Information Technology

Frost & Sullivan surveyed 313 Brazilian companies in order to understand their current and future ICT investments, drivers, restraints, and their perceptions about trends such as cloud computing and Big Data analytics.

The contact center outsourcing services market in Latin America is expected to attain growth through the end of 2014, driven by a strong performance from regions such as Colombia, Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean, and Peru. While domestic business in the region is predicted to grow at a moderate rate, the offshore services provided from Lati...

In this Hot Topic, Frost & Sullivan identifies key areas across the retail sector where the benefits of technology are most acutely felt. It analyzes the key drivers and restraints for technology adoption by retailers and identifies major IT trends in the sector in Brazil, such as online commerce, social networks, RFID, analytics and omni channel i...

As new trends and technologies are being implemented and utilized by Latin American companies, new and complex vulnerabilities are becoming a reality. As such, MSS services are becoming increasingly important. Although budget for security is still a problem, as most companies are not able to gauge the return on investment (ROI) that investing in se...

The IT infrastructure outsourcing market in Latin America is becoming more mature. Companies are understanding the benefits of outsourcing, and focusing instead on the core business, reducing costs, thus, following the strategy to turn capital expenditure (CAPEX) into operational expenditure (OPEX), instead of investing money in expanding capacity,...

The Brazilian education sector is in the global spotlight, capturing the attention of foreign and local investors as well as companies within the sector, and, in turn, driving intense merger and acquisition (M&A) and investment activity. In this hot topic, Frost & Sullivan identifies key areas where the benefits of technology in education are most ...

The development of new, diverse channels such as the interactive voice response (IVR), social media, chat, and short message service (SMS) has driven customers to demand more qualified, personalized services, which has led to a greater adoption of virtual agent (VA) applications. Furthermore, specifically in Brazil, the increase in purchase power h...

Remote work has not yet been largely adopted in Latin America, especially due to the lack of specific legislation regarding this work modality and its use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, important companies in the region from different industry verticals have implemented the home-office model, partially or full-time, ...

The contact center outsourcing services market in Colombia exhibited high revenue growth in 2013, again the fastest-growing marketplace in Latin America. This performance was driven by both domestic and the offshoring businesses, but the latter experienced the higher growth rate. The Peruvian market also experienced high growth this year, although ...