"They came up with new, innovative tools to test our code and discovered security holes that otherwise might not have been found," Chanezon said. On their next project together, the OpenSocial platform for social networking, the Globant staffers not only had the technical expertise and open-source chops to do the job; they were willing to invest time and start work before the project officially began, he said. Compare this approach to some of the big consulting practices that won't type a line of code until they know the check is in the mail.