An Overview of Ukrainian IT Market

Ukraine is:

About 70% of adult population have secondary or higher education;

Nearly 60% of Ukrainian universities have graduates with majors in physics, mathematics and programming;

With only 1% of all world’s population, Ukraine has 6% of the world’s physicists, mathematicians, computer programmers, and other highly educated professionals;

More than 16,000 IT specialists with bachelor degree and about 14,000 IT specialists with master degree graduate from universities each year;

Ukraine is among the TOP 10 countries with the most certified IT professionals;

Ukraine Internet penetration is growing fast – it is now estimated that 33.9% of Ukraine’s population, or 15.3 million people are on the Internet according to the International Telecommunications Union (a U.N. agency) as of March 2011; this places Ukraine as the 9th largest user of the Internet in Europe.

Achievements

According to the 2012 Bench Games Leader Board, Ukraine ranks 3d globally (out of 50 countries) in the “Most Certified Citizens” category, following the United States and India.

In the “Most Master-Level Certified Nation” category Ukraine ranks 2d globally, following the United States. However, it has outrun the USA by the number of IT certifications.

Ukraine has gained 91 Master-Level IT Certificates out of 96 granted.

Ukrainian Internal IT Market

Accordingly to IDC report the internal Ukraine’s IT market grown on 10% in the year of 2011 and its volume reached $3,3b.

The market for IT services (value added resellers, integrator businesses) has grown on 5% and reached $200m.

Attention of the world’s biggest companies

UniCredit-owned Ukrainian Ukrsotsbank has signed a 10-year, $200 million IT systems and processes outsourcing contract with IBM.

Government support :

Prime Minister of Ukraine N. Azarov has signed a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers aimed at improving the quality of IT professionals and bringing education to the needs of industry and labor market.

In 2011, Parliament adopted at first reading a bill on an experiment in information technology, which is co-authored by Viktor Yanukovych Jr. According to this bill, domestic IT companies will be granted a "tax holiday" for 5 years.

Tendencies of Ukrainian IT Market

The Main Problems of Ukrainian IT Market are:

Piracy

Political instability

Ukraine on Global IT market

IT sector is definitely very important for the country. Ukraine has all the factors to succeed here. And it does succeed.   outsourcing

Achievements

World class standarts

Sartups and established businesses

Outsourcing

Some fact about the outsourcing segment of Ukraine’s IT market:

outsourcing accounts for roughly 70% of the Ukrainian IT market, that makes near two billion dollars;

since 2007 Ukraine is included in Gartner’s TOP 30 outsourcing locations list;

since 2007 Kiev is listed in Tholon’s TOP 100 Emerging Outsourcing Destination Cities List;

Ukraine is the #1 in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in regards to:IT outsourcing market value (~$2b)Number of IT outsourcing companies (~850)Number of employees involved in IT outsourcing industry (~14K)

Western standards in work and education

KM Soft, the software division of Kvazar-Micro Corp., has been successfully appraised at CMMI(R) Maturity Level 4.

Infopulse employee became the first professional in Ukraine to pass the Business Continuity Management (BCM) test and obtain the international certificate of the Certified Business Continuity Implementer with merit.

There are more than 10 MBA schools in Kiev

Our Business

StarWind Software provides storage virtualization solutions for the virtual environments. According to Gartner by 2012 50% of all businesses already virtualized their infrastructures and in the next 5 years this ratio will be close to 100%. From year 2010 to year 2015 the total base of virtual machines will grow 5 times! More than $20b to be spent on virtualization projects during this time.

Our software turns any windows driven industry standard server into highly available fault tolerant shared storage for hypervisors. StarWind Software is focused on providing affordable, high availability, technology which was previously only available in high-end storage products.

With only one round of VC investment to date our company successfully compete with known storage market leaders like EMC, EqualLogic, DataCore.

Conclusion

Ukraine is definitely IT country.

Ukraine has proven track of achievements in this area and it has great potential for more achievements.

IT sector is the one where Ukraine poses itself as a competitive country and even world leader in some segments of this market.

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