ROFF, a Gfi Group company and national leader in the implementation of SAP solutions, has chosen the city of Bragança for the installation of its third software development centre – SAP Development Factory (SDF).
Francisco Febrero, CEO of ROFF, explains, “The need to broaden the skills and sustain the growth of the business justify this expansion with another SAP Development Factory centre in Portugal. One of the factors that led ROFF to choose this city was the local support, as well as the know-how we can ask for from the Bragança Polytechnic Institute.”
The object of the Bragança centre, which began operations at the end of 2017, is the standardised production of software for global clients. It already has ten programming consultants, and in the next three years, ROFF foresees tripling the current number of team members at Bragança. Presently, this centre is responsible for the remote development of 68 active clients, 70% of whom are located outside Portugal.
In deciding where to set up the third technological centre, ROFF made a preliminary study that showed that Bragança offered the guarantee of quality training in the field of computers plus a set of support infrastructures. ROFF concluded that the Bragança Polytechnic Institute and the Bragança City Hall, in conjunction with the support of the private company that manages Brigantia EcoPark – Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, offer a positive response to all the needs required by this software factory.