Now more than ever, SMEs require hybrid working, collaboration, accounting, compliance, and enterprise management tools that work together
As COVID-19 dominates the world of work for its second year, businesses are still adjusting, especially to cater for working from home. Continued uncertainty has introduced a new level of contingency to planning, and forecasting is taken with a pinch of salt. What is certain, however, is that agility, enabled at least in part by digital solutions, has become integral to not only success, but also survival. Developers have a crucial role to play in these difficult times. Now more than ever, companies require hybrid working, collaboration, accounting, compliance, and IT management tools that work together to provide integrated solutions to specific needs and can readily scale in line with changes in circumstance. Here, developers have an opportunity to showcase their innovator’s mindset and in-depth customer understanding. As ever, it’s crucial to understand what applications current and prospective customers are using – as well as where they could be headed. The pandemic has forced many businesses into an unfamiliar digital landscape. Processes that used to be done by hand now need to be completed digitally. Point of sale and payments processing are seeing heavy investment, but so are cashflow management solutions as businesses contend with deferred and late payments. One of the areas that has seen the greatest upswing in adoption in the past year is business collaboration tools. Compelled to adopt hybrid and remote working practices, organizations turned to platforms like Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams in unprecedented numbers.
