Brazil IT needs more foreigners
I have been browsing the discussion boards on LinkedIn recently, looking at what people in the Brazilian IT industry are saying they think is needed to improve things here. One online proposal caught...
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State of Brazil IT: English for tech professionals
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This...
View ArticleState of Brazil IT: What does Brazil IT need?
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This...
View ArticleHulcher CIO: “Promises won’t make me buy more”
Despite having a positive experience in offshoring software development and testing to Brazil, the chief information officer at railroad contractor Hulcher Services said he is yet to see concrete...
View ArticleJ&J: CIOs must look at Brazil IT
Johnson & Johnson has been doing business with Brazilian IT companies since 2004. In this interview, the firm’s IT manager for global services, Nigel Storey, tells IT Decisions about his...
View ArticleRhodia IT chief on issues facing Brazil IT
IT Decisions recently ran an interview with Rhodia’s infrastructure and strategy director Fernando Birman about the plans his company has for their merger with fellow chemicals firm Solvay. We also...
View ArticleA foreigner’s Portuguese language journey
I arrived in Brazil earlier this year and knew that I would need to use Portuguese to survive here, but my attempts to learn the language while I was still living in London were beset with problems....
View ArticleIs English essential for IT professionals?
The use of English is a topic we have returned to often at IT Decisions. Brazil doesn’t use English as a first language, but the international IT industry does – even programming languages use keywords...
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Poll results: English in Brazil IT
The IT Decisions LinkedIn group recently asked readers a question related to the use of English in the IT industry in Brazil: How important are English skills to IT professionals in Brazil? We checked...
View ArticleAnalyst impressions of Brazil and Colombia
Last week a group of international industry analysts visited São Paulo in Brazil and Bogotá in Colombia to explore how the customer experience company Teleperformance is operating in South America. In...
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