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Frédéric Lasnier
Title: President&Chief Executive Officer
Bio: After a quick passage in a national marketing service company, Frederic Lasnier founded Pentalog with four colleagues, academics like himself. During a period of economic stagnation (in 1993).
In 1995, he decided to open permanently the capital of Pentalog to the participation of his employees. This participation now has reached 56%. It was a political vision that he shared with the founding members. Starting from 1997, Pentalog exported their first services outside of France. The percentage of foreign activities subsequently reached 60% in 2006.
In 1999, as part of a large software project (10 000 man-days in J2EE), he made his first trip to Romania and laid the foundation for the Pentalog policy of European "low cost". In 2005, he initiated the creation of BPO services (Business Process Outsourcing) and offered a New Business Model to Pentalog High Tech. In 2006, with the help of Ausy, one of the 5 most important players in the French market of outsourced R&D services, he created Pentalog Technology, a joint venture between Ausy and Pentalog, co-owned equally by the two partners. The Joint Venture aims to provide low cost but high quality R & D to global players. Pentalog took operational control of this alliance.
In 2008, Pentalog Deutschland, the German subsidiary of the group was created.
In 2009, Frederic created Pentalog Vietnam.
In all these areas, the management is provided from Orleans and it is here where 70% of the consolidated value is held.
Frederic is the father of the adaptation of the "design to cost" for intellectual services in France.
Aymeric Libeau
Title: CIO - Vice President Infrastructure & R&D
Bio: The management of infrastructure and R&D Aymeric is supervising includes all the technical aspects (for the company as well as for our customers), whether they are related to corporate needs, resources to complete a project, R&D activities or quality control.
Aymeric is the one who defines the strategy of development of our infrastructure and information system.
This former peacekeeper has led several international operations, in particular in Eastern Europe. He remains operational for some of our customers, whether as an expert in architecture, a project director or consultant in the choice of technologies.


Monica Jiman
Title: COO - Vice President Business Development
Bio: Monica graduated in Marketing and Production from the University of Orleans, and joined Pentalog as a trainee.
She then became the Manager of the branch office in Bucharest, today employing 50 people in the field of outsourced software development on the offshore as well as local market in Romania.
In May 2009 she became Chief Operational Officer. Monica is now in charge of operations in Vietnam, Eastern Europe, France and Germany, involving over 300 employees. She manages sales and business lines, the creation of new branch offices, recruitment, human resources and the responsibility of contractual operations.

Alexandra Mondanel
Title: International Operations Officer
Bio: After a 4-month internship within the Pentalog Orleans Team, Alexandra was recruited to develop the company's international activities. She holds a postgraduate degree in International Business and foreign languages and she is European to the core: her mother is German and her father is French; she attended a British University, and used to work for the German subsidiary of a French company before joining Pentalog in 2005. Her ability to speak four languages will be determining to find partners all accross Europe.

Sophie Lelarge
Title: WW Sales and BL Director
Bio: Sophie is the group's Sales Director and manages the 3 Business Lines: Information Systems, Embedded Systems and BPO.
She ensures the dialogue with consultants and project managers, as well as the monitoring of our commitments, in coordination with the project managers.




Pierre Peutin
Title: Head of Business Line for Information Systems
Bio: Pierre entered Pentalog as a developer, in 1999. He has worked on web and client/servers projects, on missions of medium and long duration in both France and Belgium. After several years as a developer, Pierre oriented himself towards Business Intelligence by participating in various reporting projects for customers like PSA Peugeot Citroën, Loxam or the ACTICALL group. Later, Pierre became Project Leader for specific application developments, managing teams of 1 to 7 people based in France and offshore for Pentalog. Pierre then naturally served as an offshore Project Director before taking on the responsibility of the Business Line for Information Systems.
Pierre is presently responsible for writing business proposals, monitoring existing customers, commitment control vis-à-vis our customers on projects, compliance with Pentalog quality system procedures and control and optimization of expenses for the Business Line.
Mickaël Hiver
Title: Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO
Bio: Mickaël entered Pentalog as a Network Administrator in February 1997 with the aim to gain global understanding of information technology in order to assist and guide users in meeting their real needs. For 8 years he was an in-house producer for Pentalog clients. With his acquired experience, Mickaël progressively left production to become first a Project Manager, then Project Director and finally the Head of Business Lines for Embedded Systems & BPO.
Mickaël is a hands-on and open person, with an acute sense of organization and priorities. Through his assistance and counseling he gives his clients and prospective clients the opportunity to focus calmly on their actual core business.
Eric Gouin
Title: Administrator
Bio: Eric graduated from a renown school of Physics and Chemistry in Paris. While he was a student he used to develop websites related to his student activities.
After two research internships within a French company producing mobile phone components in the Sophia-Antipolis Technopole, he joined the IT world in which he held several key positions.
He now is a finance and management control consultant.


