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Colombia is rising as probably the most sturdy entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems in Latin America. There are already greater than 1,300 startups based (in response to the most recent Colombia Tech Report) and is concentrating on 15% of regional investments in corporations of this sort.
With this platform, Colombian corporations deal with innovation by the usage of the varied features of synthetic intelligence.
In the course of the SAP Buyer Success Expertise, which occurred a number of days in the past in Medellín and Bogotá, a number of circumstances of Colombian corporations which have labored to develop digital improvements with SAP, the worldwide enterprise and expertise administration platform, had been offered.
Industrias Haceb is a Colombian firm that has been producing family home equipment for 83 years. As we speak, they make the whole lot from high-tech fridges to electrical automotive chargers as they deal with modernizing techniques to take the corporate to new ranges.
With data-driven expertise, they wish to know their shoppers intimately to grasp their pursuits and personalize the expertise supplied to them. “If we will rework data into info and act from there, we now have a aggressive benefit,” says Jaime López, Haceb’s finance director and digital transformation.
One other case offered is Solla, a producer of meals and substances for pets and livestock with exports to Central America and the Caribbean. The corporate applied SAP to automate processes, streamline duties, and obtain increased ranges of productiveness and financial savings by working within the cloud.
“We want an more and more productive provide chain in our 13 vegetation. We optimize prices and use robotic expertise,” it says.
Corona is a Colombian multinational that started as a tableware producer within the Antioquia area 142 years in the past. As we speak the corporate is a pacesetter within the manufacturing and distribution of constructing supplies and merchandise for the house, agricultural and vitality sectors.
They’re dedicated to digitalization in points corresponding to expertise administration, client expertise, buyer expertise, manufacturing and supply, and product innovation. They export to Central America, Mexico, the USA and China with a turnover of 1 billion {dollars} and 10,000 workers and 45 factors of sale.
One of many axes that synthetic intelligence provides is the potential of extracting the utmost profit from information to develop enterprise. This was the objective of Ponto Hair Membership, an organization with greater than 15 years of expertise in hair care merchandise, when it launched its digital transformation challenge.
In a market centered on creating hair straightening merchandise, Ponto Hair’s technique was to draw “Los Crespos,” as individuals with curly hair are outlined in Colombia. “We got here on the proper time when ladies had been empowering themselves and saying, ‘We’ll cease straightening,'” says Marcela Villa, CEO of the corporate she based when she was 17 and obsessed together with her curls.
For Ponto Hair, one of many key factors to drive enterprise growth was the adoption of a cloud platform that enables them a excessive stage of flexibility, adaptability and price management. Alternatively, the platform collaborates with the monitoring of sustainable administration, important for an organization that stands out for being “environmentally pleasant”.
“Each group finds its personal path and motivations for transferring in direction of digitalization, however in all circumstances we discover some frequent patterns: larger cultural maturity to grasp the significance of information, the need to supply individuals with a greater expertise “We provide, and an amazing need for, innovation to evolve into the longer term,” emphasised Marcela Perilla, President of SAP Latin America North.
With synthetic intelligence, Colombia desires to make innovation a pillar of the economic system
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