“Every day, I feel immense pride and joy that I’m part of an organization that not only finds people but moves people, and that I’m part of that movement.” — Carolina Contreras, Director of Outstanding People & Talent Resourcing at Perficient Latin America Carolina Contreras, Director of Outstanding People & Talent Resourcing at Perficient Latin America One of […]
Nearshoring / Software Outsourcing
Medellin Named Nearshore Destination of the Year
Everybody’s talking about Medellin these days and for good reason. The city is no stranger to accolades like the Lee Kuan Yew World City Award, the World Travel Awards leading destination in South America, and the Bravo award for most Transformational City of the Year by Council of the Americas. Not surprisingly, Medellin has recently […]
Boost Cloud Security in Offshore Software Development Projects
The cloud has changed the business landscape by enabling collaboration on a completely new level, which has resulted in massive leaps in creativity and innovation. Companies can now build teams of highly qualified professionals without worrying about geographical limitations. Organizations no longer need to invest heavily in IT hardware, which implicitly leads to a reduction […]
Perficient Latin America Team Spotlight: Ginna Largo
Successful nearshore outsourcing teams are not made of talented professionals, but of individuals that are constantly looking for ways to improve themselves. They’re highly invested in their teammates and work to develop skills outside their roles. “In the market, you’ll find roles with very specific responsibilities and you can’t perform other tasks or move forward […]
Maximize Nearshore IT Services Results with Effective Leadership
Achieving high employee engagement is more important than ever. Statistics show that engaged teams will achieve 21% greater profitability and are 17% more productive. They also make fewer mistakes and are more innovative. But what does employee engagement have to do with nearshore outsourcing teams? By outsourcing your IT software development, you shouldn’t have to […]
Perficient Latin America Team Spotlight: Ana Aramburo
“Perficient Latin America is innovative in its constant search to be better and to help those who want to be better, to find new paths, unexplored methods, challenges, and face them with determination.” — Ana Lucia Aramburo, Chief Administrative Officer at Perficient Latin America Perficient Latin America story began over thirty years ago. From a small […]
Automated Security Testing Best Practices
Implementing automated security testing throughout the development lifecycle is critical to avoid major problems further down the line. However, when resorting to IT outsourcing, some organizations treat deliverables as separate from their normal pipeline, leading to lax security testing. The problem becomes even more complicated for those organizations that do all their security testing once […]
Why Software Outsourcing to Colombia Makes Sense
When you think about your ideal IT outsourcing location, what comes to mind? You’d want proximity for on-site visits and efficient communication; you’d also want a highly talented workforce to help you elevate your projects; you’d want to be able to cut costs without sacrificing quality, and you’d want a team you can communicate with […]
Perficient Latin America Team Spotlight: Esteban Hernandez
“What gets me most excited is the idea that Perficient Latin America’s future is my future. I believe I can create a new future that will influence the future of Perficient Latin America.“ — Esteban Hernandez, Big Data Scientist at Perficient Latin America Perficient Latin America is a purpose-driven software outsourcing company. We believe in […]
IT Outsourcing Companies: Go Nearshore to Skyrocket Efficiency
The global outsourcing market is massive. It generated $85.6 billion in 2018, according to Statista, and IT outsourcing companies were responsible for the lion’s share of this amount, generating revenues of $62 billion. Software development outsourcing is clearly big business. The size of the market also indicates that it works. After all, so many companies […]
Perficient Latin America Team Spotlight: Catalina Soto
“I think that the work that we’ve done in terms of performance engineering has been so interesting, and it’s still a challenge to improve our process even further; to try to collect and analyze all the results from performance tests and different implementations, and truly provide business value to client projects” — Catalina Soto, Performance […]
Perficient Latin America Team Spotlight: Alejandro Calderon
We’ve been publishing these interviews in the hopes of giving you a glimpse into our fantastic nearshore software development workforce. These professionals are the heart and soul of Perficient Latin America, and we love being able to share their expertise and their stories with our clients and the world! But rather than continue to tell […]