Aleth Delcenserie
Title: Quality Manager
Bio: Associate-founder of Pentalog and board member, Aleth Delcenserie first evolved in the graphics department of the company. Gifted with a strong sense of organization and a taste for detail, she conducted with rigorous methodology publishing projects and electronic media for over ten years, and launched the Pentalog BPO-DTP sector at the end of 2005.
From September 2007, Aleth has been responsible for the definition and for the implementation of the Pentalog Quality Policy, leading to the ISO 9001:2008 certification of the group, on December 24, 2008.
As the Director of Quality Control, Aleth is now based in Moldova since 1 January 2009, where she now shares her time between coaching project managers in implementing effectiveness control and the progress of Pentalog Quality.
Tuan Nguyenquoc
Title: Office Manager Hanoi
Bio: Tuan holds a Master's Degree in Information Systems and New Technologies from the Paris-Dauphine University, and gained some professional experience in France before returning to Vietnam to start his offshore adventure. He became a team leader in a Datawarehouse deployment project in Africa for a telecom provider, and witnessed violent riots in Kinshasa during a couple of days.
Following this project, Tuan turned to a Marcom position as the offshore business development manager of a big Vietnamese IT services company.
While reading the Pentalog blog Tuan became acquainted with Frederic and they met during Frederic's first visit in Vietnam. He was immediately convinced by Pentalog's business model and now manages the development of the first Pentalog office in Vietnam.

Press review week 35/2010

-IT Service Outsourcing Deal Volume On The Rise (27 August 2010, ChannelInsider)
- CIOs – it’s time to bill the business for using IT (25 August 2010, Silicon)
- Mobile industry calls for new pricing model (24 August 2010, ITPRO)
- Cloud to open more hacking opportunities (24 August 2010, CIOL)
- Open source projects for cloud on rise (24 August 2010, CIOL)
- ‘Enterprises well placed to face cyber threats’ (27 August 2010, CIOL)
- How Developing Nations Could Revolutionize Cloud IT (24 August 2010, InternetEvolution)
- Woran Offshoring-Projekte kranken (30 September 2010, ComputerWoche)
- Aufschwung: IT-Mittelstand hat Lust auf mehr (27 August 2010, Silicon)
- VW-CIO Klaus Hardy Mühleck: “Wir beamen unsere IT-Standards in die Cloud” (27 August 2010, ComputerWoche)
- Etablierte Outsourcer verlieren Marktanteile (26 August, IT-Business)
- Attacken verdreifacht: Angriff auf virtualisierte Infrastrukturen (24 August 2010, CIO.de)

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Press review week 34/2010

- IT Outsourcing: 100 Questions for a Successful Engagement (13 August 2010, CIO)
- Gartner: customers still don’t get cloud computing (13 August 2010, ZD Net)
- India finally emerging as an indigenous consumer tech manufacturer? (18 August 2010, ZD Net)
- IT Services Deals on the Up (17 August 2010, CIO)
- Car industry shows hitting brakes on outsourcing is a risky business (20 August 2010, Silicon)
- Outsourcing: cloud is changing the rules (19 August 2010, ZdNet)
- Getting Back To Outsourcing Basics (17 August 2010, Forbes)
- Is China ready for your outsourcing work? (16 August 2010, Silicon)
- Anwender küren die besten Systemhäuser (23 August 2010, ComputerWoche)
- Deutsche Java-Entwickler ärgern sich über Oracle (19 August 2010, ZD Net)
- Cloud Computing, Web 2.0, Knowledge Management: IT im Mittelstand (18 August 2010, Computerwoche)
- Auslagerungsprojekte: Heimlicher Run auf´s Offshoring (18 August 2010, Computerwoche)
- Spannend wird es jenseits der Technik: Probleme bei Behörden-Clouds (18 August 2010, CIO.de)


