- Web start-ups generate fast return – Collins (03 March 2010, Business and Leadership)
- Open-source hardware takes steps toward gadget mainstream (04 March 2010, CIO)
- Cloud Computing’s Three Revolutions: Part 3 (04 March 2010, CIO)
- Dublin gets ready for European City of Science

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3 days to present our services, contact potential clients and prospective suppliers, explaining the concept of Offshore, and how it works and discovering new products and concepts.

3 days is definitely too short!

Speaking of products and concepts, the main idea that

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Hanover, 2-6 march 2010. Under the motto “Push your business”, CeBIT 2010 opened this edition with new forces despite the economical crisis that constantly threaten the well course of the exhibition. This year many participants confirm that CeBIT keeps its leader

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This week was exceptionally busy. Yesterday evening, we arrived at an agreement with our Israeli partners to create a Pentalog subsidiary in Tel Aviv. As for today, I am writing this blog from Schiphol airport since we are studying the

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Embedded World 2010 started this morning and we are in full swing. The number of visitors and the number of nationalities represented are still impressive despite the crisis we are in, and far from the sluggishness announced by some people

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- The business value of Information Security (23 February 2010, CIOL)
- Facebook deemed world’s most innovative company (23 February 2010, Business and Leadership)
- 3 tools to improve collaboration in your company (24 February 2010, Infoworld)
- Compliance Under a Cloud (25 February 2010, CIO)
- Cloud

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In this climate of considerable uncertainty which characterizes the beginning of 2010, the Pentalog Group is maintaining a provisional growth rate of at least 20% throughout this quarter. This figure is slightly insufficient to meet the objectives of the plan

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Since I became Sales Director I haven’t taken yet the time to look at all the indicators in this sector. My first responsibility was to boost sales and only then count the points.

Since early this year I have become more

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Here is an article that Livia Rusu asked me to publish:

“OPENi is a project organized to bring relevant and valuable impact on all its participants in terms of IT knowledge to which they don’t have access during their studies.
Professors, IT

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Yes, from a physical point of view, one seminar after another held every weekend, are difficult. Especially, when they were held with more than 2000 kms between them. Luckily, except from the intellectual rhythm that is required, two seminars I

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Britain’s debt set to be higher than that of Greece (19 February 2010, Telegraph)
- Staples Turns Out an IT Outsourcing Option for Small Businesses (19 February 2010, CIO)
- Europeans Prefer Staff Suppliers to Outsourcers: Forrester (19 February 2010, CIO)
- Europe a growth market

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A year ago, I posted a note about Pentalog’s efforts towards reducing its CO2 emissions in our travels. We are moving forward with this project, and it is time to make a progress report.

During this past year we have studied

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I do not often write in Romanian language on this blog but I have no Romanian blog, so… I would like to follow-up with an article published by the most important Romanian economic newspaper, about the 2009 performance of the

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A few days ago, we have been interwied by Wall-Street in Romania. The article is about the main figures we released at the beginning of the year, the results of 2009 and the main thrusts of the 2010 Pentalog strategy:

http://www.wall-street.ro/articol/IT-C-Tehnologie/80236/Outsourcing-ul-si-criza-Cum-abordeaza-Pentalog-anul-2010.html

For

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Pentalog will be an exhibitor at this year’s CeBIT in Hanover Germany, the largest trade show in the world dedicated to the IT sector. In 2009, during a year of an especially acute economic crisis, this event drew nearly 4,300

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- IT spending in western Europe to reach US$68.6bn (09 February 2010, Business and Leadership)
- IT Outsourcing: Why It Pays to Appraise Your Contract (09 February 2010, CIO)
- Global IT industry to return to growth this year (09 February 2010, Computing)
- Japan

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After developing an initial application for one of the leading French companies in social networking, tourism and entertainment on the Web, Pentalog followed up with an application for energy management and home automation before starting the development in regards to

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Well, no it isn’t yet the New Year for us

Vietnam (and other countries across Asia) is celebrating the New Year following the lunar calendar. In Vietnam this period is called the Tết. The first day of the year usually

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How long has this lull lasted? Thursday, the 4th february saw the return of fear in the financial markets. The debts of developing countries have created a lot of panic. Whether it’s in countries like Greece, Portugal or in Spain.

