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| Idea Factory Software extends its presence in Europe. |
| Partnership agreement with German company. |
SEPTEMBER 20. 2006 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Following on its strategy of extend its international presence, Ernesto Krawchik, CEO, Idea Factory Software, took part in the recent Argentinean commercial mission in Germany. He was there to announce the agreement signed to become Germany's Enterprise Group GmbH's offshore vendor. Enterprise Group specializes in offering IT services to the aviation, tranport and logistics sectors, with customers as relevant as Lufthansa, Frankfurt's airport and others, both in Germany and abroad.
Central European customers haven't been among Argentina's most important trade partners, in spite of their economic prowess, particularly Germany. Therefore, the potential is very high, if we consider that Germany is an industrial power, with a high concentration of research and development, which demands high technology, worldclass services. Argentina can offer them in a very competitive manner. That was precisely the purpose of Idea Factory's presence in Germany and of the signed agreement.
Ernesto Krawchik said: “Once again, an Argentinean trade mission has included a very significant component of national software companies. This bears a close relation with the importance of our sector as a pillar of Argentina's development, for its job creation and non-traditional exports potential. For our company, having signed an agreement that will allow us to sell our services in such a large marketplace as the German is, has been an outstanding result.” |
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Argentine Software:
Under Construction |
| Development, implementation and services |
| FEBRUARY 2. 2006 |Bloggers Report |
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As different sectors acknowledge the need to find a niche in the world of software, there are more detailed discussions on how to define that niche. The keys: investment and intellectual property. |
During the last few years, the software industry has been redefined, which can be seen in certain advances that would have been surprising before the 2001 crisis – and unheard of a decade ago. In the optimistic view of Ernesto Krawchik, CEO at Idea Factory, the sector “has defined a ten-year strategic plan, with the most modern type of legislation to support the industry. For the first time, the government understands that this industry is key to helping define a modern and even competitive country. In addition, the other two critical vertexes of this triangle are also in place to define such policies: I am referring to companies and to the academic, scientific and technological sector.” |
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| Argentina's
"Silicon Valley" thrives
BUENOS AIRES, APRIL 19. 2005
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Software firms joined with government and universities
to fuel technology growth of 45 percent last year
Three-and-a-half years ago, Ernesto Krawchik
was working out of his house, debugging code on a single
computer that he shared with his business partner, while
his 1-year-old son tugged at his pant legs.
Coming on the heels of the country's economic collapse,
it was a far cry from his days as president of Oracle-Argentina
during the tech explosion of the 1990s. "At the
time our company was formed, no one took us seriously,"
Mr. Krawchik says.
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Idea
Factory Opens Offices In Spain
The Argentine software
factory opened its new CPC (Customer Proximity
Center) in Madrid.
ARGENTINA, SEPTEMBER 2004
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The Software Industry was
the Star of the Mission to China
Argentina - 08/07/2004
- El Cronista - Page18/Section: Business
Local software companies
returned optimistic from the government's official visit
to China last week. Companies held important meetings
and reached preliminary agreements with potential clients
from the Chinese public and private sector.
According to sources from the mission, the
eight software firms that traveled to the most populated
country in the world were the most successful in the
mission comprised of 200 local entrepreneurs and Argentine
President Néstor Kirchner.
"For us, it was a surprise to encounter that software
is at the same level as Argentina's traditional industries,
like agriculture, tourism, and meat," explains
Pablo Rodríguez Gauna, the head of new technologies
at the Secretary of Commerce and Economic Relations
(a department led by Martín Redrado).
Expectations are High
Significant progress was also made on the project to
set up a development center in the city of Zhaoqing,
in the southern province of Guandong. "Now the
Cessi, the chamber of the software sector, just has
to decide which executive will travel to China to head
the center," says the official.
"China is a heavyweight in terms of materials like
semiconductors and electronics, but they import their
systems. That is where our opportunity lies," affirmed
Ernesto Krawchik, from Idea Factory Software.
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| APRIL 27, 2006 |Bloggers Report
CMMi Assessment
Expensive, but worth it !
Attracted by an exchange rate that favors exports as well as the benefits offered to those who respect high standards in intellectual property (as established by the Software Promotion Law), software developers are being assessed and certified to make them more competitive. There are two obstacles to such: the high cost and the difficulty of changing cultural norms.
By Analía García
CMMi (Capability Maturity Model Integrated) assessment measures a company's maturity level, taking into account both the final product as well as the procedures followed by the company. However, in contrast to ISO standards , CMMi is only applicable to IT systems . With the Software Promotion Law , software companies received an additional incentive to raise their profile and become more competitive in terms of taking their local software global. Nonetheless, it is not easy for such companies to cover the costs of preparing for CMMi and the actual evaluation by SEI (Software Engineering Institute) leader-assessors .
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October 8, 2004
 reports
on software in Argentina
A special report on the software industry in Argentina.
This includes interviews with Chamber of Software and IT Services
(CESSI) President Carlos Pallotti and Ernesto Krawchik, IFS's
CEO and empresario in this sector.
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