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Press review week 33/2010

- Jamaica Ahead in Outsourcing (13 August 2010, Caribbean Press Releases)
- The End of Outsourcing As We Know It? (13 August 2010, Newsfactor)
- Outsourcing Ready to Vanish in the Cloud? (12 August 2010, Fastcompany)
- Business outsourcing reshaping lifestyles in the Philippines (12 August 2010, Times of Malta)
- IT Outsourcing: Africa, the new garden of Eden (9 August 2010, Afrik-News)
- Open source investment set to grow in 2010 (6 August 2010, IT PRO)
- IDC: very soon, a third of all software delivered via cloud (9 August 2010, ZDNet)
- Enterprise 2.0, drop the Web 2.0 myths (10 August 2010, CIOL)
- The End of IT Outsourcing As We Know It (11 August 2010, CIO)
- Shrink Your IT Infrastructure Costs (12 August 2010, CIO)
- Deutsche Wirtschaft verzeichnet stärkstes Wachstum seit 23 Jahren (13 August 2010,FTD)
- FAQ: Zehn Fragen zu Cloud Computing (16 August 2010, Computerwoche)
- Die 10 IT-Trends von McKinsey: Wie IT das Leben von morgen bestimmt (16 August 2010, CIO.de)
- Die Outsourcing-Strategien der CIOs (16 August 2010, CIO)
- IT-Ausgaben steigen geringer als erwartet (12 August 2010, Silicon)
- TPI Outsourcing Index: Deutscher Outsourcing-Markt bricht ein (12 August 2010, CIO.de)
- Xing wächst um 20 Prozent (11 August 2010, Golem)

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Pentalog Group opens a subsidiary in Israel

Here is a press release published in the Israeli press a few days ago on the opening of Pentalog’s Israeli subsidiary.

“The Pentalog Group, a software development outsourcing group which operates software development centers in Eastern Europe and Vietnam opens a subsidiary in Israel. Eli Friedmann, Managing Director of Pentalog Israel: “The IT services offered by Pentalog will save Israeli companies significant costs without compromising work quality.”

The Pentalog Group, providing software development outsourcing services in Offshore and Nearshore models in Eastern Europe and Vietnam, is starting a subsidiary, Pentalog Israel, which is located in Kiryat Arie, Petach Tiqua. Pentalog Israel will be managed by Eli Friedmann and will offer its Offshore or Nearshore outsourcing services to Israeli High Tech companies that develop software and/or hardware.

Pentalog ranks among the five leading European offshore and nearshore software development outsourcing companies. It employs over 500 people in 7 countries, of whom over 450 are English speaking, software development engineers, in Eastern Europe and Vietnam.

Pentalog customers in the last decade include dozens of organizations, such as companies, financial institutes, government offices and agencies, municipalities and academic institutes. Pentalog’s customers list includes Hitachi, Ericsson, Orange, France Telecom, Vodafone, Société Générale, Lexmark and more.

The Pentalog Group was founded in 1993 by Frédéric Lasnier who acts as the group’s major shareholder and CEO. Pentalog operates in France, Germany, Romania (4 software development centers), Moldova, Vietnam and Israel.

Pentalog Israel is managed by Eli Friedmann who brings 13 years of experience in establishment and management of companies and projects in software development outsourcing, ASIC’s and embedded systems. Lina Jackont, the newly appointed COO of Pentalog Israel has some 11 years of project management experience including 3 years in offshore projects.

Pentalog Israel offers development services along the entire life cycle of a product, starting from specifications to development, testing and maintenance. It offers software and chip development services to developers of electronic equipment and embedded systems (including real time embedded) and IC developers (Fabless) including Backend, frontend, analog circuit, mixed signal and IC mask layout.

Eli Friedmann says: “Contrary to common perception of development outsourcing as an inexpensive and inferior solution, Pentalog believes that it will need to provide a significantly superior solution in addition to its being cost effective. The services offered by Pentalog will save Israeli companies significant costs and will decrease time to market without any compromise on product quality and stability. Pentalog’s service quality derives from its high quality manpower which is achieved by both careful people selection and an extensive investment in bettering its manpower by ongoing professional education, personal tutoring, excellent work conditions and extensive incentives plan while focusing on a dynamic work style, strict following of schedules and intensive ongoing contact with its customers.

Pentalog Israel’s website: www.pentalog.co.il

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Posted on Tue., 3 Aug. 2010 18:28 by Lina JACKONT (31 day(s) old)
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Press review week 30/2010

