SOFTWARE SERVICE FIRM TAPS CEBUANO I.T. TALENTS
By Jing the Jinx. Friday, 21. December 2007, 05:37:56
By Cris Evert Lato
Cebu Daily News
December 19, 2007
CEBU CITY, Philippines - A Cebu-based company that specializes in the
software-as-a-service (SaaS) business aims to get a chunk of the $12-B industry using Cebuano talents in the next two years.
David Abramowski, Morph Labs chief executive officer, said Tuesday the good talent pool was one of the main considerations why the company decided to establish their corporate headquarters in Cebu.
Abramowski, who met with Cebu Investment Promotions Center, said the 22,000 annual information technology (IT) graduates in Cebu is a big talent pool, which the company, Morph Labs, can tap on.
He said Cebuano skills are already at par with the world's standards in software development.
He said this is a factor the company is harnessing to move forward in the SaaS business.
Currently, the Cebu office has a total of 18 employees composed of software programmers, developers, testers, systems administrators and quality assurance officers among others.
“We're adding 14 more people in 30 days. Our goal is to have at least 40 employees to intensify operations by next year,” he said.
Abramowski said mid-entry level salary of software programmer is P35,000.
“People we hire are excited to be innovators who don't want to work in a call center. We also offer ownership of our company to every employee so every employee will be getting stock option grants,” he said.
He added that employees are also encouraged to develop their ideas.
“We are not susceptible to losing employees because they (employees) can contribute ideas everyday, they can act on it and they can take risks,” he said.
He said Morph will continue to grow its application development side, which will be the main growth driver in 2008 and 2009.
Morph Labs specializes in SaaS, a software application delivery model in which a software vendor develops a web-based software application and hosts-operates the application for use by its customers over the internet.
“This (SaaS) is just the ability to deliver software to small and medium-sized businesses so they don't have servers and technical people running their software which is outside the traditional software environment,” he said.
Aside from the Cebuano talents, Morph Lab officials considered office space, cost, transportation, telecommunications, internet service and employee satisfaction, before they decided to open their headquarters in Cebu.
“We saw that building headquarters here (Cebu) is an opportunity since everything is working well for us. Based on our analysis, Cebu was a much more attractive alternative (than Manila),” he said.
The company has already operated for three years but it was only in October 2007 that they opened the interactive technology bar at the Ground Floor of i1 Building at the Asiatown IT Park.
The present office will be the company's training center.
To complement its Cebu office, Morph will also have support offices in Manila, Hong Kong and the United States.
Cebu Daily News
December 19, 2007
CEBU CITY, Philippines - A Cebu-based company that specializes in the
software-as-a-service (SaaS) business aims to get a chunk of the $12-B industry using Cebuano talents in the next two years.David Abramowski, Morph Labs chief executive officer, said Tuesday the good talent pool was one of the main considerations why the company decided to establish their corporate headquarters in Cebu.
Abramowski, who met with Cebu Investment Promotions Center, said the 22,000 annual information technology (IT) graduates in Cebu is a big talent pool, which the company, Morph Labs, can tap on.
He said Cebuano skills are already at par with the world's standards in software development.
He said this is a factor the company is harnessing to move forward in the SaaS business.
Currently, the Cebu office has a total of 18 employees composed of software programmers, developers, testers, systems administrators and quality assurance officers among others.
“We're adding 14 more people in 30 days. Our goal is to have at least 40 employees to intensify operations by next year,” he said.
Abramowski said mid-entry level salary of software programmer is P35,000.
“People we hire are excited to be innovators who don't want to work in a call center. We also offer ownership of our company to every employee so every employee will be getting stock option grants,” he said.
He added that employees are also encouraged to develop their ideas.
“We are not susceptible to losing employees because they (employees) can contribute ideas everyday, they can act on it and they can take risks,” he said.
He said Morph will continue to grow its application development side, which will be the main growth driver in 2008 and 2009.
Morph Labs specializes in SaaS, a software application delivery model in which a software vendor develops a web-based software application and hosts-operates the application for use by its customers over the internet.
“This (SaaS) is just the ability to deliver software to small and medium-sized businesses so they don't have servers and technical people running their software which is outside the traditional software environment,” he said.
Aside from the Cebuano talents, Morph Lab officials considered office space, cost, transportation, telecommunications, internet service and employee satisfaction, before they decided to open their headquarters in Cebu.
“We saw that building headquarters here (Cebu) is an opportunity since everything is working well for us. Based on our analysis, Cebu was a much more attractive alternative (than Manila),” he said.
The company has already operated for three years but it was only in October 2007 that they opened the interactive technology bar at the Ground Floor of i1 Building at the Asiatown IT Park.
The present office will be the company's training center.
To complement its Cebu office, Morph will also have support offices in Manila, Hong Kong and the United States.
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The Cebuano Geek # 3. January 2008, 02:44
This will be great opportunity for us Cebuano programmers.