Why Would We Outsource Software Projects to Cluj?

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj - A Top Educational Establishment

 

You may very well decide to choose Cluj as your preferred destination for software outsourcing for the same reasons Nokia moved its mobile phone factory from Germany to Cluj-Napoca, which are:

• The high concentration of very good technical universities and colleges in Cluj, which is a major academic center
• Cluj having the highest number of students per 1000 inhabitants in Romania
• The excellent opinions on the technical and linguistic skills as well as the professional attitude of the IT experts in the Cluj area expressed by prestigious foreign companies that have use their services
• The economic boom the city has experienced lately and which is expected to accelerate
• The rapid population growth, which is expected to reach 1 million in a few years. Cluj will be the first metropolitan area besides Bucharest to enjoy this status
• A rapidly improving infrastructure. Massive investments are being made in transportation and the IT infrastructure, with excellent results. The international airport is being expanded, a major highway is under development, while IT service providers are constanly improving their offers
• The excellent location of the Cluj International airport: 20 minutes by car from the city center
• The convenient air travel to/from many European destinations. There are direct flights from Cluj to a constantly expanding list of European cities that includes London, Barcelona, Valencia, Budapest, Viena, Frankfurt, Dortmund, Munchen, Stuttgart, Bologna, Ancona, Bergamo, Milan, Florence, Rome, Treviso, Verona.

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Even Indians regard Cluj as an excellent Europe based destination for outsourcing, as it results from the following news:

 

Indians looking for 300 people for outsourcing in Cluj

Source: Ziarul Financiar | Data: 29 Iul 2008

Indian financial research and analysis company Evalueserve, which provides one of the newest types of outsourcing- Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), a process that involves financial analyses or complex market surveys, has chosen Cluj as its base of European operations, where it will hire 300 people by 2012. Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) is defined as the intellectual cousin of the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) and has become popular in the last four or five years due to the fact that major international investment banks or multinationals in other sectors need to reduce their market analysis and research costs. In recent years, Romania has become a target for companies that specialise in BPO or that conduct BPO like Genpact, HP and Wipro.