Software Development

Around 50,000 skilled programmers, systems analysts and program managers man the Philippines' software sector, with approximately 15,000 additional fresh graduates of technology courses joining the workforce every year. According to DTI statistics, there are approximately 300 software development firms in the Philippines

The country's software development outsourcing sector has been in operation for more than two decades now, from the time Accenture established the Global Resource Center in 1986, a 12-man company that developed customized software solutions. Now the Center employs over 7,000 IT professionals and has grown into Accenture's largest shared services solutions provider in the Philippines.

Accenture's growth augured the development of the entire software development outsourcing industry, which is now divided into two components. Accenture, TrendMicro, Safeway, NEC, Fujitsu, Lexmark and Canon dominate the shared services sub-sector. Independent software vendors, on the other hand, are those that produce packaged commercial applications or provide services in specialized areas. The latter support software package vendors in areas like second-generation versions, technology updates, and modular applications.

Software solutions providers in the Philippines offer the following services:

• Analysis and design
• Prototyping
• Programming and testing
• Customization
• Reengineering and conversion
• Installation and maintenance
• Education and training of systems software, middleware and application software
• Software development management