Mobile enabling ERP software offers businesses a competitive advantage: Bileeta

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In today’s fast paced lifestyle, businesses, organisations and individuals fight to stay ahead of the game. For many of them, the advantages of timely and accurate information at any given time are crucial and they recognise that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are one of the key components to their success.

In the forefront of catering to this growing market is Sri Lankan ERP solutions provider, Bileeta. With considerable clout in the local and global ERP scenario, Bileeta has been focusing on enabling ERP functionalities on mobile devices to provide features to end users through dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Sanji De Silva, Chief Executive Officer at Bileeta said: “We want to offer a greater level of convenience for users to gain the business benefits out of the ERP solution. As such, the money spent on an ERP will become an investment rather than just a cost. The convenience to be offered will enable them to be closely connected to the business through alerts on mobiles, dashboards and features to conduct transactions even they are physically away from office.

“For example, a financial controller can provide temporary credit approval for a customer by looking at the customer creditworthiness merely through a few clicks on a mobile. We have already launched a beta version of these features and also secured a foreign contract that requires a higher degree of features on mobile devices.”

With R&D as a core part of its corporate strategy, Bileeta has been enabling ERP functionality on mobile services. According to Sanka Weerasinghe, COO of Bileeta: “Enabling the ERP features on a mobile devices required great deal of R&D from the point of deciding the scope of features, to amount of information, and also to providing the features in the most user friendly manner. For that, we have been constantly conducting research and development to empower our ERP to ensure more convenience for our end user.”

As mobility becomes more and more prevalent in the workplace, organisations should choose a system that can scale with their business and also have the capability and flexibility to integrate with new technology solutions.

Weerasinghe says that while enterprise solutions were mainly focused towards offering features to sales teams who are away from the offices. “We want to offer features to all key stakeholders of a company to perform tasks even when they are away. This will give them an edge when it comes to smarter business practices,” he added.

Bileeta has stringent measures in place to train, monitor and appraise its employees incorporating the four tenets of competency, commitment, communication and cost whilst firmly believing that the correct blend of these key elements is the main ingredient for the growth of the company and its staff.

During 2012, Bileeta achieved a 200% growth rate in its medium-scale client base with the highest recorded in the sales and distribution vertical due to the immediate benefits an ERP can bring into a company’s sales process.