Stefanini's success case client is Idera, headquartered in Houston, Texas, and a leading provider of systems management tools for the world's fastest growing database - Microsoft's SQL Server. With over 120 employees, the company has a worldwide distribution and offers round the clock support for a family of seven products encompassing performance management, diagnostics, compliance, backup and recovery. Among its clients are Microsoft, Citibank and Boeing.

Idera came to Stefanini while looking for an outsourcing partner that could guarantee it could keep up with Idera's fast pace of growth, facilitate an aggressive product delivery schedule while ensuring quality and reducing Idera's office space demands as well as development and hardware costs. After assessing possible providers in India, China and Eastern Europe, in 2004 Idera chose Stefanini IT Solutions to support the ongoing enhancement of seven products and the release of four new products by the end of 2006.

With more than 4,000 employees in Brazil, Stefanini successfully delivered three major product components in three and a half months and also transferred two products for continuous maintenance. "Our experience with Idera has been one example of the flexibility of the service solutions we can deliver to all our clients," said Stefanini Director Antonio Moreira. "As a result of the initial phase of the project, Idera is increasing the amount of work outsourced to Stefanini - transforming an initial short term contract into a long term relationship."

Among the reasons why Idera selected Stefanini were its overall resource creativity, IP protection, project commitment and innovation. Furthermore, US companies have several benefits from working with Brazil, especially when compared to other outsourcing destinations such as India and China. Brazil and the United States are in the same time zone with similar work hours, which facilitates quick interaction and communication.

Founded in 1987, Stefanini is one of the leading IT providers in Brazil, with offices throughout the country and 12 software development centers. Stefanini also has operations in several US cities (Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and New York), as well as in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

For more information on the companies participating at the Gartner Outsourcing Summit 2006, visit www.brazil-it.com. Brazil IT is sponsored by Apex Brazil, the Brazilian Trade Promotion Agency. To schedule interviews with Stefanini or any other Brazilian IT executives, please contact Ana Martini at the Brazil Information Center (202) 471-4020 or (310) 560-7877.