Economic Slowdown Won’t Stop IT Expansion in Brazil
May 3rd, 2012
By Luke Bujarski
Last week’s Bloomberg Latin America Investing conference in New York City was a sobering reminder of Brazil’s precarious economic balancing act hinging on foreign investment, consumption, government stimulus, and inflated commodity prices. Yet, despite mixed signals over the future macro outlook, Brazil’s IT services industry will continue to rage forward. Antonio Gil president of BRASSCOM shrugged off pragmatic panel concerns with confidence, reassuring the audience that IT will expand aggressively at ten percent annually, to reach $210 billion USD by 2020.
Grupo Assa’s Argentina Roots Expand Deeply into Brazil
April 9th, 2012
Grupo Assa team members met with Nearshore Americas last year
By Filipe Pacheco
For Grupo Assa, the old traditional (and stereotyped) rivalry between Brazil and Argentina is strictly kept to the soccer field. Grupo Assa, specializing in IT consulting and outsourcing, was created in 1992 in Argentina, but Brazil is the country that is now responsible for more than half of the company’s revenue. The group recently announced plans for a second delivery center in Sao Paulo, scheduled to open in the second half of of this year.
The Mobile User Experience: Know Your Audience (Part Two)
March 3rd, 2012Ci&T’s head of mobile strategy talks about how to deal with the many flavors of mobile app development.
The Mobile User Experience: One Chance to Get it Right (Part One)
February 24th, 2012Ci&T’s head of mobile strategy on the huge difference between mobile and web applications
Brazil’s New Overtime Law Raises Fear of Higher IT Outsourcing Costs
February 13th, 2012
On the clock: What's it going to cost you?
By Filipe Pacheco
Brazil’s newest labor law could raise the cost of IT services and outsourcing there, or it could turn out to have only marginal effect. Implementation details of the regulation that says employees who answer work-related e-mail or phone calls after hours are, in the words of one Brazilian judge, “on the clock,” are still being resolved. But if nothing else, the decision reinforces the notion that doing business in Brazil is expensive compared to the rest of Latin America.
New E-Book Showcases Curitiba’s IT Services Ecosystem
February 7th, 2012It’s been called “Silicon Valley South” and is one of many locations to be nicknamed “the Silicon Valley of Brazil.” Although Curitiba differs from the original Valley in several key ways – less traffic, for instance, and more trees – it does share one essential similarity: a concentration of technology expertise and software development experience.
Brazil Living Costs Surpass US; Economist Warns of Risks
February 1st, 2012
São Paulo: Making Manhattan look cheap.
By Filipe Pacheco
High costs are one of the prices international companies must pay for doing business in Brazil– especially when it comes to the services industry. Now one of the most plugged-in financial institutions in the world, the International Monetary Fund, has released numbers that demonstrate what many suspected anyway: The cost of living in Brazil in 2011 rose to slightly higher than that of the United States.
Brazil’s 2012 Outlook: It’s Time to Scale Up, Gear Up and Get Real about Talent
December 29th, 2011On the record: Brasscom, Tivit, Neoris point to some immediate requirements
By Felipe Pacheco
With the World Cup just around the corner, the world waking up to it’s formidable economy and the expanding demand for sophisticated IT services – Brazil is just now entering a powerful new era. To get some perspective on the year ahead, and to hear what Brazil’s technology service providers need to do and deliver to help their outsourcing customers succeed, we talked with five prominent members of the Brazilian IT scene.
A Brief History of the CIO’s Role in Outsourcing
December 13th, 2011Rogerio Oliveira, former president of IBM Latin America, talks about the evolution of the IT vendor relationship – and how the CIO has become far more influential within the executive boardroom.
Exclusive: Amazon Set to Launch Cloud Services in Brazil
December 2nd, 2011
By Edileuza Soares
Amazon will soon start offering cloud computing services to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in Brazil, using basically the same model it employs in the US. The company has already hired an executive to lead the operation and is quietly creating its team in Brazil.
The official date for opening the Amazon office in Brazil is still secret, but rumors say that it will happen soon, possibly by the end of December. The executive chosen to lead the operation is José Nilo Cruz Martins, a Brazilian who was local director of sales for Google, worked for Sun before its acquisition by Oracle, and he also worked for Promon.
