Posts Tagged ‘nearshore delivery’

The world’s greatest racing drivers may be highly talented individuals, but without a talented team of mechanics and engineers keeping their vehicles in check, they can quickly fall behind the competition. When it comes to software, the same idea applies; great products can fail quickly without a strong focus on performance and optimization. Engineering and […]

As new technology penetrates every industry at an unstoppable rate, companies often find it difficult to train their employees at the same pace. Business leaders are under enormous pressure to empower their workforce with the necessary technological skills to deal with changes in the market and shifting customer demands. This urgency is forcing companies to […]

Employee attrition is a serious issue in IT and software development. Rising salaries and increasing demand are giving experienced and qualified IT workers more options to choose from, so companies are forced to explore non-traditional ways to overcome this challenge. In 2018, the turnover rate in the tech industry was 13.2%, which was higher than […]

As machine learning solutions come under increasing demand around the world, nearshore software development companies in Colombia are exploring new ways to develop the necessary talent to thrive in this field. True machine learning experts require a mix of skills and must be highly proficient across the board, so they are extremely valuable in today’s […]

Improving intercultural communications is essential to ensuring that your software development outsourcing initiatives succeed. Communication barriers stemming from cultural differences can result in significant problems that can lead to disastrous outcomes within any software development outsourcing project. Intercultural Communication and IT Outsourcing In a world in which organizations, and even countries, are seemingly constantly engaged […]

When working with an outsourcing partner, innovation is often an afterthought to the day to day insights and challenges that come with developing software. However, with the amount of value innovation can add to a software development outsourcing engagement, you’d be remiss to allow innovation to take a less prominent role. Innovating can offer invaluable […]

The current business and economic environment is one in which everyone is racing to be better than everyone else, especially in technology. Organizations and even countries are fighting to become leader of the pack. The only effective way to win the race, though, is by achieving excellence through expertise. Centers of Excellence (CoEs) can play […]

Here at Perficient Latin America, one of our secret weapons for delivering world-class software is performance engineering, a discipline that requires a broad focus on product performance during the entire software development lifecycle in nearshore outsourcing. The approach is different from regular quality assurance and testing, which is mainly centered on functionality. Instead, performance engineering is […]

The outsourcing market is undergoing constant evolution. Traditionally, cost reduction was the key driver for software development outsourcing, but now it doesn’t even make the top five, according to Deloitte’s 2018 Global Outsourcing Survey. Instead, the top five reasons organizations opt for IT outsourcing are: Catalyst for innovation (64%) Improvement of speed and time to […]

 Perficient Latin America senior software developer, Ximena Echeverri, joined us for a chat about the evolution of Perficient Latin America’s Software Girls into Women in Tech and what she likes most about working with Perficient Latin America. She’s got some great advice for anyone thinking about working at one of Colombia’s premier software development outsourcing […]

Today’s consumer and business environments no longer allow for waterfall software development. You can’t take years between each product release. In fact, in some cases, you can’t even afford to take months. At least, not if you want to maintain a competitive advantage. Precisely because of the need to deliver to market faster, the agile […]

We sat down with Perficient Latin America’s Head of Performance Engineering, Carlos Zuluaga, to discuss Perficient Latin America’s approach to performance engineering, lessons learned when scaling performance engineering, and his journey to becoming a top performance engineering outsourcing expert in Latin America. Performance engineering is one of the core disciplines at Perficient Latin America, and […]