Dear Readers,

May and June are – like every year – the period of numerous industry events gathering many outstanding delegates, with a strong content-related messages and presentation of opportunities for further development of the outsourcing industry. This year, the conference season was begun in the last days of April by the Polish Outsourcing Forum, the eighth edition of which was held in the capital of the global outsourcing in Bangalore, India. Mid-May was an annual ASPIRE conference – Acting Local, Winning Global, held in Kraków; the first week of June, on the other hand, was the time for ABSL conference. All three events this year were extremely well organized and showed that the subject of BPO and SSC has a high position in the Polish economy. These and other events related to outsourcing are described on our pages.

The topic we decided to focus on more this time was data archiving, scanning and document destruction services. It’s a common phenomenon that requires confidentiality, high quality and easy access to both paper and electronic documents. These are services that are and can be provided to each entity in every industry. It is one of a number of outsourcing services provided on such a scale.

The region we are concentrating on this time is the Kujawsko-Pomorskie province with its leading city of Bydgoszcz. For many years Bydgoszcz has been associated with the ICT industry; Alcatel-Lucent and Atos are just some examples of great players who have located their head offices there. The Operation Centre of Bank Pocztowy is also situated there; our pages feature an interview with the Management Board of Operation Centre.

There is also no slow-down time for Pro Progressio Foundation. It begins cooperation with more and more organizations; and at the same time, Pro Progressio conducts a number of educational activities and is awarded its first major industry prize. The Foundation invites to a summary of the year to be held in January 2014 – more details in the Pro Progressio publication.

In addition, we would like to inform and invite you to the Outsourcing Fair in Warsaw, which will be organised immediately after the holiday season – current information is available on OutsourcingPortal pages.