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Emergence of Brazil in Offshore Outsourcing
Brazilian IT services vendor Politec has won a contract with US-based staffing and engineering firm CDI Corp, in a deal that highlights the emergence of Brazil as a key source of low-cost offshore skills.
Politec is Brazil’s largest privately owned IT services provider with full-year 2005 sales of BRR 478m ($226m) and some 6,000 employees. The company provides a broad range of applications and infrastructure services, and has operations in China, Japan, Europe, and the US.
Furthermore, there is more evidence of the emergence of Brazil in offshore outsourcing:
IBM Global Services supports all of its Latin American outsourcing clients from its data center in Sao Paulo, and Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd expects to recruit between 600 to 800 new employees in Brazil to support its contract with ABN AMRO. The vendor said that around 50% of the ABN AMRO work is being delivered from Brazil. TCS currently has 600 staff in the country working on projects for clients including Gillette, AIG, and Brasil Telecom, and plans to increase this to 2,000 people by March 2007.
