Global search for software experts knows no bounds

Jul 9 2008 by Alistair Houghton, Liverpool Daily Post

“We’re linked to Morocco with Skype (internet phone) and we’ve got cameras there. It may be in North Africa but it’s just like being in the same office.”

The idea of the Niger office came from one of Tissea’s employers, a native of the country.

Mr McCrae said: “He asked if he could go over there and open up an office as a subsidiary of the Moroccan business. Now we’re looking to go out there and set up that office. There’s a lot of highly-educated people in Niger.” The company employs its own staff overseas rather than outsourcing to contractors there.

But it says it may now expand its Moroccan operation and offer it to other companies for them to outsource their operations.

Mr McCrae said Tissea was in other conversations with the Moroccan government and may open more offices in other cities. The company is developing a pilot computer support and maintenance division to compete with BT’s support packages.

Mr McCrae said: We hope to create more jobs here in Liverpool and will need to form alliances with other local computer support companies.”

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