Vanessa Obioha
Managing a enterprise typically means juggling a number of purposes to hold monitor of workers, clients, gross sales and on a regular basis operations. But what if all these capabilities might 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 day by day operations via 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 synthetic 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 purposes cumbersome and more and more costly.
He additionally pointed to the restricted visibility senior executives typically have when data is scattered throughout completely different programs. “If you don’t have consolidated and holistic intelligent analytics, it’s difficult for you to make certain decisions,” he stated.
The problem, he defined, was discovering a method to convey “the beauty and capabilities of an HRM solution, the CRM solution, as well as the operational workflows into one unified platform.”
Exceed brings these capabilities collectively, alongside instruments for worker data administration, buyer and gross sales administration, helpdesk providers, workflow automation, venture and activity administration, timesheets, employees scheduling, expense claims, asset monitoring, studying administration and organisational efficiency monitoring. Other options, together with payroll, attendance and go away administration, can be found below chosen subscription plans.
Describing the pondering behind the platform, Ade stated the corporate was centered on addressing native enterprise challenges moderately 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 stated.
He added that the broader imaginative and prescient was to make enterprise software program extra helpful to the folks and organisations that rely 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 stated the platform was constructed with safety issues throughout its infrastructure and community, including that its structure would help companies as they increase.
Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Exceed presents 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 fluctuate in accordance to the chosen plan.
With affordability and local-currency pricing amongst its issues, Gurugeeks stated 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.
