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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Here is the 100th sandwich that we prepared for you. Don’t hesitate to follow us on Twitter: Frédéric, Pentalog and Pentalog_de:

- Are you interested to #develop new #applications for your #iPhone?
- lesechos La Chine plaide pour un contrôle de l’internet: – Pékin a réagi

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Since November, we have launched into a competition process to find a mobile operator. For the past 4 years we have been with SFR and have reached the end of the contract period, and we have put them back into

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A big sandwich for you all:

- cancelled one meeting this morning coz of the snow. Hope to fly to Bucharest (snow+strike…). Waiting in Orleans.
- Pentalog développe des #applications #iPhone: http://bit.ly/63BtbN
- Sondage: Souhaitez-vous developper des #applications pour votre #iPhone?
- JasonBraud Facebook Adds New Feature

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Various Pentalog committee leaders were very busy during the month of December 2009 because 3 of the 4 general committees were held: an Extraordinary General Meeting, a Board of Directors and Presiding Committee, finally only the Steering Committee, exceptionally, did

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Here is your PentaMac:

- Les #news #IT de la semaine passee: http://bit.ly/5qW3fB
- Incredible presence of Pentalog in FR: Paris marseille Toulouse Lille Orléans Nantes Rennes le mans Bordeaux nice Montpellier…
- Driving back to Orléans. High Level conversation with Alain glon in Rennes!
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A new week:

- RT @danavram: Baromètre People Centric Volume Annonces Emplois Secteur IT Marché France Semaine 52-2009 http://tinyurl.com/yeaavmz
- RT @Pentalog_de: How Much Are #Twitter’s Tweets Really Worth? (via #BusinessWeek) http://bit.ly/7Fa8Vj
- RT @Pentalog_de: IT recruitment shows recovery in US and UK

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- 2010 tech forecasts: What the accurate analysts predict (05 January 2010, Infoworld)
- Global outsourcing: IT service providers will reach for the cloud in 2010 (06 January 2010, CIO)
- Russian Recovery! Pausing to Examine Indicators (06 January2010, Pravda)
- IT Outsourcing: Avoid Multi-Sourcing’s Costly

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Just a few words… to tell you about my recent trip to Chisinau, Iasi and Brasov. It’s been a while since I have had the opportunity to visit with my Eastern European colleagues. And I had not yet seen any

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I read an excellent article in December, in 01 Informatique on the up coming revolution in IT. I also have been giving this considerable thought lately.

Indeed, it has been a long time that I have no longer believed in the

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After the trip in India that Frédéric and Alexandra made at the beginning of November, they will be traveling to Russia for an on-site study of the possible destinations that could accommodate a new entity of the Pentalog group.

As before, the

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This is perhaps not the final version, but it is fairly complete. You can compare from last year’s version. This little exercise allows you to have a public record. Let’s say that for 2009, it is good. Pentalog gained more

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I hope you are hungry:

- Pentalog Group sites could generate this year more than 1 Million visits. Is this correct for a mid size consulting and outsourcing firm?
- Assistant(e) marketing / commercial(e) sédentaire (H/F) (RORL041): Description du poste : Dans

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- Facebook,Twitter to be platforms of choice for hackers (29 December 2009, CIOL)
- Twitter buys into geolocation (30 December 2009, IT News)
- 10 predictions for video conferencing solutions in 2010 (04 January 2010)
- Emerging markets and recession: Counting their blessings (30 December 2009, The

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The first Mac of the year:

- les révolutions à venir dans les #SSII: http://bit.ly/5Vsf0C
- Pentalog France (Orléans) is about to hire its Artistic Director and a junior account manager/marketing assistant
- @owadenko No, just partership opportunities for some uncovered clients’ needs
- Chic

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The last Mac that we publish this year:

- RT @RalucaOtelea: Interested in a Ruby on Rails Developer position for a long term mission in Paris? Let us know! http://digs.by/11VS
- RT @AndreiCurelaru: RT @CaddeReputation: 5 nouveaux usages des réseaux sociaux qui

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Merry Christmas to all:

- il y a 10 ans… les pentaloguiens français découvraient notre siège détruit par la tempête pendant qu’Aymeric, Eric et moi ouvrions Brasov
- @danavram elle va mieux ?
- bcp de mauvais souvenirs, http://www.pentablog.fr/pour-les-amis/je-prends-5-minutes-de-plus-pour-vous-dire/#comments
- la premiere version de la

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- 10 Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2010 (17 December 2009, Outsourcing Russia)
- 6 Offshore Outsourcing Hot Spots for 2010 (22 December 2009, CIO)
- Tunisian economy resists world financial and economic crisis (26 December 2009, Tunis-Afrique Presse)
- India helps Mongolia in IT outsourcing (28

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…10 years ago, while moving Pentalog into Romania, our headquarters in Orleans was completely destroyed by one of the worst storms ever seen in France. Everything was pulverized, wiped out… but our servers were still functional. I would like to

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… Aymeric, Eric and I were preparing to spend Christmas with a charming family in Brasov, far from our own families. It was very cold and we were just starting our Romanian adventure. This led us to become one of

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Here is the Christmas PentaMac:

- Manager Assistant (RSIB407): Descrierea postului : In cadrul Serviciului Administrativ Financiar (SAF) al Pentalog… http://bit.ly/6i1VhF
- Pentalog_de Outsourcing bargain hunting – how to get a great deal http://bit.ly/7fJkrF
- ISO 9001-2008 : Audit de surveillance AFNOR réussi: http://bit.ly/6esRas
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We have just finished moving our Hanoi branch office into their new premises. Having reached our initial objectives, it was necessary to acquire a larger production site in order to allow for future growth. This new office is located 200m

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- What CIOs Get Wrong About Emerging Technology (18 December 2009, CIO)
- Sun Microsystems unveils advanced cloud security tools (18 December 2009, CIOL)
- While Twitter gets the press, Germany is now a Facebook stronghold (17 December 2009, Techcrunch)
- Q&A: IDC Forecast for Management

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It is clear where Pentalog has made the difference in comparison to the competition, it is by proposing, in addition to its software maintenance services (which everyone proposes), specialized offshore R & D. Our clients have entrusted us with at

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