The economic situation that has been dragging on since the impact of the pandemic has shown a 2022 that, due to different factors, reveals two reference points in Colombia: an inflation that went from closing 2021 at 5.62% to show an October at 12.22%, and a dollar price, which started the year between 3,900 - 4,000 to be close to closing the year above 5,500 pesos.
The two references mentioned above are just a few of the impact points that have led, and are sure to lead, many companies to have a very measured 2023 in terms of investments and expenditure execution. One of these points is investment in technology, which, ironically, has undoubtedly played an important role in the crisis generated by the pandemic and forced multiple organizations to pay urgent attention to the digitization of their processes.
Why invest in technology?
Investment in technology does not wait, each year of disinvestment in this work front can represent a delay of 42% to 65% for the companies. in generating efficiencies, increasing productivity, competitiveness and generating new lines of business. However, the challenge for local companies is how to advance under global quality standards, but at prices that can be adapted to regional realities.
Many times local companies do not generate a digital financial planning and advance in technification processes only leveraged on foreign tools rather than on points, such as the current one, may represent an outflow of resources that consumes the efficiencies achieved so far (payment of invoices in dollars).). The invoice that was regularly paid to this foreign ally now suffers an increase of 30%, with high possibilities of increasing further.
It is there where an evaluation must be made to analyze tools that cover the long-awaited "world-class stature," but actually landed at local prices. The obvious advantages of immediate impact will not only be based on price, but also on factors such as the following: tax logic, business logic itself, common practices in the region and even predefined workflows in the system, will be almost a natural fit when using national tools..
In the short, medium and long term, relying on local digitization tools will not only help with the expansion of the business in: more agile processes, traceability, transparency, being at the forefront, but will also allow savings and efficiencies that are not consumed by the usability of the system itself.
