Several Small and Medium Level Enterprises are growing very fast these days. Each and every organization has its own standards
for its business. However, some of them are struggling to manage their daily
activities (Administration/Finance/HR/ Inventory & Sales) because of lake of availability of Data. According to the studies, Data plays vital role in a present business scenarios.
Many organizations are spending huge amount of money for increasing manpower or hiring contractors to complete their work this is because
of there’s no proper system in place.Many are struggling to prepare their
daily reports. Top management doesn't have any visibility or insights from the system to monitor the business progress. Many of them depend on offline application tools for their needs, which will take a lot of time to complete the task and there is no centralized storage system for future reference or data retention. Once the system crashes, they will lose everything.
Why should use web-based applications? Nowadays, internet is very
common for everywhere, smartphones and other gadgets have taken a major role
in people’s lives. In the same way, organizations have started using their own
applications via smartphones or other devices. There are lot of integrated high-level applications available in the market, which is a bit expensive as well. It will be suitable for large organizations.There is a question mark for SMEs, which
application will help SMEs?
In a very simple way, we have the solution for this , there are a lot of SaaS (Cloud-based applications) products available in the market for
reasonable prices, but you need to analyze whether that will exactly match your business? otherwise, you have to work for that system. Some companies really require customized systems for their business needs. Honestly, Are you looking
for a simple system with your own plan & budget? Then you should approach a company which is expertise in making custom-built web application development. Go through their works, demos, customer reviews, support , and shares etc.
Please note, you may consider below points before building your system:
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Use Mobile responsive web
pages which will help to open pages in any device, also it will look like mobile apps too.
· Add email relay for your transactions.
· Build a dashboard for better
analysis & insights.
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Use secured services (SSL) encryption for secure applications in internet.
·
Use maximum ideas to reduce
the steps or flows when you are planning the app.
·
Add Alerts Mails / SMS.
·
Schedule auto backup for all your data every day.
· Create online forms and share reports directly through email to avoid
the printouts.
·
Use QRCode to validate the
document with your valid PIN.
·
Use the Internet connected biometric devices for capture & monitor your employee’s attendance
·
Use simple administrative and interactive pages for e-commerce updating.
· Select a reputed gateway for payment
options.
Overall make the system less complicated.
Once the application is developed, ask them for the beta version
for real-time testing with your employees and get the feedback.
Focus on the improvement opportunities while testing system and inform the developer.
Below points are applicable, if you have an in-house IT team with the technical skills in Application & Database otherwise you can approach the Service provider (MSP’s) for Hosting your application on behalf of you and taking care of your application infrastructure.
For testing purposes, you may use some temporary
hosting domains. Once things are ready for the final implementation, you
can buy a domain with a suitable hosting plan (Azure /AWS/Godaddy) or you can buy a server and host it in your premises with a Static IP.If you are configuring your own server, need to take care of other infrastructure including network, OS, Database & backup separately. Once the system implementation is done. Get the
training for your staff.
One important thing, at least one staff should have good knowledge
about your system from your organization, he/she should be the administrator of the system and controller
of user accounts. If you are having more updates daily or you are
running any e-commerce application and design changes will come frequently, then
you should accommodate one junior developer with more database and system knowledge will
be more helpful.
Please choose the genuine Person / Establishment for Developing your Application.
Please choose the genuine Person / Establishment for Developing your Application.
Please note, that whatever information is shared in the above blog is only from my idea and experience.
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