1. Visualizing industry 4.0 in action Change does not occur overnight. It happens in small steps. Gigabyte after Gigabyte. This is the Industry 4.0 design. Regardless of their current integrations, manufacturers are already in Industry 4.0 territory. The digital transformation’s success depends on how they use it as a strategic goal to ensure a more efficient and profitable future. This new business paradigm does not necessitate an all-or-nothing strategy. Even improving a single firm area may serve as an evolutionary catalyst, moving manufacturing facilities and organizations toward a more efficient and sustainable future. To kickstart an Industry 4.0 transformation, four governing areas of manufacturing canRead More →

Cyber Attacks Protection

Small and Medium-sized businesses continue to be regular targets of cyberattacks. These threats are getting more progressively complex and determined since hackers and cybercriminals see some businesses as vulnerable and an easy target. The most common cyber-attacks businesses experience is: Phishing Phishing is a cybercrime wherein targets are reached by email, uses disguised email as a weapon. The goal is to fool the email recipient into believing that the message is something they need or want, acting as a legitimate institution to draw individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords. The types of phishing attacksRead More →

CEOS AND CYBER SECURITY BEST PRACTICES

Rethink Business ModelsInnovative operational, business and organizational models will be required to improve competitive advantage and customer experience. Experience-centric models will engage data, automation [RPA] and Artificial Intelligence [AI] to sense what the customer needs; it will then provide timely and the right experience for the customer. To effectively do this, businesses must use the right tools, skillsets and build effective technology partnerships. Go Digital – Digital initiativesIDC predicts that by 2023, 50% of midsize companies will consider digital transactions and communication critical to their business. The right investment in technology and skillsets will improve productivity, efficiency, innovation. It is important to align your digitalRead More →

CEOs and Cybersecurity Best Practices

Cyber Security: Risk Assessment, Best Practices   With the evolution of technology, the risk of cyber threat has grown exponentially both in sophistication and complexity. Since cyber attacks impact businesses of all sizes, it is but critical for CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs to stay informed about cyber security and take concerted efforts to deal with the menace. Here is a compilation of best practices to manage the threat from cyber risk. This should help you better manage risks and bolster cyber threat awareness. Security experts can provide insight into current threats and ever-increasing technological and operational challenges. Organisations may need guidance on : Bolster actionRead More →

RPA/AI for Small & Medium Enterprises

Robotic Process Automation and Intelligent Automation are definitely relevant for large Enterprises; Are they relevant for SMEs? SME Mindset For SMEs in Dubai, technology spending is often considered as an expense and newer technology solutions in such scenarios is considered a gamble. Market situation sometimes gets management to prioritise reducing costs, missing good opportunities for new technology that can provide good returns to be considered as an investment. SME’s typically have fewer employees – less bureaucracy and can move faster. A few key employees can make things happen. Exploring new technologies early on opens up new possibilities and gets those moving forward to study theRead More →

SAP Business One Solution for SMEs

Small and Medium Size Enterprises contribute 47% of Dubai’s GDP according to study published by government agency Dubai SME & Dubai Statistics Center. SAP Business One gives you a highly functional ERP system that’s low cost, easy to implement, requires little training and customization & fits comfortably into the business model. It’s designed specifically for SMEs – SAP Business One is not the shortened version of SAP ERP limited by scope. It’s designed from the ground level to meet the particular business needs of SMEs. A product by SAP who is a worldwide leader in Business Applications. SAP undoubtedly dominates enterprise business applications worldwide. ThereRead More →

Implementing New ERP System

Before we go ahead and talk about why this is the right time for ERP implementation, let us check out why companies defer or delay implementing ERP and all the risks faced by a company dragging their feet in ERP implementation . Why companies don’t go for ERP implementations? ERP implementation is a distraction from a company’s daily patterned workflow. It involves hard choices, based on the particular customer scenario. Someone has to take the lead and make it happen. It needs initiative and taking responsibility. Top management needs to get involved and be engaged. The ROI is not clear. The core benefits of ERPRead More →

Improve Cash Flow With SAP Business One

In business, Cash flow is as important and often more essential than profits. Maintaining cash flow is not easy in Dubai, especially during these COVID times. SAP Business One, a leading-edge Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for the Small & Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) segments, that allows you to consolidate data and automate relevant processes to ensure proper cash flow. Here are nine amazing ways how SAP Business One can help you improve cash flow in Dubai. Get Invoices Out Faster : In any traditional business management system in Dubai, we see a gap between products & service delivery and billing. When it comes to managingRead More →

Integrated suite solutions

In selecting a range of Business Applications, one of the decision points that organizations face is often related to choosing “Best of breed” software modules from different vendors or an Integrated Suite of solutions from a single vendor. Integrated Suite An “integrated suite” of applications is delivered by a single technology provider that supports all the primary functions in one integrated system. Proponents of this approach & technology applications have a powerful argument to advocate for this strategy: with a centralized system that handles all operations, users have a single design for learning the workflow. Here data move naturally through all the applications. Using thisRead More →