Manual Processes and Disjointed Systems Inhibit Growth
- >> Inefficient workflows
- >> Difficult to scale
- >> No single source of truth and lack of visibility across end-to-end business
- >> Hard to meet evolving customer expectations
- >> Inability to leverage the latest technologies
As you can imagine, we get to talk to a lot of businesses at various stages of development. And through those conversations, we’ve found that there are many organizations who are at an interesting crossroads.
They’re growing, but technology is constraining that growth, instead of enabling it.
Critical parts of the their business—like their financial system--don’t connect to other critical parts of their business—like their inventory system. Or they’re using lots of spreadsheets and manual workflows to try to either manage a process or bring data from one system to another.
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As a result, they can’t see what’s happening across the entire business and how the data from one function intersects with the next. They don’t have a single view into everything they need. They can’t respond to competitive pressures or new opportunities. They can’t collaborate with partners and suppliers—or share information investors need.
And of course, they can’t deal with changes—like acquisitions, mergers or IPOs—or scale as fast or effectively as they need to.
In other words, their systems are constraining the true potential of the business, and traditional IT solutions are too expensive and too slow.