overseas. Furthermore, in electing to retain
its manufacturing facilities in Canada, Ciara
has taken into consideration the high quality
of the workforce currently available in Can-
ada. “We are currently able to easily fulfill
our engineering and R&D requirements from
the local talent pool here in Canada without
having to sacrifice quality and at rates that
are far more reasonable than what you would pay in Silicon
Valley,’’ Ahdoot notes. Canada–based engineers do not only
keep abreast of current developments in the IT marketplace but
are also in a superior position than their brethren overseas to
forecast and anticipate future trends in the industry. Ciara en-
gineers have continuously exhibited these tendencies to both
Ciara’s and its customers’ advantage.
Focusing on the customer has proven to be a total success from
both the customer and Ciara vantage points. “As we produce
made-to-measure systems using only the specific components
that are relevant and optimized to the software and applica-
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