Offshore Outsourcing to Philippines

Main Features of IT in Philippines:

• The Philippines is well known for semiconductor foundries that were set up by companies such as Intel and Motorola.
• It has a successful track record with Call center outsourcing. Large call centers have been in existence for several years.
• Its education system coincides like the United States with English is one of the primary languages. The education system ensures a cultural fit with the US system. This explains why it has been so easy to set-up Call centers in the Philippines.
• The Government has not started taking initiatives seeing the Indian success and begun to explore and promote itself as an ideal Software development center.
• It lacks the size and scale of the Software Industry.
• Pilipino companies also do not possess major certifications such as SEI CMM.
• The country has a capacity of about 30,000 software programmers and produces roughly 10,000 new graduates every year. A large number of these graduates look for employment in ASEAN countries such as Singapore, some do come to the US via the H1B Visa route.
• The total outsourcing revenues from Philippines is estimated to be under $350Million.

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