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.
In a context in which the creation of digital records is increasing, investment in data analysis, technology and personnel becomes fundamental and essential to ensure the best possible performance in companies.
Advanced Analytics (AA), which can be executed from data from digital platforms, wireless sensors and millions of mobile phones, is transforming competition across multiple sectors by generating opportunities to capture value from improved decision making and comprehensive business transformation.
The very low-cost system that allows people to tele transport from one place to another will have to pay an additional fee to subsidize the old motorized transport system called taxi.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas Gonzalez
Founder of CentralAmericaData
(A glimpse into the future...)
In this year 2119, the digital application Teletrans, already widely spread all over the world, is installed on the cell phone and allows the person holding it in the hand to indicate on the map the place to go, transporting it almost instantaneously to that destination. The cost of the trip is one cent of a dollar per kilometer, paid through the global system of digital money.
The same free market concept that led to a concession of a taximeter plate of almost zero original cost to reach a value of tens of thousands of dollars, must now be applied to the irruption of collaborative transport services.
EDITORIAL
Jorge Cobas González
Founder of CentralAmericaData
When using data to make business decisions, companies must understand that having a lot of information is not the same as having real, verified and high quality information.
EDITORIAL
Every day more and more companies are using new methods of analyzing information to make their business decisions, but on the path towards change it is all too easy to make the mistake of believing that having a lot of information,real, is the same as having real, verified and high quality information.
People with kidney failure can now travel normally, covered by a coalition of companies united by the concepts of a sharing economy.
EDITORIAL
The best demonstration of the advantages that exist today because of the unstoppable "sharing economy" is the association of global companies Uber and Airbnb with 0a Uruguayan startup, Connectus Medical, to help solve the problem of the travel needs of people who need regular hemodialysis treatment.
Panamanian private sector representatives are defending the mode of operations of Uber, who announced the launch of its corporate transportation service in Panama City.
As in Costa Rica, the arrival of Uber has generated resistance among traditional public transport sectors, such as taxis. However, Panamanian businessmen believe, like the vast majority of companies in Costa Rica and other countries where Uber is already operating, that space should be given to Uber for the private transport service to operate without government hindrance.
The practical sharing economy is keeping pace with digital communications and logistics systems finely tuned to all size markets.
And this realization already extends beyond using Airbnb to rent an apartment for vacation or a using Uber to make a journey. If you need a drill for a couple of hours to hang new curtains, why buy it if it is something which afterwards you will only use occasionally? Rent it.
The installation of a free trade zone in Guanacaste has been announced which will house high tech service companies who will be supported in their demand for human capital by the Invenio University with its dual model of education.
An article on Crhoy reports that "... This year building work will begin. Three companies have already signed up, who want to enter the area to offer services.
An announcement has been made that operation permits will be extended to 18 companies already operating under the scheme and licenses granted to four new firms who will enter the scheme in the short term.
According to indications made by the president Luis Guillermo Solis to AmeliaRueda.com, 22 decrees have been signed which "... relate to expanding and awarding new licenses to these companies ...
A competition entitled "GovernArt: The Art of Good Government" makes clear the teachings on how creativity in management and the use of technology can eliminate the odyssey of public procedures.
From a report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB):
Three innovative processes conducted by subnational governments to improve management procedures for citizens and businesses are described in this technical article.
The company announces the official closure of the Assembly and Testing operations in the country and confirms the permanence of the Global Service Center and the Engineering Development department.
From a statement issued by Intel Corporation:
April, 2014.
Intel Corporation today announced its decision to reduce operations in Assembly and Testing in Costa Rica over the next six months and close the plant by the end of 2014.
The information technology company UST Global has started operating in the Green Valley Business Park.
In the second quarter of the year the company will begin construction of a building measuring at least 5,000 square feet that will house 250 employees initially, with hopes of doubling this figure in the next 2 years.
As announced in January, "Gaurav Agarwal, Deputy Chief Financial Officer of the firm and John Gustafson, President of the Latin American Division, said that provisional operations by UST Global in the country started during the first quarter of 2014."
Movistar has invested $15 million in a latest generation fiber optic network which will interconnect overland with Central Mexico.
Movistar, the mobile phone brand of Telefónica, has invested $15 million in a fiber optic network that will cover 3,158 kilometers and will connect to Central America and Mexico by land.
Juan Castroverde manager of Movistar Panama said that "through the Central Telefónica network, companies will have greater capacity, quality, security and reliability of their data. The network will have an initial capacity of 10 Gigabits per second for data transmission, in addition to providing a variety of routes and connection points."
Green Valley Business and Tecnology Park will be built on 230 hectares of land in Costa Rica, designed to accommodate high-tech companies.
It is expected that the technology park to be built in Argentina de Grecia, will attract high-tech companies in areas such as manufacturing, health sciences and services. "Green Valley Business and Tecnology Park" will be built on 230 hectares of land which is currently farmland or disused land, said Francisco Bogantes, coordinator of the project, promoted by the Municipality of the town.
Recognized Brazilian company of backhoe loaders, telescopic, articulated and other types of cranes looking for companies interested in representing the brand and distributing their machinery in Central America and Mexico. The company manufactures and sells telescopic,...