Argentina is a convenient place to build software today.
There is a great community capable to build object based systems in Smalltalk
and a local organization
with a forum to contact people involved in Object Technology for work
and trying to make advances in the area.
Argentina's human resources
Argentina boosts a large and well trained pool of software engineers. Its infrastructure is the best in the region. Highest level of tertiary education in Latin America.
Cost efficiency of IT outsourcing
The country has become very cost competitive due to the January 2002 peso devaluation.
Government facilitating IT growth
Realizing the potential impact in the country's economy, the Argentine Government has launched several initiatives to support the industry and to make sure to comply with international standars in terms of applicable laws such as intellectual property protection. New software law and 10 years strategic plan for the sector include concrete benefits for software companies.
The Quality offered to firms
Yet another prominent reason behind Argentinas glittering success in the global IT market is the maintenance of quality. In the recent years, Argentina has been able to offer IT software products and services, which match global standards of quality.
Faster time to market
Argentinean offshore development allows companies to reduce the time required for conceptualization through marketing of the product. Time reductions result from 24/7 development cycles, rapid ramp-up through access to a large pool of resources and faster learning curves in some areas resulting from past experience.
Argentina's economy enjoy a sustained growth
After a devaluation of the currency in 2002 and a default on its debt, with all its implied uncertainty, the country began a painful but continuous recovery, finally restructuring its debt and enjoying what looks like finally a path of sustained growth, with the economy enjoying a growth rate of over 10% in the second quarter of 2005, and a consolidated investment growth of 86 percent from 2002 to 2004, restoring it to the average level of Latin American countries.