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Benner, TBA Group create joint venture focused on cloud

by Roberta Prescott
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Two Brazilian vendors have formed a joint venture for a a cloud-computing company. Benner Systems, the third-largest domestic supplier of business management software, and TBA Group, a leading information technology conglomerate in Brazil, announced they created a joint venture called GlobalWeb Corp. This company will offer cloud-computing solutions and software as a service (SaaS) solutions. GlobalWeb Corp.’s revenue is estimated to reach R$ 240 million (US $150 million) in 2011.

Under the agreement, Benner will merge with GlobalWeb, the TBA Group arm for hosting services, full outsourcing and management challenges. Together, the two companies will operate under the name brand GlobalWeb Corp. and the name Benner will used for a business unit of business management applications in the new company. Former Benner Systems CEO and founder Severino Benner will be CEO of GlobalWeb Corp.

GlobalWeb counts 1,500 employees, and about half of its employees are certified in several technologies. The initial customers base is estimated at 800 firms. The company expects to surpass R$ 500 million of revenue to the fiscal 2014, boosted by an annual growth rate of 28%.

GlobalWeb said that it will begin recruiting sales and service resellers channels, aiming to achieve 300 resellers in the first year of operation, starting with an existing base of 120 partners throughout Brazil.

GlobalWeb has three business divisions: applications business management; outsourcing and managed IT services; and marketing and development of solutions on the Microsoft Corp. platform.

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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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