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Felipe Richard January 2011 Agenda The Software Industry in Argentina Government Incentives A Fast Growing Sector Software and Services Group 2 Government Incentives Software and Services Group 3 2. Software exports are +8% of software revenues Requirements (2 out of 3) 3. Federal Fiscal stability for 10 years 3. Quality Certification 1. +3% of revenues in R&D activities Benefits Software and Services Group 4
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Argentina Software Development Center
Felipe Richard
January 2011
Software and Services Group 2
Agenda
The Software Industry in Argentina
Government Incentives
A Fast Growing Sector
An Intel Success Story: ASDC – Argentina Software
Development Center
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The Software Industry in Argentina
Government Incentives
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Software Promotion Law – 25922
Benefits
1. Approximately 50% reduction of Employer Labor Tax
2. 60% abatement of Corporate Income Tax
3. Federal Fiscal stability for 10 years
Requirements (2 out of 3)
1. +3% of revenues in R&D activities
2. Software exports are +8% of software revenues
3. Quality Certification
30% of software companies are enrolled in this Program
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Agreement between the Province of Cordoba and
Intel
Intel Commitment
• Hire 430 employees
Province of Cordoba
Commitments
• Subsidy of 7.5% of payroll costs
• Facilities
• Turnover and Stamp Tax
exemptions
Other multinationals have similar agreements
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The Software Industry in Argentina
A Fast Growing Sector
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The Academic World
Intel Programs:
• Post-graduate Program
• Scholarship programs & Internships
• Research grants & Laboratory
donations
• Train-the-trainer courses
• Open Source Innovation Center
• Seminars, lectures and talks 4
Countrywide:
25,000 students start every year
2,700 graduates per year
In Córdoba:
6 major universities
350 graduates per year
University Careers:
• Systems Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electronic Engineering
• Telecommunications Engineering
• Computer Engineering
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Multinationals with presence in Córdoba:
• EDS/HP – ~1500 employees Application
Development and support.
• Motorola – ~300 employees Distributed systems,
telecommunication , embedded, real-time Operating
Systems)
• IBM – ~100 employees IT & Infrastructure support
services
• Indra - ~250 employees Application Develop. (ERP)
and Air Traffic control systems Multinationals in Argentina (Buenos Aires):
• Google, Oracle, Nokia, Microsoft, NEC, Verizon, Sabre Holdings,
Tata.
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Revenues (U$S M) Exports (U$S M) Employment
Revenues, Exports and EmploymentSoftware Industry - Argentina
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An Intel Success Story: ASDC
Argentina Software Development Center
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Córdoba Province
• Córdoba City Population: ~1.4 Million.
• 12% of the total population are university
students
• 6 major universities are located in the city
Argentina
• Highly educated population in LAR
97.2% literacy rate° (US is at 99%)
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Where we are
Time zone difference with US• 1hr ahead of EDT and 2hrs EST
• 4hrs ahead of PDT and 5hrs
PST
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Short history...
Barrett commits
to the region
Potential sites
evaluation
Córdoba selected,
LOI signed
Agreement
signed
(March 27)
2003 2004 2005 2006
Legislature
(May 10)
Pioneer
class
(May 15)
Economy Minister, Roberto Lavagna and CEO Craig Barrett State Governor, De La Sota and CEO Paul Ottellini
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Staff of 150 (30% of them has a post graduate degree, 7 PhDs). Expected to grow up
to 400+ in the next several years.
The only SSG site in Latin America, home to workgroups that belong to:
• Developer Relationship Division (DRD)
• Software and Services Division (SWSD)
• Software Pathfinding and Innovation (ASPI)
• Developer Products Division (DPD)
And everything else we need to function:
• Human Resources, Finance,
Ops and Facilities, and Biz Dev
ASDC Basics
Paul Otellini
Renee JamesSSG
Christos Georgiopoulos
DRD
Jose Luis Romanutti
ASDC
Bill SavageDPD
Don Harbert SWSD
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Emerging Market MaturationHW and SW Development
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Vision : ASDC is a leading software Center of Excellence within Intel, on
par with any other leading Intel site anywhere in the world. It has a definite
technical and site identity, and contributes directly to strategic programs
within Intel.
