Business News of Saturday, 17 May 2014

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

Smart Workplace platform to transform business needs

eSolutions Consulting, a Business and IT Consultancy Company in Ghana has unveiled its latest IT solution platform Smart workplace to increase employee efficiency and productivity by providing common access to company information among employees.

The Smart Workplace platform is designed to drastically reduce time spent by employees in search for company information and as well provides a single access point to all resources an employee will need for daily tasks anytime, anywhere and from any smart device.

Additionally the Smart Workplace platform also seeks to reduce company’s operational cost and provides employees with a highly efficient working environment by convenient self-service access to enterprise search, document management, correspondence management, business process automation, business applications access, business intelligence as well as project monitoring SMS integration.

According to the Principal Consultant eSolutions Consulting Ghana, Solomon King Adiyiah most organizations face daunting challenges in delivering business information to virtual organization anytime, anywhere and on any device hence the Smart Workplace platform.

“Employees have great difficulty in locating corporate information on administration, policies, procedures, shared documents, news calendar, contact details of fellow employees etc

Most employees spend about 50% of their time on internal administrative functions and collaborating with colleagues to accomplish tasks, and this cutting edge IT platform has just come to address these organizational challenges” he said.

Mr. Adiyiah explained that his company is poised to offer sod-cutting IT consulting services to help solve many organizational challenges by reducing the use of paper to increased revenue due to improved employee responsiveness to the Smart Workplace platform.

He also mentioned that some leading companies and key ministries including Volta River Authority (VRA), Vodafone Ghana, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana Statistical Service, Anglogold Ashante, COCOBOD and many others have signed up to scores of eSolutions’ IT products and are already reaping the full benefits.

On his part, Mr Gabriel S. K. Dela, Senior Consultant at eSolutions in an interview stressed that what Smart Workplace seeks to address is by giving virtual office in the sense that one do not need to go to a particular building to be productive but gives a complete platform to every employee to work effectively outside office or even when travelled abroad. He also added that with the Smart Workplace platform ones level of productivity and work space is not tied up to a particular office computer but users can gain access to company files and document on the go.

” Smart Workplace seeks to address; information visibility, give smart working environment and as well reduce operational cost drastically by avoiding paper work” he said.

Mr. Dela however emphasized that with the Smart Workplace platform employers and managers get value for money since all company information is put on single platform for efficient use by employees to increase productivity.