Productivity and Cloud Computing in Brazil

The Brazilian moment is economic slowdown, with low growth prospects of GDP for the next two years and an inflation that the last four years always flirted with the upper limit of the band – well above average inflation in emerging countries, Latin American and developed. This scenario is not new to the Brazilian player clarified. Government signals a change in perspective with the new economic team, but the messages are still dubious and the market demands clearer signals.

Something much catches my attention is the low productivity growth of Brazilian workers. Data from the Conference Board, American research organization, show that employees of Brazilian companies produced about $ 10.8 per hour worked in 2013. This average was the lowest compared to other countries such as Chile ($ 20, 8), Mexico ($ 16.8) and Argentina ($ 13.9). In addition, the productivity index in Brazil was only 0.8% in the same period, after falling by 0.4% in 2012. Last year, to get a sense of the disparity, the Chinese index appeared with a high of 7 1%.

Always followed closely the development of these indexes to know that both a nation as a company, year after year productivity indicators do not improve, there is no deal with wage increases without shutdowns. What is bad for everyone.

We know that increased productivity is the result of a sustained tripod for people, processes and systems. And here do link with cloud computing. Hiring people who have no affinity with computers, for example, will cost more for your business because you will have to enable them. This is absolutely true for the service industry and, intuitively, will be increasingly true for all industries.

As the teacher teaches Vicente Falconi, well-designed and controlled processes eliminate nonconformities and increase the quality of production. Therefore, I say that mature processes become even more efficient when automated, emulated by software in the form of an application that increasingly also runs in the cloud. These are the so-called “system” – that supports the business of your company and consume computational resources in the form of data processing and storage.

Currently, the fastest and most flexible environment to run any system is a server in the cloud, where such resources are consumed in the form of IaaS (infrastructure as a service). That is, you do not buy the hardware, but rent the necessary processing capacity. Even today the Oracle estimated that 90% of developing software intended for public cloud.

Speaking at Oracle, recently attended the CEO Mark Hurd lecture and leave the following insight for the reader’s reflection: Cloud computing is disruptive because it is simple (you access it from anywhere and is quickly). Users receive real-time new releases of applications. And thus injects innovation in your company as well as being economically much more interesting, because you do not buy but rent information technology in the amount that your business needs, with the flexibility to increase or decrease the investment in accordance with the needs of your business.

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