Why to invest in Efficient Software Development during the Current World Crisis
We have seen how the world has abruptly changed in front of our eyes and without notice. In the midst of this situation a question raises. Are companies prepared to face the new challenges ahead?
Large, Small and mid-sized enterprises are currently being forced to rethink their business model in order to adapt to current conditions. Many of them are struggling to keep going and stay afloat. Not only because they had to close their doors and change their desks for the dining room tables, but because often they don't know how to cope with the tasks that already existed and many new ones that arise from working remotely. Sometimes they are not aware of the importance in the exchange of information between core areas to create workflows that can improve productivity of each person on the team.
This is where much more is needed than an excel spreadsheet, but integrated systems with easy access to information that can be developed to make the company work collaboratively, more efficiently in order to make correct decisions in times of crisis, otherwise fighting change will be difficult and full of stones along the way.
However let’s translate this into a real live service company that day by day serves many clients physically. Its value engineering is represented in customer service, the quality of the final service provided and the products it occasionally sells. During the current crisis, its doors to the public have closed, it can no longer provide services in the comfort of its facilities. About 25 employees were sent to work from home, but with uncertainty about how the business would continue.
The company lacks a technological structure that provides the personnel to work in synergy, since sensitive information is stored on different platforms and only one person has access to it; therefore work can’t flow within different areas.
Since sales have declined, the company is considering focusing the business on marketing products online, but it does not have a way to control inventory in an automated or systematized way or even taking orders through a website. Everything will be done manually using excel sheets and calculating rotations with formulas. Invoices will be made in paper and not sent by email, putting more work into the accounting area where paper can easily be misplaced or poorly organized.
In many cases a customized software can alleviate the situations mentioned above where many tasks can be automated to develop reports, store clients’ order history, manage documents or inventories, and even more.
What would be the face of that company without building a customized software? These situations may seem out of this world, but in fact they’re real.
At Soluntech we have specialized in offering customized software solutions, always aiming at process innovation and especially at an accelerated rate, bringing short-term results with sustainable impact.
Adiela Castro
Marketing Manager.
Soluntech, Inc.
