The document outlines the OCS platform, which connects Serbian IT companies, foreign project providers, and IT professionals to enhance collaboration and resource sharing on various projects. Funded by the European Union until March 2013, OCS aims to increase the competitiveness of Serbia's IT sector through training, networking, and access to new business opportunities. Key benefits include access to a talent database, joint bidding for projects, and promotion at major ICT events.

1. Andrija Bednarik
Project Manager
DANUB.IT Conference
20.10.2011. Novi Sad

2. What is OCS
-Platform – groups Serbian ITO companies, foreign project providers and
experienced IT experts and young engineers
- System – identification and classification, mach-making, networking
- Tool – cooperation and collaboration on projects (commercial, R&D, EU
funded), sharing resources, knowledge sharing, marketing and
promotion, HR development
- Hub – connecting all stakeholders
- Funded by the European Union under IPA 2007 until March 2013

3. How OCS works
Use it as:
- OCS Company
- Project Provider
- ICT/engineering professional or student
OCS company can:
- Search for new business opportunities and market leads
- Post the project for which it need additional resources and/or expertise
from other OCS companies
- Apply for a posted project, either alone or as a member of project consortia
of multiple OCS Companies.
- Search the HR database in order to identify new possible employees
- Be informed on all news related to activities of OCS
- Share information and communicate with other OCS Companies

4. How OCS works
Project provider can be:
- OCS Company itself
- OCT team
- Reseller / Consulting company
- Direct Client – ordering company
ICT/engineering professionals and students post their skills in:
- IT
- Telecommunications
- Energy
- Electronics/Embedded
- Mechanical engineering
- Architecture
- Civil engineering

5. OCS - trainings and events
-Increasing the business capacities of OCS member companies
- Training topics: foreign outsourcing markets and business
opportunities, legal issues, marketing and promotion, sales, outsourcing
possibilities, modern project management methods and resource sharing.
- 16 training sessions, 320 people trained in next two years
- Promotion on the biggest ICT events
- Better insight into Serbia’s IT outsourcing market for foreign companies and
investors
- Presenting a unified and trusted face to potential partners

6. Why OCS
- Enhancing cooperation among IT outsourcing companies
- Increasing competitiveness and capacities
- Increasing and sharing resources
- Scaling for larger operations
- Generating new businesses
- Access to larger external projects
-Increasing marketing and promotion

7. Why OCS
- Increased access to educational workshops
- HR capacity building
- Keep talent in Serbia
-Increase global competitiveness of the Serbia IT sector
-Increase in value of IT outsourcing services
- Increase in the number of EU funded projects
- Impact on general export capacities of the country

37. Why project provider
-Get project realization offer from the best ITO companies from Serbia
- Each specific task of your project to be developed by the company
specialized for that specific field
- Possibility of large projects execution
- Get the best possible solution in accordance to requirements
-New resources always available
-Guaranteed references

38. Why OCS company
- Jointly bid for larger external projects through the OCS platform
- Gain access to top talent through the CV database
-Drastically increase your marketing and promotion (through networking and
joint marketing activities)
-Increase your business capacities and competitiveness through training
sessions and educational workshops organized by OCS
- Be represented and promoted as a part of one large organization
- Be part of the biggest knowledge sharing hub