Technology is a vital tool for any business in this day and age, so it is important for any entrepreneur to stay ahead of the curve so as not to become obsolete or less competitive in their market niche.
Modernization and the emergence of disruptive technologies cause the IT architecture to become much more flexible and compatible with the emergence of new trends and interactions with existing infrastructures such as the cloud, mobile devices and open source systems.
First, there is the IT unbounded or unlimited technological infrastructure, which seeks to restructure the ICTs in order to have much more integrated companies, bringing with it much more efficient resources for each of the business functions. An example of this is the use of DevOps-type methodologies, which allow the proper management of the relationships between the stakeholders in the business area, as well as the technicians in charge of the company's infrastructure and architecture.
Then Everything as a Service (EaaS), which is closely associated with the concept of the cloud, seeks not only to be a software as a service, but to delve into other areas such as communication, infrastructure, data and platforms to have features such as low barriers to entry, massive scalability, device independence, geographic independence.
The analysis of dark data is another branch that is booming, it is estimated that companies only use 1% of the data they collect. This analysis seeks to use the "dark data", all that data that is collected but not used for decision making. The aim is to exploit all that data from the "Deep Web", information that is hidden, that has not been examined and that could bring great opportunities to the different business areas.
Artificial intelligence at the computational level continues to advance and continues to give rise to much discussion, the automation of different processes through the incursion of robots and systems capable of interacting with humans, continue to seek ways for information systems to behave in a much more natural way and gain autonomy in decision making. The main challenges are knowledge, learning, planning, and natural language processing (communication).
Mixed reality seeks to create an environment where there is an interaction between physical objects and digital technologies in real time, being a combination of augmented reality, virtual reality and technologies focused on user immersion.
In the economic field, we tend to use blockchain for transactions, given its distributed database architecture, composed of blocks that do not allow their modification after a process has been carried out, thus allowing data storage in a blockchain replication linked only by the previously associated blocks. Peer-to-peer communication or direct communication between network nodes. This type of technology has been used in technologies such as bitcoins.
As we can see, companies currently have a huge toolbox to expand the way in which they can provide their services, as well as the opportunity to innovate their products through technological resources, being in itself an emerging market, in which there is a high range of opportunities for companies to enter, expand and grow.
Erick Chavarría
