“Most employees (85%) within Romanian companies believe that mobile technologies help them be more efficient at work and 64% of them think that cloud-based solutions are vital for small companies targeting growth,” according to a study analyzing the role of digital technologies in boosting the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which was presented Friday by Gabriela Matei, commercial manager at Microsoft Romania, at the MEDIAFAX talks about SMEs conference.
The study also shows that 85% of employees think that modern digital technologies are of critical importance for the success of a business and 66% believe that the companies they work for would be more competitive if they used modern technologies.
Asked about the advantages of modern IT solutions, 42% of Romanian employees spoke about improved services for clients, 40% about increasing labor productivity, 39% about real-time access to highly important business information and 38% about better communication and internal collaboration.
“Investments in modern IT systems ought to enhance information security (35%), employee satisfaction (33%) and client satisfaction (33%). Only three in ten employees deem appropriate the level of IT-related costs within the companies they work for (28%). Most employees (59%) think that costs with modernizing the IT systems are insufficient,” according to the study.