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s we all know, a whole range of great niche software solutions have been developed over the years that solve specific business tasks such as online proposals, sales pipeline management, document management and job scheduling. Initially this was really exciting for small businesses owners; the whole app world exploded and the capabilities of these apps were impressive, especially compared to the previous manual processes or oldschool awkward software packages they had been using. Naturally, the next step in the process was to try to get all of these different apps to talk to each other. Lots of API (Application Programming Interfaces) were developed to try and help the different software packages communicate with each other, and bridging solutions such as Zapier provided a nocode ability to also help with the sharing of information between different solutions.
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Some API connections work really well while others remain very limited in their sharing capabilities, leaving users with a number of real-life challenges such as:
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Matt Burge, CEO, Formitize With a successful career spanning the telecommunications and technology sectors, Matt has a passion for mobility and smart business innovation. As the Founder and CEO of Formitize, Matt leads the strategy and future direction of the company across the global regions and industries served. His focus is on harnessing the power of global cloud architecture and the capability of mobile applications to provide transformational solutions for clients of all sizes.
in the business (when you may need to restrict sensitive data to specific users) Formitize believes the next phase is what it calls “Software Consolidation”. Matt Burge, Formitize CEO explains further, “We witnessed first-hand the evolution of the software process and based on our users’ feedback, we believe clients are now ready for software consolidation - combining as many of these different apps as possible into one simple-to-use platform.
• Still being required to log in and out of lots of different applications in order to run their business • Limitations on which program information is shared, and which isn’t • Data being visible to everyone
“In our research, we found that there were very good job management solutions out there and very good CRM solutions available but very few that did both really well at a reasonable price point, or that weren’t overly complicated for a typical small business to set up and manage themselves. The challenge then remained: What about the other modules required to run a business such as Document Management, Asset Management,
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