Webcast: Building Mobile Apps that Truly Engage Featuring Globant and a Top Games Publisher – Join Us!
October 25th, 2011You’re invited – November 8th at 2pm EST - to a very special discussion on creating a mobility experience that is first and foremost designed to thrill and fully engage the end-user. Our special guests include Aeria Games, a fast-emerging international games creator, top executives from Globant’s gaming studio. Register Today
Q/A: Argentina Tech’s Biggest Believer
August 8th, 2011
Kolodziej: "Most people involved in tech are fully fluent in English"
By Patrick Haller
Argentina’s tech sector is thriving, despite a less than stellar level of public sector stimulus. One of the most dynamic and tireless believers in Argentina’s potential is Vanessa Kolodziej – CEO of BA Accelerator, and a co-founder of the popular startup advocacy group, Palermo Valley. We caught up with Kolodziej to find out what’s really behind Argentina’s emergence.
Globant Buys Nextive, Acquires U.S. Mobile and Social Media Talent
August 4th, 2011
Globant CEO Martin Migoya welcomes the firm's growth, fueled partly by the creative tech approach of CTO Guibert Englebienne (at left).
By Dennis Barker
Well-known nearshore trailblazer Globant revealed parts of an ambitious, globally expansive growth strategy this week with the acquisition of a small and savvy mobile software developer in Silicon Valley. The acquisition, taken on face value, shows Globant is doing what very few Latin America-borne IT players have done in recent years: land onshore in the US, make an acquisition or two, and create US jobs in the process. (Outsourcing bashers, explain how such companies hurt the US economy.)
Source: El Cronista
Argentine IT exports increased by 222% between 2003 and 2009, while the exports of goods reached only 86%, according to data from the Permanent Observatory of the Software and Information Services Industry (POSISI). Numerous companies began selling their products to foreign markets while learning about the needs of customers and how to satisfy them through local production. Despite the international crisis of 2008/09, local companies that exported products grew by 23.8% between 2009 and 2010, versus the 19% of non-exports.
Argentina’s Promotion of Software Law is targeted at increasing software service exports into the United States. The practice of penetrating the US market can be done many ways, including relying on personal contacts, local associates, recommendations or through personal visits.
How to Land
Javier Porretti, Commercial Director for Softtek Sudamerica Hispana, an IT business service provider nearing 20 years of experience, and billing $300 million USD, recounts, “toward …
Argentina IT: Our Best Shots
May 18th, 2011Over 150 professionals turned out last week in Buenos Aires for a two-hour session on “Selling IT Services into the US”, sponsored by our friends at Globant and CommonSense. Sometimes pictures do a better job of telling the story, so check these out:
We’re gliding through the Globant facility in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires, and our guide is the t-shirt clad CTO and co-founder of Globant: Guibert Englebienne. First stop – the new executive leadership work space where all top five executives of Globant will work together in the same area. No doors, no walls – just open collaboration space and a nice view of the river.
The Globant Plan: Keep Doing What We’re Doing, and Hit Nasdaq in Two Years
February 15th, 2011Exclusive interview with Globant CEO Martin Migoya
By Tarun George
One of Latin America’s IT stars, Globant has proved that it can take Nearshore sourcing successfully to Silicon Valley. But what is the plan in coming years? We spoke with CEO Martín Migoya to find out. He tells us how Globant is differentiating itself in software development, and discusses his plans for acquisitions and public offerings. Read on for more.
What are the key areas of innovation in tech services that your customers are looking for in 2011?
Migoya: They’re mainly looking for innovation around mobile applications, and around gaming technology. Those are the areas where we’re seeing massive movement , such as firms expanding the use of gaming technology into other areas like training, etc.
But the area that we’re seeing the most innovation happening these days is in social applications connected with the main social networks, and how those can be replicated efficiently without a massive amount of development effort. Corporations want applications that allow them to access that world, in order to target their customers in a more efficient and specific way – this is the big thing that’s bringing social networks into the news these days.
Google and EA Want Bold and Brave IT Outsourcing Partners
May 14th, 2010By Dennis Barker
“Outsourcing demands input from the right side of the brain. Partners have to fit in culturally, socially, and generationally” – says Jamie McClellan, CIO at JWT, third from left. Speakers at last night’s Times Square “IT Innovations” Conference included (l to r): Mihai Pohontu, VP, Development Services, Electronic Arts; Martin Migoya, CEO at Globant; McClellan, Guilbert Englebienne, CTO at Globant, Patrick Chanezon, Client and Cloud Advocacy Manager at Google; Kevin West, VP of Operations at PRNewswire and Kirk Laughlin, Founder/ Editorial Director at Nearshore Americas.
NEW YORK CITY – IT outsourcing service providers that want to work with major tech companies had better, in the immortal words of James Brown, “get up, get into it, and get involved.”
Representatives from several leading-edge sourcing buyers made it clear at a panel discussion here at the NASDAQ Building in Times Square last night that they’re looking for providers who aren’t just skilled developers but who also know how to engage as real partners in a project. Taking orders and typing code won’t be enough. Oh, and playing video games can also be important.
Risky Behavior Encouraged
Representatives from Google, Electronic Arts, global adverting giant JWT, and PR Newswire—all of them technology talent scouts—emphasized that above all they are looking for people who are innovative.
Globant Lands on Gartner’s Cool Vendor Listing
May 6th, 2010BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 5 /PRNewswire/ — Globant, leader in the creation of innovative software products that appeal to global audiences, today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in Business Process Services 2010(1) report by Gartner, Inc.
As described in the report, “Cool vendors in business process services are focused on developing high-impact offerings.” Gartner´s report includes four examples of vendors that are making the most of new technologies, business concepts and service delivery models.
“We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner confirmation of the quality of our work,” stated Martin Migoya, Globant CEO and co-founder. “We are extremely proud of the accomplishments that the team is achieving, offering engineering and innovation in every software product we build. We aim to keep on delivering the best for our customers.”
Gartner analysts specializing in IT services and business process services …
Exclusive: Globant CEO on Saying No to India Inc., Dev Studios and the Argentina Angle
November 16th, 2009By Kirk Laughlin, NSAM Editorial Director
Quick: Name a Latin American software dev firm that will land on NASDAQ within two years, boasting strong revenue and a world-beating reputation for building slick online social networking apps?
Answer: Try Argentina’s Globant, a classic Latin American success story that has so much upside that India Inc. (major India-based global services firms) has already tried to scoop it up.
Nearshore Americas sat down with Martin Migoya, the energetic chief executive of Globant and one of four founders of the company, recently in New York City, to talk about the firm’s big ambitions to become one of the world’s premiere offshore software development players.
