CPM Braxis Extends GlobalEnglish Contract and Increases Employee Participation in their Online Business English Program
Largest Brazilian IT company increases scope of their GlobalEnglish program to improve business English communication skills
Brisbane, CA, April 1, 2009 — GlobalEnglish Corporation (www.GlobalEnglish.com), the leading provider of on-demand learning and support for business English communication, today announced that Brazil's foremost IT company, CPM Braxis, signed a three-year contract extension to increase the number of employees participating in their business English training program.
"We believe the ability of our talent to provide excellent client service on an international scale is the key to reaching our global expansion goals," said Veronika Falconer, Human Resources Director of CPM Braxis. "GlobalEnglish gives us a competitive edge. They supply a cost-effective and consistent training solution for building a flexible, global workforce equipped with the English communication skills needed to conduct business globally."
CPM Braxis employees use the GlobalEnglish Corporate Learning Service™ which provides complete support—from assessment, to skill development, to customized on-the-job performance support. English is taught in the context of relevant business situations, and the skills are immediately applicable on the job. Due to the success of the initial pilot in 2007, CPM Braxis expanded their GlobalEnglish implementation and has made the service available to all employees who need to improve their English.
"CPM Braxis is the largest IT company in Brazil, and it has the vision and momentum to be a top 10 global IT corporation," said Deepak Desai, President and CEO of GlobalEnglish. "The only way to do that in today's global marketplace is to develop a workforce that can communicate and collaborate globally. With GlobalEnglish, our clients are able to improve workforce productivity and reduce their overall training costs."
CPM Braxis HR Manager Silvia Itokazu will give a detailed account of their success using GlobalEnglish to prepare and retain their global workforce as a part of "GlobalExchanges Latin America 2009" on April 2 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Executives from ArcelorMittal, Halliburton, IBM, Neoris, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Unisys, among many others, will convene to share how they are successfully addressing their global learning needs in today's challenging economy. They will discuss how their organizations are reducing costs and creating a competitive advantage in the global marketplace through the development of English communication skills.
About GlobalEnglish Corporation
GlobalEnglish is the leading provider of online assessment, learning, and support for business English communication for the world's top companies. We offer a scalable, on-demand solution that helps employees improve their ability to communicate effectively in English and enables companies to succeed in the global marketplace.
The GlobalEnglish Corporate Learning Service provides learners with a unique blend of rich course content, progress assessment, and performance support. The service also offers live, real-time access to qualified English teachers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via voice and text. And a complete suite of administration tools helps companies easily manage, measure, and track performance across the organization.
GlobalEnglish complements its world-class online Corporate Learning Service with a full range of implementation services, including a team of global consultants who partner with clients to ensure success.
GlobalEnglish is the preferred choice of the world's largest companies, including BNP Paribas, Capgemini, Cisco, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, GSK, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Reuters, Unisys, and Wyeth.
For more information, please visit www.GlobalEnglish.com.
About CPM Braxis
With four mergers in two years, approximately R$ 1 billion in revenue in 2008, and more than 5,400 employees, CPM Braxis has emerged as a serious player in the global IT services market. In 2008, CPM Braxis' IT services sales increased 30% year-on-year, and despite the global economic slowdown, CPM Braxis estimates 15% overall revenue growth for 2009.
CPM Braxis has a track record of over 26 years of success. With 12 development centers in Brazil, operations in the US and the EU, and over 200 corporate and government clients in 10 countries, CPM Braxis is the largest Brazilian IT services company. The firm's capabilities include IT consulting, application development and maintenance, software integration and remote infrastructure support services to global companies.
CPM Braxis was the first company in Brazil to achieve the CMMi 5 DEV 1.2 certification, the highest global methodology standard applied to software production. It was the only Brazilian company included among the 50 best global outsourcing companies classified in the "Black Book of Outsourcing 2008" (24th place out of more than 4,000 global providers). It was also the first Latin American company to achieve the SAP Gold Partner certification in the United States.
CPM Braxis' industry expertise spans financial services, telecom, energy, consumer goods, manufacturing and retail. The company has technical competence and proven experience in most leading technologies, with special emphasis on COBOL, CICS, Java, .NET, ITIL, as well as Oracle and SAP platforms.
