Fantommers

Nearshore IT outsourcing and custom software from Argentina

Based in Argentina, Fantommers is an IT firm focused on communications technology and custom software development. It offers outsourcing, consulting and specialized software development, and it presents itself as a provider for clients who prefer to pass part of their computing work, or all of it, to an outside team.

Outsourcing that puts skilled staff to work for a client

Outsourcing means that highly qualified staff work for a client over an agreed period, so that the client can optimize projects and grow without building the whole team in house. Consulting covers advice on IT projects and processes, and the firm describes its services as a way to innovate through external management of some or all of a client's computer processes.

Custom software in low and high level languages

Its coding work runs from low-level programming close to the hardware through to high-level application languages. The site says the team uses a broad set of tools that speed up the stages of the software development process. The people doing the work include computing graduates and technicians, alongside electronics and software engineers and academics who also work on research and development.

Telecom and set-top box projects

The firm's case studies are weighted toward telecommunications. One describes the design and coding of the menus and display module for a set-top box, the device that receives and decodes digital television. The box is built for digital television in Argentina and receives high definition, standard definition and mobile television under the ISDB-T standard. The software is modular, separating the graphics from the functional module so that several selectable skins can be managed, and it runs on the Linux frame buffer.

Other work includes support for a softswitch, the device that handles signalling and service management in next generation networks, and network address translation for IP phones, which lets calls pass between endpoints on different networks. A further project involves text messaging over GSM networks, where messages are generated and controlled through AT commands on mobile devices.

Location and why clients choose it

The firm is based in a research and innovation zone in Argentina linked to universities, government offices and national research bodies. It says Argentina has become a recognized nearshore choice, and it lists the reasons clients choose the country: a competitive market and skilled professionals, costs it describes as competitive against the United States and Western Europe, a similar time zone for North American clients, communication in English or Spanish, and a compatible culture.

Other clients

The site lists further work for a consumer finance company in the city of Paraná and a mobile project for a retail client.