Romania is the second largest country in the Central-Eastern Europe, with a population of 23 million. Its western-oriented culture and the high educational degree of its youth bring Romania forward as a huge potential market (the second largest software producer in Eastern Europe). In terms of IT outsourcing services Romania is ranked in the third place worldwide successfully challenging India. (read PAC-Silicon report)
1. Technical skills and education The educational system is very effective being realized at a high level of training, both technical and general. Almost all the programmers have a University Degree. English is well spoken by most of the people along with other foreign languages. We are proud to have international programming contests winners and many Romanian programmers working for well known companies in USA or Canada.
2. Cultural proximity European heritage and way of life makes our country an ideal target for Western companies in expansion or looking for growing markets. Lots of these companies had already opened branches of their business in Romania and their number is increasing every year
3. Software business expansion and government support The software advantages determined the Romanian Government to provide a full scale support for this business. There are a lot of facilities provided for the software companies, also, Romanian programmers have the smallest taxes among all categories.
4. Geographical proximity As an European country, we are able to communicate easier with our business partners, overcome time zone differences and turn business trips handier.
5. Low prices, high quality Last but not least, compared to similar outsourcing orientated countries like India or Russia, Romania can offer competitive project solutions of higher quality at lower costs.
