巴西外包趕超印度
近岸外包植根于巴西，將業務外包給巴西是北美公司外包的可選方式。最近，巴西軟體與服務出口企業聯合會（Brasscom）拉美外包峰會在巴西舉行。分析家認為，巴西外包的最大優勢來自於其世界第五的國土面積，隨著外包業務的廣泛深入，巴西外包產業已初具規模。從本質上講，巴西外包產業有著開放、靈活、適應性強等特點。其IT市場仍是一個尚待挖掘的金礦，巴西IT有著近50年的發展歷史，產業員工多達200萬人，兵器擁有大批技術工人和專家。當然，該國外包產業的發展也存在一些缺點，例如，多年來巴西外包都是自行發展，與全球經濟接軌稍顯不足，這就導致其業務多來自於葡萄牙語系國家而非英語系國家，相較於印度和中國並不具備成本優勢。
英文原文：
Outsourcing To Brazil Instead Of India
Blogger News Network︱July 7th,2010
When you think about outsourcing, you might be thinking about India. Why? Because India has experienced outsourcing giants like Wipro and Infosys that can do IT outsourcing in a customized way.What about Brazil? With nearshoring taking roots in Brazil, outsourcing to Brazil gives North American companies a way to outsource while still keeping a tab on the work done. Recently, Brasscom’s outsourcing summit for Latin America was held in Brazil. Brasscom is Brazil’s trade association.
Just like India, China and Russia, Brazil is a member of the BRICs group of countries projected to lead several industries in the near future. Nonetheless, not many people combine Brazil with business. Still more staggering is the fact that the country has managed to survive the global economic downturn with a 9 percent GDP growth in the last three months. This is in stark contrast to the U.S. or Europe, where recession is still a stark reality and companies are still figuring out a way toward recovery. The current growth is the highest level of growth for Brazil in the last 14 years.
Analysts say that the biggest advantage in outsourcing to Brazil is the sheer size of the industry along with widespread knowledge of business that exists in the fifth biggest country by land area. Incidentally, Brazil has a 50-year heritage in the IT field with about 2 million employees. These IT firms are said to be flexible too. In essence, the nature of Brazil itself is to be open, flexible and adapting.
However, there are some cons to outsourcing to Brazil as well. Since the IT market has been in boom for many years in Brazil, they have not relied on the global economy. This implies that Brazilians would rather do business in Portuguese than English. On a cost advantage basis, outsourcing to Brazil is cheaper than doing IT in the U.S., but still costlier than outsourcing to India and Asian giants like the Philippines and China.Nonetheless, if your company is not looking solely at cost, and is looking for a nearshoring angle, then surely Brazil can work for you. The IT market in Brazil is still an undiscovered goldmine, in terms of the numbers of experts who have worked in the local industry for decades and now their skills are open to the rest of the world.