1. General description of Google TV set
2. Main features
3. Pre-installed applications and Android Market
4. Software Development for Google TV
5. Bla-Bla session

The European IT Outsourcing (ITO) market has been dynamic and quite consolidated in 2011. Within the European Union it has been ruled largely by an increased demand for external resources and innovation as well as strive for cost-saving, multi-vendor management and focus on lower-cost yet skills-abundant nearshore locations. During 2011 the myth that outsourcing is for large and mature companies only has finally been busted as more high-tech startups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) started their ITO journeys. Compared to 2010, a 10 to 15 percent increase in the number of outsourcing SMEs has been observed across Europe[1]. 

The year 2011 has seen both an extensive use of ITO services in traditional niches such as IT and Telecom, and a rapid penetration of ITO into the innovative lucrative niches such as digital media, mobile computing, online gaming and others.

While it is yet too early to make any forecasts for the 2012 European ITO market volume, increase or decrease in outsourcing activity and the overall IT spending, it is still possible to identify some of the trends that will most likely be ruling the market throughout this year.

1. Lack of domestic resources will boost sourcing decisions

Recent European ITO research conducted by IT Sourcing Europe reports lack of domestic resources and slow time to market (TTM) as some of the key factors that are likely to influence corporate sourcing decisions in 2012. The latest Report on the European STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills conducted by BusinessEurope generally supports IT Sourcing Europe’s findings. For instance, Germany was lacking around 88,000 employees with ICT skills in 2011 and 77% of the Austrian companies reported difficulties in recruiting talent in the technology field in 2010[2]. On the pan-European scale, the estimated shortage of qualified ICT staff is expected to reach almost 400,000 jobs by 2015[3].

Figure 1. Demand for / supply of e-skills within the EU: 2010 vs 2015

2. Nearshoring will continue attracting Western European companies

IT Sourcing Europe’s latest surveys of the European non-outsourcers demonstrate that in most of the EU countries companies would transfer their IT support / development rather nearshore than offshore if they make such a decision in the near future[4].

Figure 2. Where non-outsourcing companies will transfer their IT / development if they make such a decision in the next 12 to 24 months

3. ITO service providers will be challenged to offer their clients innovative business models

Cumulative 56% of today’s in-house development companies polled admitted that innovative engagement models were very important or somewhat important determinants in their future choice of the ITO partners[5].

By offering innovative service delivery models, ITO providers will be able to fix some of the most critical issues that faced the European ITO buyers in 2011, such as insufficient communication, hidden agenda and delayed delivery[6].

As more innovative models such as Own Agile Development Team show up, the entire outsourcing concept will most likely change: ITO buyers will be able to in-source innovation and technology expertise while outsourcing processes. This will allow them to enhance and update in-house knowledge and capabilities and nurture own pool of highly motivated and loyal cross-border IT staff. In addition, ITO buyers will finally get rid of the concerns related to the loss of managerial control of own IT projects (which is the case in many traditional project-based ITO models).

4. The buzz around cloud will most likely die out

According to CIO.com’s predictions, IT leaders will be looking more critically at the risks and value of cloud-sourcing in 2012[7]. It is expected that more rigid firm policies on cloud regulation will be developed, and companies willing to cloud-source their solutions will scrutinize the privacy laws in the countries to house the data. This will undoubtedly force Central and Eastern European nearshoring hubs to considerably revise and modify their existing data safety laws, but it will not happen in the foreseeable future as if by magic. That been said, no major progress towards cloud-sourcing will be seen throughout 2012.

5. Progressive ITO providers will take over infrastructure outsourcing

Central and Eastern European ITO providers focused on winning the market share rather than “skimming the cream” off short-term Service Level Agreements will slowly but surely be building the strong infrastructure capabilities in order to move beyond application development and maintenance work. As a result, 2012 will see more EU companies setting up their IT departments nearshore with ITO providers able to offer the EU-level IT infrastructure and a mutually beneficial networking with other clients. That being said, ITO providers acting as separate High-Tech parks and/or customer-specific Innovation Labs will have a better chance to win clients in 2012 than their “old school” competitors.

6. Increased Backsourcing activity will be observed

More than 10% (cumulative) of the EU IT outsourcers polled reported backsourcing their operations back in-house or to a different ITO provider onshore and/or nearshore as a response to their outsourcing issues in 2011[8]. In 2012 more companies are expected to pull the trigger on this in search of more transparent pricing options, better access to resources and engagement models’ maturity. This generally suggests that the European ITO service providers should be on the watch for backsourcing companies as they can be a good addition to their client portfolio.

[1] “European IT Outsourcing Intelligence Reports,” 2010-2011, IT Sourcing Europe

Ciklum is a Danish IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine.

Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1650 IT-specialists worldwide with more than 170+ current clients own development teams. Ciklum has pioneered a unique business model in Ukraine where employees have direct communication with the client and are equal to clients` home-based colleagues Developers directly communicate with European colleagues, affecting the product and business customers.

Ciklum has development offices in six cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Vinnytsia), Belarus (Minsk) and Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad), as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.

We believe that professional and personal growth is essential, so we create an atmosphere in which a man easily achieves his potential. We support any initiative, aimed at sharing knowledge and development. We have more than 10 self-driven Practice Leaders Groups (. NET, QA, Management & Communication, Mobile Technologies, etc.). Therefore, every employee can easily find colleagues with similar interests.

