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.
Understanding which are the main and relevant data that must be managed in a company and how to protect them in digital format is fundamental for the expansion of a company.
Representatives of Costa Rican technology companies WIC, Innovamars, ATTI Cyberlabs and Grupo Inco, agree that organizations are facing challenges arising from the digital transformations they must make to continue growing.
In Guatemala, it was announced that in 2019 a cartographic laboratory will be built, which will serve to guide the investments made in the country in the hydrocarbons sector.
Authorities of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) that with the new laboratory will have the required information to determine the areas of oil exploration and exploitation in the country.
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."
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.
It has been estimated that this year companies´investment in business intelligence systems and data analysis will grow by 12% globally, driven by the banking sector and the manufacturing industry.
According to estimates by the firm International Data Corporation (IDC),"... worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) will reach $150.8 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4% over 2016.
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.
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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.
The availability of data, a new generation of technology, and a cultural shift toward data-driven decision making continue to drive demand for big data and analytics technology and services.
Availability of information, new technologies and cultural change towards making decisions based on data is changing the way we do business.
According to estimates by the firm International Data Corporation (IDC), at the global level "...
State officials do not own the information they manage, and when that information has not been legally declared as reserved, they must ensure its availability to the public.
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And 'availability´means that public institutions must have all the doors to obtain it wide open, both administratively and technically.
State officials often create administrative barriers to free access to public information, in the form of lengthy bureaucratic processes, including sometimes filling out forms that include insidious questions about what the information will be used for.
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.
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