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CIMAC Bulgarian Development Center<\/H4>\n\n\n\n
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The CIMAC Bulgarian Development Center (BDC) was created in 2008 to satisfy the increased demand for enterprise IT services from CIMAC customers. The BDC provides CIMAC with a scalable IT workforce for a variety of customer and internal projects including: <\/P>\n

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  • Professional services \n
  • Factory automation solutions \n
  • Equipment Interface (EI) development \n
  • Remote recipe management \n
  • Advanced software applications <\/LI><\/UL><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/TD><\/TR>\n
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Intellectual Property (IP) protection is an integral part of CIMAC as well as Bulgarian cultural. CIMAC IP protection starts with prevention including security (background check, badge access and secure servers) and encryption. Bulgaria’s EU membership requires policies and programs to protect IP including aggressive laws, vigorous enforcement and tough sentences in addition to the USA-Bulgaria Intellectual Property Rights Agreement. Finally, Bulgaria culture highly encourages employee loyalty.<\/P><\/TD><\/TR>\n

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Why Bulgaria<\/A><\/H3>\n
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  • EU member \n
  • Cultural compatibility \n
  • Friendly business regulatory framework \n
  • Strong talent pool \n
  • Multilingual workforce \n
  • Low personnel turnover rate (10% - 15% per annum) \n
  • Lowest professional services cost in European Union -- $683 (434 Euro) per month on average \n
  • Historical high-tech center of former Soviet Union \n
  • Excellent math, science and engineering schools \n
  • IT workers experienced in complex technologies good for high-end, complex but small-scale projects \n
  • Over 50 Bulgarian companies belong to Basscom, Bulgaria’s software industry association. \n
  • Presence of large foreign companies such as Hewlett Packard (1250 employees) and SAP (460 employees) <\/LI><\/UL><\/TD><\/TR>\n

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A.T. KEARNEY 2007 LOCATION INDEXTM<\/SUP><\/H3>\n
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  • Bulgaria is ranked in the top ten best countries in the world for offshoring (of 50 countries) \n
  • Bulgaria is ranked first among central and eastern Europe countries for offshoring <\/LI><\/UL><\/TD>\n

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Bulgarian IT Talent Pool<\/H3>\n
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    Since the end of the Cold War, countries such as Bulgaria have been reaching out to Western markets and companies. Expansion of the EU into Bulgaria has accelerated this trend across most business sectors, but especially in software development which is due in part to the talent pool.<\/P>\n

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    Other factors make Bulgaria an outsourcing target of particular interest. Offshoring software operations to culturally familiar programming teams avoids a lot of problems with the complex communication demands of software projects. This is particularly true since Bulgarian salaries are comparable to those of other offshore location targets like India.<\/P>\n

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    Professionals per 10,000 inhabitants:<\/P><\/LI><\/UL>\n\n\n\n\n
    United States<\/TD>\nBulgaria<\/TD>\nIndia<\/TD><\/TR>\n
    8.2<\/TD>\n5.8<\/TD>\n0.9<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>\n
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      IT Professionals per 10,000 inhabitants:<\/P><\/LI><\/UL>\n\n\n\n\n
      United States<\/TD>\nBulgaria<\/TD>\nIndia<\/TD><\/TR>\n
      1.07<\/TD>\n0.22<\/TD>\n0.25<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>\n");