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Testing and Engineering

An increased testing and engineering demand led us to expand our testing operations. In the late 1990s, testing became a major area where companies started to see greater efficiencies in outsourcing, centralizing, and combining tasks with related software localization activities.

One additional impetus contributing to the growing near- or off-shoring trends at this time was the major global IT downturn in 2001-2002. Smaller budgets forced clients to focus more on overall cost efficiencies, and the CEE region gained in significance as an offshoring alternative.

Our testing team, which started in 1996, has grown and evolved into a separate unit, based in the company's main production hub in Brno, Czech Republic, benefiting from the large local pool of qualified engineers.

Later, we established a second offshoring hub in Nanjing, China. Adding China-based services offered new far-offshoring options for our clients. This also helped Moravia to compete more efficiently with the growing array of native China-based or India-based testing services providers.

Topping off the first year of the new millennium, Katerina Janku, Moravia‘s General Manager and CEO, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2000 award in a ceremony in Prague. She is the only representative of the translation and localization industry ever to be named as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and was the first-ever recipient of the award in the Czech Republic.

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