Spanish IT consultancy firm Crystalis Consulting will open a second office in Mexico by the start of 2009 as well as other offices in Central America in the long term, the general director for the company's Mexico and Central America unit, Tomas Fertig told BNamericas.
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Fertig said that Crystalis, which specializes in implementations of SAP (NYSE: SAP) for large and medium-sized businesses, would open its new Mexico office either in Guadalajara or Hermosillo. He said the complex would run operations in northwestern parts of the country, including the states of Jalisco, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Baja California.
Meanwhile, the company is looking to expand throughout Central America to both improve service and cut down on company travel costs. Crystalis aims to expand its regional client base from 75 to 120 by end-2009, and the company needs a stronger presence in order to meet clients' needs, he added.
"Our long-term goal is to have a local presence in the most economically attractive countries in Central America: Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador," he said.
Agriculture and apparel and footwear sectors are driving company growth, Fertig said, adding that companies across all vertical markets were just starting to adopt SAP solutions, and that the trend was expected to continue through the foreseeable future.
Crystalis is expecting 50% regional revenue growth in both 2008 and 2009, he added, without providing hard figures.
Globally, the company posted revenues of 120mn euros (US$176mn) in 2007.
Crystalis launched operations in Latin America in 2005 with an office in Chile and followed up with offices in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, and earlier this month in Guatemala. The company won SAP's Partner Awards of Excellence in both 2001 and 2002.
