World tech giants and Outstaffing to Ukraine

Although on the global stage, Ukraine still remains a minor player with huge potential, it is definitely an attractive point of IT business development among European and Western countries. The Ukrainian IT market has gone through many stages of "evolution", and finally today, if we talk about Ukraine's potential, our resources and capabilities are a real treasure for foreign IT companies. This is what initiated the interest of many well-known companies in opening their own offices and R&D centers in Ukraine.

Offices, subsidiary companies, and R&D centers significantly influence the labor market in the country as a whole. When we help Western IT corporations to open their offices in Ukraine, we at the same time encourage them to set up a complete infrastructure.

In addition, IT Ukraine Association experts estimated that one employee in the IT industry creates 3-4 jobs in related industries. With the industry growing to 400,000 professionals by 2024, approximately 2 million jobs will be created in Ukraine, allowing Ukraine to assert itself as a more powerful player in this area.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, SAP, Sony, and Samsung are world-renowned technology companies with great products. But they have another common feature - they all work with Ukrainian software developers and decided to create their own centers and R&D offices here.

Their experience and reviews are almost the best promos for the Ukrainian IT market. So let's take a look at their own history of creating and locating their centers in Ukraine.

Let's continue with the world-famous American companies. Apple is a manufacturer of personal and tablet computers, audio players, phones, software, and modern multitasking operating systems with a graphical interface.

Through innovative technology and aesthetic design, Apple has built a unique, cult-like reputation in the consumer electronics industry. Every fan of this company is looking forward to the new presentation of the updated range of products because every time it is a new performance that will make the world talk only about it for the next few months. If we talk about statistics, the company ranks first in the world in terms of market capitalization - in mid-August 2020, Apple's capitalization grew to $2 trillion. By the way, an interesting fact is that only the Apple Company itself owns monetary capital greater than the GDP of 136 countries.

However, it makes no sense to talk a lot about the company's products, because statistics indicate that every second person on the planet has at least one of Apple's products, be it a computer, phone, watch, or tablet.

On June 28, 2021, the official Apple support service in Ukraine switched to the Ukrainian language - from now on, when contacting Apple Support, Ukrainian users of the company's products and services can receive advice in the Ukrainian language.

The launch of the Ukrainian support service became the first evidence that Apple is going to open its representative office in Ukraine, because in two days - on June 30, 2021, the Apple Company opened an official office in Ukraine and from now on independently imports equipment and controls the stores of official dealers. Such a decision by a global player in the technology market indicates a high level of trust in Ukraine, which in turn strengthened the country's image and attracted new investments.

Google is an American multinational corporation, part of the Alphabet holding company, that invests in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies, founded on September 4, 1998.

In 20 years, the Google company went from zero to almost a trillion - in value and pages. Today, the company's capitalization exceeds $850 billion. During its existence, the search engine indexed hundreds of billions of pages, changed its name twice, transformed online search into a digital advertising market, and learned to compete successfully in the market for smartphones and mobile devices.

Google made its first entry into the Ukrainian market back in 2005, opening its office in the capital, Kyiv. The critical task was working with advertisers and promotional mechanisms, as well as launching and supporting the corporation's products - Google Classroom, Google Pay, Google Cloud, and others. According to Youcontrol, in 2019, revenue amounted to 3.6 billion dollars, and in the first hour of the pandemic, it increased by 40-45%.

However, the company did not stop at just one office, and since January 2020, the employees of the CloudSimple office have received a new status - employees of the Google research center. Today, the center is located and conducts its vital activities in the capital, the heart of Ukraine - Kyiv, where about 50 people work.

It became the third of eight research and development offices of this global giant in Central and Eastern Europe. The other two are located in Poland and Hungary.

Every year, more and more foreign representations are opening in Ukraine. One of the reasons why the world's companies showcase their legacy centers in Ukraine is the competitiveness of the target state in the neighboring countries of the region. You can verify this by looking at the price/quality ratio, as well as looking at the reviews of other foreign companies that have been working in Ukraine for a long time and take their business to a new level every year. Such companies as Samsung, Ring, Siemens, Boeing, Netcracker, Oracle, and ABBYY have already opened their R&D centers in Ukraine.

Many foreign experts are sure that after the victory of Ukraine in a terrible war, it will become one of the world centers of IT culture and the projects opened in it will be the best of the best.

We hope that this article was useful to you and after reading it you did not remain indifferent. Good luck in building your business, and if you need information about the Ukrainian IT sector and Ukrainian dedicated developers, we recommend reading our previous articles. 

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