- Offshore R&D spending grows, recession or not (19 July 2010, Computerworld)
- Japan no high-tech wonderland after all (19 July 2010, IT World)
- IT budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion (20 July 2010, Computerwolrd)
- Embedded intelligence and energy conservation (21 July 2010, Ciol)
- IT Outsourcing Activity Remains Sluggish in 2010 (22 July 2010, Computerwolrd)
- How HTML5 Will Shake Up the Web (22 July 2010, Technologyreview)
- IT Professionals Optimistic Over Cloud Future (22 July 2010, CIO)
- Studie: Unternehmen zögern beim Einsatz von Web 2.0 (23 Juli 2010, ZdNet)
- Studie: Schwerpunkte bei IT-Investitionen und Trends bei IT-Ausgaben (23 Juli 2010, Monitor)
- Krise: Der Mittelstand scheint durch zu sein (22 Juli, Silicon)
- IT-Projekte in der Fertigung: Gute Aussichten für IT-Dienstleister (21 Juli 2010, CIO)
- Bain-Studie: Vier IT-Trends: Radikaler Wandel der Software-Anbieter (19 Juli 2010, CIO.de)
- IT-Outsourcing im Bankensektor beliebt (19 Juli 2010, Swiss IT Magazine)

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Press review week 29/2010

- Gartner criticises cloud market miscommunication (13 July 2010, CRN)
- Google ‘to launch Facebook competitor ‘Google Me’ (14 July 2010, Yahoo News)
- IT managers play more active role in business decisions (19 July 2010, Business and Leadership)
- IT pain relief for midmarket buinesses through end-to end infrastructure virtualization (19 July 2010, Computer Weekly)
- Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks (13 July 2010, IT World)
- IT spend outlook down on macro uncertainty (16 July 2010, Ciol)
- Companies not using social nets at risk, report says (15 July 2010, Computerworld)
- Secret to successful outsourcing: Be open about your ambitions (16 July 2010, Silicon)
- Offshore Outsourcing On The Rise After Recession : Report (12 July, USA News Week)
- Deutschland kommt schneller aus dem Schuldensumpf (15 Juli 2010, Handelsblatt)
- Software-Entwicklungsmethode: Scrum noch wenig bekannt (19 Juli 2010, CIO)
- IDC-Prognose 2010 bis 2014: Deutscher IT-Markt zieht an (16. Juli 2010, CIO)
- Virtualisierungsprojekte zu komplex: Flucht in die Private Cloud – (16 Juli 2010, CIO)
- Die IT in Zürich: Erster Bericht (15 Juli 2010, Swiss IT Magazine)
- Leistung und Kosten besser im Blick: Outsourcing – profitieren und profilieren (15 Juli 2010, ComputerWoche)
- Ein Erfahrungsbericht: Exotisch: IT-Outsourcing in Nordkorea (13 Juli 2010, CIO)
- Gartner warnt CIOs vor zweiter Krise (12 Juli 2010, Silicon)
- Gartner: The role of the IT department in mergers and acquisitions (13 July 2010, Computer Weekly)
- CW+ Exclusive EquaTerra research: Taking the pulse of the European outsourcing market (16 July 2010, Computer Weekly)

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Press review week 28/2010

- The Dark Side of Server Virtualization (7 July 2010, CIO)
- Cloud acceptance rising in Europe (6 July 2010, CIOL)
- Secrecy of Cloud Computing Providers Raises IT Security Risks (6 July 2010, CIO)
- Offshore Outsourcing Vendors Upsell Customers to Increase Market Share (9 July 2010, CIO)
- Gartner senkt Prognose: Schuldenkrise bremst IT-Investitionen (12 Juli 2010, CIO)
- Misstrauen hält Deutsche vom Internet fern (8 Juli 2010, Silicon)
- Virtualisiert und entsichert: Die 10 größten Sicherheitsrisiken virtueller Umgebungen (8 Juli 2010, CRN)
- Weltwirtschaft wächst schneller – dank China und Indien (8 Juli 2010, Handelsblatt)
- Soziale Netze und Firmen: Deutsche Firmen sind beim Social Networking voll dabei (7 Juli 2010, CRN)
- Europa geht in die Cloud: CIO-Umfrage: Alle Zeichen auf Cloud Computing (6 Juli 2010, CRN)
- Lünendonk-Studie: Mittelstand sorgt für Outsourcing-Boom (6 Juli 2010, CIO)

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Press review week 27/2010

- Gartner rolls back 2010 IT spending forecast over Europe’s debt crisis (1 July 2010, Computerworld)
- Another Proposed Law To Stop Offshore Outsourcing (30 June 2010, CIO)
- Understanding The Evolving Ecosystem Of Innovation Service Providers (30 June 2010, CIO)
- More outsourcing business from UK (30 June 2010, Offshoring Times)
- German Bonds Rise as Signs of Slowdown Boost Demand for Refuge (29 June 2010, BusinessWeek)
-Africa’s Biggest Score: A Thriving Economy (28 June 2010, BusinessWeek)
- Profiting From Open Source – Without Selling Out (28 June 2010, CIO)
- 71 Prozent der deutschen Hightech-Firmen erwarten Umsatzplus (1 Juli 2010, ZdNet)
- Weltweite Gartner-Prognose: IT-Ausgaben steigen ordentlich (1 Juli 2010, Computerwoche)
- Die In- und Out-Themen der ITK-Branche in KW 26 (30 Juni 2010, IT Business)
- Fünf Fehler bei Virtualisierung (29 Juni 2010, CRN)
- Studie: IT verschläft Automation (29 Juni 2010, Computerwoche)
- IT-Services und Software als Wachstumsmotor (29 Juni 2010, computerwoche.de)
- In der Wolke liegt die Zukunft. Europa:Der Markt in Sachen (28 Juni 2010, ECIN)


