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Outsourcing Benefits 

Because we are located in Costa Rica, IsThmus offers additional benefits than traditional offshore IT outsourcing, including:

Labor Costs: lower labor rates of IT professionals allow for cost-savings of up to 30-50%.

Travel and communications: travel and communication costs are lower than they would be in more distant countries.

Cultural compatibility: there are fewer cultural differences to deal with among workers.

Interaction: there are no major time zone differences that can disrupt interaction.

Nearshore Benefits

Outsourcing IT functions to specialized providers like IsThmus can have a positive impact on the productivity and bottom line of your organization, such as:

On-demand access to highly-skilled, expert resources: finding high quality intellectual resources that have the particular set of skills needed for a given task takes time and effort. IsThmus can provide specialized resources rapidly to your projects, and only for as long as our expertise is required.

Business focus: your in-house staff will have the ability to focus on your core business competencies and will be able to spend more time meeting your customers' needs.

Lower IT staff management costs: your organization will be able to achieve more with fewer in-house IT resources, so you can reduce the time commitments and the costs associated with recruiting, hiring, managing and training your IT staff.

Shorter development cycles: when you utilize IsThmus, you effectively acquire a competent extended team. This, together with our proven, high-quality, high-productivity development processes, will help you get your projects completed faster.