KCS IT's Consulting area marks six months as one of the four pillars of the IT company's offering, integrating Team as a Service, R&D, Turn Key Projects, and a Salesforce Center of Excellence. This department recorded remarkable growth, with the team now reaching 30 people and the development of services that bring innovation and new service approaches with clear advantages for clients.

"With this unit and the services implemented here, we aim to bring together the key skills and strengths KCS IT has built over the years — the ability to manage teams, quality in recruitment, flexibility and speed of response, effectiveness in operational and technical project management — into new models and new ways of collaborating with our clients, geared toward the needs and change opportunities the market presents.

Fortunately, the clearly positive results of these first 6 months of activity fully validate the services and concepts we designed, strengthening our drive to grow and expand this unit's reach to more clients and partners," says Jorge Vara, Business Division Director of the Consulting Services Business Unit.

The strong focus on the latest technologies, the adoption of CI/CD models, and cloud-based processes are among the reasons for the success of KCS iT's Consulting area over these six months. Beyond the revenue achieved and the team's growth, the first half of the year is marked by significant development across several key areas of the company:

1. TEAM AS A SERVICE

This service consists of a dedicated, scalable, and technically multidisciplinary team managed by KCS iT with the goal of technologically bringing the client's strategic objectives to life, while the client always retains control and decision-making power over their projects, without needing to worry about matters such as recruitment, people management, and the entire technological setup of the team.

The Team as a Service solutions have so far generated €600,000 in revenue, with two teams.

2. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Two products have already been developed in this area: e-Paperless and BlueWave ID. The first has already been approved for research and development funding by the National Innovation Agency (ANI), and the second is ready to be submitted to the same entity this month.

Both products focus on the importance of sustainability, with the first replacing paper invoices with digital documents, while the second focuses on marine life conservation.

3. TURN KEY PROJECT

A project developed for LNEG, as well as banks of hours for several clients, resulting from the work of five people spread across various projects, totaled €100,000 in revenue in the Turn Key Project area.

4. SALESFORCE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

KCS iT is investing in the global market for this technology, securing projects in Spain, South Africa, Singapore, and Germany, reaching €650,000 in revenue. The goal is to expand the team's capacity and reach: once a training program on this platform, running from July to September, comes to an end, five more KCS iT consultants will be working on Salesforce on a nearshore basis, for clients anywhere in the world.

By the end of the year, the goals are clear. To achieve a growing presence in the market by offering a set of services that increasingly prove beneficial to those who use them.