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For small and medium sized enterprises, choosing a suitable business solution to automate and expand their businesses is always a hard call.

Using the traditional text editing software to issue orders or quotation for several years, SMEs are prone to replace this by using some database software. Nevertheless, in recent years, database software has sprouted like never before. You can easily get over a million results should you search ?database software? or ?management software? on the internet. So what should be the selection criteria for a SME to choose the most suitable one?

Before getting to the functionality of these applications, it is first crucial to illustrate the reasons why you want one. The common answers for most of the SMEs should mostly be expanding the business, avoiding errors, cutting labor cost, etc. However, these can actually be completed by most of the software on the market and SMEs will opt to select those who have very good reputation in the industry and those who have ?big brand? clients. Just like what our website has stated, we truly believe that every company has its own needs and system. The reason why those ?big brands? can successfully ?merge? themselves with the software is because of their scale and continual adjustment. For a SME, what they usually want is to automate their whole supply chain in a single platform. Issuing invoices, PO or SO by one click is all they want and so why bother using the functions like MRP, General ledger, etc. As you can see, the ulmost important selection criterion is to choose the application which is comparable to your company scale and similar to your company?s business nature.

For the current business software providers, one of the main ways to earn revenue is actually by providing consulting services. This means that they can refine their applications to satisfy their clients? needs. The services seem very alluring but the cost for this service is huge and the consulting frequency is quite high as it is very hard for your employees to single out the defects in months? time. This is like curing the symptoms of your company, yet the disease. Those who argue that in-house IT technicians can modify the software by themselves, will soon regret to be convinced that mastering those programming codes is even harder than climbing Mount Everest. Therefore, the second criterion is to seek for those companies which either provide cheap consultation service or provide a user friendly builder for you to amend the application yourself.

In this regard, certain solution providers introduce numerous breakthroughs to the current web-based business solutions industry. They provide a building platform for clients to freely adjust the values and layout of the applications. Clients can then tailor-make an application to satisfy their unique needs so as to save valuable time for not entering meaningless items.

Another key merit of these providers is the fast deployment in any environment. All you need is a computer with internet function to use the business solutions. This can save you a lot of deployment and installation time compared to packaged software.

Certain business solutions even offer a user-friendly interface with concrete functionality, allowing you to familiarize with the apps in a very short period of time. No technical training is hence needed for your employees.