BearingPoint, Inc. will open an SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) for utilities in São Paulo, Brazil. The center will serve to concentrate BearingPoint’s SAP Utilities practice in Brazil, with more than 180 trained, certified and experienced consultants dedicated to SAP’s Utilities Industry Solution, which includes commercial processes such as customer care, billing, work and device management, loss prevention and collections.

“Based on our accumulated experience delivering more than 12 SAP ERP projects and four SAP CRM billing projects for the utilities sector in Brazil, our center will focus on further developing and deploying our templates and accelerated solutions, as well as building composite applications based on SAP’s Netweaver platform in support of our clients worldwide,” said Oscar Caipo, BearingPoint’s Brazil country leader.