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Q&A: Microsoft Innovation Centers
The Instituto Curitiba de Informática, a government sector partner that provides the facilities for the .NET Centre in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná state, in southern Brazil. Our center offers opportunities for training and engagement. For many students or younger devleopers, it’s their first professional experience in software project development. It didn’t take long before academic institutions woke up to the fact that, by counting on the support from the center, they could learn more about the leading technologies that they shoud address in their courses. Since the center opened in 2001, it has established partnership agreements with seven universities and one government agency, ICI. The 12 technical staff members have helped partners develop proof of concept (POC) prototypes that have even been used as production applications. Private companies are now aware that by developing POCs at the center, they will receive high-quality solutions and good technical support.
In addition to the POCs, the center has offered more than 60 seminars for more about 2,700 participants since May 2002. Also, more than 50 university professors have provided their valuable insights on how and where to direct technical expertise at the center.
Curitiba (PR) it was the chosen city to base the third Global Center of Technology of HSBC.
The Brazilian thirst enlarges the development of solutions and tools in mainframes, AS400, data warehousing, client server, databases, Unix, web development and practically all of Information Technology operations (IT) that are necessary in Grupo HSBC'S companies. |