Startups to established enterprises around the world are now increasingly looking into the Philippines as strategic go-to software delivery center. "As the overall performance of the Philippines inches up higher, more businesses are considering the Philippines as first-option for their software development outsourcing initiatives," said Jerry Rapes, CEO of Exist, a company that provides consulting services and software development with focus on Java and Ruby on Rails solutions.

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Why the Philippines?

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Software services outsourcing posted ~$1.5B,
~50% growth in 2012
10% growth in employment or 55k IT
professionals
IT-BPO revenue at an all time high of $13b, 18%
growth, employing 780k+ in 2012
Tholons...MNL #3 from #4 displaced Delhi; CEB
#8 from #9 displaced Ireland
Our Ecosystem

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Skills gap from graduates to employment...CEDF-
IT, TESDA, IBPAP, PSIA, CCCI
Churn rate averaging at mid to high double digit
figures...cost of hiring and retention growing
Forex...from 2010-2012...46:1 to 40:1...loss
~13% value
Infrastructure...business structure, legal
structure, transportation, internet/power rates...
Need more middle managers to retain growth
momentum...scalability
Our Challenges

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PH scored above 7.0 for BEI...highest among
76 countries who took the test
Scalability >> 500K graduates/year
200k medical/health sciences,180k eng’g/technical courses/I.T.
related courses, 120k business courses
Complete destination...PH Destination to watch
in 2013 - Conde Nast...#17 46 Places to go in
2013 - NY TImes...one of 13 Hottest
Destinations in 2013 - Travel+Leisure
Sound business fundamentals...32.95% full year
return on the PSE...Ranked 3rd among top
bourses in 2012 - World Fed of Exchanges
Our Value Proposition

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Our Timeline
2000
Dot com bubble bursts
Open Source
movement
starts to
gather steam
4 Filipinos seize
opportunity to
disrupt the
market
2001
Gained 2 major customers
2003
Gluecode Software
grows to 50
developers &
launches “There’s
always a better way”
campaign
2005
2006
Expands in Cebu
and wins Red Herring
Asia 100 & ZDNet
Top Technovisionary
awards
2007 2008
while the GLOBAL economy was in turmoil ...
2009
Exist expands presence &
technology portfolio WD honored YGL
200 employees & growing!
2011 2012

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Building Solutions for Global Clients...
- Technology Consulting
- Apps Development
- Managed Cloud Services
Our Passion
TMC PRIMEPatient Records & Integrated Medical Exchange

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Our Strategy
People
Expertise...Focus...Teams
Process
Agile...Iterative...Collaborative...Transparency
Platform
Open Source...Automated Testing...Cloud...Mobile

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Website: http://www.exist.com
Twitter: twitter.com/existglobal
FB: facebook.com/existglobal
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Why the Philippines?