and fragments of infrastructure, which allows the company-customer to save expenses and to considerably lower laboriousness and expenditures on exploitation of information systems and applications, to concentrate on its basic business-processes without being distracted to auxiliary ones.

Source: ProIT.com.ua
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