What is digital transformation?
Digital Transformation is the use of digital technology to improve business operations or digitise business services. This might include the use of cloud services, bespoke web applications and software-as-a-service products to create automated and integrated business processes, digitise your service offering, and bring benefits of efficiency, scalability and cost savings.
At Si Novi we've delivered Digital Transformation projects for a range of clients, from SME's to global businesses. The common thread in all these projects is the use of the web platform to optimise, automate and scale the business processes. We create web and mobile applications in the Cloud, and integrate systems using API's and databases so that business systems are no longer manual and isolated.
We deliver web-based applications and integrations, together with important considerations of Cloud infrastructure, security and stability that will make your Digital Transformation projects successful.
Digital Transformation for all
We believe Digital Transformation is accessible to businesses of all sizes. Technology is now more affordable than ever and Digital Transformation can be achieved piece-by-piece.
We work in partnership with businesses to listen and understand your Digital Transformation strategy and business goals. No-one knows the pinch-points of your business like you do, so our approach is always to understand your needs first. We offer our expertise as technologists and software developers to suggest options and help you decide which solution is appropriate.
Digital Transformation can be delivered in small steps, each working towards your overall digital transformation strategy, but limiting your risk and investment at each stage.
How easy is Digital Transformation?
Digital Transformation can mean lots of different things to different businesses. You may be considering:
- Replacing offline processes like Excel spreadsheets
- Data gathering & storage
- Digitising your data backup & restore processes
- Automation
- Process Digitisation
- Systems Integration
- Migrating from legacy systems
- Using third-party software solutions like Zapier, ITTT or Twilio
- Analytics & Reporting
- Redundancy of systems or data
- Cloud migration or the use of specific cloud services
Each of these concepts can itself be expanded and tackled as individual projects, focusing on the aspects of your business that will benefit most from digitisation.
Web applications developed from Excel spreadsheets
It's common for our clients to already be using Excel-based tools for their business. These have often grown over time and become unweildy or cannot be extended to fulfil new demands.
These Excel models form an excellent prototype for us to transform into a new web application, which can be tailored specifically for your business.
An example of Digital Transformation
Working with Jaguar Land Rover, we designed a web-based application to manage current service tooling and distribute information to JLR's global network of retailers. This application has delivered reliable and cost-effective distribution of JLR's tooling information in 13 languages and for over 40 geographical regions around the world since 2015.
This process started out as Excel spreadsheet with Visual Basic macros - which was slow, involved lots of manual steps, and was difficult to share world-wide. We reverse-engineered the spreadsheet mechanics and designed the application database and user-interfaces to mimic and improve the tooling distribution process. Leveraging the power of the web platform, we designed an application that would deliver tooling information around the world, over the internet at the click of a button.
