Following the mobile and cloud trends in corporate applications, the Brazilian Sonda IT, owned by the Chilean Sonda, set its portfolio to meet companies’ need for “as a service” offers tied to mobility and cloud computing.
Generally speaking, Sonda IT has packaged software, service and infrastructure to sell them as a unique solution, offering an end-to-end service for which customers pay a periodic fee. The company also adds customized and vertical focused tools to SAP applications to make it easier for firms to manage them. Indeed Sonda IT aims to be one of SAP’s cloud providers for the recent launch of Business One OnDemand.
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With six thousand employees and about 1200 clients, Sonda IT is one of the largest SAP partners in Latin America and has integrated its solutions for more than a decade. It is also a provider of business process outsourcing, virtualization solutions, cloud computing, storage and security through its new portfolio of offerings in conjunction with partners Cisco, EMC and VMware.
Dubbed Sonda IT Mobile Solutions and Sonda Cloud Suite, both platforms are in line with SAP’s strategy of relying on its mobile, cloud and big data growth, and they are important elements for Brazil’s Sonda IT as well. The company has grown 20% year-over-year. Last December, Sonda IT unveiled its third quarter results, announcing it has ended the nine-month period with US$ 760.7 million.
According to Ricardo Barone, Sonda IT’s vice president for the company’s IT services unit, the Brazilian firm has played a strategic role in global operations, though Chile still represents the largest share of total company revenue.
For 2012, Sonda IT is betting on the newly launched data center, located in Santana de Parnaíba (16.15 miles far from São Paulo capital city). “We will add data center services offering our solution instead of selling co-location,” said Barone.
Sonda IT has invested US$ 7.73 million (R$ 14 million) to build the data center, which has the capacity to fit and operate 1,600 servers.
