The increasing global demand for IT qualified professionals has also increased the need for outsourcing services. Whether you need to expand your team, cut costs, or deliver a custom solution, you will have to find a reliable IT outsourcing partner to help you out.
Outsourcing has become the norm for companies looking to scale their business operations. This has prompted the rise of a very diverse IT outsourcing market, one with so many geographical options and talent niches, that employers are finding it hard to decide which agency to collaborate with.
If you’re familiar with outsourcing, you know that companies have historically turned to India, Eastern Europe, and Asia for tech outsourcing. However, markets evolve and now more companies are looking to not only compete on price but also in quality, they have started looking for geographical proximity, consistency in deliverables, cultural similarities, knowledge of best practices and ease of integration with internal teams. This has given the rise of LATAM as a go-to place for tech outsourcing with México leading the way.
But who’s who in Mexico and what services do they provide? Below you’ll find a list of firms (ordered A-Z) that provide IT outsourcing services in Mexico and can help you expand, enhance, or complete your tech necessities.
BairesDev
Service Focus:
- Software Outsourcing
Listed Services:
- Dedicated Team
- IT Staff Augmentation
- End-to-end software development
How do they get involved?
- They create a dedicated team that works only for your project autonomously and communicates and reports status to your company. With extended teams or staff augmentation, you get developers as part of your local team, they attend your regular daily meetings and report directly to your managers. With software outsourcing, you decide to have the software developed end-to-end by them as a third-party instead of having an in-house development team.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
- Staffing
CodersLink
Service Focus:
- Remote Tech Talent
Listed Services:
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- Remote Developers
- On-site Developers + Office Space
- Permanent Developers
How do they get involved?
- Developers can be part of your team in two ways; remotely through staff augmentation or as a direct-hire.
- In the case of remote hires, engineers work directly under your team’s supervision, just as a regular employee would. The only difference being the geographical location. They report to you, are part of your daily standups, and work on the projects you assign them. CodersLink not only helps you source them but works as an extension of your HR team, managing payroll, benefits and performance reviews. This option scales from a single developer to an office of 50.
- In the case of direct-hire, they help you source an engineer with your requirements and relocate them to the office of your choice both in MX and in the US. If it’s in the US, they also help with any immigration processes that are required. You don’t have to worry about anything, but preparing their workstation.
Type of Contract:
- Staffing
- Recruitment
- Direct Hire
Excelia
Service Focus:
- Business Consulting
Listed Services:
- IT Outsourcing
- Staffing
- Tax management
- Finance BPO
How do they get involved?
- They offer a variety of services to optimize your processes, from hiring to accounting and all the way to digital automation.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
- Recruitment
Itera
Service Focus:
- Software Development
- Consulting
Listed Services:
- Cloud Services
- IT Consulting
- IT Training
- Digitalization
How do they get involved?
- They provide consultancy for IT projects. Their 250 employees work for you to deliver the best solution for your business even if this means to outsource to a second company, they will supervise and manage the contract.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
iTexico
Service Focus:
- Software Development
Listed Services:
- IT Outsourcing
- UI/UX Digital Product Design
- Software Engineering
- Testing & Quality Assurance Services
- Mobile App Development
- Cloud Services
- Front-End Development
- Back-End Development
How do they get involved?
- With innovation centers in Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, this Austin-based company manufactures your software engineering projects, they offer end-to-end software development solutions. You can visit with them through virtual meetings, visits to your HQ travel for short and extended stay, or you can visit with them in one of their offices in Guadalajara or Aguascalientes
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
Nearshore Technology
Service Focus:
- Software Engineering
Listed Services:
- Team enhancement
- Software Development
- Managed services
How do they get involved?
- This is a company with both U.S. and Mexico-based project teams, they develop and manage your project with their resources that can work onsite or remote as needed, and if you have dedicated team leaders located in Mexico they can travel to your U.S. headquarters using NAFTA visit and TN Visas to meet with you.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
Pentalog
Service Focus:
- Software Engineering
- Product Development
- Talent Recruitment
- Digital Marketing
- Agility Consulting
- Innovation Financing (especially appealing to startups)
How do they get involved?
- With sales offices and delivery centers in North and Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe and Asia, Pentalog is a global nearshoring/offshoring agency to businesses on all continents, they cover a comprehensive range of the most relevant and cutting edge technologies demanded by the market. Customers can visit them in any of their offices
Type of Contract:
- Recruiting
- Staffing
- Freelancing
RecluIT
Service Focus:
- IT Staffing
Listed Services:
- Staffing
- Payroll management
How do they get involved?
- This vendor provides nearshore IT staffing services to companies from the US, Canada, and Europe. They promise to hire the profile you are looking for in less than 4 days. Their HQ is located in Estado de Mexico.
Type of Contract:
- Recruitment
- Staffing
ScreenIT
Service Focus:
- Staff Leasing
Listed Services:
- Staff Leasing
- Virtual Captive
- Build-Operate-Transfer
How do they get involved?
