World Region Outsourcing Guide

Outsourcing to Colombia

Outsourcing to Colombia? Are you loco? That is be one response Americans might have about doing business with this close neighbor to the south. Stories of violence and the drug trade fade slowly and still capture the imagination. But in the last few years, Colombia has experienced a tremendous improvement in its internal security, macroeconomic performance and stability for businesses. As a result social indicators have improved dramatically. For example, in 2007 Colombian cities were safer than Washington D.C. and business—legitimate business including software development services is booming. The U.S. signed a free trade agreement with Colombia in 2006 which is pending approval by the U.S. Congress. Doing business with Colombia has become attractive again. The number of foreign visitors to Colombia doubled between 2001 and 2006 to over a million people. Colombia graduates about 13,000 engineering and technical graduates in IT related fields each year and has a sizeable software development workforce. The electrical and telecommunications infrastructure is one of the best in Latin America.

The Accelerance Global Partner Network members from Colombia have been thoroughly screened and vetted.   These AGPN members have a good command of English and have agree with Accelerance’s recommended terms for intellectual property protection.

Working with outsourcers in Colombia – Pluses

English is widely used and many professionals have attended university in the U.S. and Spanish accent is neutral to other Spanish speakers. Colombia is very close to the U.S. with frequent flights from major U.S. cities and has the same time as the Eastern time zone or Central time when the U.S. switches to Daylight Savings time. Colombia is next to the equator and has no need to switch to Daylight Savings.

The software development workforce is expert in all the modern software technologies and processes including Agile and CMMi. They have an excellent track record of delivering services to many Latin American countries and are now ready to expand their presence in the U.S. market. Business is being helped by the support and professionalism of national and local government officials.

Working with outsourcers in Colombia - Minuses

Rates for software development in Colombia are similar to other destinations in South America and may be a little more than other global destinations.

Accelerance Global Partners in Colombia

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Contact	Country	Expertise	Accelerance Global Partner
PSL Bogotá & Medellín, Colombia and Mexico City, Mexico What References say about PSL . . . >>> "They are at the top of [the list of] qualified consultants and software factories with a clear understanding of what service is about." >>> "PSL most definitely stood out from other software firms I have worked with before because of their transparency, discipline and control of the software process. Ultimately, it’s always about the people and the people at PSL were always willing to give the extra mile not only to do what we said, but to question what we said, to educate us in proper software development methods and even to suggest many ideas that had to do with the business process itself, as they got a hold of our business. It has been a pleasure to work with PSL. I highly recommend them." >>> "I certainly recommend PSL as a first rate software developer"	Colombia Mexico	Technology Agile Ajax Apple iPhone CSS & XHTML Flash / Flex Java Linux C/C++ Microsoft .NET Mobile Apps Oracle PHP & MySQL Ruby on Rails SaaS SharePoint Silverlight Web 2.0 Web Design Windows C/C++ Industry Aerospace Financial Services Government Health Care Insurance Mfg / Logistics Retail / eCommerce Small Business Software R&D Telecom Transportation Website Design	PSL – Productora de Software S.A. - Bogotá & Medellín, Colombia and Mexico City, Mexico A nearshore Latin American-based company with development centers in Colombia, Mexico and Spain and US business offices in Charlotte, NC and Dallas, TX. Known worldwide for the adoption of global best practices as demonstrated by being the only Latin American company to be assessed at SW – CMM level 5 (2002), 1st Latin company and 8th company globally assessed at CMMi5 (2003 and re assessed in 2007). Winner of the 2006 IEEE/SEI Software Process Achievement Award, the most prestigious software process award in the world. ISO 9001 certified. In process of certification in 27001 for Information and Data Security. Company-wide use of Six Sigma quality management methods. Leverages both proximity and time zone alignment to collaborate tightly with clients while transitioning resources seamlessly on and nearshore when needed. PSL commits itself to operate in the range of the best in the world in terms of quality and productivity, from low cost countries in Latin America. For fixed price projects, PSL uses an Agile RUP framework taking practices from XP and Scrum but leveraging Six Sigma and our software engineering processes to deliver system-dependent (not person) results that are extremely reliable, on schedule and budget and guaranteed to fulfill expected needs and functionality. For ongoing projects driven by client requirements and priorities, PSL deploys pure Agile approaches. Technologies include but not limited to Java (JEE, JME, JSE), .Net (C#,VB.Net), C++, Oracle, PB, VB, LAMP, PHP, AJAX, HTML, XML, Coldfusion, Lotus Notes, FLEX, Sharepoint, Web Services, SOA. Databases MS SQL, Oracle, MySql, DB2.

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