The case for Web-based software applications for SMEs
November 14, 2006My friend Janette Toral sent me an invitation to the Digital Filipino One Internet Day, Digital Filipino's anniversary celebration. You can expect Janette to write about One Internet Day anytime soon if she hasn't yet so I won’t go into the details. Suffice it to say that I had a blast reuniting with people I hadn’t seen in years, like since the last century. I’m bound to forget all those I met, so I’ll not even try to list them all down.
What I would like to do is address the issue that Erville Magtubo of ePLDT raised in his presentation about IT outsourcing as an option for SMEs. I won't reproduce his points here, nor will I ask again the questions that gave him a cold sweat. Instead, I’ll zero in on the outsourcing possibilities, especially in regard to the managed — i.e., Web-based — applications he mentioned:
- Outsourced CRM [Customer Relations Management]
- Outsourced SFA [Sales Force Automation]
- Outsourced Financial Applications
- Outsourced ERP [Enterprise Resource Planning]
- Outsourced School System
