Nearshore Software Engineering Services Specialist Helps Organizations Optimize Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Critical Information Assets

Mountain View, CA – November 29, 2012

Avantica Technologies, one of the largest Nearshore software engineering services companies in Latin America, announced today the expansion of its Security Assessment and Review Service to North America.  Avantica’s Security Consultants will deliver the service to its start-up, Software 500 and industry customers.

Avantica offers two security testing services, “Security Assessment” and “Security Review”.  Both services are designed to insure organizations harden information access from unauthorized users or systems; guarantee information availability to authorized users; and safeguard information accuracy. 

“Our Security Assessment and Review Services are complementary, with the former reviewing the system under operational circumstances in order to identify vulnerabilities,” explained Juan Carlos Porras, Quality Assurance Manager at Avantica Technologies.  “The Security Review Service instead uses code reviews and extensively analyzes design documents and architecture diagrams to identify security gaps and breaches.”

Managing information security has become more complex as the number of internal and external security threats increase. Third party security testing helps organizations intelligently assess threats and risks to information systems; develop risk mitigation strategies; and insure identified security risks remain within acceptable levels.

Recent surveys by security experts suggest that despite wide adoption of security tools, most organizations do not allocate significant budget or resources to insuring application security.  Dark Reading, a publication that follows the security industry, wrote recently that lack of budget allocation is about to change.  Nearly half of the companies it surveyed plan to increase IT security spending in 2013.  Areas of particular focus will be mobile device management, endpoint data lead prevention, and application-aware firewalls. 

Avantica’s security services deliver: 

Security Assessment:

• Security Mechanisms Review
• Risk-based Security Testing
• Usual Sprint
• Threat Modeling / Risk Analysis
• Security Systems Mapping
• Testing Suite Creation
• Test Case Execution
• Assessment Report

 Security Review:

• Threat Modeling
• Architectural & Design Review
• Gap Analysis
• Code Injection
• Test Case Execution
• Review Report

The company’s deep experience in Nearshore driven distributed Agile software development and QA testing gives it a unique understanding of its customers’ engineering infrastructure - both on-premise and Cloud - software and systems layers.  Avantica’s security services are targeted at both early stage software companies, the Software 500 and industry.

About Avantica Technologies

Avantica Technologies specializes in providing software engineering services well-suited to both start-up and established software companies. Avantica's experience across the software development lifecycle - from design to development, testing and professional services - provides unique value to the company's Enterprise, Cloud, Social Networking, Consumer Web, Financial and Mobile app customers. The 20-year-old company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with engineering centers in Latin America (Costa Rica, Peru).  Our model is partner-centric, distributed Agile, English language, U.S. time-zone, economical, and quality software engineering across the SDLC.  Avantica Technologies can be found at http://www.avantica.net.

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Nearshore Software Engineering Services Specialist Helps Established Software Companies Analyze and Productize Reams of Customer Data 

Mountain View, CA – Oct. 17, 2012

Avantica Technologies, one of the largest Nearshore software engineering services companies in Latin America, announced today that North America software companies are increasingly turning to the company’s architects and developers to help create innovative new products through the use of powerful, next-generation analytic software.

The product trend, commonly referred to as “Big Data”, relies on large volumes of end-customer related data and software analytics to monetize rich supplies of information.  As data assets are transformed into new SaaS or license-based products by established software companies eager to tap into new revenue streams, services vendors experienced with next-generation analytics and software development that can help them quickly get solutions to market are in demand.  

Avantica, an expert in distributed Agile software development and QA engineering – the company recently nearly doubled its certified Scrum Masters - has over the past 18 years helped the Software 500, start-ups and industry customers release nearly 1,600 innovative software products, large-scale Web and mobile applications.  The company’s reputation for quality software delivery utilizing a Nearshore engineering model delivered from Costa Rica and Peru, combined with Avantica’s expertise with popular analytics tools, is increasingly being tapped by North America companies to produce innovative Big Data products. 

Mario Chaves, CEO of Avantica Technologies, explained: “The rapid, global spread of smart devices and social networking has generated vast amounts of data – text, audio and video. As a result, software companies have an opportunity to convert that data into products that provide important benefits to end-customers. Avantica’s software architects and Agile experienced developers are teaming with our software customers to quickly get their products to market.” 