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Press review week 26/2010

- Is Vietnam Finally Ready for Foreign Investors? (28 June, Supply Chains)
- A model for the Lean IT organization (25 June 2010, Gartner Blogs)
- Virtualisation, mobile apps and budget boosts: Airline IT gets moving (25 June 2010, Silicon)
- IT Outsourcing: 7 Tips for Peace, Profit and Productivity (25 June 2010, Network World)
- IT projects: Is the private sector really better at getting them right? (24 June 2010, Silicon)
- IT wants public and private cloud services, survey shows (24 June 2010, Computerworld)
- Could outsourcing put Brazil on the map? (23 June 2010, Silicon)
- Curb on outsourcing to haunt US IT code (23 June, Times of India)
- Is IT Dead? Cloud computing is only one reason that IT in enterprises is in trouble (21 June 2010, CIO)
- Gartner-Marktstudie SCM: SAP verliert neun Prozent (28 Juni 2010, CIO)
- Deutsche und Japaner begrünen IT (25 Juni 2010, Silicon)
- Compliance: Welche Regeln und Gesetze sind für die IT wichtig? (24 Juni 2010, ComputerWoche)
- IT-Kennzahlen: Time to Market dauert sieben Wochen (24 Juni 2010, CIO)
- Deutschland verschlimmert die Euro-Krise (23 Juni 2010, FTD)
- IT-Services-Preise bleiben unter Druck (23 Juni 2010, Silicon)
- Typische Fehler vermeiden: Vendor Management beim IT-Outsourcing (23 Juni 2010, CIO)
- IT-Startup-Wüste Deutschland? (22 Juni 2010, ComputerWoche)

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Press review week 25/2010

- CIOs help build new IT capability maturity model (21 June 2010, Computerweekly)
- China’s service outsourcing value surges 139.2% in Jan-May (18 June 2010, China Knowledge)
- Cloud Computing: Small Starts Can Have Big Impact (17 June 2010, CIO)
- Is IT the cause of traffic jams in Bangalore? (16 June 2010, CIOL)
- Globalization: IT Tools to Collaborate and Bridge Language Gaps (16 June 2010, CIO)
- Execs told to ‘get out of the way’ of Enterprise 2.0 tools (15 June 2010, ComputerWorld)
- Customers Want More Than Low Cost From Outsourcer: Forrester (15 June 2010, CIO)
- Outsourcing in Malaysia to grow by up to 20 percent (14 June 2010, Malaysia in Focus)
- Fachkräfte für Software und IT-Services gesucht (21 Juni 2010, CIO)
- Die 25 gefährlichsten Outsourcing-Städte (21 Juni 2010, CIO)
- Was IT-Profis auf Reisen alles erleben (19 Juni 2010, ComputerWoche)
- Jede 5. Online-Minute fällt auf Social Media Sites (17 Juni 2010, Swiss IT Magazine)
- Wie sich die IT-Organisation wandeln muss (17 Juni 2010, CIO)
- Agile Software-Entwicklung: Scrum braucht neue Tester (16 Juni 2010, CIO)
- Lünendonk-Studie: Mittelstand denkt beim Outsourcing um (15 Juni 2010, CRN)
- Wie Outsourcing die Rolle der IT stärkt (15 Juni 2010, CIO)

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Press review week 23/2010

- Gartner expects bumper semiconductor sales in 2010 (04 June 2010, CRN)
- The cloud that surrounds the cloud (26 May 2010, CIO)
- Eurozone economy posts modest 0.2pc growth in Q1 (04 June 2010, Business and Leadership)
- Cloud Computing in Moscow: From Russia With Love (03 June 2010, CIO)
- Information technology spending to rise (03 June 2010, Offshoring Times)
- Bosch invests in building software and technology centre in HCM City (02 June 2010, Vietnam Business News)
- Is the IT outsourcing industry in trouble? (01 June 2010, ITPro)
- Die besten Outsourcing-Dienstleister und -Berater (04 June 2010, CIO)
- Studie von Booz & Co.: Woran IT-Projekte in Behörden scheitern (07 June 2010, CIO)
- Management-Studie: Wie Outsourcing intern wahrgenommen wird (02 June 2010, CIO)

