tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86190067105936304022011-07-07T19:29:48.200-07:00Discussions and thoughts about the near shore software development industry in Mexico. Additional comments and entries about SaaS outsourced product development and agile methodologiesnearshoremexicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16464907175098690057noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619006710593630402.post-25818769341464549912009-06-08T09:15:00.000-07:002009-06-08T09:18:20.690-07:00

Original Post In this article, “Nearshore” refers to outsourcing software development to providers that are located in foreign countries in the same or adjacent time zones or that are geographically close to a client’s home country. For U.S. companies, this term describes outsourcing to providers located in Canada, Mexico and Central and South America. For companies in Western Europe, nearshore

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Source: Mexico ITThe Mexican IT services industry is expected to grow in 2008 at a rate of 11%. The main source of growth of this segment of the economy is the demand for IT and BPO outsourcing, serving both local and foreign companies.The outsourcing component is expected to grow in 2008 by over 20% due to the awareness in the global marketplace of the advantages of Mexico as a nearshore

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Probably a bold statement but what would others have thought if I had said this about India 15 year ago.     

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As always, Sergey has great articles. Check out this one about social media networks and enterprise CIOs."...This month, the Corporate IT Forum held a workshop session in which IT chiefs from more than 30 large businesses considered the benefits and risks of social networking. Without exception, all of the businesses were serious about understanding more about the technology. And not just about

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Recently I read this excellent post by Sergey Lesnikov about how Obama is a tech-savvy president that will create tech jobs in the US. "The $825 billion stimulus plan presented by Democrats in the House of Representatives this week called for $37 billion in spending in three areas: $20 billion for computerizing medical records, $11 billion for smarter electrical distribution grids and $6 billion

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What do you think is the greatest advantage of nearshore development?If you are a member of Linkedin.com, add your comments and respond to the poll below.http://polls.linkedin.com/p/15890/frgngIn light of the Satyam scandal and meltdown, does it make sense for more companies to look closer to home for software development outsourcing?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28539007/

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New Poll on Challenges of Building SaaS Applicationshttp://polls.linkedin.com/p/14780/rljloThe next poll question may be:SaaS models, SaaS platforms, SaaS architecture.

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In some of my posts and questions here and on www.linkedin.com I am finding some interesting comments about the demerits of outsourcing to another country when the US economy is in shambles and a record number of US worker are unemployed. (Although look specifically at computer and high-tech jobs at an all time high in the US, which debunks the myth that outsourcing was destroying US job

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Here is an Agile Development Group on wwwLinkedin.com for the Mexican development community.Agile Mexico

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The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals™ (IAOP™)announced 2008’s best outsourcing service providers – The Global Outsourcing 100Most of these are fairly large companies but it is a decent list.

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In this article, several indicators suggest that nearshore to Latin America and Mexico will continue to grow as an outsourcing alternative for US companies. Particularly for small and medium size companies that have moderate IT outsourcing needs.http://www.nearshorejournal.com/2008/11/25/latin-america-emerging-as-outsourcing-alternative/

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Mexico is an Excellent location for IT Outsourcing and Team AugmentationHave you heard this yet? Is that news to you? It was to me just 6 months ago and I was part of the IT industry. (See my profile on Linkedin.com)Mexico has been a on the offshoring / outsourcing radar for at least 4-5 years now. Many have written about it. It seems to make a lot of sense - close cultural ties, close

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Application Outsourcing for Small to Medium Size BusinessesOk, so your not big enough to even show up on the radar of Accenture, Bearing Point, CSC, EDS, Tata, Infosys, or Wipro, but you have a great vision, sound expansion plans and significant development needs. Where do you turn for Application Development assistance?This is where it gets tougher. The small to mid size application outsourcing

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When considering the application development aspects of building a SaaS business, independent software companies (ISV) have, as always, many options. They can use a Platform as a Service (Paas) to build their applications, which is a good and quick SaaS development solution for simple applications where the ISV is not concerned about 100% flexibility. Another alternative would be to leverage open

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Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Flash, Flex, AJAX, and other rich Internet applications (RIA) arrived with a bang. Silverlight 1.0 manipulated its multimedia-savvy, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) user interface using JavaScript. Silverlight 1.1, which added support for compiled .Net languages and supported more of the .Net API, was available at that time only as an alpha test. Now

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This blog is for you if you are:An on-premise software company planning to create a SaaS version of your softwareAn entrepreneur planning to launch a new SaaS productA vertical market expert with a SaaS product concept, exploring how to quickly build and go-to-marketAn established company in need of modern web-based information systems that leverage the investment in your legacy enterprise

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Scio Consultingwww.sciodev.comMorelia, MichoacanSaaS, Product Development, Agile methodologies, SCRUM, Java, .NET, C/C++, Eclipse Framework, Business Intelligence

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Over the years many people have advocated the outsourcing of software development and manufacturing to lower cost countries such as from Japan to China, US to Mexico, Italy to Romania, and so forth. Obviously India and China have made great strides over the last 15 years. India in particular has made a name for itself in software development, application maintenance, and call center management.

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