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Philippine, Ayala Software Development for Japanese market Ayala, the biggest conglomerate in the Philippines, introduced himself as a software developer in Japanese market. It sets Japanese subsidiary in Chiba Prefecture to get business in Financial institution and Merchandising industries. Philippine is aiming as Outsourcing country after India. It begins to become “India plus ONE” country.

The company which settles in Japan is Ayala’s software company, Ayala Systems Technology, Inc. It plans to market in Japan and develop in the Philippines.

As of today, India gets major IT outsourcing business from Japan, Europe and USA, but wage increase becomes obvious to reach almost the same level of that of the Philippines, especially office workers. This is why the Philippines, which has a lot of English capable IT Engineers, come out as a new outsourcing country.

Fujitsu has its development office in the Philippines. About 40 delegates from Japan visited Manila for “e-Service” exhibition held on 15 and 16th February.

Many call centers were opened by Computer company and Financial Institutions, like Dell of USA, HBSC of UK.

Outsourcing business including Software Development and Call Center becomes US3.7B in 2006 which is three times that of two years ago. Outsourcing association forecasts US$12B in 2010.