What challenges do high-tech companies face? What
are the current trends on the global outsourcing market? These are the
questions discussed in the recent article by Global Services—an influential
media platform aimed at corporate IT professionals and run jointly by CMP and Cyber
Media. This time they took a closer look at the engineering outsourcing
services sector, drawing the conclusions from the experience of leading Russian
outsourcing companies. And Auriga has once again been cited as a prime example
of one of the top providers in Russia.
According to Global Services, developers such as Auriga are ensuring Russia’s
growing emergence as the new leader in engineering services outsourcing.

Outsourcing isn’t just writing code or testing
software anymore, the article stresses. Companies in high-tech domain are
already looking at global engineering service providers to bring in innovative
solutions for next-gen products. And it’s not only about the cost anymore, either.
While for CEOs outsourcing still primarily means cutting the cost of expensive
R&D and engineering support, for CTOs and PMs that’s already more about
drawing in ideas and talents, reducing the product development cycle,
minimizing TTM, and increasing capacity.

Many
companies have begun off shoring to cut costs, but then expand their
commitments for more strategic reasons, and eventually high-talent weighs more
than low-cost. And that’s where Russia
and companies like Auriga enter the scene, offering top innovative solutions
unmatched by their counterparts in the more traditional outsourcing venues.

Almost 50 percent of Russian student population
majors in technology, science or engineering—far more than in China, India,
Japan or the U.S.—and that over 1.3 million degreed professionals are currently
circulating in the Russian economy, with an estimated 2.35 million more in the
university system. These figures alone illustrate the country’s vast potential
to attract first-rate international clients seeking IT and engineering
outsourcing talent—a supposition that is being effectively corroborated by such
companies as Sun Microsystems, Intel, Alcatel, IBM, HP, and many others, that
have been setting up independent R&D centers throughout Russia.