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From 2nd to 4th of March 2010 in Nuremberg, for the second time, Pentalog will be part of the exhibitors at Embedded World, the largest exhibition in the world, dedicated to embedded technology. This event draws nearly 700 exhibitors, and

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Your sandwich:

- Flight Bucharest Paris canceled. Shall be in plane at 6.50 am!
- Already 10 iPhone AppS in pentalog’s road map! Will Chisinau become skill center?
- Reading: “Net : un outil de recrutement pour 48% des employeurs par Neteco.com” (

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Formerly this domain name was dedicated to the Pentalog BPO business line, but it has recently changed its vocation as it now houses references and other Pentalog success stories. Following in line with other new sites, such as www.choosingmyitserviceprovider.com and

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Enjoy:

- Pentalog remporte une consultation de l’Agence de Presse Autrichienne. Bravo à Pentalog Deutschland !
- Reading: “Des blogs dénoncent les dérives en #SSII” ( http://bit.ly/aOYIPC )
- Reading: “Les prédictions 2010 de Deloitte pour l’IT” ( http://bit.ly/dpT7ui )
- Reading: “Les éditeurs de logiciels

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Don’t forget your sandwich:

- 2 seminars in Brasov this WE. All eastern unit managers are talking about recruitment&management. IT,R&D, infra managers focuse on strategy
- Coliba Haiducilor in poiana brasov cu prietenii
- Day 1 for Pentalog labs!
- We never have saluted

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- IT industry fights tax changes (02 February 2010, Misaustralia)
- India Telecom outlook for 2010 is stable to negative (02 February 2010, CIOL)
- Asset Protection Offshore! (03 February 2010, PR Inside)
- Cairo ICT to reflect dynamism of the IT sector (08 February 2010,

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I never thought one day of attending business meetings wearing snow boots… In Russia, it is common. And rare are the few people who do not wear the fur hat, it is THE essential accessory for your survival on the

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Alex and I took the road to Russia recently. We were very far away from what we know as the geographical borders of Europe, at the foot of the Urals, to assess the possibilities of a relationship with one of

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Wherever I go in the world, and see the different offshore IT structures, the more I realize they are better in every way than their Western counterparts. Whatever the point of view I take, the comparisons always turn to their

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Enjoy:

- Reading: “Marc Simoncini va miser 100 millions dans des start-up ” ( http://bit.ly/cT1Y8R )
- Reading: “« Social business » : Muhammad Yunus promeut son modèle via les partenariats” ( http://bit.ly/9iXSUh )
- Reading: “Le Performance Management, un antidote de la crise ?”

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Are you hungry?

- pense à lancer son blog perso sur l’ensemble de ses projets, essentiellement liés aux ressources humaines et la gestion de compétences
- Could St Pertersburg be bigger than Bengalore among ITO cities? Unusual point of view… needs clarification.
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The 2nd sandwich of the week:

- RT @Pentalog: presents this week’s Press review: http://bit.ly/bMcuwD
- Pentalog Create your own development team for an #IT #offshore project: http://bit.ly/bqFWvE
- Reading: “Que sont devenus les #fournisseurs #informatiques (2e partie)Vingt ans après” ( http://bit.ly/bDov3r )
- en train de mettre sur Picasa

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A few weeks ago, Pierre, head of the IS Business Line, published an article on the topic of the metric system. Here is a 2nd post concerning this subject:

As a follow-up of an earlier post on metrics, I would

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- Deloitte outlines priorities for CIOs in year ahead (26 January 2010, Computing)
- Economic rebound will drive demand for ICT (28 January 2010, Voice and Data)
- No slowdown for IT jobs: Candle ICT (1 February 2010, itnews)
- A Big Year for ‘Socialytic’ Applications? (29

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A new week has started:

- vous cherchez une prestation? vous savez pas encore quel mode contractuel choisir? quelle monnaie? http://bit.ly/8oIOCw
- RT @Pentalog: The difficult issue of wages in an international ITO group: http://bit.ly/axDDDj
- ANIS_20 all social efforts, really RT @LoredanaNiculae:

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Here is the PentaMac for the weekend:

- Telecom 3G Embedded Software Development Engineers – Bucharest, Sibiu (RRO428): Job description: 2008 has represe… http://bit.ly/a6ZB5t
- We’ve been travelling from 6AM (St peter time) to 1PM (Orléans). Happy to be back home. Hope

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Pentalog is now working in 5 countries, which have different levels of practices and types of wage scales. Thus, in addition to the question of salaries, there is a genuine “large difference” between the gross annual salary in France and

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If you are hungry or not, here is your sandwich:

