1. An Overview of
Ukrainian IT Market

2. Ukraine is:
 About 70% of adult population have secondary or higher education;
 Nearly 60% of Ukrainian universities have graduates with majors in physics,
mathematics and programming;
 With only 1% of all world’s population, Ukraine has 6% of the world’s physicists,
mathematicians, computer programmers, and other highly educated professionals;
 More than 16,000 IT specialists with bachelor degree and about 14,000 IT specialists
with master degree graduate from universities each year;
 Ukraine is among the TOP 10 countries with the most certified IT professionals;
 Ukraine Internet penetration is growing fast – it is now estimated that 33.9% of
Ukraine’s population, or 15.3 million people are on the Internet according to the
International Telecommunications Union (a U.N. agency) as of March 2011; this places
Ukraine as the 9th largest user of the Internet in Europe.

3. Achievements
 According to the 2012 Bench Games Leader Board, Ukraine
ranks 3d globally (out of 50 countries) in the “Most Certified
Citizens” category, following the United States and India.
 In the “Most Master-Level Certified Nation” category Ukraine
ranks 2d globally, following the United States. However, it has
outrun the USA by the number of IT certifications.
 Ukraine has gained 91 Master-Level IT Certificates out of 96
granted.

4. Ukrainian Internal IT Market
 Accordingly to IDC report the internal
Ukraine’s IT market grown on 10% in the year
of 2011 and its volume reached $3,3b.
 The market for IT services (value added
resellers, integrator businesses) has grown on
5% and reached $200m.

5. Tendencies of Ukrainian IT Market
 Attention of the world’s biggest companies
UniCredit-owned Ukrainian Ukrsotsbank has signed a 10-year,
$200 million IT systems and processes outsourcing contract
with IBM.
 Government support :
 Prime Minister of Ukraine N. Azarov has signed a decree of the Cabinet of
Ministers aimed at improving the quality of IT professionals and bringing education to
the needs of industry and labor market.
In 2011, Parliament adopted at first reading a bill on an experiment in information
technology, which is co-authored by Viktor Yanukovych Jr. According to this bill,
domestic IT companies will be granted a "tax holiday" for 5 years.

6. The Main Problems of Ukrainian IT Market are:
 Piracy
 Political instability

7. Ukraine on Global IT market
IT sector is definitely very important for the country. Ukraine has all the
factors to succeed here. And it does succeed.
 outsourcing
 Achievements
 World class standarts
 Sartups and established businesses

8. Outsourcing
Some fact about the outsourcing segment of Ukraine’s IT market:
 outsourcing accounts for roughly 70% of the Ukrainian IT market, that makes near two
billion dollars;
 since 2007 Ukraine is included in Gartner’s TOP 30 outsourcing locations list;
 since 2007 Kiev is listed in Tholon’s TOP 100 Emerging Outsourcing Destination Cities List;
 Ukraine is the #1 in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in regards to:
IT outsourcing market value (~$2b)
Number of IT outsourcing companies (~850)
Number of employees involved in IT outsourcing industry (~14K)

9. Western standards in work and education
 KM Soft, the software division of Kvazar-Micro Corp., has been successfully appraised at
CMMI(R) Maturity Level 4.
 Infopulse employee became the first professional in Ukraine to pass the Business
Continuity Management (BCM) test and obtain the international certificate of the Certified
Business Continuity Implementer with merit.
 There are more than 10 MBA schools in Kiev

10. Our Business
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environments. According to Gartner by 2012 50% of all businesses already virtualized
their infrastructures and in the next 5 years this ratio will be close to 100%. From year
2010 to year 2015 the total base of virtual machines will grow 5 times! More than $20b
to be spent on virtualization projects during this time.
Our software turns any windows driven industry standard server into highly available
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With only one round of VC investment to date our company successfully compete with
known storage market leaders like EMC, EqualLogic, DataCore.

11. Conclusion
 Ukraine is definitely IT country.
 Ukraine has proven track of achievements in this area and it has
great potential for more achievements.
 IT sector is the one where Ukraine poses itself as a competitive
country and even world leader in some segments of this market.

12. Thank You for Your Attention!