Cloud computing offers a powerful and flexible platform that can help small enterprises streamline operations, enhance productivity, and scale efficiently without the heavy upfront costs associated with traditional IT infrastructure.
This week’s tech Tuesday edition explores how cloud solutions can empower small businesses, providing them with the tools and resources needed to thrive in a dynamic market.
Zakeke
Zakeke is the leading cloud-based visual commerce platform that empowers e-commerce stores with visual product customization, allowing your customers to turn any item in your store into a customizable product with real-time 3D & AR. The disruptive magic of Zakeke is that their solutions are affordable, allowing businesses of all sizes to take advantage of this revolutionary technology.
Zakeke’s features include: Virtual Try-On: This feature allows your customers to virtually try a product on their body via their own mobile phones. The Try-on works thanks to Augmented Reality. By clicking on the Try-on button, they can use their phone camera to visualize themselves along with the “digital” product. 3D Product Configurator: This feature allows you to create configurable made-to-order products in 3D. That means that your customers can build their own products by choosing parts, materials and colors, and add text and images onto your products.
Printix
Tungsten Automation’s Printix, a cutting-edge cloud-based print management SaaS solution is designed to streamline and secure printing processes for businesses of all sizes.
Founded in 2014 and acquired by Tungsten Automation in 2021, Printix (v2.3 released July 2024) disrupts the traditional printing industry by eliminating the need for on-premise print servers. This innovative product simplifies print management, enhances security, and offers seamless integration with cloud services like Microsoft 365. Printix empowers IT departments to manage and monitor print environments remotely, reducing costs and minimising downtime.
Significantly relevant to industries such as education, finance, and healthcare, where secure and efficient printing is crucial, Printix redefines how organisations handle print workflows. With features like automated updates, user authentication, and analytics, Printix ensures a hassle-free experience.
UNEOS
UNEOS is advanced cloud storage with solutions designed to ensure small businesses are able to compete in today’s data-driven world. UNEOS offers scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud storage solutions that cater to the unique needs of small businesses. The core solutions include block and object storage, allowing businesses to efficiently manage and protect their data while remaining flexible as they grow.
The UNEOS team is empowering small businesses by providing enterprise-level cloud solutions at a fraction of the cost, disrupting traditional on-premises storage models. Our focus on data sovereignty and local support gives small businesses in Australia a competitive edge, ensuring compliance and peace of mind. UNEOS launched its tailored cloud solutions for small businesses in early 2024, with commercial availability starting soon thereafter.
IntuneX
Microsoft Intune delivers unified endpoint management for companies staying on top of company devices including mobiles, laptops and tablets. The solution allows users to enforce security policies, manage app access and protect sensitive data, as well as a simplification of device provisioning, configuration and troubleshooting for tech teams.
Intelliworx Managing Director Shane Maher said, “In our experience, Microsoft 365 offers a comprehensive suite of useful applications for small businesses. There are the obvious ones like OneDrive, which offers secure cloud storage for personal and team files. That’s great for businesses of all sizes offering work-from-home models. But the lesser-known applications like Intune offer great capabilities.
Rippling
Rippling is a comprehensive workforce management platform that integrates HR, finance, and more into a single, cohesive system. By consolidating employee data across 600+ apps into an all-in-one solution, Rippling enables small businesses to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
Fully cloud-based, Rippling automates critical but tedious admin work for payroll, labour compliance, and more — so small business owners can stay focused on building their company. Rippling’s platform empowers small businesses with the ability to tap into and manage a global workforce, setting up new hires with everything they need – from devices to training – no matter where they are. It offers a streamlined payroll solution that ensures accuracy and speed, processing payroll for everyone in their local currency in just 90 seconds with 100% error-free precision. Rippling syncs all your business’s HR data with payroll, and centralises everything into one cohesive platform so small businesses can easily hire, pay and manage local and international teams, simplifying the administration process and reducing manual workload.
BrightHR
BrightHR is an award-winning HR and health & safety software and support services provider that’s cloud-based and designed to support SMEs from end to end. 100,000+ businesses around the world use the cloud-based system BrightHR provides to manage and store their documents, halve their admin hours, digitalise their records, and stay compliant with employment law and work health & safety obligations. The centralisation of these essential business processes allows business owners to get real-time updates and action tasks from anywhere and at any time. These features and the complete software packages are accessible from both your desktop and your mobile device starting from just $12 a month.
Akamai Connected Cloud
Akamai Connected Cloud brings together core cloud computing and edge computing, along with industry-leading security on the world’s most distributed network. Akamai Connected Cloud empowers businesses to build, deliver, and secure ultra-low latency applications on distributed and multi-cloud architectures to get services closer to where customers are. Businesses can build, release, and scale faster with Infrastructure as a Service, virtual machines, and tools for every workload.
Enterprises and developers can develop, run, and secure highly performant workloads closer to wherever businesses and users connect online on more than 4,100 core and distributed sites across 134 countries. Akamai Connected Cloud supports data sovereignty and helps businesses control where their data is managed.
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