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 hosted Internet protocol (IP) telephony and integrated unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications market in Latin American is expected to exhibit impressive growth during the next 7 years. The number of service providers offering these solutions is projected to significantly increase in the next 1218 months, thus augmenting th...

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.

Big Data has yet to take hold in Brazil, but some verticals (e.g., finance, telecoms, retail) are exploring projects with IT companies who provide solutions for fraud analytics, real-time analytics with in-memory computing, and online and digital analytics, to name a few. These solutions offer clear return on investment such as reduction of churn r...

The market for UC&C in the cloud in Latin America is driven by the proliferation of mobile devices, the rise in the small and medium businesses, the increased consideration for Web conferencing/video solutions, and the appearance of virtual machines. This research includes key stakeholder interviews and provides a qualitative analysis of the trends...

In Latin America, hosted and cloud services for contact centers are emerging as an alternative solution to premises-based contact center applications. These services are owned and operated by third-party providers, and they enable contact centers to be more productive, offering a better service to clients with reduced capital expenditures when comp...

The Contact Center Outsourcing (CCO) Services Market in Argentina slightly decreased in revenue in 2013 because of the exit of providers during the year as a result of the low profitability margins. On the other hand, the CCO services market in Chile exhibited a mild revenue growth in 2013, mostly based on the domestic business, as several offshori...

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 ...