CI&T

CI&T
Private
Industry Software engineering, technology nearshoring[1]
Founded 1995
Headquarters Brazil
Key people
  • César Gon, CEO
  • Bruno Guiçardi, Regional President (North America)
  • Stanley Rodrigues, CFO

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Website ciandt.com

CI&T is a nearshore information technology and software engineering company.[5] CI&T operates as a global systems integrator headquartered in the Brazilian city of Campinas with offices in other regions of South America, the United States, Europe, and Asia.[6] CI&T specializes in business-agile enterprise methods for systems integration and software development.[7] In 2010, CI&T developed Digital Studio (formerly Mobile Studio), a special unit branded to address mobility and mobile tools and services across all major platforms.[6]

History

CI&T was initially founded in 1995 as an IT group working with research and development (R&D) companies for software development before expanding to provide technical services to nearshore customers.[8][9] Among the company’s first clients were IBM and Hewlett-Packard (HP), Vale, Natura, and Globo.[2][10][11] Later, in 2002, CI&T had a large scale project with HP developing a “electronic order fulfillment” system for the automatic replacement of stocks with large distribution companies.[2] CI&T continued to work with Fortune 500 companies and expanded its business to include development centers located in Brazil and China, with clients mainly from in the United States, Brazil, Canada, and Japan to accommodate its business around the world.[4][12] In 2004, CI&T began working with Drupal in a partnership on application management projects that later expanded to application development and content management in one of the largest Drupal implementation engagements in the world.[13]

CI&T further expanded its business in the United States by establishing a division headquarters in Pennsylvania in 2006[14] and subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan and Ningbo, China in 2009.[15] The following year, the company achieved a CMMI-5 maturity level after investing $1 million in process upgrades and employee training.[16] By 2014, the company had expanded to cities on four continents including four establishments in Brazil (São Paulo, Campinas, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro), five in the US (Philadelphia, Atlanta, New York City, New Jersey and Los Angeles), one in Europe (London) and two in Asia (Tokyo and Ningbo).[16]

In 2011, CI&T provided services to Johnson and Johnson by assisting with their digital projects in the pharmaceutical industry including mobile application development, augmented reality, and social networking projects.[17] SulAmérica, one of the largest insurance providers in Brazil, is another client of CI&T in which the company assisted by building mobile applications on the Google’s Cloud Platform in 2012 to provide SulAmérica with better policy quotations, digital ID cards, and comprehensive lists of accredited doctors and pharmacies.[18][19]

Other clients of CI&T have included Yahoo!, Coca-Cola, Editora Abril, and Pão de Açúcar.[6] CI&T has been working as a technical integrator of digital marketing engagements with many of their clients.[13] In 2006, CI&T partnered with Yahoo! to assist in expanding Yahoo!’s presence in South and Central American markets.[20] CI&T provided services to Coca-Cola beginning in 2011 for the development of mobile applications such as Coke Drink and Sprite City.[21] Later, CI&T provided the technology for Coca-Cola’s commissioned “Happiness Flag” for the 2014 Fifa World Cup that was created via crowdsourced submissions of over 220,000 photos.[22]

Recognition

In 2010, Forrester Research performed a case study on CI&T for its entrepreneurship engagements and agile and lean application development.[7]

CI&T was selected as one of the best service providers every year from 2008 to 2013 by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

In 2012, founder and CEO of CI&T, César Gon, presented at the Lean IT Summit in Paris, France.[29]

In 2013, CI&T was awarded Google Partner of the Year LATAM for Cloud Platform.[30]

The company was included in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Brazil” study in 2014.[31]

References

  1. ↑ "Who's Buying What; Recent deals for technology software and services". Insurance Networking News. April 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 "Company of Talents". Pesquisa FAPESP. February 2003. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Bruno Guiçardi becomes President of Ci&T for North America". Convergência Digital. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  4. 1 2 Juan Pedro Tomás (17 May 2012). "Ci&T forecasts US$100mn revenues this year". BNamericas. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  5. ↑ Kirk Laughlin (31 August 2011). "Ci&T to Support US Clients from Argentina". Nearshore Americas. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  6. 1 2 3 "Ci&T bets 2012 will be year for corporate mobile solutions". RCR Wireless News. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  7. 1 2 West, Dave; Rymer, John R.; D'Silva, David (1 July 2010). "Case Study: Ci&T's Path To Lean Methods". Forrester Research. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Kenneth Rapoza (27 March 2012). "Is Brazil More Than Oil & Minerals?". Forbes. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Júlia Merker (21 May 2014). "Conheça as Cool Vendors do Gartner". Baguete. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  10. ↑ Tarun George (27 January 2011). "Latin America Startups: How Three Sourcing Entrepreneurs Crossed the Chasm". Nearshore Americas. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  11. ↑ KATIA SIMÕES. "Aposta na inovação". Epoca. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  12. ↑ Mitra, Sramana; Modi, Aditya (23 June 2011). "Outsourcing: César Gon, Founder And CEO, CI&T (Part 1)". One Million by One Million. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  13. 1 2 BRUNO GUICARDI (22 July 2013). "CI&T Spearheads One of the Largest Drupal Implementations in the World". Open Web Developer's Journal. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  14. ↑ Joseph N. DiStefano (28 October 2011). "PhillyDeals: 3 Brazilian firms set up shop in region". Philly.com. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  15. ↑ "Who is CI&T?". Rococo Co. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  16. 1 2 YURI VASCONCELOS (March 2014). "Software made in Brazil". Pesquisa FAPESP. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  17. ↑ Angelica Mari (17 November 2011). "J&J: CIOs must look at Brazil IT". IT Decisions. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  18. ↑ Mike Barton (24 July 2012). "Google Builds Out Cloud Platform With Partner Program". Wired. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  19. ↑ Paulo Camara (22 October 2012). "Bringing SulAmérica into Mobile Health World with New App". Nearshore Americas. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  20. ↑ Gary N. Bowen (1 November 2009). "Yahoo! Invigorates its Brand and Reach by Outsourcing to Brazilian Supplier". Outsourcing Center. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  21. ↑ Dan Butcher (28 March 2011). "Coca-Cola expands global smartphone and tablet strategy". Mobile Marketer. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  22. ↑ Steve Olenski (12 June 2014). "How Coca-Cola Is Spreading Happiness At The 2014 World Cup". Forbes. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  23. ↑ "The 2013 Global Outsourcing 100". International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  24. ↑ "The 2008 Global Outsourcing 100 Sub-Lists". International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  25. ↑ "The 2009 Global Outsourcing 100 Sub-Lists". International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  26. ↑ "The 2010 Global Outsourcing 100 Sub-Lists". International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  27. ↑ "The 2011 Global Outsourcing 100 SUB-LISTS". International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  28. ↑ "The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 SUB-LISTS". International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  29. ↑ "César Gon, Ci&T". Institut Lean France. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  30. ↑ YURI VASCONCELOS (June 2014). "Conquering the World". Pesquisa FAPESP. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  31. ↑ "Cool Vendors in Brazil, 2014". Gartner. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

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