Fifteen information technology companies operating in Ukraine have made it onto the list of the best tech firms in the world over the last 10 years — the Best of the Global Outsourcing 100.
Compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, or IAOP, and published on Feb. 19, the list includes chiefly Ukrainian software firms as well as the international ones that have Ukrainian offices. In total, there are 15 such firms.
This is the 10th year in a row that the IAOP has issued this alphabetical order list, designed to “help IT companies find business partners by highlighting the best of them.” However this time, celebrating the anniversary of the ranking, IAOP did not include any new companies. Instead, it “featured companies that have been at the top of the GO100 for a decade.”
“(These) companies have distinguished themselves by evolving from ‘rising stars’ to ‘leaders’… over this period,” the IAOP website reads. The results were based on an evaluation of the scoring results over all the previous GO100 lists.
Usually, the main criteria for ranking the companies were profitability, team growth, customer recommendations, and level of corporate social responsibility.
The Ukrainian firms have headquarters in the country’s biggest cities — Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro. They are: Ciklum, Infopulse, Miratech, Softengi, ELEKS, Intellias, N-iX, Sigma Software, Program-Ace, SoftServe, and AMC Bridge.
Six tech firms with Ukrainian offices have their headquarters in the United States (EPAM, TEAM International Services, Svitla, Softjourn, Intetics), and Luxoft is originally from Switzerland.
Although the GO100 list has been published for 10 years, in 2015, it included only four Ukrainian tech firms. The number grew to 10 in 2016, to 13 in 2017, and to 18 in 2018
In this anniversary ranking, there three Ukrainian firms fewer than in 2018. All the same, Ukraine has made considerable progress over the last few years, as only four Ukrainian tech firms made the list in 2015. The number grew to 10 in 2016 and to 13 in 2017.
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