Александр Орлов, outsource people_2016_minsk
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Belarus IT Outsourcing companies research
+Belarus IT industry overview in general
The Purpose of this research
• Bring some “light” to Belarus IT to the World
• Identify key players
• Classify companies by category
• Find out the average metrics of an outsourcing company in Belarus
Some History of “IT Belarus”
• Former member of USSR (independence since 1991)
• Many enterprizes produced computers for all USSR, therefore – many engineers
• Computer literature for the whole USSR was written here
This is the legacy
Belarus IT nowadays
• Round 1000 IT companies
• ~= 80 R&D centers from World companies, including Sony, HTC, etc
• High Tech Park – special business environment for IT companies with reduced taxes
Belarus IT success stories
• EPAM – 1st and only company from Belarus which went for IPO
• “World of Tanks” after Wargaming – world known and very successful game
• Viber - messenger with 711mln users
• #MSQRD - Acquired by Facebook after 3 months since the app was live
• APALON – 10th place in the World by app downloads
Now about outsourcing
The total number of outsourcing companies in Belarus is: 658
We got answers from 45 companies
This is roughly: 6.9%
Your company is:
Is your company in High Tech Park?
Do you have own products?
Are you planning to launch your own IT product?
AVG number of owners
How companies sell services
Sales office (SO) abroad
Num of SO abroad
Head of Sales Motivation
Project Finance
AVG Project size, USD