Offshore development centers

In their latest report experts of analytic company Gartner express an opinion that nowadays in all corners of the world there appear new centers of offshore software development that may be quite competitive with such a popular player on IT-outsourcing market as India.
For the following time analysts of Gartner determined 30 leading countries that, according to their opinion, provide the best services in offshore software development in order. However it was the first time that the list was expanded to 50 countries. The reason of that is that the governments of many countries understand that software development may turn into a very profitable deal. The annual income of the offshore software development market accounts more than 315 billion dollars. That’s why the fight for potential foreign customer is started on governmental level.
So it’s not a surprise that many countries started to pursue a policy aimed at creating attractive conditions for leading foreign IT-companies and international corporations. To attract investments many countries provide the corporations with tax preferences with the only purpose: to make world IT-brands use local companies and involve them to business-processes or create their own offshore development centers.
In global context experts of Gartner note the significant success in the sphere of offshore development of Latin America that were not considered as serious competitor only five years ago. But today 63% of all orders for IT-services on offshore development belong to the executers from South America and the Caribbean.
It’s also worth noticing that customers from Western Europe prefer to seek the services of developers from India (35%), Poland (21%), Brazil (18%) and Chine (16%). The analysts of Gartner explain it with the fact that the important factor is the cost of the work where developers from Eastern Europe can hardly compete with developers from India and Asia.