Accelerance client ChemSW and Costa Rica partner IsthmusIT are profiled in the Business Week article Costa Rica: Cultural Similarities Make It An Outsourcing Favorite. ChemSW used the Accelerance Rapid Ramp-Up service to select IsthmusIT. The article emphasizes many of the benefits of outsourcing your software development to Costa Rica.

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An article in the Wall Street Journal realistically describes the state of affairs in Latin America. It describes Latin America’s quiet revolution this way:

Most of Latin America is, however, undergoing a period of unprecedented political and economic transformation. In Chile, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, the Dominican Republic and, yes, Mexico … there has been a quiet but substantial movement toward the creation of societies that are characterized by increased economic opportunity, social mobility and political democracy.

Noticeably missing is a discussion of Columbia which is becoming another outsourcing destination for American companies in Latin America.

Clients are expressing continued interest in developing their software in Latin American countries because of the closeness in time zone and distance. This article gives a good sense of how close the various countries are to the U.S. politically and culturally too.

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Professional programmers from Latin America that have emigrated to the U.S. are looking back to their home countries as a source of software development talent. 

Why? 

Because their experience with other outsourcing destinations suffered from a lack of English skills, cultural and time zone differences. Besides that, travel to places like India takes too long and is too expensive. 

You can read about some of these Latin entrepreneurs in the Outsourcing in Local Time article in a recent issue of Red Herring. 

An advantage of outsourcing to Latin America is the ability to implement a collaborative Agile software development process with your nearshore team because of the significant overlap of workday with the U.S. 

Meanwhile, the governments of Central and South American countries are encouraging these increased business ties with the U.S. Recently the government of Chile visited Silicon Valley to promote outsourcing to Chile.

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