MEXICO CITY — SIATSA, a Mexican technology infrastructure and AI company with nearly 40 years in the sector, has launched 'El Costo Invisible' (The Invisible Cost), a video series featuring candid conversations with executives from finance, manufacturing, and automotive supply chains. The series, hosted by Arlet Delgadillo, Business Development at SIATSA, aims to expose the real, often hidden costs that mid-sized Mexican companies face when their technology infrastructure lags behind their business growth.
The conversations converge on a shared diagnosis: technology infrastructure in mid-sized Mexican companies is falling behind the pace of the businesses it is supposed to support. The real cost of outdated infrastructure rarely shows up on a budget line; it manifests in response times, unreliable data, and integrations that fail at the worst possible moment. The series gives industry leaders a candid space to discuss what it actually costs a company to keep operating on technology decisions made years, sometimes decades, earlier.
Among the voices featured is Carlos De Alba Gutiérrez, a financial strategy consultant who warns, "There are many types of companies where an ERP won’t solve your problems. Before bringing in any ERP, verify that it’s really what you need, the devil is in the details." Daniel Alameda Picazo, founder of DAP, a custom manufacturer of electrical components, observes: "In Mexico, there’s a lack of foresight. Almost every plant I’ve visited follows the same pattern: they work under urgency. It’s only once something has already failed that everyone starts running."
José Francisco Flores Alcalá, a data scientist and senior project leader, emphasizes the importance of communication: "If there isn’t good communication among everyone involved, that’s where projects get delayed, and not just within one company, it can involve several." Jesús Adrián García López, an electrical design engineer at Wheelabrator Group, highlights a common, underestimated cost during equipment startups: "A rush-ordered part can cost up to fifty percent more while the machine sits idle." Sergio Iván Torres Valdés, a product engineer at Bocar Group, adds: "Many companies don’t have the resources that some technology companies do, that’s exactly where innovation can make a difference. In manufacturing in Mexico, the development side feels a bit abandoned, we rely heavily on clients to bring in what’s new."
This pattern is one that SIATSA has spent nearly 40 years addressing. Its service model spans IT as a Service (ITaaS), Data Center as a Service (DCaaS), and AI as a Service (AIaaS), allowing mid-sized companies to operate with the technical solidity of a large corporation without absorbing its cost structure or complexity. Rather than leading with a product recommendation, SIATSA starts with a diagnosis of the client’s actual operation: legacy systems without current documentation, IT teams stretched thin on incident response, and integrations layered on integrations that no one fully understands anymore.
Fernando Regidor, CEO of SIATSA, stated: "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. 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."
SIATSA is a Mexican company with nearly 40 years of experience providing IT infrastructure, data center, and artificial intelligence solutions to mid-sized companies across Mexico. Headquartered in Mexico City, SIATSA works with clients in manufacturing, logistics, financial services, and technology, helping them close the gap between the technology their operations need and the technology they currently have in place. For more information, visit SIATSA’s website.