- @EvgeniyG thx Evgeny! We won’t hesitate to come
- Pentalog is looking for #Telecom 3G #Embedded #Software #Development Engineers. See the details: http://bit.ly/caAOnI
- OutsourcingInfo Radiotime to Outsource Software Development to the Philippines [http://tinyurl.com/yeaab7c] #outsourcing
- Assessing #offshore #destinations- First

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A good sandwich:

- aponcier The Horizon Report 2010: the impact of emerging technologies on learning
- aponcier 30+ Best Tools for building and managing your twitter popularity http://j.mp/5GzgTH via @jeanlucr
- aponcier Le social au secours de l’entreprise 2.0 by @VinceBerthelot http://bit.ly/6IOwMj via @tweetmeme
- jpbarralis RT @fred_montagnon: Comment les

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- IT to go outside IT department, says Gartner (18 January 2010, Computing)
- Europeans say “ditch Internet Explorer” (18 January 2010, Computing)
- Internet video and Apps on TV soon (19 January 2010, CIOL)
- Open source under threat from ‘grey’ IP laws (21 January 2010,

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Enjoy!

- tcoustenoble Gartner about the role of Cloud Computing in IT Organizations in the coming years : http://www.cloudave.com?bid=50000000680626
- In Perm. Back from nowhere. Inviting our BCSOFT friends in a restaurant.
- Pentalog_de #India’s position as a country offering IT and telephone #outsourcing is driving

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The end of the week has arrived:

- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” –Thomas Edison
- Pentalog_de Assessing #offshore destinations – First stop:#India. Read more about our offshore strategy @BPOvoice http://bit.ly/8Sjk1u
- itespressofr Microsoft sort son

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A new Mac:

- ANIS_20 RT @RaduTiciu: (RO included) SMEs investor readiness in Balkans report just launched : http://ow.ly/YDcl . Download: http://ow.ly/YDeE
- Software Tester Francofon (RCHI420): Descrierea postului : In vederea extinderii echipei pentru unul dintre client… http://bit.ly/7rtnZG
- ourman British Embassy in Hanoi starts

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Alex and I are on our way to Perm, at the foot of the Urals. Why?

Without saying too much for the moment, we entered into a relationship, a few months ago with several companies established in the ERP sector in

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Here is your sandwich:

- Ingineri Telecom 3G (RRO383): Descrierea postului : Pentalog anunta in iunie 2008 lansarea in Romania a unui proie… http://bit.ly/dJSb4
- I’ll leave tomorrow to #Perm, #Russia. Looking forward to meet #embedded systems #engineers in St. Petersburg.
- Ouverture du procès

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The dinner is served:

- @networkvb voila, probleme resolu.
- Administrator sisteme si retele (RSIB419): Descrierea postului : Grupul Pentalog recruteaza un administrator de si… http://bit.ly/7uFKgs
- equipes dediees, #regie distante, regie sur site? #euro ou #dollar? faites votre choix! http://bit.ly/8oIOCw
- networkvb @bduperrin Nouveau post [fr] ::

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It seems that the month of December was an anniversary month for Pentalog. Frederic told us two stories: the history of the war against nature that the Pentalog Family had fought and won and the story of the birth of Pentalog

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- Cloud Computing: IT Operations Changes Are Mandatory (12 January 2010, CIO)
- IDC Telco Predictions 2010 (13 January 2010, Computerworld)
- Is the tech spending downturn over? (12 January 2010, InfoWorld)
- Outsourcing Advisors: 6 Tips for Selecting Right One (14 January 2010, CIO)
- 20% of

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Enjoy!

- People Centric France va bien: http://www.people-centric.fr/2010/01/15/type/6196-%C2%ABvotre-approche-est-la-bonne%C2%BB.html/fr/
- monday in Buc & Paris, tuesday in Orleans, wednesday in Paris, thursday flying to Perm (ru), saturday & sunday St Petersbourg
- Interessant! Les tendances en recrutement: http://bit.ly/71484K
- Sorti cdg. Va dejeuner ac #laurentclementz et

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The weekend has arrived:

- hungry? http://bit.ly/4JcenR
- good morning from Brasov, Romania.
- Is The Time Right To Build A #Mobile #App? http://bit.ly/55dD1Z
- eogez L’AFP lance son application pour iPhone : le courrier de la high-tech http://tinyurl.com/ydhylkd
- Interessant! Les 4 P du social marketing:

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The moving season of Branch offices has finished with the branch office in Iasi (Romania). Since Friday 08/01 (a bit before), everyone was ready to move into the Tudor Office Center. In one of my last posts I described moving

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