UPS and Cloud services provider Sage have teamed up to offer small businesses a lone, real-time source of customer and order data to enhance financial management and shipment processing.
The pairing supports a cloud financial management solution, built on the Salesforce platform, to integrate accounting and shipping for small and medium businesses (SMEs). SMEs can then achieve a lead on competitors by enhanced insights into business profitability.
"While many small companies feel that manually controlling their data in their organization is the safest course – this has actually proven to provide the highest level of risk."
Nicole Hardin, Director of Product Management at Sage Software
Cloud-based technology is particularly accessible to small and medium sized businesses, but because SMEs generally have smaller budgets than big companies, they sometimes struggle with adoption. That's because cloud adoption often requires a careful plan to keep operations running smoothly.
"Business growth and technology innovation require the scalability, flexibility and mobility inherent in the cloud, which small companies need to remain competitive," said Nicole Hardin, director of product management at Sage Software. "The cloud fuels an ecosystem of connected business applications that have less overhead costs that come with maintaining on-premise solutions, give organizations the power to grant employees secure access to information no matter where they are working, and enable information sharing across the organization."
The partnership with UPS is especially valuable to small businesses and could promote greater cost savings and efficiency.
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