Central and Eastern Europe

Central and eastern Europe share many qualities of the Russian outsourcing market, which isn’t that surprising since all these countries were one big happy family, more or less, not that long ago. While central and eastern Europe might be more culturally aligned to Russia than to the rest of western Europe or North America, it’s certainly closer in culture to the West than the major Asian outsourcing destinations of India and China.

The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia are rapidly gaining ground as nearshore service providers for western Europe. Multinational European giants such as SAP and well-known American players, including IBM, Dell, and Morgan Stanley, are setting up shop there. That’s because ...

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