A Guide to IT Nearshoring

Dear Reader,

India is well known for its great IT-experts and has

been the leader already for a very long time in offering

opportunities in IT-offshoring. This business model

workedverywellforallinvolved.However,othercountries

are catching up, and some of

them provide a similar or even

more favorable environment.

Russian speaking countries

offer excellent conditions

for IT-projects. This generally

concernsnotonlyprogrammers,

but also other experts, such

as project managers in IT,

who are widely regarded

to be highly qualified and

good team players. We are

also hearing more opinions

expressing high satisfaction with the communication

capabilities of IT-teams in Russian speaking countries.

Indeed, language skills, intercultural experience and

understanding of Western needs are well developed

in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. In fact, of the Russian

speaking counties, these three in particular have the

most developed IT-landscape. ForWestern Europeans,

these countries are easily accessible and thus for them

we can truly speak about IT-nearshoring rather than

IT-offshoring.

This issue of RUSSIA BRIEFING shows how you can

benefit from these advantages. It is not only Russia that

is trying hard to attract more investors for localization

and production set up in order to create new jobs,

Belarus and Ukraine are doing the same. All three

countries are taking different approaches and, so

far, have had limited success.

However, the IT-industry can be

a real job creationmachine and

all involved can benefit.

T h e p r o f e s s i o n a l s o f

SCHNEIDER GROUP in Moscow,

St. Petersburg, Minsk and

Kyiv can assist you in taking

advantageoftheseopportunities.

They will show you how to

set up such IT-nearshoring

structures, will find the right

people for you, and will make

sure you benefit from advantages like tax incentive

and other support programs.

I wish your business and IT-projects all the best and

hope you find this current issue of RUSSIA BRIEFING

very useful for your plans.

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advice when actively looking to implement suggestions made within this publication.

Kind regards,

Ulf Schnelder

Managing Partner

SCHNEIDER GROUP

Ulf Schneider

Managing Partner

SCHNEIDER GROUP

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