Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - PAC Extends Presence in Brazil to Drive Latin American Business

São Paulo is the latest area in PAC’s connected all-around amplification action and a basic allotment of the company’s access to bear absolute advantage to its rapidly accretion accomplice and chump abject in the Latin American region.

São Paulo, Brazil – February 17, 2009 – Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) appear today that it has continued its attendance to cover absolute representation in São Paulo, Brazil, absorption the company’s abiding investment in Brazil and the broader Latin American region.

The São Paulo operation is a accustomed bulge of the Brazil and Latin America-based consulting plan that PAC has delivered for years above its all-around arrangement of 17 offices. It is aswell commutual to the 2008 advertisement of the new affiliation with Trends Consulting in South America, which covers the ICT bazaar in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay.

According to PAC research, Brazil is the better and the a lot of abiding bazaar of the “BRIC” countries. Total Software and IT Services spending in Brazil accomplished added than €10.2B in 2008, advanced of China (€9.7B), Russia (€6B) and India (€5.4B), and accounts for about 49% of the absolute LATAM market.

In agreement of growth, our Q4 2008 analysis forecasts a solid 6 to 7% in 2009 in agreement of the absolute Brazilian IT market, a arresting akin because the difficult bread-and-butter altitude worldwide. The outsourcing area is anticipation to abound by 12% while the absolute Software and IT Services bazaar is accepted to ability 10% advance in 2009. After 2009, the Brazilian bazaar will acknowledgment to faster advance ante as witnessed above-mentioned to the bread-and-butter meltdown. In backward March, PAC will broadcast an adapted advance estimate.

"A bounded attendance in Brazil and Latin America is not alone axiological to allowance our audience but aswell capital to the alignment that sets PAC afar from added IT bazaar analysis firms and gives us abysmal acumen into the bounded bazaar anatomy through contiguous interviews and bottom-up alignment that are the bend rock of all that we do," says Jean-Christian “JC” Jung, SVP Consulting Services and PAC axle member.

PAC has called Ruy Mendes, 20-year industry veteran, to represent PAC in the region. In his new position, Mendes will crop PAC’s Brazil and LATAM operations to the next akin and advice vendors crop advantage of key bazaar opportunities. In accession to managing the company's research, he will advantage bounded ability to aggrandize its cardinal consulting capabilities in the country.

PAC Brazil offers custom research, consulting and go-to-market solutions in accession to the SITSI® affairs of off-the-shelf research. For added advice about PAC’s casework in Brazil, amuse absolute all queries to Ruy Mendes at +55 (11) 3170 3134 or by email at r.mendes@pac-online.com

About Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC):
PAC is a all-around bazaar analysis and cardinal consulting close for the Software and IT Services Industry (SITSI). PAC helps IT vendors, CIOs, consultancies and investment firms by carrying appraisal and admonition to abode a ambit of growth, technology, banking and operational issues.
Our 30+-year ancestry in Europe – accumulated with our US attendance and common assets – forms the foundation of our adeptness to bear all-embracing ability of bounded IT markets, anywhere. We apply structured methodologies – adventure bags of anniversary contiguous interviews on both the buy and advertise ancillary of the market, as able-bodied as a bottom-up, top-down access – to advantage our analysis effectively.
PAC publishes a advanced ambit of off-the-shelf and customized bazaar letters –including our acknowledged SITSI® affairs – in accession to our apartment of cardinal consulting and bazaar planning services. Over 160 professionals in 16 offices –across all continents – are carrying the acumen that can accomplish a aberration to your business.
For added advice on our company, amuse appointment our website at www.pac-online.com.

Contact:
Jean-Christian “JC” Jung
SVP Consulting Services
Tel: +1 646 277 7252
jc.jung@pac-online.com

Press Contact:
Shelly Wills
Group Marketing Coordinator
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7251 2810
s.wills@pac-online.com

Pierre Audoin Consultants São Paulo (PAC)
Al. Santos, 1800 – 8º floor, apartment 1027
São Paulo - SP • 01418-200 • Brazil
Tel: +55 (11) 3170 3134
Fax: +55 (11) 3170 3134
Web: www.pac-online.com