Crato is a city of 110,000 inhabitants on the banks of the river Granjeiro in the south of the state of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil. It was founded 21 June1764 by the Capuchin friar Carlos Maria de Ferrara. Originally a small village whos population were principally native Kariris, it gained official status as a city 17 October1817.
The Brazilian city of Crato was named in honor of a 13th centuryPortuguese city of the same name.
Crato is about 550 km from Fortaleza, capital of Ceará. The municipality has a surface area of approximately 1,117 km2. It is at an altitude of 426m, latitude 07º14'03"S, longitude 39º24'34"W. Its population of 110,000 makes it the sixth largest municipality in Ceará. The economy is a mix of commerce and agriculture; as of 2004, a small industrial park is expanding. The region is rich in minerals, especially gypsum and marble.
Crato is the seat of a Roman Catholicdiocese. It has a full range of schools, up to and including a university.
The outskirts of the city are rich in tropical vegetation; the climate is generally good, with somewhat more rain than is typical of the region.
CRATOS (Center for Research on the Applications of Telematics to Organizations and Society) research activities are directed towards the invention and the study of new applications of information and communication technologies to industry, commerce and, more generally, to all of society.
A small, but growing, group of researchers have therefore begun to shift their attention from the problems of technology to applications, ranging from engineering to the socio-economic impact of telematics.
Amongst the research topics that CRATOS considers part of its "jurisdiction" are Internet and similar network applications (intranet and extranet, for example): electronic commerce, advertising, multimedia conferencing, communications (telephone, videophone), telework, information retrieval (above all on the World Wide Web, but also from various databases), video-on-demand, customer assistance, virtual business, and so on.
Recognized migration specialist Cratos was chosen to provide the necessary technical expertise, and will continue to work closely with Lombard to ensure the successful migration of the mainframe applications, data, processes and people.
Cratos, established in 1999, is headquartered in Oakville, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto.
Cratos is a software solutions company specializing in international banking and financial transaction processing.
Feeds |
Contact