The coronavirus changed our perspective on work. On-site work had to be replaced by home office, which became the only way to protect employees’ health while also continuing to operate despite the restrictions.
Company executives mobilized promptly to solve the logistics of working from home: from providing equipment and resources to employees to acquiring and implementing programs and applications that allowed the working day to be reorganized.
The goal was very clear: keep operating to ensure the survival of companies, while avoiding harm to the workforce.
That is, with communication channels that made collaborative work easier; with an organization and distribution of tasks that avoided failures and inefficiency; with access to relevant information for timely decision-making; with the security needed to prevent data leaks; and above all trying to maintain the availability of products and services for consumers.
The solution was found in the use and implementation of technologies that helped adapt to the new reality, showing that besides solving remote work they were able to optimize the way the business itself was managed.
Overall, all these changes marked a new configuration of the productive apparatus, in which digital transformation went from being a possibility to a necessity for the survival and evolution of any activity in the economic environment.
Types of technologies
In general terms, we can classify the technologies that facilitate remote work into 2 large groups:
Technologies related to communication channels, storage or data transfer programs, and other applications with specific functionalities.
Technologies for organizing, distributing and managing tasks within the organization itself.
Now, within this latter group are enterprise resource planning (ERP for its acronym in English) systems, in high demand since the beginning of the pandemic, whose use has made it possible to carry out organizations’ tasks despite the difficulties of remote work.
ERP systems are software that allows absolute control and administration of the activities concerning the business; that is, integrating all the activities carried out by the different links of the production chain, maximizing resources and making work routines more flexible.
An ERP that can help you
If you are interested in ERP software and have no idea which one you could use in your company, we recommend Odoo.
Odoo is software that adapts to the needs of companies, both in its open-source version and in its enterprise version under a commercial license. The tool is structured in modules that fulfill specific functions in the areas of sales, finance, website management, human resources, communication, marketing, among others.
One of its biggest advantages is that you can customize the tool with the modules you need, according to your business niche, budget and requirements.
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