Near-Shore Services

GMByte has been working with customers comprising of technology start-ups, Web design companies and IT departments of end user companies helping them leverage the time and cost advantages of offshore teams.

Our GMBTeam© model is being leveraged for product engineering teams worldwide for long term engagements.

Advantages of Near-Shore Outsourcing

Latin America has become just in time a great and desirable destination for United States companies, a niche that India has occupied for over 10 years. Due to the close distance to the United States, Latin America is not considered an off-shore destination as it is India but instead a near-shore destination.

Latin America offers significant value and resources when compared to Asia, especially for United States based companies attracted to the region’s cost advantages, cultural affinity and abundant resources. In fact, Latin America has what many United States and some European companies want: low-cost Spanish language capability and a growing, relatively low-cost, skilled bilingual workforce. In addition, Latin America time zones and cultures are closely aligned with those of the United States.

The two most spoken languages in the Western world are English and Spanish.
The Hispanic market in the US is growing rapidly and many Executives (CEO, CTO, CFO) are also fluent in Spanish. Latin American PM’s for the most part are fluent in English.
Latin American teams are being trained to develop applications with usual guidelines as well as agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum and XP).
Culturally, Latin America is closer to the USA and EU than India.
Time difference is almost non-existent. When it is 8:00 am in NYC it is 8:00 am in Lima, Peru and 10 am in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Travel time to any near-shore office in Latin America from the US is short compared to a trip to India.
Rates are competitive and in some cases even lower than Indian rates.
The base of developers is growing in Latin America.
There is a huge sales network in Latin America for USA and EU products (software and material).
The most used Latin American countries for software development are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay where the economies are growing and there is political stability.