Vanessa Obioha
Managing a enterprise usually means juggling a number of functions to maintain monitor of workers, prospects, gross sales and on a regular basis operations. But what if all these features could possibly be managed from one place?
Gurugeeks Royalty Limited, a UK-Nigerian know-how firm, has launched Exceed, an built-in enterprise administration platform designed to assist African companies handle their workforce, buyer relationships and every day operations by a single utility.
Unveiled in Lagos, the cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform combines human useful resource administration (HRM) and buyer relationship administration (CRM) options with instruments for managing enterprise operations. It additionally options a man-made intelligence-powered Virtual Assistant to assist customers navigate the applying and make higher use of its options.
At the launch, the corporate’s Chief Executive Officer, Engr. Femi Ade, demonstrated how the applying may ease the burden on companies that discover managing a number of functions cumbersome and more and more costly.
He additionally pointed to the restricted visibility senior executives usually have when info is scattered throughout completely different methods. “If you don’t have consolidated and holistic intelligent analytics, it’s difficult for you to make certain decisions,” he mentioned.
The problem, he defined, was discovering a method to deliver “the beauty and capabilities of an HRM solution, the CRM solution, as well as the operational workflows into one unified platform.”
Exceed brings these features collectively, alongside instruments for worker info administration, buyer and gross sales administration, helpdesk companies, workflow automation, challenge and job administration, timesheets, workers scheduling, expense claims, asset monitoring, studying administration and organisational efficiency monitoring. Other options, together with payroll, attendance and depart administration, can be found beneath chosen subscription plans.
Describing the considering behind the platform, Ade mentioned the corporate was centered on addressing native enterprise challenges fairly than merely replicating current options. “This is thinking organically. This is thinking about how we can solve our own local problems in Nigeria and Africa at large. That is what Exceed is doing. We are not trying to repeat what people have done. We are taking HRM and CRM solutions further than where other operations stopped,” he mentioned.
He added that the broader imaginative and prescient was to make enterprise software program extra helpful to the folks and organisations that depend upon it. “Our belief is that business software should do more than manage processes. It should help people perform better, make work more organised and enable businesses to achieve their goals.”
On safety, Ade mentioned the platform was constructed with safety concerns throughout its infrastructure and community, including that its structure would help companies as they broaden.
Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Exceed affords 4 subscription choices: Starter for companies with up to 10 customers, Gold for up to 100 customers, Enterprise for up to 500 customers and Custom for bigger organisations or these with specialised necessities. Features range in accordance to the chosen plan.
With affordability and local-currency pricing amongst its concerns, Gurugeeks mentioned the platform was developed with African enterprise wants in thoughts, whereas retaining the capability to serve organisations past the continent. The firm is focusing on startups, small and medium-sized enterprises and bigger organisations.
