Microsoft Brings Affordable Cloud Solutions to Empower Small and Medium Business

Microsoft has introduced business solutions from its partner ecosystem to meet crucial business needs of Small and Medium Businesses across India.

Built by Microsoft’s ISV partners Smarter SMB and IDOS, these solutions address key areas like Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Finance & Accounting and enhancing organisational efficiency.

These solutions will run on Microsoft cloud and will be available at a very low cost.

Specific solutions being made available include:

Smarter Biz: the next generation mobile CRM tool for SMEs built on two areas natural to the SME segment, Excel and Voice.

Smarter Biz stands out for its ease of usage as it only requires Excel and Voice.

This CRM tool can measure and track the sales team on every opportunity generated from the marketing team and builds trust among teams.

IDOS: an Accounting and Compliance software fully integrated into Microsoft Office 365. It empowers every business to increase their efficiency and profits.

IDOS comes with inbuilt compliance and real-time internal audit capabilities. It prevents accounting errors and ensures that the transaction is accurate and authentic even before it is posted into ledgers.

IDOS also provides real-time and accurate business intelligence to facilitate decision-making.

While bringing these solutions, Microsoft has also announced special pricing and deployment offers on Office 365.

The pricing for Office 365 will start for as low as Rs 250 per user per month while availing the IDOS or Smart Biz services will increase this price to Rs 475 per user per month.

For organisations with more than 50 users, Microsoft will take the responsibility for deploying the suite.

IT solutions powered by cloud can address key business challenges faced by SMBs and help connect them better with suppliers, distributors and government agencies.

A recent study conducted by global consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that SMBs that leveraged IT grew 20 percent faster than the ones that didn’t.

“Cloud is turning out to be a great enabler for SMBs. It is helping them adopt enterprise-grade technology solutions on a pay-as-you-use basis. All the solutions launched today are built on this principle”, said Sudhir Nayar, Director– Partner Sales, Microsoft India.