Posted on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58 by Alina RAFOI (6 day(s) old)
IT offshore press review week 05/20
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- Green IT: In search of an energy yardstick (January 30, 2012, Computer World)
- Twitter's country-specific blocking brings hazards and hope (January 27, 2012, Computer World)
- Facebook IPO could come next week ...
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Pentalog, reknown actor in the IT services sector publishes various information about the year 2009: sales figures, manpower, customers, projects...
50% growth in sales when the overall performance in IT services is -6%
N° 1 of the French-speaking IT offshore / nearshore business in France
N° 1 in Nearshore business in France
N° 2 on the Romanian IT outsourcing market
Among the top 10 of European nearshore companies
EUR 13.5 M in sales
458th company in Europe and Middle East for positive growth in 2008, according to Deloitte Technology Fast 500
double digit profitability ratio, up 50%
Doubling of the overall profit margin
Opening the Pentalog Vietnam offices in February, with over 40 employees in December
First operations in digital television
Rate of time & material operations reduced to 10% of the productive workforce in December
60% of actual sales came from competency divisions (in multi-year contracts), 20% in time & material, 10% in consulting, 10% fixed price.
80% of production staff is evaluated on a daily basis, using 25 to 40 criteria points
Progressive deployment of production metrics on projects
EUR 0,6 million spent on training
32 people trained on project management this year
169 people trained on quality awareness
152 people trained in French and English
541 people were trained (that is to say 100% of the permanent staff, + 100% of those in the Pentalog incubator)
77% for overall customer satisfaction (75% corresponding to "very good" and 85% "excellent")
Too low an index of internal satisfaction: 61% (66% = good and 50% = fair)
The overall number rose from 290 to 430 employees
100 people were recruited in Romania and Moldova
Specializing in Telecom: 40 engineer for ST-Ericsson mobile platforms (lower layers), 15 people for LHS-Ericsson billing system, 8 people in internet services for CityVox (Orange group), 3 BI consultants for Orange Romania, 6 people for the management of web services for Nordnet (Orange Group, web access control, management services and equipment).
26% of our Sales were signed outside of France (30% of foreign sales in Romania, 40% in Germany and 30% in Switzerland, Austria and Moldova).
128% German revenue growth to EUR 1.6 million
65 000 hits per month on Pentalog sites up till year end or 2200 hits / day! This figure does not include videos on web sharing sites
50 000 downloaded catalogs – Offshore prices for Pentalog services in Europe
12 new customers monthly
Dependency ratio: the first customer represents 13.6% of sales. This figure is rising.
Web Content Display 
Pentalog will be at CeBIT 2011, from March 01 to 05 (Hall 5, Stand B48) 
