Dear Readers,

The holiday season has been successful for the outsourcing industry in Poland as well as the first half of the year, and projects planned for coming four months look very impressing. Some of them, which due to their character and innovation are worth to mention.

Autumn this year is very reach in industry events, of which you may read more in OutsourcingPortal’s calendar of events. First very important industry event are Outsourcing Fairs, organized by Reinhold Expo in October at Warsaw’s Expo XXI Hall. – Finally the outsourcing industry has the contest and awards program for the fastest growing outsourcing services providers in Poland. Outsourcing Stars 2013, the contest organized by Pro Progressio Foundation – will be finalized with Grand Gala on January 16th, 2014. Outsourcing&More is the Media Partner of both mentioned above events.

Let’s come back to Outsourcing&More. In current edition we are presenting you more details concerning IT Outsourcing. IT technology, research&development, Clusters, IT Contracting are only selected examples of information technology outsourcing and its business environment. On our pages you can find the most interesting publications from Poland but also German market. In this edition we are presenting article written by Mr. Mithun Sridharan, Communication Chair of German Outsourcing Association and Founder of Outsourcing4SMEs.com. The authors of other publications are representatives of such well-known Polish
brands like for example Aiton Caldwell or ACC Advanced Solutions.

Our journey accross Poland we are going to finalize within next couple of months, but this time we had longer stop in Opole Region. City of Opole is very active in the area of presenting its attitudes for outsourcing industry investors. Close distance to Wroclaw and Katowice favours good communication and logistics with the City and new investments of such industry representatives like Capgemini only prove Opole has interesting offer for large outsourcing players. To complete the publications from Opole we have invited CBRE and HAYS to present real estate and HR reports.

Finally, I would like to invite all outsourcing companies from Poland to add your address details in Outsourcing Bible – the complete catalogue of outsourcing service providers, which data entry form is available on www.bibliaoutsourcingu.pl.

Enjoy the magazine.