Best of May IT Press – Outsourcing

- UK outsourcing to drive IT demand, says report (27 April 2010, BCS)
- IT Outsourcing ‘to grow’ in 2010 (29 April 2010, Codestone)
- Outsourcing firms bullish on expansion (29 April 2010, ABS-CBN News)
- Why Nigeria failed in outsourcing (30 April 2010, Punch)
- Outsourcing Providers May Go Social to Win More Business (03 May 2010, IT Business Edge)
- IT Outsourcing: 3 Reasons Your Vendor Won’t Innovate (05 May 2010, CIO)
- TPI Index: Alles auf Outsourcing: Europäischer Outsourcing-Markt im Wandel (04 May 2010, CRN)


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Press review week 21/2010

- Federal market for ICT contractors trending down (18 May 2010, Voice and Data Online)
- Malaysia’s outsourcing industry to grow between 15-20 per cent (18 May 2010, Business Standard)
- Software that Learns by Watching (19 May 2010, Technology Review)
- Cost-cutting:Top priority for outsourcing (21 May 2010, Silicon)
- How are CIOs Meeting Evolving CEO Expectations? (25 May 2010, CIO)
- Six Misconceptions About Cloud Apps (25 May, CIO)
- How to Gain Stakeholder Engagement (25 May 2010, CIO)
- Standardisierter Outsourcing-Ablauf: Neue DIN-Norm für Outsourcing (18 Mai, CIO)
- Entwickler müssen sich umstellen: Herausforderung Scrum (19 Mai, Computer Woche)
- Cloud Computing in der Praxis: Dax-Konzerne entdecken die Cloud (21 Mai, Computer Woche)
- Die Cloud Computing-Trends 2010 (25 Mai, IT-Business)
- Lünendonk-Listen:Software-Geschäft in Deutschland geschrumpft (25 Mai, CIO)
- Schweizer CIOs achten auf Qualität (25 Mai, Silicon)


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A Framework Explosion?

Europe is just like an ordinary woman. She seems capable of dying from a financial crisis in the same way that others die from a fit of asthma. Who is talking about the disappearance of the USA and Japan? Who is even talking about the disappearance of France and Germany? No, the only designated victim is Europe and especially the Euro. However, this is absolutely absurd. At the heart of this unprecedented crisis, the Euro has been quoted at $1.23 during the last few days, i.e. 5% above the rate it had at the 2002 launch! If it were to go down to 0.8 like it did a few years ago, I wouldn’t feel threatened at all. I am an active and creative person, not an annuitant. As regards Pentalog, mainly exposed to the euro, its competitiveness is rising against our Indian competitors.

How is it possible that the disintegration of the euro, the ultimate symbol of a union in progress, wouldn’t bring about the disintegration of Europe? If we reach this point, it will be because of the faults in sovereign debt reimbursements and, consequently, because of a lack of financial solidarity. Therefore, by 2015 we could find ourselves in a situation similar to that of 1918, with indebted countries (either war debts, or national borrowings, such as the Russian borrowing), which are no longer respected by creditor countries. Nationalist feelings hardly need anything more than that to be stirred.

Far be it from me to think of a catastrophic scenario. There will be no war between France and Germany at the end of this crisis! But we could find ourselves just as devoid of a European framework as in the first half of the 20th century. As far as I am concerned, this sends chills up my spine. It would necessarily mean an economic disaster. Our economies, production systems, companies, but universities also are conceived for this European framework.

I do not believe in this idea. This crisis doesn’t spell the destruction of Europe. The fall of the Euro, which, unfortunately, hasn’t been coordinated by the members of the Eurogroup, is no less a great opportunity for the great economic balances. It generates a competitive devaluation at a lower cost, supporting our exports. It will also possibly give rise to a certain level of inflation… which is a great debt-erasing machine. What European policies haven’t been capable of is triggered today by the markets. Political helplessness is sad to watch, especially at a time when politicians promise to reform financial capitalism.

