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US outsourcing firm to expand to RP

By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 06:19pm (Mla time) 02/22/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- United States-based outsourcing and consulting services provider ProV International is looking at moving a majority of its operations from the US, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the Philippines in the coming years as part of its expansion plans.

The company provides an entire list of IT-related outsourced services such as staff augmentation, software development, manpower training, customer relations management, data center management, network security and data warehousing. Their main target firms are retailers, schools and government agencies primarily from the United States.

ProV International co-founder Jim Lynch told reporters in the Philippines that they hope to migrate much of their services to the Philippines, which means they would be getting more people. Lynch said they are hoping to get about 500 people in the Philippines by the end of the year.

Part of their program is to get software engineers and consultants and train them in the latest software certifications in order to provide services to foreign firms.