Ciklum helps coComment track 22 million online conversations

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Ciklum just put out an interesting story about how IT outsourcing is helping emerging tech start ups get into market. Yea, we are talking out IT outsourcing - and not the old school stuff you hear about over in India and China. We are talking new school, IT outsourcing based on a team-based approach rather than projects. We are talking an integration/merge of technology, human beings and administrative methods to create an outsourcing environment that works more dynamically with its emerging tech clients.
In the age of Web 2.0, active participants in online discussions need an easier way to find conversations, follow leading commenters and discover what’s hot in the online dialogue. Ciklum is an IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine

Enter coComment, a Swiss startup that allows users to track, organize, compile and update comment-based Web conversations – from blogs and newspapers to social networks. coComment has utilized Ciklum’s unique blend of technical expertise, human resources and administrative efficiencies in outsourcing to focus on building its core product and business while moving to market quickly.

With the support of Ciklum, coComment is now able to track more than 22 million conversations from more than 280,000 sites, with additional sites added every day.

According to Ciklum’s founder, Torben Majgaard, coComment wanted to build its technology and engineering team quickly, but the skills they needed were in short supply. So what did Ciklum do? Ciklum provided a team of skilled specialists that handles all software development and provides an environment for coComment to perfect its product and move to market quickly with less risk and minimal investment. Just what a start up needs today.

The CEO of coComment, Matt Colebourne, said they wanted a relationship where their team at Ciklum worked for them and was completely focused their goals.  Ciklum’s dedicated coComment team goes beyond the rigid structure of old-school outsourcing and gives us a new generation of workers that are in direct communication with us without any interference.

See, even IT Outsourcing adapts to the market shifts for start ups.

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Outsourcing 2.0

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We really want to call it this because we believe that is what it is. This outsourcing brought to you by Ciklum, a Danish backed and operated company in the Ukraine, is not your father’s outsourcing firm. It’s not even focused on large enterprises, what is is focused on is creating a transparent and interactive experience for those small to medium sized IT companies who just don’t want to be a cog in the wheel of an Indian or Chinese project oriented outsourcing company. Ciklum has grown rapidly mostly in part to the innovative business model that their founder, Torbin Majgaard, has created — to create dynamic interaction between the client and the IT guys that you are outsourcing your critical work to - and via the hottest emerging market around - Eastern Europe. It’s really quite clever because his team based approach creates a bond between the client and the company, encouraging more of a colleague type environment so that the employee gets to know and be an extension of the client he works for - and give the client  a face - it’s a new way of approaching this type of work that brings an element of social networking into play. With Gartner, Forrester and Yankee Group all reporting massive uptake of the SMB into Eastern Europe, we expect to see the lumbering traditional outsourcing model dominated by India and China try and keep up. Computer Weekly reported that outsourcing options in Eastern Europe are a good cultural match for EMEA and North America. But its companies like Ciklum that are staying focused on helping grow SMBs  and give extendable and flexible tools they need all within the walls of interactivity to chart new outsourcing ground.

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