"We see our team in Dnepropetrovsk alongside our offices in London and New York as our Ukraine office. It is truly "Code Ukraine" and is treated as such; it just happens to be located remotely. This is a big difference from traditional project-based outsourcing where we would be seen just as "the client"... Ciklum's office in Dnepropetrovsk offers its clients many hidden gems, including very importantly highly skilled and dedicated team members at a cost that is 50-70% lower than in the UK."

"Regarding our cost saving I would say we experience nearly 50% cost savings on our Ukrainian team, compared to Dutch professionals with the same skills."

"Having chosen to engage with Ciklum for our EPiServer portal development it has been a relief to see technically competent, intelligent and pro-active Ciklum employees handle all matters contractual, planning, estimation and development - in a manner most IT-management consultancy houses in Western Europe would be hard pressed to top."

"New functionalities are developed in a framework agreement with Ciklum. This means that the Lahore team in Pakistan is coding new functions into the shop. My programmers work well with Ciklum, and all parts - except for the integration into our ERP at Dansk Supermarked - are made by Ciklum. Our solution architects are working closely together with Ciklum because most of our code work is done externally."

"Overall I believe that Ciklum's experience in using best practice around setting up a successful software development abroad is the key to the success. The total time from the first contact with Ciklum to the team start up was six weeks. We were surprised how fast the process was and how little resources we needed to invest. Currently, the quality and efficiency of our near-shore team in Ukraine is already up to a level matching our IT development team in Sweden."

"De tre fordele ved Ukraine er den nære tidszone, den korte afstand og den ens kultur. Ved at lægge opgaverne i Ukraine udvider vi kapaciteten, så vi kan udvikle hurtigere til rimelige omkostninger. Det ville vi slet ikke kunne nå i samme takt, hvis vi skulle hyre konsulenter, og så ville det være svært at gennemføre den offensive strategi, som vi har."

"I would certainly recommend any company looking to build a technology team to consider doing so in Ukraine with Ciklum. You can build a world-class team for less money AND you remove 90% of the administrative hassle and, for a small business, that's a huge incentive."

"The productivity of my team in Ukraine is as what I would expect from a Danish team but the total cost of ownership is only about 50% of what I would have to pay in Denmark! I can't imagine not having my nearshore team aboard."

"When Scalepoint decided to outsource part of our application development to offshore companies it was not just for financial reasons. Yes, it is still cheaper to have a development team in Ukraine than in Denmark, but the price is not the only parameter. What is important is that in Ukraine we have found qualified developers who have the knowledge and experience with these types of projects. Ciklum's developers have the right methodologies and the right approach to a project such as this."

"In the spring of 2005, Encode us ed Ciklum's services to create a team in Kiev. The main thing that attracted Encode to Ciklum was it's concept of dedicated team..."

"When considering whether to invest in a company I in general look more positively at companies that have actively pursued Outsourcing as part of their overall R&D strategy. The simple reason is that I would like to see Management thinking both cost effectiveness and scalability into their strategy. I have personally used Ciklum for some of our portfolio companies as Ciklum offers the strategic advantage of having an IT Team that belongs exclusively to the customer and thus keeps and builds knowledge internally."

"When you have a business it is not about which office you sit in, or even what language you speak, but how qualified the people you have employed are. Through Ciklum we have those great resources that come with competent people, and Ciklum makes sure that distance and communication are but distant worries. Together with Ciklum we have created a team that might be located remote, but whom we feel are TLA Media people and thus vital part of our business."

"Having them [IGCN developers] sitting with Ciklum also give us some advantages, this was why we chose Ciklum in the first place. With them we can scale up and down should we need it and Ciklum provides a lot of different support around the team. to mention a few: HR retention helps with Development Interviews, Administration with visas and travel arrangement, and Ciklum Services and Consulting department with good advises and support."

"If I should describe the biggest benefit of CTI in a few words it would be transparency and measurability, because the tools gives us a good - and required - overview of procedures, helps us to determines goals and estimate deadlines and thus helps us track each part of the development process."

"It has been a very positive three months experience right from the day we presented our requirements till we received the final solution. Initially Ciklum made a lot of effort in making sure that our requirements were well understood."

"To our experience, the key advantages of working with Ciklum are the full-service offering that Ciklum provides and the fact that the Ciklum organization is there for us; always willing to help and support. These are the main factors that helped us realize that making the investment in starting up with outsourcing was worthwhile..."

"Having a team of developers working dedicated on our project is of great value to us, not only because of the great work the team delivers, but also because of the flexibility and cost savings we get from having the team with Ciklum."

"We were looking for skilled Developers with background in Drupal that despite the complexity of our product quickly could learn it. After the initial contact to Ciklum we felt comfortable that they could help us find such candidates and we started the hiring process."

"Our team in Ukraine is built with sub teams where they are working closely together with our onshore employees in a scrum based environment. The teams at Ciklum are taking ownership of what they develop and are coming with good suggestions and/or solutions on how to improve the product."

"The productivity of the team is 80-85% (incl. onshore management) compared with a local employee. This is what we see as the highest possible to achieve, thinking of the distance. Compared to the total costs of ownership of our team in Ukraine this is a very good value for our money."

"For a smaller business as Viskan India was not an option. Ciklum understands the needs of Viskan and have always been able to help us out in the best of ways..."

"Ciklum had in very short time put together a team at same standard and in some cases better qualified than our Danish developers. And for our customers at a better price..."

"Adjustables has been working with Ciklum since January 2007. The co-operation is efficient as well as effective. In a short time we were able to attract 7 skilled, capable and motivated employees, exclusively working for Adjustables. We regard the professional attitude of Ciklum as well as the employees as very valuable."

"Not only the effectiveness of Ciklum's human resources department impressed, but also the programmers' high skills. Edmware's employee at Ciklum has the level of a Master of Science in Engineering..."

"Since spring 2002 we cooperate with Ciklum getting only positive results and satisfaction. We control the work done ourselves while Ciklum takes care of the practical matters and the management in Kiev..."

"Thanks to firm cooperation with Ciklums human resource department, Intranote managed to set up an entire outsourcing department in Kiev without having to go there physically. Instead Intranote spend their energy training the new employees in Denmark."

"The bottom line is that not long after we extended our team with a QA manager we saw two main benefits: the quality of the delivered software went up, as did productivity (initial assessment suggests an improvement in the region of 20-30%)..."

"The Danish it-company Mutax is one of the newest users of Ciklum's 'peak resources'. This service allows Mutax to make temporary use of an expert with rare and highly specialized skills, when an immidiate problem needs to be solved..."

"As opposed to other it-companies who choose to outsource a part of an already existing development team, CC-Interactive teamed up with Ciklum and placed its entire development team in Ukraine from the very beginning..."

"Ciklum was the first that presented us with the model we had in mind... We could get our own people - people who were our employees and who we could choose, train and invest in..."

"Dentavison has worked with Ciklum since 2005. Our team is highly skilled with a very good technical understanding. Besides that the team has a good understanding of our products and can work more or less independent."

"API Maintenance System A/S has had its own team at Ciklum since 2005. Our nearshore developer's productivity can be compared equally with many of our onshore developers. The team has in cooperation with two onshore managers developed the main part of the latest version of our system."

"Come & Stay has recently in August 2009 started a team in Ciklum. Our first developer is so good that our Danish developers are noticing it… in a positive way."

"Since 2001 we have outsourced projects to Ciklum in Kiev. Typically we have transferred various forms of descriptions of our wishes, after which Ciklum has produced a clear and more comprehensive description of the task for our approval..."