In a candid new video series, SIATSA, a Mexican technology infrastructure company with nearly four decades of experience, is pulling back the curtain on a problem many businesses prefer to ignore: the true cost of running on outdated technology. The series, titled "El Costo Invisible" (The Invisible Cost), brings together executives from finance, manufacturing, and the automotive and industrial equipment supply chain to discuss how legacy systems and outdated infrastructure are silently undermining their operations.
Hosted by Arlet Delgadillo, Business Development at SIATSA, the conversations feature five industry voices, each offering a unique perspective on the challenges of modernizing technology in mid-sized Mexican companies. The consensus is clear: technology infrastructure is falling behind the pace of the businesses it is supposed to support.
Carlos De Alba Gutiérrez, a financial strategy consultant, cautions against hasty ERP implementations, noting that "an ERP won’t solve your problems" and that companies must carefully assess their needs before investing in new systems. Daniel Alameda Picazo, founder of DAP, a custom electrical components manufacturer, highlights a lack of foresight in Mexican industry, where "almost every plant I’ve visited follows the same pattern: they work under urgency." He points out that companies often react to failures rather than preventing them.
José Francisco Flores Alcalá, a data scientist and senior project leader, emphasizes the importance of communication in project management, noting that "if there isn’t good communication among everyone involved, that’s where projects get delayed." Jesús Adrián García López, an electrical design engineer at Wheelabrator Group, stresses the need for structured organization and details how a rush-ordered part can cost up to 50% more while a machine sits idle. Sergio Iván Torres Valdés, a product engineer at Bocar Group, observes that "in manufacturing in Mexico, the development side feels a bit abandoned" and that companies often rely on clients to bring in new innovations.
The series underscores that the real cost of outdated infrastructure rarely appears on a budget line. It manifests in slow response times, unreliable data, and integrations that fail at critical moments. SIATSA, which has spent nearly 40 years addressing this issue, offers a range of services, including IT as a Service (ITaaS), Data Center as a Service (DCaaS), and AI as a Service (AIaaS), allowing mid-sized companies to access the technical solidity of larger corporations without the associated cost and complexity.
SIATSA's approach begins with a thorough diagnosis of a client's actual operations, identifying legacy systems without documentation, overstretched IT teams, and integrations that have become unmanageable. "For almost 40 years we’ve watched the same pattern play out in Mexican companies: the business keeps growing, but the technology underneath it falls behind, and almost no one is willing to say so out loud," says Fernando Regidor, CEO of SIATSA. "With 'El Costo Invisible,' we’re not selling a solution. We want more executives to have this conversation before the cost of avoiding it becomes too high to ignore."
The series aims to spark a broader dialogue among executives about the hidden costs of technology debt, encouraging them to confront the issue before it becomes a crisis. As the series demonstrates, the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it exists.
