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The Internet of Things (IoT) is already a significant market in Latin America, although still at a growth stage. The region boasted an estimated 397 million IoT devices in 2019, including all business-to-company and business-to-business applications and excluding personal devices such as smartphones, PCs, and tablets. That number is expected to re...

During the last 20 years, the European Union (EU) and MERCOSUR have been discussing and developing a trade agreement to boost the economies of both blocs. After final approval, this may be the world’s biggest agreement between economic blocs and will have a positive impact on trade of goods and services. Ministries suggest that the agreement will i...

While many cities claim to be in the process of becoming smart cities, most of their initiatives center on green concepts only. The goal of a smart city is to solve major problems through modern management and greater interaction between citizens and institutions to achieve a better quality of life. Frost & Sullivan has identified 8 parameters that...

During the past decade, Latin America has shown tremendous growth supported by the strong macroeconomic reforms implemented during the 1990s. In addition to strong fiscal reform, external demand for the significant wealth of Latin America’s natural resources has pushed the region to the frontiers of development. Frost and Sullivan has identified Me...

Cloud has become an established component of enterprise technology strategy in Latin America, but adoption has not necessarily reduced complexity. Many organizations now operate fragmented environments: public cloud, private cloud, on-premises infrastructure, legacy applications, SaaS platforms, and multiple data architectures. As a result, the st...

Latin America faces waste management problems, specifically plastic packaging waste—with annual volumes estimated to be nearly 13.1 million tonnes in 2022 and forecasted to reach 19.7 million tonnes by 2030. As recycling rates in the region do not exceed 10%, the consequences of plastic packaging become evident in the high levels of plastic in land...

The automotive retail market in Brazil is at the helm of change and is currently being disrupted by a number of transformative shifts, such as newer dealership formats (pop-up stores, experience outlets, online vehicle commerce, virtual live stores), and omnichannel (online-to-offline customer journeys, digital technologies, newer vehicle financin...

The overall commercial vehicle volume in LATAM, including 6 countries Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, is expected to reach 50,540 units by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.7% between 2021 and 2030. Fleet renewal and electromobility laws will drive growth in the coming decade. There has been a revival in passenger transportation...

Water scarcity and the need for more efficient water resource management have prompted Latin American water utilities to adopt new strategies for reducing water losses, improving customer-side demand management, and implementing digital technologies. The digital transformation of water utilities is driven by the deployment of advanced telemetering ...