Defining a technological agenda that includes the development of online sales channels, digital marketing and improvement of processes and operations is essential for companies to meet the challenges they must overcome to compete in the new commercial reality.
Technology specialists agree that companies should focus on reinventing the role of technology in business.
Because companies dedicated to the provision of services are more effective than product manufacturers and their growth is more accelerated, economies such as those of Central America could bet on the outsourcing of technology services.
In this context of sanitary and economic crisis, generated by the covid-19 outbreak, several economic sectors were affected due to the restrictions imposed, but, in contrast, companies involved in the provision of technological services reported a significant growth.
Between July and October 2020, the number of people in Costa Rica exploring options to access an ERP-type software online increased 32%, and the number of Panamanian consumers looking to hire a CRM solution decreased 4%.
CentralAmericaData's interactive platform, Consumer Insights, monitors in real time changes in consumer habits in all markets in the region and in other Latin American countries, with fundamental information to understand their behavior, new trends and anticipate eventual changes in their purchasing patterns.
Coordinating work teams that work remotely, having updated information systems and incorporating the use of cloud applications to generate reports in an agile way, are some of the needs of companies in the new business scenario.
The return to on-site work is a reality that seems to be far away for some companies, which, faced with the imposition of restrictions on mobility, had to readjust their operations and migrate to digital formats.
In recent weeks, interest in the region's markets for electronic equipment, computers and technological services has clearly picked up, with educational software and computer security services being among the most marked trends.
Using a system that monitors in real time changes in consumer interests and preferences in Central American countries, developed by CentralAmericaData's Trade Intelligence Unit, it is possible to project short and long term demand trends for the different products, sectors and markets operating in the region.
Having general ideas of how a computer can look at an image and identify a stop sign, a pedestrian or a car, is fundamental for business leaders to be able to empower humans with the help of artificial intelligence.
The development of artificial intelligence tools suggests that human work will be abolished, something that could be far away, since these technological applications are for now used for the execution of specific business tasks and not for problem solving.
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage tenders the modernization services of the technological platform used for the institution's business.
Costa Rican Government Purchase 2020LN-000001-0021400001:
"A technological platform will be acquired for the integral service of modernization of the technological platform that will allow the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) to support its mission-critical business processes in the areas of Finance, Supplies, Commercial, Planning, Project Management and Business Intelligence, in an effective and agile manner, through a technological infrastructure of modern business solutions, secure, stable, accessible and highly available, including their respective support and evolutionary maintenance services, providing significant value to customers, internal and external, through the automation of workflows, web channels, mobile devices and automatic exchange of information with other internal and external systems, by means of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Eurofins Scientific has announced the opening of a technology center in Costa Rica, from where it will support IT operations for the North and South of the continent of America.
From a statement issued by the Cinde:
San José, Costa Rica, June 13, 2018.Eurofins Scientific, global leader in bio analysis, inaugurated its new technology center in Costa Rica and plans to hire more than 50 Costa Ricans with knowledge in information technology, IT infrastructure, data centers and IT operations, as well as application development, computer architecture, design and support.
From April 24th to 26th 150 exporters of services will be gathering together in Costa Rica with international buyers from sectors such as audiovisual, global health, information and communication technologies, education, biotechnology and green technologies.
The event is being organized by Cinde and will take place at the Real Intercontinental Hotel, where business conferences will also be held in which interested companies can participate.
Soin Soluciones Integrales S.A. has won a contract in Costa Rica to provide the Costa Rican Electricity Institute with sustainability services for a BSS solution and integrated complements.
The contracting institution is the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad and the works consist of services for sustainability under the BSS solution and integrated complements for a period of 14 months, renewable for three equal periods.
Top of the list in the region is Panama (57 in the world), followed by Costa Rica (58), Guatemala (98), Honduras (99), El Salvador (103) and Nicaragua (131).
The Global Information and Communication Technologies Report 2012 is prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with INSEAD Business School. It has been published since 2001 and covers 142 countries.
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