ATLANTA, April 25, 2016 – Rural Sourcing, the leading provider of US-based IT outsourcing services, was ranked in the top 50 of the 2016 Metro Atlanta Pacesetters by the Atlanta Business Chronicle for the second year in a row. The award honors Atlanta’s top fastest-growing privately held companies that are taking business to the next level.
“We’re proud to be included again in this list of distinguished organizations,” said Monty Hamilton, CEO of Rural Sourcing. “We are continuing along the path of realizing our mission of bringing a 1000 jobs back to America by opening development centers across the U.S. and not only hiring local IT talent but also attracting colleagues that are interested in moving back to these low cost of living, high quality of life locations.”
The Rural Sourcing model provides scalable, agile development teams onshore that lower the total cost of ownership and mitigates risks or compliance. Services range from application and usability design to software application development, testing, maintenance, security and support. This includes custom application development, enterprise application management, QA & testing services, business intelligence, mobile development, and project management.
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