Nearshore Outsourcing to Mexico Proves Successful for North American SMBs

    SAN JOSE, CA, December 31, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Scio Consulting, a leading provider of nearshore outsourcing and Agile software development for ISVs, SaaS companies, and Web-enabled businesses, today announced the expansion of its operations with an addition to its Nearshore Software Development Center in Morelia, Mexico.

"Early 2009 was challenging with the global economic crisis," states Scio CEO, Luis Aburto. "However, Scio has seen a significant increase in demand for service automation, integration, web application development, productization, and programming services for its North American clients and we have doubled our Agile software development capacity in the last 4 months."

"Many of our customers have worked with Asia and became frustrated with the total cost of engagement and loss of productivity due to time zone and cultural differences. Web application programming is tough work" says Aburto. "Outsourcing software development to Mexico is much easier and just makes more sense" noted one of Scio's customers. "Scio customers chose to work with Scio to provide faster and more productive responses to their customer demands for web application programming and integration," says Aburto.

"By combining the benefits of Agile software development with the benefits of nearshore outsourcing, Scio is able to deliver maximum results, including faster time-to-market, and lower total cost of engagement, both resulting in a better customer experience. A similar time zone, close proximity, a plethora of English speaking developers, and Agile project management allows us to easily communicate with our customers and deliver better quality results, faster. Programmers, project managers, and quality assurance analysts chat, share desktops, and have conference calls during US business hours." said Aburto. Customers don't have to wait until the next business day to get a response from their development team. And when necessary, it is much easier for clients to visit our office in Mexico as we are located 2-6 hrs by flight from most US cities."

"Many companies considering outsourcing focus on just the hourly rate. What they often fail to see is the total cost of engagement. Companies might save a few dollars an hour by outsourcing to India or China instead of Mexico but the overhead associated with doing business with someone thousands of miles away is rarely considered. The ultimate result is lower productivity and project delays which have real costs," says Jeremy Beck, VP of Business Development. "It's just easier to work with Mexico and should be a no-brainer."

By combining Agile with nearshore resources communicating in real time, customers are able to maintain greater control and flexibility over projects and generate the cost savings expected from outsourcing software development. Ultimately this leads to greater flexibility and higher probability of success.

Scio, based in San Jose, CA, is an Agile software development company focused on Microsoft .NET programming for North American small and medium size enterprises (SME) and software companies. Besides deep .Net, C/C++, and C# expertise, the company also brings significant experience in service automation, business process automation (BPA), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). More details about Scio can be found at www.sciodev.com

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