Reports

 UK companies should turn to Spain for their outsourcing requirements because it offers the best combination of state-of-the art business and technology skills, low cost and easy access.

The 2009-2010 FEACO survey of the European management consulting market conducted in collaboration with the national management consulting associations in Europe shows that the size of the consulting market decreased from 86.2 billion € in 2008 to 83,7 billion € in 2009, which means a decline of -5%

On October 27th, Bill Martorelli, Forrester's Analyst conducted the Webinar: Broadening Geography of Global Sourcing.

London & Madrid, 3 November 2010 - Valueshore, the Spanish Government-backed group of IT consultancies, has today released its second bulletin for IT professionals entitled ‘Spain’s IT Labour Pool’.

 

The Spanish Association of Consulting Firms (AEC) presented its annual report “Consultancy in Spain: Key Figures for the industry 2009”. The report revealed that outsourcing was the most prosperous line of business for the Spanish consulting industry in the last six years, accounting for 39% of all income in Spain. If this upward curve continues, outsourcing will soon...

Welcome to this, the inaugural issue of the Value Shore bulletin. Value Shore represents a collaboration of 25 of Spain’s leading IT consulting firms aimed at promoting Spain as a nearshore innovation hub for firms in the UK, Germany, the Nordic and the Netherlands.

Sourcing executives rarely hear about Spain as a nearshore destination, but Spain attracts vendors and buyers alike with its large, well-qualifed IT labor pool, world-class vertically focused services resources, competitive IT services rates, and potential scale through linkage to Latin America.

The study qualifies the value-risk-cost relationship that the Spanish market offers European firms that are sourcing global IT services. Key Findings

Western European companies are under dual pressure when it comes to their IT projects — namely the need to lower cost of implementation while at the same time accessing high-level skills that are in scarce supply. One of the ways of alleviating this is by enhancing sourcing options by working with service providers that can deliver on both needs at the same time.

The unique combination of a major EU country with a stable, solid economy and a history of technological and business innovation, coupled with relatively low costs, staff rotation and inflation rates creates a permanent source of highly qualified business and ICT professionals enabling Spain to sustainably...