Generating comprehensive information on consumer tastes and preferences using artificial intelligence systems is the main challenge faced by companies, which must increasingly make faster and better decisions.
No company or industry seeking to continue operating in these new times can avoid these challenges. An example of this is the entertainment sector, a market that with the arrival of new platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Spotify, has become increasingly competitive. Companies like Warner Bros. have reported that they are beginning to use advanced technological systems to decide which films to produce.
A new information platform aims to identify the main disadvantages faced by companies that transport goods through the region in customs and paperwork management.
The Central American Economic Integration Secretariat (Sieca) presented the Trade Incidences Platform, which will compile information on the disadvantages that companies have in the areas of customs, transport, sanitary procedures, phytosanitary, import or export.
The National Institute of Electrification of Guatemala tenders the professional services of technical support of the system of operation and dispatch of the institution.
Guatemala Government Purchase 9319743:
"Negotiations will be made to acquire through specialized technical support for the Operation and Dispatch System with a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, which may be executed in person and/or by chat, e-mail or telephone, as required by the case, by a work team made up of at least one Service Administrator and three specialists in information systems."
The Bank of Costa Rica is putting out to tender a supply of licenses, implementation of a solution, integration of processes and requested requirements for the institution's ERP system.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2018LN-000004-01:
"The purpose of the tender is to acquire licenses on demand, implement the on-site solution, integrate the processes and requirements requested, for the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, with its different components, which will result in an integral solution that includes, without limitation, licensing, for modules for formulation, execution, budget control, accounting, personal property, real estate and inventories, payments to suppliers, purchase of goods and services, in development environments, testing, training, in addition, in high availability production environments, contingency, with their respective training, testing, preventive, consultative and corrective support, in addition, developments, evolutionary maintenance on demand and technological infrastructure on demand for the BCR Financial Conglomerate."
Instituto Nacional de Electrificación de Guatemala is putting out to tender the supply, installation and implementation of an automation system for the institution's processes.
Guatemala Government Purchase 7828403:
"The contract consists in the acquisition of a computer program, with a web architecture solution with an advanced and integrated suite of modules that will contribute to proactively managing the equipment, its information and maintenance activities, linking management processes to automate the assignment of orders of work, affective forecast of probabilities of points of failure and automation of purchases and management of the inventory that allows for adapting, controlling and managing the processes of maintenance, resources and production of the Electric Power Generation Company, aligned to the ISO 55000 Standard.
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund is putting out to tender the implementation of a world class ERP type solution.
Costa Rica Government Purchase 2018LN-000008-5101:
"The purpose of this contract is to acquire and implement a world-class ERP solution that must be designed and conceptualized as a " turnkey" [solution], and developed in two separate but related phases, so that changes can be assimilated with the least possible disruption to services and operations and that improvements can be perceived in the short term.
The Tax Authority is inviting bids for supplying a technology platform and cloud services to replace the current system.
This was announced by Carlos Munoz, chief of the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT).
"The decision comes after the executive decided to conduct an "operational intervention" to increase control of customs procedures in order to increase revenue," noted an article in Elperiodico.com.gt.
The reform of Article 92 of the Constitution of Nicaragua referring to databases, and telecommunications records could affect the trade and service industry.
According to Joseph Adam Aguerri, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), reform of Article 92 of the Constitution of Nicaragua proposed by the government is "counterproductive" in relation to economic matters.