Many of us rely on apps to help us run our personal lives. Now small businesses can use them to manage everyday work tasks too
Any business-leader cynical about the exponential pace of Moore’s law – broadly defined as the idea that computing power and technology doubles every two years – should probably consider this observation by Nick Houldsworth, executive general manager for ecosystem at the cloud accounting software firm Xero.
“A small business today has access to the kind of technology that was only [recently] available to multinationals,” he says. Now the systems that help the Amazons and eBays of the world streamline and simplify everything from payroll to billing, are at the fingertips of any startup. “You can launch a small firm in your garage with a couple of people and some apps, which will handle your payments (Stripe), forecast cashflow (Float) and take care of payroll (KeyPay),” says Houldsworth.
