Romania Featured at OutsourceWorld New York

With 25 exhibiting organizations,
Romania's presence at OutsourceWorld-New York this October 18-19 is being
coordinated by the Romanian government and ARIES, Ministry of Economy and
Commerce, and the Romanian Trade Promotion Center, and organized by IDM TOUR
Company.
Romanian exhibiting companies include: ARoBS TRANSILVANIA SOFTWARE,
KODIMENT SOLUTIONS, GECAD Cvantage, SAS, pintilie.RO, INFODESIGN,
DesignMySoftware, MULTIMEDIA CAPITAL ROMANIA, IntegraSoft, INFOBEST Romania,
APAL INFORMATIQUE, FORTECH, ZITEC, OFFNET, CARPE DIEM SOLUTIONS, MAGIC
SOLUTIONS, CAMBRIC CONSULTING, 2m computers, CONECTYS, GZK Software, OPTOEL,
VEGRA, INTERSOL, INTELIDEI and DANETIEL.
Display areas are specially arranged for conferences and will be in
accordance to the number of exhibitors, volume of exhibited products and the
event's profile. The fair will have an Information Desk that will ensure the
presentations of participants who will show their development strategies and
resources and projects under consideration in the medium and long terms.
On October 18, a conference will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the conference
area, followed by a cocktail reception, business meetings, round tables, etc.
The presentation will be "Romania - European Outsourcing Tiger" by Florin
Vrejoiu (Vice-president, ARIES Romanian Association for Electronic & Software
Industries). The theme is "ARIES - New Vision - Outsource World."

ROMANIA - The European Outsourcing Tiger
Located at the intersection of three large markets -- the European Union,
the former Soviet states and the Middle East -- Romania promises to follow in
the footsteps of India and Ireland as a success model in the development of
the IT sector.
Companies such as Siemens, Motorola, Alcatel, Solectron, Alvarion and
Infineon understand this situation and have developed profitable activities
benefiting from the great opportunities this market offers.
The great advantage of the Romanian IT industry consists of the quality
and creativity of its young specialists, proven by their constant first-place
wins at most international mathematics and informatics competitions and world
inventors' exhibits.
Every year, the university educational system prepares more than 5,000
specialists in this area, which leaves Romania mentioned in international
statistics as having the highest density of specialists and, at the same time,
an advantageous price/performance ratio.
Public university education is organized in 29 cities and includes 59
institutions.
Private university education is organized in 174 colleges.
Romania holds fifth place among EMEA countries (Europe, Middle East and
Africa) and eleventh worldwide in the Cisco Networking Academy program, with a
total of approximately 3,000 students enrolled in 105 local Cisco academies.
In 2001, the first Ericsson academy opened in Romania; in 2002, Autodesk
gave Romanian universities the largest donation in the world -- US$64 mil in
software products.
Knowledge of the English language of all IT specialists from Romania, a
significant German minority together with several German-language schools, as
well as links with the French, Spanish and Italian languages, due to
Romanian's Latin origins, make linguistic barriers seem almost nonexistent in
Romania's case.
Over 3,500 software-producing companies operate at present in Romania,
located mainly in the great university centers of Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj,
Brasov and Iasi.
The competitiveness of Romanian companies is illustrated by Microsoft's
acquisition of the GeCAD RAV product for use in Microsoft Security Solutions.
In past years, the annual growth rate of Romanian IT companies has
exceeded 25%, and that of exports 60%, while GDP growth has been below 5%.
One of the greatest challenges of the current stage is mobile telephony,
especially content development. The Romanian business environment is profiled
as exceptional, having complied with almost all international standards of
mobile telecommunications. GSM and CDMA exist, and the first implementations
in UMTS standards have come out, coupled with the special attention the
government grants e-content programs. Romania has registered one of the
largest growths in mobile communications in Europe in the past five years.
The area's legislative framework is in an advanced harmonization process
with the European Union's recommendations, many of the important laws having
already been approved: copyright law, electronic signature law, electronic
commerce law, legislation regarding personal character data processing,
protection of private life in telecommunications sector, etc. In March 2001,
the Group for Promotion of Information Technology was created. It functions
as a task force, led by the Prime Minister and having as members seven other
government ministers. The group ensures a coherent, coordinated approach to
implementation of the Information Society in Romania, having as main tasks
elaboration of strategy and approval of all major projects in the field of
information technology and communications.
Romanian government efforts at developing e-government have received
international recognition on several occasions, proving that Romania is one of
the world leaders in bringing IT technology into the public administration
field.

ARIES ROMANIA
http://www.aries.ro

http://www.romania-at-outsourceworld2005.aries.ro
http://www.outsourceworld.org/newyork

Contact:
Paul Dudley
561-988-2510
pdudley@bdipartners.com