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The Software Industry in Mexico

Mexico has the potential to become a key supplier in the global market for software and information technology (IT) services.

In 2008, the market value of information technology services (including business process outsourcing or BPOs) reached US $4.2 billion and the software market amounted to US $2.4 billion in the same period, according to Business Monitor.

A.T. Kearney calculates that Mexican IT services exports were US $ 3.16 billion in 2008, 26% percent more than the previous year.

Business Monitor estimates that the value of Mexican IT services and software will reach US $ 10.2 billion in 2013.

 

Companies Established in Mexico

Our country has over 2,000 IT enterprises.

Several Mexican companies, such as Neoris, ranked as leaders of Latin American IT companies, according to Global Services Magazine.

Customer service quality of Mexican companies has been recognized by Brown Wilson’s Annual Outsourcing Survey.

Many of the sector’s most important transnational companies are already established in Mexico.



Industry´s strengths   

A country with qualified labor.

According to estimates by Mexico IT, Mexico has almost 600,000 professionals in the IT industry, including about 400,000 professionals specializing in software. Furthermore, the nation’s universities graduate 65,000 new IT specialists each year.

Currently 121 universities are linked to Prosoft, a government support program.


Infrastructure

The academic and private sector, along with de government, have coordinated efforts for the development of 24 technology parks throughout the country.

Mexico has 23 IT clusters distributed in 20 states. Over 60 percent of the states have productive capacity in IT.

Mexico’s large population makes it possible for various cities to become service provision centers, which gives Mexico an advantage over other countries that depend on workforce availability in only one city.


A country with low operation costs.

Mexico is the country with the most competitive operating costs for software design and shared services center – in comparison with some European and Asian countries as well as United States and Canada.

?Source: KPMG 2008?
?Source: KPMG 2008?
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