Information Technology

Information technology is a cluster that has seen exponential growth in the United States over the past few years. Missouri businesses such as 3M, IBM, and MEMC Electronic have taken advantage of this opportunity for growth to build up their business in the state, across the country and around the world.

  • Incentives
  • Infrastructure
  • Workforce

Macon County’s Strengths in Information Technology

Macon County is home to:

 

Onshore Technology Services

   

660-833-4242

www.onshoretechnology.com  

Computers

Computer systems design is another major employer and exporting industry in this sector. It has exhibited strong growth over the last five years. Custom computer programming services is also a large employer. The software publishing industry is a comparatively small employer in this group; however, it has seen high percentage growth in the past few years.

Rural outsourcing offers a cost-effective yet risk-adverse alternative to offshore outsourcing. Using an innovative training program, Onshore is retooling Missouri's rural workforce in advanced technology professions. Rural Outsourcing is America's answer to globalization and the preferred method of containing software development costs, improving technology throughput, and creating American jobs.  

Onshore strives to help clients and partners harvest the benefits of global technology outsourcing by providing education, IT governance, and portfolio management services. Onshore provides service in a way that is both economically and socially responsible to the American economy by complementing the global IT Outsourcing portfolio with an "Onshore" delivery model, which draws on alternative, U.S.-based labor markets in order to provide a low-cost yet risk-adverse alternative to the “Offshore” delivery methods.

Chariton Valley Telecom

660-395-9600

http://www.cvalley.net  

Communication Services

Wired and cellular telecommunications are industries included in this group. Wired telecommunications is the top employer within this sector, as well as being a strong exporting industry with moderate growth. Cellular telecommunications has been growing over the last five years and is developing into an industry with significant employment in the state.

Chariton Valley Telephone Corporation is a locally owned and operated local exchange company providing state-of-the-art telecommunications services to businesses and residents in Northeast Missouri. Chariton Valley is leading the state and much of the nation with the offering of fiber optic network to the premise of its subscribers. With over 50 years of experience, Chariton Valley’s goal is to keep you in touch, logged on, entertained and communicating without complications at an affordable rate. In a world that is constantly pulling us apart, our job is "Keeping You Connected"...connected to each other and connected to the world around you.