Staying on Top of Tech Curve Requires Savviness in Selecting Consulting Partners

June 13, 2013 Leave a comment

Advancements in cloud computing, mobile, social media and Big Data have overwhelmed the business world, leaving business executives with an unprecedented  array of questions about how new technology can be better integrated into client products. This timely topic is examined in depth in a new Nearshore Americas E-Report –published here and available for free download.

Why is Avantica your best partner?

  • We’re practically next door
  • We speak your language
  • We’re in your time-zone
  • We share your culture
  • Political stability
  • Engineering Centers

How can we help your company? 

Avantica specializes in providing software engineering services that help both start-up and established software companies quickly scale their development and testing capabilities. For 20 years we’ve helped rapidly growing software companies close the gap between their engineering expansion goals and the real challenge of finding, and integrating, quality engineering talent.

 

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Does Your Nearshore Software Provider’s Niche Matter?

May 27, 2013 Leave a comment

Some small to medium sized software providers in Latin America seek specialization in business verticals and languages while others do not.  Experience can create value, but is method or know-how the principle ingredient?  NSAM talked to four Nearshore software development experts to understand how providers find their niches and how important those niches really are. Read the full story at Nearshore Americas

Avantica has over 20 years and 1,600+ successful software product releases for our customers, however, Agile is the preferred methodology. Our software engineers are highly skilled in Distributed Agile: co-developing and testing collaboratively with our software customers in an Agile engineering environment distributed over different geographies.

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Seven traits of effective programmers

May 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Being a great programmer involves more than writing code that works. Justin James lists the hallmarks of programmers who rise to the top ranks of their profession.

In order to be an effective programmer, you need to possess a combination of traits that allow your skill, experience, and knowledge to produce working code. There are some technically skilled developers who will never be effective because they lack the other traits needed. 

Here are seven traits that are necessary to become a great programmer:
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1. Learn new tech and non-tech skills of their own accord
2. Are pragmatic, not dogmatic
3. Know how to research for answers
4. Have passion
5. Leave their egos at the door
6. Have entrepreneurial spirits
7. Measure twice, cut once… but do not measure more than three times
 

Read the full article at Tech Republic

At Avantica we stand out for the high quality of the service and product that we give to our clients. In order to accomplish this we hire the best engineers of the top universities, identifying key attitudes towards excellence and leadership.

Our goal is to identify, recruit and retain the best talent with the required skills and expertise demanded by the marketplace. We motivate our employees to reach the highest performance and provide a link between business and personal goals.

 

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Outsourcing Buyers See Reason to Question Asia’s Dominance

May 2, 2013 Leave a comment

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It is one thing for investment agencies and Nearshore vendors to promote Latin America sourcing but when buyers start to become vocal champions, it’s a good idea to hear their rationale.  “People tend to have a myopic view about outsourcing, we only think about India, said Anthony Porter, director of IT Vendor Management, Procurement, Legal and Strategy at U.S.

“We need someone who is able to perform deep thinking in terms of program strategy, how do we deploy code, how do we control releases, etcetera. And we don’t need to pay a premium for a brand-name label as we understand there are capable players in Latin America” – Anthony Porter of Humana.

Read the full article at Nearshore Americas.

Global analyst firm ranks Costa Rica #1 Latin America services outsourcing country

Nearshore software design, development and testing is the practice of getting work done rapidly and economically by expanding your engineering team to include a team in neighboring countries.

For Avantica Technologies’ customers this means Latin America.

 

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The Next Operating System For Mac Computers

April 30, 2013 Leave a comment

Apple is preparing a new version of its operating system for Mac computers called OS X 10.9 that will bring in several features from iOS, the operating system for iPhones and iPads.

According to Business Insider latest tech news 

A few features that are expected:

  • The Finder, which lets you explore files and folders on your Mac, will have a new tabbed browsing mode, just like on your Web browser.
  • Switching between open apps will be a similar to the iPhone and iPad method: you’ll be able to select an app from a tray at the bottom of your screen. This will also help improve performance and battery life by “suspending” the apps when you’re not using them.
  • There might be some other interface changes, but they won’t be anything drastic

At Avantica our mobile engineers develop apps for everything including entertainment devices.

