Turning to Brazil for Managing Private Clouds
October 3rd, 2011CPM Braxis (part of Capgemini) co-founder David Shpilberg explains why more customers are asking for strategic support managing cloud environments.
Brazil Gains International Acclaim for IT Services, But Red Tape Gets Attention Too
September 29th, 2011
Malaysia’s huge leap forward shows commitment to innovation pays off
By Filipe Pacheco
The IT sector in Brazil has developed considerably in the past two years, but there are still great challenges for the country when it comes to being competitive internationally — especially bureaucracy and workforce issues. The good news is: Things appear to be improving, at least by one accounting. According to the newly released IT Industry Competitiveness Index, an international ranking organized by the Business Software Alliance, in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, Brazil is positioned 39th in terms of being “capable of supporting a strong IT production sector.”
Brazil’s Got Talent But Don’t Expect a North American Mindset
September 26th, 2011
English is "limited' in Brazil
By Dennis Barker
Outsourcing is all about relationships, which means outsourcing is all about people. Finding the right people, and enough of them, is what keeps HR directors and talent scouts awake at night. Brazil — well, parts of it — has acquired a rap as one of the most difficult places in the world to hire IT talent. For a first-hand account of what it’s like to search for skilled workers in Brazil, and for some good advice, we turned to Julio Mosquera-Stanziola, Talent Acquisition Senior Manager for Dell.
Brazil Enterprises Move Aggressively to Private Clouds
September 21st, 2011
By Dan Berthiaume
Although cloud computing is still very incipient in Brazil, one local expert predicts a cloudy forecast for Brazil’s IT community in the next few years. Pedro Augusto de Oliveria, Brazil IT Manager of global gold producer AngloGold Ashanti, says current private cloud investments by large companies will evolve into public cloud investments by the business community at large.
Gartner’s Dreyfuss says Brazil Made ‘Fatal Mistake’ Trying to Compete with India
September 19th, 2011
By Patrick Haller
During the Gartner Outsourcing Conference in Orlando last week, Cassio Dreyfuss, Gartner Vice President, questioned Brazil’s long-term viability as a sourcing destination, and observed that some Brazilian providers, like Ci&T, are looking to branch out of the local market, by developing a delivery model, such as exporting to the US from Argentina. “Latin America,” he declared, “is not on a rollercoaster as we were 20 years ago, but we are not as stable as we should be.”
BRQ Founder: Brazil Players Need to be More Competitive Globally
September 15th, 2011Benjamin Quadros discusses domestic opportunities, difficulties of competing with India, and something about Brazilian programmers
By Filipe Pacheco
Quadros: Points focus on oil and gas
The company was founded in 1993, in São Paulo, by Benjamin Quadros, who also gave it his initials. BRQ provides outsourcing solutions to different application segments (including CRM, BI, and ERP) but has focused much of its operations on the financial sector — “no doubt the most developed area we have in IT in Brazil,” Quadros says.
With development centers in São Paulo, Alphaville, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Fortaleza and Brasília, the company has about 2,700 employees and is among the leaders of the segment in applications outsourcing, with earnings of R$250 million (US$146 million) and a steady rhythm of annual growth of about 30% in the past few years. Research firm IDC rated the company second among applications providers in Brazil in 2010.
Brazil Tries to Deal with Fast Rising Salaries for IT Workers
September 2nd, 2011Cost of doing IT business could rise as salaries have gone up 20%
By Filipe Pacheco
In tech outsourcing circles, Brazil has a reputation as a place where businesses have to dig deep into their wallets to pay the cost of labor. If your plan is to start producing or outsourcing from Brazil, be ready now to reach deeper than you would have a year ago. Even though the country has plenty of opportunities and a domestic market that is growing at an amazing speed, costs of IT labor tend to be quite different from those in other Latin American countries.
Thinking Lean to Achieve Nearshore Success (Part 2)
August 30th, 2011In the first part of this post, I briefly explained the concept of Lean thinking as it relates to Nearshore application development. Due to economic pressures and other factors, many companies have begun seeking Nearshore partners who have adopted the Lean approach in order to improve the cost, quality, speed, and agility of projects. In this installment, we’ll look at what the Lean concept actually means as it relates to the client, and the ways in which these principles manifest in real-world project scenarios.
But what does “Lean” actually mean?
Although the word “lean” may initially be confused with frugality, we must be attentive to its depth. Remember that the purpose of Lean application development is to improve cost, and also quality, speed, and agility – and it’s no accident that agility and speed are grouped together. Agility does not necessarily mean doing things quickly. It means doing the right …
Why Brazil? ThoughtWorks Sees Lots of Reasons
August 24th, 2011The Agile heritage of ThoughtWorks is a good fit with open source skills of Brazil dev pros, says Matt Simons
New Reality for Global Outsourcing: Being “Near” Is Just Not Enough
August 24th, 2011
Jimit: Scale can hurt you
Lack of differentiation is major warning sign for Nearshore sourcing industry
By Dennis Barker
What country you are from won’t matter. It’s what you can do that will count, says Jimit Arora, research director for Everest Group. We spoke with Jimit recently about the changing outsourcing landscape and why the stakes are growing higher for vendors who lack the ability to build a model that scales, innovates and – by all means – doesn’t just rely on the ‘proximity’ play.
