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Cloud: a reality for Small and Medium Enterprises
By Amanda Almeida The more than 6 million Micro and Small Companies today account for 27% of Brazilian GDP, according to SEBRAE. This important sector of the Brazilian economy is increasingly seeking solutions and technologies that are ...
The importance of effective software management
In an article Jorge Sukarie talks about software asset management Software needs to be seen within companies like any other valuable resource, and it is necessary to effectively manage its assets to prevent...
Startups: R$ 1 million or millions?
By Wagner Marcelo, managing partner of Intellecta Start-Up Brasil, a national program to accelerate technology-based startups, recently announced the 55 companies that will make up its fourth class. In addition...
The new IT for small businesses: costs and benefits of using emerging technologies
By Suaad Sait, Vice President of Products and Markets, SolarWinds IT is in a constant state of change: from the birth of the mainframe to the personal computer boom to the data center boom. We are now in an era...
The importance of support in software companies
By Rodrigo Rico, vice president of the Software Advisory Board of HDI Brasil According to the latest ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) survey, approximately 33% of the information technology (IT) market...
Technology of good: advancement in the service of health
By Vivaldo Breternitz, Information System specialist and professor at Universidade Mackenzie Some Brazilian hospitals already have hybrid rooms; in them, sophisticated imaging exams are performed in time...
Problems do not belong to others
By Manoel Antônio dos Santos, legal director at ABES It is nothing new that making use of pirated products, in addition to violating the copyrights of their owners, acts against the grain of economic growth and prosperity in the country. In Brazil, 50% of...
Beacons: a revolution in the consumer experience
By Vicente Goetten, executive director and general manager of Totvs Labs The virtual universe provides a strong interaction between people and companies, making it possible, through Big Data tools, to identify preferences and...
The use of information technology to combat bottlenecks in infralogistics
In a country of continental proportions like Brazil, logistics will never be just another sector within companies. According to data from the consultancy ILOS, logistics costs in Brazil are equivalent to more than 10% of GDP...
The managerial sophistication of cyber crime
By Rodrigo Fragola, President of Aker For some time now, experts in digital security and the media dedicated to the subject had reported an impressive evolution of the technological competence of...
Internet of things and the transformation of means of payment
by Celso Sato, President of Accesstage We live in a fully connected world. Smartphones, tablets, televisions, watches and even pieces of clothing are already plugged into the network and the trend is that each...
IT women
By Cristina Boner, founder and leader of Globalweb Corp and president of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs (AME) The market has been showing important changes in parameters in terms of...
Big Data in Banks 3.0
By Fernanda Benhami, Customer Intelligence Manager at SAS Big Data Technologies have been providing more and more agility to understand the needs of customers of companies from different sectors. In the financial sector it is no different. With...
How does your company manage inventory control?
By Sergio Canovas Balancing goods, checking product availability and prioritizing items that should be kept in stock are all part of business management. And to coordinate all these processes, it's...
Improve your customer experience in e-commerce
By Shirlei Bortoleto, Latin America Pre-Sales Manager at Compuware APM In the e-commerce market, the response time to access the website is a determining factor for the customer to move forward with his company. Then comes the...
Movement towards a more legalized environment
By Manoel Antonio dos Santos, legal director at ABES It is clear that Brazilian society is structuring itself and, little by little, is creating mechanisms for an environment of greater obedience to legislation, similar to those experienced in more developed countries. Example...
Raising awareness: drop in piracy
By Jorge Sukarie Neto, president of ABES. A study recently launched by BSA - The Software Alliance showed the world panorama of software piracy.
Humanized service, a formula for success
By Rodrigo Rico, Support Manager at Bematech In the more mature Support Centers, most requests are resolved by the First Level of Service (N1). In many cases, most users...
Having the focus of the customer is walking side by side
By Carlênio Castelo Branco, Senior CEO Just listening to the customer doesn't necessarily differentiate us from the competition, if we don't have the ability to translate what they tell us. Knowing what the customer wants doesn't mean delivering...
Investment in innovation is vital for companies
By Jamile Sabatini Marques, director of innovation and development at ABES We are experiencing a social, economic, cultural and political revolution in this 21st century. The impact of the internet and communication technologies, the...
Economic growth with maturity
By Jorge Sukarie Neto, president of ABES The Brazilian economy has interesting aspects to analyze. One is the general perception of the citizen, always with a more negative and critical tendency, and the other...
Challenges of the Brazilian software and services market in 2014
By Jorge Sukarie, President of ABES 2014 promises to be a challenging year for Brazilian businessmen in the IT sector, with the off-season carnival, which this year fell in March, the World Cup and the ...
Five biometrics trends for 2014
By Phil Scarfo is Lumidigm's commercial and marketing vice president As long as markets like Brazil continue to advance in the use of biometrics, demonstrating its full value, it may be a good indicator of trends in the use of biometrics...
Actions in defense of intellectual property
13/01/2013 By Jorge Sukarie, President of ABES 2013 was a very profitable year for ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) in terms of the Defense of Intellectual Property. At the beginning of the year, the committee ...
Demystifying cloud adoption
By Udi Geismar Myth-based fears are weights driving companies away from the cloud and mobility, especially in the field of field workforce management. Despite the Gartner consultancy claiming that Cloud and Mobility are on the...
Legal risks of using pirated software in franchise networks
By Dr. Manoel dos Santos, Legal Director at ABES In Brazil, in order to use software it is necessary to obtain a license and/or a tax document that proves the acquisition or licensing of a copy. Software piracy is not just configured as the...
The cheap is expensive
Roberto Abdenur Executive President of the Brazilian Institute of Competition Ethics (ETCO) Investing in legality pays off. This statement is not always well understood in an economy in which examples of...
The importance of PL4330 for the Brazilian IT Market
Outsourcing is a reality in the country, used by all sectors of the economy and by all sizes of companies; however, this contractual modality has generated many legal conflicts because it does not yet exist in...
The consequences of NSA actions
The case of the leak of information from the American agency NSA (National Security Agency) and the suspicion that leaders of several countries had their data breached brought to light the discussion about security...
Focus on making our economic cycle virtuous
*Jorge Sukarie The theme can be considered 'beaten' or irremediable, the reality, however, demonstrates that Brazilian society is becoming more attentive and less prone to the adoption and consumption of products...