• Portuguese positioning in European Community: unity of legal framework added to facilities for the mobility of labor force, goods and capital thanks to the Schengen space and the Euro zone;
  
  
• Availability of skilled human resources: high number of qualified resources with competitive wages in the EU for the level of qualification;
  
  
• Portuguese culture innate capacities: with regard to flexibility adapting to other cultures, knowledge and ease of learning other languages;
  
  
• Communications network: coverage, bandwidth and range of service levels within the parameters of most developed economies;
  
  
• Competitive costs with regard to the European space: can be seen as competitive advantage factors against markets with other characteristics.

Associação Portugal Outsourcing Goal: 1% of the GNI for outsourcing in Portugal within a 7 years frame, facing up to other countries’ experiences;

• Growth would generate over 10,000 jobs and over 1 billion euro of revenue;
  
  
• Gains in productivity for our national economy of over 1 billion euro;
  
  
• The creation of new jobs would also be supported by significant investments in training and work force qualification.

• Outsourcing in 2006 represented 42% of the technology market, being expected to come to represent 47% in 2010;
  
  
• The growth for the 2006-2009 period will be a CAGR of 8.5%, the highest after the UK and the Nordic countries;
  
  
• IT outsourcing handled 2.509 million euro in 2006;
  


• There are 55 thousand IT professionals working in government. However, the government turns to outsourcing to hire over 55 thousand to 85 thousand professionals;
  
  
• In order to make the most of this opportunity has been created the AEC – Associación Española de Empresas de Consultoria;
  
  
• Through the "Value Shore Europe” project, the Association seeks to turn Spain into a European outsourcing reference centre, attracting foreign IT services of high added value.