IPI Solutions Nigeria Limited, a leading software integration company in Nigeria and a certified Microsoft Gold Partner has launched a unique business automation software, called Crater 365 that enables productivity from anywhere, helping staffs work remotely away from the office.
As the need for staff to work outside the office environment becomes the current reality after the outbreak of COVID-19, Crater 365 is created to also enable staffs to work conveniently anywhere, work even faster as the application makes work simple and convenient.
Isaac Oluwasegun, Head, Business Technology Solutions, IPI Solutions, said Crater 365 was borne out of the fast changing world of digitisation, that enables businesses to work remotely with ease, especially during this era of COVID19 pandemic.
According to him, the tool is “a suite of solutions that brings collaboration into Process Automation and Electronic Documents Management System (EDMS). It’s a Workflow automation platform that orchestrates multiple integrated business processes and case management, in addition provides visibility into each step.”
Oluwasegun said a typical function of Crater 365 is to “manage end-end workflows, support people and organisations as their work habits evolve from a communication focus to a collaboration focus.”
He said, “The world of work is changing rapidly, thanks to the rise of automation, cloud computing, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics. They are transforming the way organisations conduct their businesses.
These rapid technological innovations, outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the prolonged restrictions of major economic activities have brought about a lot of uncertainties and have left organisations with no choice but to engage its people in productive work, even whilst they are at home.
“These rapid occurring events is already threatening the existence of both powerhouse multinational corporations (MNCs) and SME’s and is leading to a total transformation and over-hauling of the workplace structure.
To get a clearer picture, private sectors, government agencies, academicians and entrepreneurs are all seeking the roadmap for navigating these profound changes in the world of work.
In order to enhance productivity and stay ahead of competition in this crisis period, business owners must incorporate some of these new technological innovations strategically, adopt remote working methods, automate their work processes and embrace the virtual reality aspect of technology.
“The right use of Crater 365 automation solution ensures precision, transparency, reproducibility and total elimination of errors in processes; this does not only help your organisations save time and money, but the tool can also assist in collection of information, analysis and returning of high-quality data.”
He explained that the remote work tool allows users the integration of data and systems, tasks distribution and real time monitoring- now with mobile application capability for everyday work across to the platform, allowing you work in ways that work best for you.
“This application can be used to improve work flow processes in several industries like the Banking, Manufacturing, Hospitals, Insurance, HMO, Human Resources, training and recruitment, Law firms, Transport Logistics, Advertising Agencies, Cargo monitoring, Shipping, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Engineering, Oil & Gas, Customer Service, Telecommunications, Military, Travel, Healthcare, ICT, Media, Govt parastatals and agencies.
“In simpler terms, for businesses, Crater 365 unifies project delivery from kickoff to cash collection, automate project creation, send time and expense data and eliminate the need for double entry. In addition, also enables you gain minute by minute control over your projects from anywhere, monitor how you’re racing against time, budget, and margins, aids you see into the sales pipeline to accurately forecast resource needs anytime.
“Also, its decisions tools can be used to build solutions for different types of business problems from automation of user interactions to less structured workflows that are controlled by data and rules, approvals, requests, tracking, handling flat files and other imports, enforcing policy, making decisions, centralizing business logic, outputting to systems and databases, among others,” he said.
