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Entrepreneur in the Spotlight: Renato Ignacio
Minubia: Everybody Always Mobile, Always Connected This edition’s Entrepreneur in the Spotlight is Mr. Renato Ignacio, founder and CEO of Minubia, a company based in Curaçao that opened its office in Bogotá, Colombia in early 2016. Minubia also has clients living in other parts of the Dutch Caribbean – Aruba, Sint Maarten and Bonaire, to name a few. TEXT NEELAM MELWANI
A smartphone. In short, according to Mr. Renato Ignacio, that was the start of Minubia, a company that now offers a variety of enterprise mobile solutions to businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean. Enterprise mobility is an up-and-coming trend that enables and promotes employees to work outside of the typical office environment, while constantly being able to connect to their work. The essence of enterprise mobility is essentially far greater than just the mobile technology, and actually allows for the relationship between an employer and employee to change – creating more flexibility in working environments, where results, rather than the
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number of hours per day a person works, determines their success.
About Minubia Minubia is an innovative company, that, in the line of enterprise mobile solutions, offers ‘Minubia Cloud ERP,’ ‘MiOrder,’ and ‘MiFlow.’ Each of these different products is linked to Minubia cloud, the ‘brain’ behind all Minubia’s solutions. The database contains everything ranging from customers, products, tasks, GPS tracking, orders and messaging, and employee information. The cloud gives you insight into the workings of your company, providing each
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user with the information they need to do their job effectively. ‘Minubia Cloud ERP’ is a cloud-based ‘Enterprise Resource Planning’ allowing companies to effectively connect to the workforce, making information readily available on a ‘cloud’ in real-time. This allows for employees to work from anywhere at any time. Essentially, investing in something like this could make complicated work processes obsolete. ‘MiOrder’ is a sales tool that efficiently manages sales speed and order processing. Lastly, ‘MiFlow’ is a workflow management tool that allows companies to keep track of progress through using the cloud services.
What’s a ‘Cloud’? A ‘Cloud’ is an online workspace that is always available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere around the globe... where you have access to a secure Internet connection. A cloud provides you with a system to centrally manage