Currently we are looking for iOS developer for Playtech Mobile team.

About team:

The team now consists of iOS and Android developers, Web application developers (GWT), QA and graphic designers. And an additional force is needed. All the team members take active part in the solution design and implementation. The project is tightly integrated with development teams which are spread in three locations: Ukraine, Estonia and Israel. Our team is responsible for developing casino applications for Mobile Devices. You have a chance to become a part of our friendly professional team. Our team will provide support and knowledge sharing to make your integration into our team as smooth as possible.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze clients’ requirements and produce technical proposals, solution specifications and design documents

• Make architectural and design decisions

• Alpha testing and code review

• Coordination with other team members

Required qualification:

• Experience in Mac environment is a must (2-3 years)
• Strong Hands On experience with XCode IDE, Objective-C, Interface builder, iPhone/iPad Simulator, iOS SDK – at least 1,5 years

Ciklum offers you:

·  Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;

·  A lot of various technical seminars;

·  Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;

·  Competitive salary;

·  Career and professional growth;

·  Possibility to work in a big and successful company;

·  Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;

·  State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.

Join Ciklum and «Cross the Borders» together with us!

If you are interested – please send your CV on cv@ciklum.net

Are you up for the challenge to intensify e-conomic's quality assurance (QA) testing efforts? :)

We are looking for an experienced QA Tester to join our R&D team. You will be a champion for the quality assurance of our software testing.
You will become an integral part of the development team who work according to the SCRUM/Agile methodology, ensuring optimal team efficiency.

Responsibilities
• Ensure efficiency of the testing efforts for the project(s) you will be working on
• Design and execute test cases, ensuring a high level of functionality coverage with extra attention to high-risk features
• Cooperate with developers on unit testing as well as SpecFlow GUI testing
• Assist in the planning of the automation of test cases
• Help improve the test environment and ensure that it is always available
• Participate in the ongoing optimization of QA test processes in cooperation with the rest of the development department

Requirements
• Several years (5+) of experience with QA/testing, mastering software testing techniques
• Experience with QA in SCRUM/Agile environments
• Experience with testing web applications - GUI tests as well as technical tests
• Expertise in Cross-Browser Testing
• Good analytical skills and a systematic and methodical approach to your tasks
• Knowledge of test automation, preferably with Selenium or WebDriver
• A self-driven personality, good interpersonal skills and an urge to share your knowledge
• A good business sense
• Excellent written and verbal language skills

About e-conomic
e-conomic was founded in 2001 and currently employs a staff of 90, including a development team of some 30 people operating out of Copenhagen, Denmark and Ukraine.
e-conomic offers an innovative, online accounting software to provide our customers with a flexible, user-friendly solution. The system is available in 9 different languages with a total of more than 40,000 customers – worldwide.
Recently rewarded with 1st prize for best B2B company at the E-Commerce Awards as well as with the prestigious Gazelle award for growth companies in Denmark.

Ciklum offers you:
• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;
• A lot of various technical seminars;
• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;
• Competitive salary;
• Career and professional growth;
• Possibility to work in a big and successful company;
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.

If you are interested, please send your CV on cv@ciklum.net.

Ciklum is a Danish IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine.

Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1650 IT-specialists worldwide with more than 170+ current clients own development teams. Ciklum has pioneered a unique business model in Ukraine where employees have direct communication with the client and are equal to clients` home-based colleagues Developers directly communicate with European colleagues, affecting the product and business customers.

Ciklum has development offices in six cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Vinnytsia), Belarus (Minsk) and Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad), as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.

We believe that professional and personal growth is essential, so we create an atmosphere in which a man easily achieves his potential. We support any initiative, aimed at sharing knowledge and development. We have more than 10 self-driven Practice Leaders Groups (. NET, QA, Management & Communication, Mobile Technologies, etc.). Therefore, every employee can easily find colleagues with similar interests.

Ciklum is looking for a Tester to offer a great opportunity to upgrade knowledge in a team of professionals within dynamic Agile environment.

EFG is a worldwide private banking group. The e-business division, located in Geneva, is in charge of a portal hosting all the public web sites of the group, as well as the intranet, extranets and e-banking services. EFG is building a new platform for all the e-business solutions and partnered with blue-infinity to deliver a state of the art platform based on Java technologies. Frontend technologies that are used in the project: OSGi, SSO, OpenJPA, LDAP, Spring, Vaadin, JSP, Servlets, AJAX and others. 

As a member of distributed SCRUM team located in Geneva and Kyiv, you will have a chance:

·   Preform manual testing (functional, regression, smoke) for the web based applications

·   Report about testing progress and detected issues

·   Develop new test cases based on the requirements

·   Learn Selenium test automation tool (middle term perspective)

The right persons will need to have such experience:

• Technical higher education

·   1+ year experience of working as Manual Test Engineer for an IT software development company (web applications testing preferably)

·   English spoken and written on the intermediate level or higher

·   Working knowledge of one of the bug tracking system (Jira preferably)

·   At least basic knowledge of one programming language (not mandatory)

Ciklum offers you:

·   Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;

·   A lot of various technical seminars;

·   Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;

·   Competitive salary;

·   Career and professional growth;

·   Possibility to work in a big and successful company;

·   Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;

·   State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.

Join Ciklum and «Cross the Borders» together with us!

If you are interested – please send your CV on cv@ciklum.net