Where to Outsource? The Philippines? India? Brazil? Eastern Europe? ...
The Philippines is the clear choice
Nobody else is even in the same League
This is especially true if you are in the English-speaking world
And it is American style English!
Read why here. It is interesting and compelling.
Don't get frustrated trying to explain a complicated idea to a programmer, or a middle man, half the world away. Outside of the USA The Philippines has more speakers of High Quality English than anyone.
Software tools and programming languages change over time and new ones are introduced. However, it is largely the same old stuff with different syntax and updated to make programming easier. The best programmers can handle this. In 2000 we wrote lots of C/C++ code. But by the time we were asked in 2019 to write the NFL program described below we had no current C/C++ projects and had no experience in it for almost a decade. Based on our experience the client trusted we could do it and he was right. Today, partly due to this project and others springing from it, C++ programming is our largest activity.
Because of the dynamic nature of the software industry, it is not easy to summarize our programming capabilities. They are always changing. Click here to see what we are doing today. To get a better idea let's look below at how we used our time in the past.
Cambria Staff of the late 1980s
Our first year in business came at just the right time. By good luck we began shortly after Philippe Khan shook up the software world with Turbo Pascal that allowed programmers to write, compile and debug their code in a single interface. Cambria took advantage of this immediately and began creating programs using this revolutionary product. Turbo Pascal evolved into Delphi which is in use by Cambria to this day. During this decade of rapid change, a number of “database products” appeared such as dBase2, Clipper and FoxPro. These are obsolete these days but very popular at the time. In the hands of Myrl Dunker, a Cambria FoxPro expert we even computerized a Fortune 500 company over a ten-year span. It stands today as a major accomplishment and one of our largest ever projects.
Dick Programming Mitsubishi's video conference application
In the 1990s our company began to make more use of C and C++ and toward the end of this decade we had a series of C/C++ projects writing the software for Mitsubishi and their lines of hardware. One of these projects was for a full fledged video conferencing program making use of Mitsubishi hardware and requiring extensive Assembler Programming. Throughout this decade we made use of Turbo Pascal and its successors and began writing object-oriented software. Increasingly we made use of Microsoft products such as Microsoft C/C++ for Mitsubishi and Microsoft Access for dozens of projects. A new tool in our toolbox was Active Server Pages (ASP) introduced by Microsoft for creating dynamic web pages. (It has since been replaced by ASP.Net).
Off we go to the Philippines
This decade saw the rise of internet programming, and the introduction of Microsoft's ASP.Net which joined the earlier ASP, Delphi and Access as major Cambria activities. It also saw the recession of 2001 which caused most clients to postpone programming plans, some to cancel them, and others such as our largest client, Mitsubishi's USA division, to shut their doors. As we recovered, we saw something new, overseas competitors killing us on price. The 2008 recession might have been a knockout 1-2 punch, as it was for the competition. But we ducked it just in time by opening a subsidiary in the Philippines in 2007. Three years later our Silicon Valley Desktop Programming Company emerged to face a new decade as a Philippine Web App Development Company, our domestic competitors miraculously gone, and a whole new cast of foreign competitors.
Recent picture of Cambria Staff but not including augmentation employees
Today we still use Delphi, Access and other programming tools to create desktop programs but Web programming and in its wake Web Design services became major activities. We have also mastered the techniques of writing programs for mobile devices and iPhone applications in particular have become major activities. Today writing mobile applications is our biggest programming activity and the biggest project is a mobile application enabling a user’s phone to operate in environments, such as an NFL stadium, where there is major competition for bandwidth. This app is available on the Apple Store. The project is continuing by exploiting the methods used in this software for other purposes. Recently it has begun to be used in Major League Baseball Stadiums.
The image shows the two most important Cambria staff responsible for satisfying the needs of our
first and largest Augmentation client. They are shown greeting our employees at our annual 2023
Christmas party which always included the augmented employees. (Joyce won best dressed prize
that year.) Joyce handled payroll and benefits whereas Jenny helped in hiring the first employees
and getting the project started.
As provided by Cambria this is a service to help clients out source employee related duties that are difficult for them to provide. So one solution is to hire someone else do it! Our first project of this kind is typical. An American client, wished to have programmers in the Philippines but did not know the local regulations regarding payroll. So they hired Cambra to:
Our second project was much different. Cambria did the hiring, reviewing, and termination if required. We also provided office space and computers. Since we were a programming company and they were not they figured we could do this and the project is still ongoing after 6 years with no end in sight.
We have no standard formula for this kind of contract. Each one is unique in what they wish us to do and how we decide to bill for it. If this appeals to you give Jenny a call and we will work something out.
Our second project was much different. Cambria did the hiring, reviewing, and termination if required. We also provided office space and computers. Since we were a programming company and they were not they figured we could do this and the project is still ongoing after 6 years with no end in sight.
We have no standard formula for this kind of contract. Each one is unique in what they wish us to do and how we decide to bill for it. If this appeals to you give Jenny a call and we will work something out.