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Posted on Wed., 19 May. 2010 13:04 by Frédéric LASNIER (107 day(s) old)
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Press review week 20/2010

- Security experts ponder the cost of cloud computing (17 May 2010, CRN)
- Will Facebook Be Tomorrow’s Google, and Google Tomorrow’s Microsoft? (15 May 2010 TechCrunch)
- Can Social Networks Be Generated Automatically? (14 May 2010, Technology Review)
- Using dual monitors to improve productivity (14 May 2010, CIOL)
- Office 2010: Three Reasons Why I’m Migrating (14 May 2010, CIO)
- Who Controls Identity on the Web? (13 May 2010, Technology Review)
- Google warns against phishing emails (13 May 2010, CIOL)
- Challenges for telcos in cloud computing (13 May 2010, CIOL)
- The real social network is at our fingertips (13 May 2010, CIOL)
- What it takes to reach the top in IT (10 May 2010, Computer Weekly)
- Cloud Computing Poses Control Issues for IT (12 May 2010, CIO)
- Question: What’s next for Shared Services? (13 May 2010, SSON)
- The Trillion-Dollar Treatment (13 May 2010, Business Week)
- Investoren warnen vor Geldschwemme in Europa (12 May 2010, Financial Times DE)
- Alltagstaugliche Strategien für Green IT (14 May 2010, CIO)
- Die miesen Tricks der Outsourcing-Anbieter (12 May 2010, Computer Woche)
- Ins IT-Bootcamp nach Indien (12 May 2010, ZEIT)

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Press review week 19/2010

- Outsourcing Providers May Go Social to Win More Business (03 May 2010, IT Business Edge)
- Don’t cut recruitment corners (4 May 2010, Business and Leadership)
- Large companies save more with private clouds – sometimes (5 May 2010, CIO)
- IT Outsourcing: 3 Reasons Your Vendor Won’t Innovate (05 May 2010, CIO)
- IT cuts to lead to outsourcing boom (06 May 2010, Public Service)
- UK slips from outsourcing top spot. France, Germany and Sweden overtake UK in TCV in Q1 (07 May 2010, Channel Web)
- Chinese Companies Try to Solve their India Problem (09 May 2010, Business Week)
- TPI Index: Alles auf Outsourcing: Europäischer Outsourcing-Markt im Wandel (04 May 2010, CRN)
- Studie: Der europäische Hightech-Markt wächst erst 2011 wieder (04 May 2010, ZDNet)
- Die innovativsten Unternehmen der Welt (05 May 2010, Handelsblatt)
- Pro und Contra von SaaS-Angeboten (06 May 2010, CIO)
- Facebook misst den »Glücksstatus« von Nationen (07 May 2010, CRN)
- China investiert 2010 Rekordsumme in IT (07 May 2010, ZDNet)


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What about the French being able to make money and create jobs by leading globalization (a few of my thoughts following the Spring Campus of Croissance +)

For many years now my company has been a driver in the globalization of many IT companies, or IT departments in various enterprises and has become one of the leading players in Europe in the sector known mostly as “offshore and nearshore”. This adventure that my partners and I have undertaken over the past 10 years has led us to invest in four Romanian cities, the capitals of the Republic of Moldova and of Vietnam, for a total of almost 500 people… including about 350 engineers. 50% of them are involved in R & D of software for our customers and we have already a start-up operation in Romania, which is being created by Pentalog.

All this to say that I am not of those who naively believe, with a little condescension that possibly could be tinged with a little hint of racism that Asians are only copiers and the Eastern Europeans wallow in subcontracting. The truth of the matter is that they often have more ambition than many others, and that their training system is evolving very quickly to become more open internationally. The reference for actors in graphic analysis software in trading rooms today, are Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese.

I also believe and I have written many times on this subject that all industries go through an industrialization phase, which of course, aims to maintain profit margins, to improve quality… as prices decrease. The IT industry is now more than 50 years old, it is normal and unavoidable that it goes through this stage and that software development has arrived massively in Bangalore, Bucharest, Hanoi and Manila.

These countries, are they without weakness? They are often more liberal in regards to the work environment and taxation, having a more ambitious population; they also suffer from many of the sins of youth. Productivity is often a concept that needs to be built, soft skills are often deficient (team management, business knowledge, business attitude …). Moreover, productivity efforts are often undermined by wage expectations by countries having a growth rate of between 5 to 10% per year. This difficulty however offers a fantastic job pool and added value for those who are willing to deal with it.

Those who can offer training will find new opportunities for growth, but also those specialized in project management, commercial interfaces, or even business management. I believe also that these new countries who are developing R & D will want to grow so fast that they will be particularly open to anyone willing to offer them good services… and even good software products.

For my part, my choice is made. Our Western Europe workforce is now moving forward and we do have several software concepts that are being studied presently to “better exploit” and to participate in the globalization which will necessarily be a matter of collaboration.

