SIATSA, a Mexican technology infrastructure and AI company with nearly four decades of experience, has launched "El Costo Invisible" (The Invisible Cost), a video series featuring executives from finance, manufacturing, and the automotive supply chain. Hosted by Arlet Delgadillo, the conversations aim to surface the often-unseen price that mid-sized companies pay for operating on outdated technology.
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. The real cost of outdated infrastructure rarely shows up on a budget line; it shows up in response times, unreliable data, and integrations that fail at the worst possible moment.
Carlos De Alba Gutiérrez, a financial strategy consultant, warns that an ERP is not a silver bullet. "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 electrical component manufacturer, notes that "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 that communication breakdowns are a major source of project delays. "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, points to 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, highlights that "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), letting a mid-sized company 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.
"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," says Fernando Regidor, CEO of SIATSA.
The series aims to provoke a much-needed dialogue among mid-sized companies that may be underestimating the impact of their aging tech infrastructure. As these executives illustrate, the consequences are not just operational but financial, affecting everything from procurement to project timelines. SIATSA's initiative underscores the importance of proactive technology management, especially in industries where agility and reliability are critical to competitiveness.
