Sagent, a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions, today announced that the company has formed Sagent de Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. By establishing Sagent de Mexico, Sagent's objective is to meet the region's growing demand for business intelligence solutions and enterprise analytical applications, currently taking command in the burgeoning retail and pharmaceutical markets. During the first quarter of 2000, Sagent established Sagent do Brasil, a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"We have been operating in Mexico for several months, providing our customers and partners with affordable, scalable and quickly implemented technology that they need to get a complete view of their customers and to analyze their operations," said Manny Martinez, vice president of Latin America & The Caribbean, Sagent. "We look forward to continuing this strong commitment as we expand our presence in this region."
Already, Sagent has established strong, ongoing relationships with customers and partners in Mexico. Key Sagent partners include: Grupo KEX, Soluciones en Hardware y Software, MSG and Sysvan, one of Mexico's leading business intelligence solutions consulting groups for large corporations.
"The Sagent partnership has strengthened our business intelligence practice," said Roberto Mungia, CEO, Sysvan. "With Sagent, we have an integrated tool which has allowed us, in some cases, to optimize our development time up to 80 percent compared with other products in the market that we have used. The Sagent representation has allowed us to increase our revenues. Now, we are successfully competing in retail and pharmaceutical arenas with strategic projects."
Key Sagent customers in Mexico include: Axtel, Satelites de Mexico, Grupo Financiero Inburasa, Seguros Monterrey New York Life and GlaxoSmithKline, an international research-based pharmaceutical company.
"Sagent is helping us to integrate our business very rapidly, and placing our relevant information in a single place," said I.Q. Bernardo Frisbie Z., business development manager, GlaxoSmithKline. "This vendor relationship will help us in building an analytic application to support our decision-making process. We chose Sagent not only because of its superior technology, but also for their professionalism and ability to understand our needs."