Pentalog had 670 employees at the end of September, 460 of whom work in its Romanian branches. The company is registered in Orleans, France and has offices in Frankfurt (Germany), Tel-Aviv (Israel), Chisinau (Moldova) and Hanoi (Vietnam). Its first office in Romania was opened in Brasov, after which it expanded to Bucharest, Iasi and Sibiu, and more recently to Cluj Napoca.
The Pentalog office in Cluj Napoca hired 20 people in its first three months in business, but the company’s plans are to employ 100 to 150 over the next two years, and make about EUR1 million investments.
“The Pentalog office in Cluj is a production center focusing on software consultancy, engineering and development. The main positions available now are Java, PHP, Magento, .NET programmer, web designer, business analyst, software tester and Android/iPhone programmer,” Monica Jiman, deputy chief executive officer of Pentalog told ZF Transilvania.
The company officials say that Pentalog is currently covering the most important areas in Romania with is offices, but do not rule out a new office in Timisoara.
Pentalog set out to attain about EUR20 million revenue in 2011, after posting EUR17 million revenue in 2010. Its revenue has increased year after year since 2008 (65% in 2008, 50% in 2009 and 35% in 2010), its representatives say.
Pentalog customers include financial-banking, software development, e-commerce, wholesale and logistics, industrial, telecommunication, travel, energy and healthcare companies. It has about 55 active clients such as BRD, Orange, BNP Lease, Grup Emerson, ST-Ericsson, Parrot, LHS Ericsson, Altadis-Imperial Tobacco and Grup Elster.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)