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AI Value Gap in LATAM SMEs: Open ERP as the Missing Link

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Only 23% of Latin American organizations capture measurable economic value from generative AI, and six in ten SMEs capture none. The gap stems from AI being bolted on rather than integrated into core business systems like ERP. Odoo's version 19 embeds AI into its ERP modules with a human-in-the-loop design, targeting the integration problem that keeps AI pilots from delivering returns.

Meridian48 take
The piece rightly identifies integration—not technology—as the bottleneck, but it's essentially a vendor pitch for Odoo; the real test is whether SMEs can afford the organizational change, not just the software.
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