Three noteworthy IT companies from Brazil

Brazil is known all over the world for its incendiary carnivals, coffee and favelas, but few have heard of IT companies that have entered the world stage. But such firms still exist, and there are many of them. In this article, we will talk about three of them.

BairesDev

BairesDev calls itself an expert in digital acceleration. “Using our technical and cross-industry expertise, we are turning digital transformation into digital acceleration,” the company’s website says.

The firm’s history begins in 2009, when a group of young entrepreneurs and software engineers discovered a fundamental gap in the region’s market: untapped technical talent in Latin America. At the same time, the business needed software development services. The founders decided to join forces and create a project with the goal of becoming the largest software outsourcing company in the entire region. And, looking ahead, let’s say that they succeeded.

By building teams of experienced bilingual software engineers in major cities in Latin America, they removed time zone and cultural barriers with international clients and then focused on delivering unique business solutions. Soon BairesDev expanded its activities in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, the company opened offices in San Francisco (California) and Harvard (Massachusetts).

By 2015, BairesDev consolidated its selection process and as a result received more than 100,000 applications from candidates in a year, while only 1% of the best of the best were accepted into the firm. The exponential growth has led to the creation of new centers of innovation in almost every country in Latin America.

Today BairesDev works with startups, medium and large businesses. More than 10% of Fortune 500 businesses also use their services. And among them: Alphabet, Rolls-Royce, Johnson&Johnson, Pinterest and others.

Over the past four years, BairesDev has also become the fastest growing outsourcing company in Latin America. With a team of over 5,000 experts in various technologies, methodologies, and platforms, and over 1.2 million applicants per year, BairesDev is expanding globally. Now present in 36 countries.

Objective

Objective is an IT company that consults clients, trains them and develops software. Her mission from the beginning was to create the best CRM solution for the telecommunications market.

The company started back in 1995 when four college students became friends and faced the challenge of developing the best billing platform to serve a new customer in the Brazilian market, a satellite operator. The developers created NG Billing, their CRM and billing system to support companies that needed to manage a large number of contracts through automated repetitive transactions. Two years later, the founders opened an office in the Brazilian city of Curitiba, additionally trained existing employees and hired new ones.

In 2002, the firm hosted the first Extreme Programming events in Brazil with renowned extreme programming expert Kent Beck. From the start, Objective has embraced the Agile manifesto, which has led to its early agile consulting and software development teams to overcome complex business barriers in several market segments.

In 2009, another division appeared in the city of Maringa, and in 2017 the company went international with the opening of a division in Chicago. At the same time, Objective began to pay more attention to UX, that is, the user experience of customers.

After 10 years, Objective was recognized as one of the best companies to work in the Brazilian city of Parana according to GPTW. A little later, the coronavirus pandemic began, and the company quickly adapted to a 100% remote work model.

Objective now employs over 500 people, has over 60,000 automated test scripts per hour, and has long-term relationships and partnerships with clients in Latin America and the US.

MigraCloud Cloud Experts

MigraCloud Cloud Experts has been providing cloud technology consulting and information support since 2008. A small team is located in the Brazilian city of Joinville.

The company hosts the site and claims that with ever-expanding storage capacity, the customer won’t need to worry about limits as the site’s audience grows. MigraCloud Cloud Experts keeps your site up and running even during peak periods.

The company introduces 1-click WordPress installation, free backups, professional email, free SSL certificate, website accelerator, and express site migration at no additional cost. For Russian IT specialists, this sounds like a matter of course, but for many countries in Latin America, such things are not always provided.