How businesses can save money and increase productivity by investing in ICT

Let's see how Italian companies can improve data management and save thanks to ICT and to the spread of mobile devices with internet access.

The use of the Internet by the Italian has now been certified as a true boom: all daily use it for any purpose, personal or business it is, and what you know for sure is that, perhaps, none of us could more help it. In recent years the use of internet has grown exponentially, but it is only the beginning.

In fact, according to a study realized by Cisco, the world leader in terms of networks and Internet devices, the use of the Internet to quadruple by 2015, growing especially due to the success and spread of devices that allow access to the Internet, such as notebooks, netbooks, tablets and smartphones. It became so many Italian companies operating in the Internet, specifically those who have accepted the challenge of the market for new technologies, and many ways of working that will enable small and medium-sized companies, precisely due to the Internet, to break the deadlock stall in which they finished.

Moreover, because the existing SMEs to be able to compete at an advanced level with the competitors need to be online, you ritaglino a space in the web because it is right in the web potential customers and suppliers seeking information. It would be, well, then, starting with the creation of a corporate website, able to steal the attention and especially that it is well built.

 But not only to save money and improve the productivity of enterprise, come new technologies such as electronic invoices with scanning documents, sales support with marketing actions with an eye to the new cloud solutions, designed to make better and more efficient management of their data.

A recent research 'ICT & SMEs', conducted by the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Smau, conducted on 400 small and medium-sized Italian companies showed that in addition to the information and communication technology solutions such as consolidated management systems accounting and control of production and electronic stores, you feel the need to work with the new digital technologies of the web, starting from e-invoicing, which brings significant benefits with the dematerialisation of documents to be stored, so that the School of Management Polytechnic estimate that you can save up to € 3 for each document scanned and € 12 for each invoice.

Savings and improved data management also derive from the services of so-called unified communications (unified communications), which allows it to operate in and out by the company, also based mobile devices with smartphones and tablets, thanks to IP telephony (Internet protocol). Space but also in instant messaging tools that also allow you to share documents and presentations.

The only condition because you can work with web-oriented technologies is the presence of a broadband Internet connection. And our country, from this point of view, still has many shortcomings. And, then, on this road that Italy should first strive to ensure that their businesses become more competitive in the ICT field.

 

29/07/2011

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Italian version of CercaGeometra.it