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IT offshore press review week 20/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:42:44 +0000

Have you ever wondered what are the 5 outsourcing trends to watch? Smaller deals, new pricing models, multi-sourcing wranglers, increased focus on security and cloudsourcing. Welcome to the new IT outsourcing press review!

- 5 outsourcing trends to watch (May 10, 2012,

One (or two) Pentastock festivals in 2013?

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:45:57 +0000

Pentalog has taken the decision to celebrate its 20 years of existence. All those who took part in Pentastock 2010, celebrating 10 years of Pentalog in Romania and 5 years of Pentalog in the Republic of Moldova, remember this extraordinary and boisterous

IT offshore press review week 19/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:53:56 +0000

5 tips to attract startup funding; How to rescue your data in the cloud; Facebook IPO will not be derailed; and other subjects in today’s IT offshore press review.

- Crowdsourcing game helps diagnose infectious diseases (May 5, 2012, Computer World)
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Are French IT companies prejudicing the research tax credit and their customers?

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:03:11 +0000

One of the best specialists offering tax assistance to companies told me not very long ago that many French IT companies were not skimping on using the research tax credit, often advised to do so by supposedly specialized cabinets, which are in fact

Join Pentalog at Solutions Linux Open Source from 19th to 21st of June at the CNIT in Paris La D�fense

Pierre PEUTIN — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:05:25 +0000

The Linux Open Source trade show will take place from 19^th to 21^st of June at the CNIT in Paris La D�fense. This 14^th edition of the European trade show dedicated to Linux and Open Source will offer its visitors several novelties among which the creation of

IT offshore press review week 17/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:46:14 +0000

The IT offshore press review at a glance: VC, Google metrics, SaaS, IT consumerization, outsourcing in the UK and others. Enjoy!

- Venture capital poured into enterprise software in Q1 (April 20, 2012, Computer world)
- Google introduces new TV like metrics for measuring

Is Pentalog practicing CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)?

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:18:51 +0000

What is social responsibility and what makes it different from social innovation? What is Pentalog’s standing in these matters? What is the meaning of these two notions on our different offices?

On the occasion of Spring Campus de Croissance Plus, that Monica

S-commerce : Pentalog Israel sells a Social Commerce platform to a world leader in design

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:01:40 +0000

Pentalog has reasons to be happy. Our clients place our offer higher and higher in fields like e-commerce, telecom industry, soft R&D or consulting in Information System.

Now including a consulting department that is quickly joining the league of the sector

Start-up incentives for innovating companies

Aymeric LIBEAU — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:32:10 +0000

On March 21st I took part in �tats G�n�raux du Cloud organised by EuroCloud France association. It was a truly dynamic day with rich exchanges during the workshops, quality participants and companies that really deserved their prizes.

During this event, Ms Laure

IT offshore press review week 15/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:50:31 +0000

We hope you’ll enjoy the new IT offshore press review. A bunch of very interesting subjects this week.

- Emerging software tools help boost IT spending projections (April 6, 2012, Computer world)
- Indian IT firms are heading for a fall (April 6,

IT offshore press review week 14/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:30:09 +0000

Welcome to the IT offshore press review.

- IT Outsourcing System Is Broken, How Can Service Providers Fix It? (March 29, 2012, CIO)
- 5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them March 23, CIO)
- 10 Best U.S. Cities for IT

ScrumDay 2012

Aymeric LIBEAU — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:30:12 +0000

I attended ScrumDay 2012, organized by the French Scrum User Group (French only), together with Cornel Fatulescu, Director of the Pentalog Institute. Despite the participation fee, I guess about 500 people took part in the conferences.

Personally, I have chosen the following conferences:

Scrum for

Loss of a customer, transparency… and strength of the company!

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:39:48 +0000

It is when we lose a big customer that I realize how much our policy makes sense. Indeed, we have just been informed that one of our biggest customers is leaving us, although they have been highly satisfied with our

IT offshore press review week 13/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:38:55 +0000

Welcome to the IT offshore press review. Is it time to quit Facebook?

- Time to quit Facebook; it doesn’t Like you any more (March 23, 2012, IT World)
- Why IT Professionals Aren�t�Monogamous (March 24, 2012, Techcrunch)
- Department for Work and Pensions

The first feedback on our new catalog and on the �Private Sales� policy

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:18:28 +0000

When our catalog was freely downloadable, we observed, outside the direct marketing campaigns, an amount of downloads per month that reached as many as 700. During campaigns, we even exceeded this figure sometimes during one day.
Our last campaign, which has

IT offshore press review week 12/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:59:26 +0000

Mobility, Cloud computing, IT Budgets and IT Hiring. These are just a few of the subjects in today’s IT Offshore press review! Come and join us on Facebook!

- Expanded IT trade pact would bring huge benefits, study says (March 15, 2012,

Relocation, tax spoliation… just of few thoughts concerning the demagogues from all walks of life

Fr�d�ric LASNIER — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:06:18 +0000

In these election times, in France as well as in the USA, this is a popular word. Easy to use and definitely catchy, it reconciles the extreme left, the extreme right, the extreme center and the elderly. It works almost

IT offshore press review week 11/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:15:29 +0000

Gartner announces that less than 30% of large organisations will block social media access by 2014. Is your outsourcer agile enough? Could new breed of Indian IT suppliers sneak under the radar again? These are just a few of the subjects of the IT offshore

IT offshore press review week 10/2012

Alina RAFOI — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:38:34 +0000

A lot of fun and interesting subjects in this IT offshore press review. Enjoy!

- Mobile World Congress 2012 roundup: All you need to know from Barcelona (March 2, 2012, Computer world)
- Facebook woos businesses with redesigned business pages, Timeline (February 29, 2012,

The MWC 2012 Conference � A vision of 2022 (second part)

Micka�l HIVER — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:07:25 +0000

The conference continued on the vision of 2022 (see my previous post here) by presenting several companies and their innovative solutions. Paul Lee (Deloitte), the chairman of this conference, has asked us for a vote in order to see which of