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Essential JavaScript:the top five graphical libraries

April 26, 2013 Leave a comment

The latest article by NetMagazine showcases new tools for graphical work.

Only recently have we been able to consider JavaScript for graphical work, such as drawing charts or perhaps even HTML5 games. Better JavaScript engines and ever-improving browser support (in particular the work being done in Chrome’s V8 engine) make JavaScript a viable option for a lot of graphical work. Today, you”ll look at five libraries out there designed to help you in this area, as well as those that make working with the HTML5 canvas element easier, too.

If you’re new to the canvas element, they highly recommend you become familiar with it before using a library to make it easier. Knowing how to do something the hard way will make you write better code, even when using a library. Remy Sharp wrote a good introduction on HTML5 Doctor that should get you started, and links to more resources once you’ve worked through the introduction.

Avantica’s software engineers are experienced in a wide array of technologies supporting our customer development and support partnerships, we count with years of experience contribuiting and working with leading software companies.

Learn more about our Technologies Expertise. 

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What’s the best age to launch a startup? Founders young and old tell us

April 16, 2013 Leave a comment

Starting a company is a possible at any age.

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To prove that innovation isn’t just a young man’s game, VentureBeat magazine gathered together a group of founders from successful companies like Box, Hubspot and Poshmark.

Still, starting a company is a highly-personal decision. So if you’ve ever wondered what’s it like to start a company as a teen, twentysomething, or much later in life, this one’s for you. -Learn about the success stories of these entrepeneurs at VentureBeat.

If you are considering starting a new business, Avantica offers Release 1.0.

- Release 1.0 - is a product that is designed to help you scale your software engineering capacity. Within days.  Not months.  Not quarters.

This is a suite of integrated software engineering services for start-ups.  Designed to help you rapidly and economically scale your software engineering capacity.

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Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It’s All About Hyper-Hybrid

April 15, 2013 Leave a comment

Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.

As referenced in the full CIO article- IT organizations now have a bewildering array of options at their disposal—private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and, of course, on-premise installations. In most organizations adoption is no longer about cloud; it’s about clouds.

At Avantica we acknowledge that cloud computing has existed for over a decade, and consumers and businesses increasingly recognize that the cloud offers attractive solutions.

Avantica Technologies undeniable strengths in Agile software engineering, Nearshore proximity to its North American customers, and cloud application engineering experience, will continue to help the Nearshore specialist’s customers realize improved speed to market.

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Why security belongs to developers first

April 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Chances are you’ve read something, somewhere, about the increasing number of security breaches in web applications. Hackers are targeting these applications due to the amount of sensitive business (and personal) data they control. “Hacktivism” isn’t just a buzzword — groups of thousands of hackers are determined to take down organizations, which are targeted for reasons only the attackers themselves understand. Yet they are serious about it. And it’s time you become serious about it too.

Most organizations don’t think about application security until after the application has been designed and architected. They may layer on security testing after the application is developed. They may decide to test the application in its run time state, just before it goes to production. Some even test it after it’s in production. There are many high-profile companies that do this; you can read all about them (and the corresponding security breaches in their applications) in the latest news headlines. Read more at VentureBeat 

Avantica Technologies distributed Agile-based software development model enables close collaboration between Avantica’s engineers and our customer’s in-house engineering team.

QA services from Avantica Technologies are designed to minimize the risks our customers face releasing a new product. Without a rigorous QA process products face rejection from an ever more sophisticated end-user savvy in the use of Web and mobile apps.

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Is The Death Of JavaScript Upon Us, Or Is A Universal Language Transformation Underway?

March 19, 2013 Leave a comment

Startups identify with JavaScript. When you’re just starting out, you need to be dynamic. You need to be flexible. You need to be able to bust out a prototype that just works, and you need to be able to change it on a dime without recompiling your code.

According to TechCrunch, JavaScript was once the startup of the browser wars, and it crushed Java and Flash for the same reasons that startups have the ability to disrupt markets and displace the established players: agility and flexibility.

At Avantica our software engineers are experienced in a -wide array of technologies- supporting our customer development and support partnerships for Mobile, Cloud, Analytic, Search, Enterprise Web, Social Networking and Financial apps. Learn more about our development technologies in our website.

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