But in 5 years…
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But what does ASDC’s vision take?
Families
Universities Schools
Innovative Talent
Teams
Innovation is much more than good ideas, it is about execution ….
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Executing the vision: going beyond technology &
engineering
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Research and Path finding
• Argentina Software Pathfinding and Innovation team
• 45 IDFs submitted; 13 accepted for patent filing; 1 trade secret; 0.95 IDF/employee/year
• TSLRP 2010 finalists
Architecture
• In house architecture teams for all our major projects
• Contribute on key forums & projects
Business Development
• Many employees with business degrees
• Experience on business and Market Research, Financial analysis and business models
User experience design
• Leverage external contractors for graphic design
• Ramping up an in house user experience design team
Hosted services operation
• We operate a services scaling to millions of consumers (AppUp, IWD, MV update)
• We have a team to provide 3 tier support for our products
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ASDC Projects in the Corporate Strategy Context
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Services Infrastructure
Current ASDC Projects
AppUpp
Tango Creek
HPC
Software Path finding and Innovation
ASPI
• AppUp Lab
• Smart Cloud
• Parallel universe
• iPhone Apps
Porting
• Privacy on Social
Networks
• AppUp Store
• Strategy &
Product
Management
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Plataforma de Servicios
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The App Store
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Thank You
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What is in for Cordoba?
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What is in for the local community?
• High Profile Employment
• Repatriation of talent
• Business for local companies
• R&D in conjunction with local universities
• Sound competition for talent
• Enhance the brand of Cordoba as a Technology
Hub
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Evaluating Locations as R&D Centers
Destinations
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Back Up
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ED, 71%
MS, 22%
PhD, 7%
ASDC Engineering Profile
ED
MS
PhD
Up to 3 Years28%
> 10 Years27%
> 3 Years45%
ASDC Engineering Experience
Up to 3 Years
> 10 Years
> 3 Years
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ASDC People Profile
Development
• High Availability Carrier Grade Platforms experience. (Advance TCA, 3G UMTS Base Station and TMN Networks).
• Large scale Data Management and Distributed Systems experience (over 5TB sets & 100's of machines)
• Frameworks and tools applications experience.
(*) ED – Engineer Degree (5 years + thesis)
High Maturity
High
Academic
ProfileQuality
• Experience achieving ISO-9000:2001 certification and CMM Level 5.
Academic
• More than 40 scientific publications
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National International
20.00%
29.17%
63.64%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
2006 2007 2008 2009
Engineering Excellence
Improving filings, not submissions
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1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2007 2008 2009
Intel System Software Conference
SWPC
Research at Intel Day
CTG Country Fair
SES
IDFsParticipation in Intel sponsored Technical
events
Steadily growing in depth and breadth
Interesting factoid:our innovation practice
0.95 IDFs per employee per year
ratio compares favorably to Intel
Labs’ 0.7
4
5
13
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
2006 2007 2008 2009
Participation in industry-sponsored technical
events
20+ Organizers and Chairs+50 technical articles
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ASDC Operations and Controls
Center risk assessment conducted by SSG
Controls, LAR risk and controls, IIRS, and
local operations.
Maturity Grading: Repeatable
ZERO high priority “A” gaps were found
Level 1 2 3 4
Ad Hoc InitialRepeata
bleManaged
Definition
Culture
Experience
Process
Application
Argentina Regulations:• No restrictions to technology / software /
hardware import
• International Conventions adhered
• National standards organizations:– Argentine Institute of standards and certification
– All electrical equipment must comply with IRAM certification
US Export
Regulations: • Argentina is considered a Non
Controlled Country
Risk Assessment
Import/Export Controls
HPC lab in ASDC since
2007
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