- If you are having a hard time attracting and retaining top talent locally, then nearshore staff leasing in Mexico can be a great solution but they also offer companies the alternative to retaining full control over the entire operation including its people, infrastructure, and processes. And if you want to build your tech team from 0 and have no idea how to manage it they start it, operate it, and then transfer the team to you when you’re ready to move your operations to Mexico.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
- Staffing
Softtek
Service Focus:
- Software Development
- Application-Related Services
- Business Process Outsourcing
- IT Infrastructure Support
- Software Products and Associated Services
Listed Services:
- Digital Innovation Labs
- Digital Enterprise Architecture
- Digitized IT Governance
- Digital Enablement Consulting
- PMO & PMaaS
- Digital Security & Risk Mitigation
- IT Process Implementation
- Telco & Cloud Expense Management
- Customer Experience Design & Engineering
- Robotic Process Automation
- Smart Procurement (BPO)
- Cognitive Automation
- Business Process Digitization (BPM/BPA)
- Enterprise IoT
- Advanced Business Analytics (Statistical Models)
- Business Intelligence
- Operational Intelligence
- Cognitive Analytics (Machine Learning)
- Information Management
- Database & Storage Administration
- Industry-specific Solutions Life-cycle
- Unified Commerce Solutions Life-cycle
- Enterprise Management Solutions Life-cycle
- Modern Application Development
- Enterprise Agile Development
- Application Management
- Application Modernization
- Application Development
- Reliability Engineering
- Application QA & Validation
- DevOps
- Digital Architecture & Platform Advisory
- Cloud Adoption
- Cloud Orchestration
- Cloud Architecture
- IT Infrastructure Management
- Data Center Enablement
How do they get involved?
- This is one of the biggest fish in the ocean of outsourcing software engineering services in the Latin American region. Their HQ is located in Monterrey, Mexico and they help all types of companies to get involved with technology, essentially, if you are looking to add technology to your business process but you don’t have a team or the knowledge, they made it for you.
- They run your project with their teams located in their 30 global offices in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
- Recruitment
Software Allies
Service Focus:
- IT Staffing
Listed Services:
- Managed Teams
- Extended Teams
- On-demand Talent
- Consulting
- Project Rescue
How do they get involved?
- With managed teams, Software Allies sets up and manages the team for your next project or app or you can extend your teams to work under your processes. They also offer the choice to augment your existing teams one by one as you need it. You can discuss your existing or new software project and get advice.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
- Recruiting
Tiempo Development
Service Focus:
- Software Development
- Software Consulting
Listed Services:
- Web Application Development
- Mobile Application Development
- Application Maintenance and Support
- Microservices
- Testing and Quality Assurance
- DevOps
- Data Science
- Custom Financial Services Software Development
- Healthcare Solutions
- Agile Coaching
- DevOps Consulting
- Microservices Strategy Consulting
- API Consulting
- Product Management Consulting
- Technical Analysis Consulting
- Team Dynamics Consulting
- Mobile Consulting
- Data Science Consulting
- Software Architecture Consulting
How do they get involved?
- Tiempo designs build and deploy software for companies as with their dedicated development team and support specialists.
- They operate four development centers in Mexico: 2 in Guadalajara, 1 in Hermosillo, 1 in Monterrey. Or you can visit them at their HQ in Tempe, AZ to get started with your project.
Type of Contract:
- Outsourcing
Wrap-up
The number of IT outsourcing companies continue increasing every year with more service flexibility, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing as you can choose an option that best suits your needs, and a curse because of the number of alternatives available.
All companies on our list are well-known IT outsourcing vendors with experience in many industries, although they mostly offer software engineering services to companies.
Our advice to you is to first determine what you’re specifically looking to outsource and how you’d like to do it.
- Do you want to be involved in the project?
- Do you want to only receive deliverables?
- Do you want to directly manage your talent?
- Are you looking for support capabilities? For that single extra set of hands for your front end team?
These are some very basic questions to help you get started and in no way an exhaustive list. In essence, you first need to understand why the what and the how.
From there, we propose choosing an outsourcing destination and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the region, what the costs are, and who are the most qualified service providers for your goals.
Why choose CodersLink amongst other outsourcing software development agencies?
We believe in a world that acts as one big market, where talent, companies, and services can work together without limitations. The best minds and the best products are everywhere, they are not bound to a specific location, culture, or industry. This is what we focus on at CodersLink; on making sure that these two work together to shape the technologies of tomorrow.
We take the time to get to know every one of our customers, to understand their drives, needs and wants so we can properly translate those for them to find the best fit for their employment requirements. We’re aware that through our work we directly impact people and businesses. We provide the means for them to grow and reach their most ambitious goals – sometimes goals they never thought they would accomplish. Because of this, we do our job in a profoundly personalized fashion with constant attention to detail and holding ourselves accountable for our promises and actions. We strive to exceed expectations and break the boundaries of a typical relationship with our customers, to become one of a true partner.
Mexico has positioned itself as a highly competitive tech destination to outsource and expand tech teams.
In our recent Tech Salaries in Mexico 2019 report, we dig deep into the benefits of hiring talent there and the reasons why it has become a top destination with over 200 companies offering IT services and solutions.
Did we miss any companies? If so, let us know!
