The software industry will close 2014 with an increase of 10 … – Journal BAE

In addition, a double-digit growth in exports of products and value added services is recorded. The sector now around 100,000 jobs registered

The software industry ended the year with an increase in employment.

software industry in Argentina closed the year with an increase in employment of 10 percent, plus a double-digit growth in exports of products and value added services, underpinned by a model of local value chain supported in the “Argentine talent” .

The sector, which still has an unmet demand for 5,000 jobs, round and registered 100,000 jobs of which over 87 percent are salaried workers and the rest to sole proprietorships or micro.

“The sector is increasingly monopolistic” , remarked the owner of the Chamber of Software and Utilities , José María Louzao Andrade , referring to any company, foreign or domestic has 5 percent of industry employees. In fact, one of the largest companies in the sector, Globant’s , has 3,500 employees “and will recruit more” , said one of its founders and CEO, Martín Migoya , also in dialogue with this agency.

The company, which this year made his debut on Wall Street that lists an address in Luxembourg, closed 2014 with “very good results in terms of growth and profitability and continue with expansion both within Argentina and to other countries “, said Migoya. “The ability of our talent is in high demand worldwide” , said in line with Louzao Andrade who stressed that intelligence data, one of the areas of the industry “Argentina is the strongest player in Latin America “.

Migoya said that ” There are a lot of opportunity for the extraordinary Argentine talent, from our country to face the world. Now we can change that equation to export talent import opportunities for that talent to develop and germinate here “.

Louzao Andrade , who runs a company with 400 employees and close the year with an increase of 20%, go to “a lot of potential 2015 by the variety of contracts closed outside” .

GyL the company that manages Louzao Andrade, records from this year exports to Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Spain and Colombia and other countries. In this case, the leader and entrepreneur highlights the “creation of local production chain” , as a mainstay of the export business and argued that “is leveraged growth in knowledge and not in man hours “. “It’s one thing to be part of a production line patenting elsewhere and otherwise is to generate intellectual property in the country” , said.

Andrade said there ” parts of development by being specific we ask local businesses that can be anywhere in the country “and insisted that” if the provider is local, the export business generates local employment “.