But are our governments capable of understanding such a discourse? Isn’t this an interesting subject to develop for our students at Sciences Po? Why not implement the training ad hoc, why do we not talk differently about the development of emerging countries, and about conceiving o IT and BPO parks that start at nearshore locations such as Orleans and control offshore production centers in Rabat, in Timisoara, Sofia and Mumbai? Customers would be in this case both in London and New York or Paris, but the role of piloting and the increased economic dividends would be for French firms.

Is it so far fetched to imagine an ex-colonial state that had succeeded in the past in orchestrating a large share of the global trade when it consisted in raw materials and not in services? Is it so far fetched for a former state, champion in development assistance, to participate in the orchestration of the globalization of services, with ad hoc holding companies and commercial services around the world? This work is already underway in companies such as Accenture, Cap Gemnini and Infosys. But we could definitely go further if we launch the appropriate training, integrating the ground work with economic missions and in the diplomatic corps in France and abroad, so that these projects fall more into the hands of French companies. Who knows if the construction of these major global service sites would not be interesting to such players such as Bouygues and Vinci and others? But we must renounce the demagogic speeches, this is first of all necessary in order to be understood by both the customers and exporting countries.

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Press review week 18/2010

- What’s in a Tweet? The messages are hard for machines to interpret, but a new approach could help (27 April 2010, Technology Review)
- UK outsourcing to drive IT demand, says report (27 April 2010, BCS)
- Better work flow in a communications conundrum (28 April 2010, CIO)
- IT Outsourcing ‘to grow’ in 2010 (29 April 2010, Codestone)
- Outsourcing firms bullish on expansion (29 April 2010, ABS-CBN News)
- Why Nigeria failed in outsourcing (30 April 2010, Punch)
- SaaS remains in the spotlight for 95 per cent of firms (30 April 2010, IT PRO)
- Talking IT outsourcing (30 April 2010, SSON)
- Offshore Wind: Expensive but Politically Popular (3 May 2010, Technology Review)
- Better IT governance (3 May 2010, CIO)
- Nach 10 Gartner-Kriterien: Die Top Ten Offshoring-Standorte (28 April 2010, CIO)
- EuroCloud startet Zertifizierungsprojekt: Ein Gütesiegel für die Cloud (29 April 2010, Computer Woche)
- Virtualisierung beeinflusst IT-Ausfallsicherheit (29 April 2010, Computer Woche)
- Acht Fragen an Ihren Cloud-Computing-Anbieter (30 April 2010, Computer Woche)
- CIO-Kontroverse: Jeder Fünfte will die IT-Abteilung abschaffen (30 April 2010, CIO)

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Press review week 17/2010

- Cloud Computing, Security Focus of CentraComm Regional IT Forum (26 April 2010, PR News Wire)
- German Business Confidence Increased to Two-Year High in April (23 April 2010, Business Week)
- Time for some honesty about IT cost cutting (21 April 2010, Silicon)
- Why should CEOs give top priority to outsourcing ? (21 April 2010, Silicon India)
- Is technology killing Mother Earth? (21 April 2010, CIOL)
- Outsourcing: This election’s forgotten issue (20 April 2010, Silicon)
- Look Beyond Cloud Labels: Prepare for Hybrid Journey (20 April 2010, CIO)
- Der Frühling kommt langsam auch im IT-Arbeitsmarkt (26 April 2010, CIO)
- Warnende Anzeichen: 8 Gründe, den Outsourcing-Anbieter zu wechseln (23 April 2010, CIO)
- Deutschlands Manager im Sog des Web 2.0 (21 April 2010, Silicon)
- Facebook: Ein “Like”-Button für das gesamte Internet (21 April 2010, Die Presse)
- Globalisierung: Zu weit gegangen (21 April 2010, ZEIT)

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Press review week 16/2010

- Carbon Reduction Commitment angers IT industry (12 April 2010, Computing)
- How to get IT spend moving again – Gartner (12 April 2010, Business and Leadership)
- Could open source overtake the iPhone? (14 April 2010, (InfoWorld)
- Where is Your Cloud? Four Compliance Best Practices (19 April 2010, CIO)
- Cloud Computing Shakes Up Traditional IT Outsourcing (13 April 2010, CIO)
- Experton-Analyse: Wer füllt die Cloud mit Business-Services? (16 April 2010, Computerwoche)
- Cloud Computing: Die meisten Anbieter sind noch nicht so weit (14 April 2010, ZDNet)
- Gartner-Studie: Die 6 größten Risiken bei Virtualisierung (13 April 2010, CIo)
- Gartner-Forecast: Europas Unternehmen investieren nur vorsichtig in IT (12 April 2010, Computerwoche)

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