Because the company’s software engineering centers in Latin America are time-zone aligned with the U.S., unlike India or Eastern European outsourcers, Avantica’s engineering teams can quickly and seamlessly integrate with customer’s internal engineering teams.  The North America market for Nearshore software engineering services specialists has grown rapidly. The main benefits are access to aligned cultural compatibility; skilled, economical labor; and shorter travel time and time-zone compatibility supporting highly collaborative Agile-based software engineering. For example, the flight from San Francisco, Calif. to San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital, is seven hours. That compares to the flight from San Francisco to Bangalore, India, 21 hours.  And, with Nearshore specialists bringing experience with analytics software tools, this combination of benefits directed at moving Big Data products forward is very effective.

The market research firm IDC in 2012 released a forecast that predicts the Big Data market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015.  Referred to as a “new frontier” by many, Big Data requires new analytics tools, hardware, software and services.  Avantica and its North American software customers plan to play an important role. 

About Avantica Technologies

Avantica Technologies specializes in providing software engineering services well-suited to both start-up and established software companies. Avantica's experience across the software development lifecycle - from design to development, testing and professional services - provides unique value to the company's Enterprise, Cloud, Social Networking, Consumer Web, Bid Data, Financial and Mobile app customers. The 18-year-old company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with engineering centers in Latin America (Costa Rica, Peru). Our model is partner-centric, distributed Agile, English language, U.S. time-zone, economical, and quality software engineering across the SDLC. Avantica Technologies can be found at http://www.avantica.net.

Media Contact: Marisol Briceno,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , (650) 587-1525

Mountain View, CA September 27, 2012

Avantica Technologies, one of the largest Nearshore software engineering services companies in Latin America, announced today that its Cloud application development and testing service continues to deliver both agility and dynamic scalability to the company’s North America start-up and Software 500 customers.

Mario Chaves, Chief Executive Officer of Avantica, explained: “Avantica’s software developers and QA engineers are highly skilled in distributed Agile. We’ve applying those Agile skills toward rapid and productive integration with our customer’s internal engineering teams, helping the expanded team co-develop, test and implement customer’s cloud-based platforms.”

Avantica, which recently nearly doubled its number of certified Scrum Masters, has over the past 18 years helped organizations release nearly 1,600 software products, large-scale Web and mobile applications. The company’s reputation for quality software delivery to the cloud was built on the advantage of Latin America’s time-zone alignment with the U.S. Avantica’s software engineering centers in Costa Rica and Peru, unlike India outsourcing, are geographically close to its customers, enabling the company to quickly help organizations get their apps productive in the cloud.

The Gartner research firm says that while the cloud will save organizations money, the primary benefit of adopting a cloud model should not be cost savings, but instead agility and dynamic scalability, which can improve speed to market. Gartner predicts that as the cloud market continues to evolve, organizations will be increasingly open to the idea of using public cloud resources. Service-level agreements and security precautions will mature and the impact of outages and downtime will be minimized. By 2013, Gartner estimates the cloud computing market will be at $150 billion. One example: Amazon’s Web Services unit, which provides business with an infrastructure Web services platform in the cloud, contributed $500 million in revenue alone in 2010.

Avantica’s engineers are helping the company’s customers develop cloud-based apps for social and enterprise support, and other requirements. The North America market for Nearshore software engineering services specialists has grown rapidly. The main benefits are access to aligned cultural compatibility; skilled, economical labor; and shorter travel time and time-zone alignment supporting Agile-based software development and QA engineering. For example, the flight from San Francisco, Calif. to to San Jose, Costa Rica’s capital, is seven hours. That compares to the flight from San Francisco to Bangalore, India, 21 hours.

While cloud computing has existed for over a decade, consumers and businesses increasingly recognize that the cloud offers attractive solutions. With small and medium-sized businesses leading cloud adoption growth, interest by larger corporations is growing. 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.

About Avantica Technologies

Avantica Technologies specializes in providing software engineering services well-suited to both start-up and established software companies. Avantica's experience across the software development lifecycle - from design to development, testing and professional services - provides unique value to the company's Enterprise, Cloud, Social Networking, Consumer Web, Financial and Mobile app customers. The 18-year-old company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with engineering centers in Latin America (Costa Rica, Peru). Our model is partner-centric, distributed Agile, English language, U.S. time-zone, economical, and quality software engineering across the SDLC. Avantica Technologies can be found at http://www.avantica.net.