An engineer who loses the connection mid-meeting with New York does not blame the carrier: they question the decision to come. The Portuguese office needs the head-office standard.
More than 10 workstations · support contract · remote, on-site and phone support
For decision-makers short on time.
An engineer hired for a Lisbon hub who drops out halfway through a meeting with New York does not blame the carrier: they question the decision to move. In nearshoring in Portugal, productivity depends on IT at headquarters level: Wi-Fi that handles dozens of video calls, stable VPN and cloud, and security identical to the rest of the group. DataRoad - IT Services and Consulting fills that role as a local IT partner that applies the global standard and works in English.
Anyone setting up an engineering, operations or support centre in Portugal does not recruit talent to offer them less than they would have in London or Berlin. People count on flawless Wi-Fi, stable video calls and instant access to corporate tools.
When that does not happen, the bill does not show up in the IT budget. It shows up in staff turnover and in how the Portuguese office is seen within the group.
Daily meetings across several countries, repositories and documents in the cloud, internal systems accessed via VPN. All of this requires four conditions met at the same time:
Seen from headquarters, Portugal is one more node in the global network. To work, that node needs competent engineers on the ground.
Because it is slow. Multinationals already have approved vendors, security policies and central management tools. What they lack is someone in Portugal to receive the equipment, run the cable, configure the network to the internal standard and fix the 9 a.m. fault.
Letting the local office improvise creates deviations; managing it from a distance creates delays. The answer is a partner on the ground that respects the standard and reports in the format headquarters asks for.
We support foreign companies operating in Portugal, from the US to all of Europe: we build offices from scratch, follow the parent company's standards, support teams in Portuguese and English and report to headquarters with the discipline of contractual service levels.
The feedback we hear most from clients is that they no longer have to worry about the Portuguese office.
Talk to us in English or Portuguese and receive a no-commitment proposal.
More than 10 workstations · support contract · remote, on-site and phone support.
Call +351 211 459 950 * or write to sales@dataroad.pt.
*Call to a Portuguese landline.
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