Technology is changing the enterprise landscape, fast. Physical servers are being replaced with virtual servers, on-premise software is moving to the cloud, everyone is talking about “big data” and consumers and businesses alike expect information to be accessed via mobile apps, anytime, anywhere.

McKinsey’s refers to some of these phenomena in its Ten Technology Trends to Watch¹: making network the organization, collaboration at scale, experimentation and big data, imagining anything as a service and the multi-sided business model. It goes on to say “New technologies could extend the reach of organizations, improve, management decisions, and speed the development of new products and services”.

At Digital Saber we believe technology should not be a constraint for doing business. We are passionate about solving business problems through technology solutions to deliver business benefits. The emergence of cloud and mobility platforms allow home-grown and on-premise applications to be replaced by solutions that are accessible to all from anywhere, any device where data is centralized and processes are automated. Excel spread sheets and Access databases are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as the move to improving efficiency, productivity, information sharing and transparency are prioritized across the enterprise.

We believe embracing the right technology, for the right problem at the right time, can be a competitive advantage for businesses. At Digital Saber we have delivered solutions on a multitude of technology platforms to address the business challenges of IT consumers and IT suppliers alike. The following case studies demonstrate business benefits we have delivered to our customers through cloud and mobile platforms.

Automated Currency Hedging Solution Improving Treasury Productivity

SUMMARY

Business Problem
Highly skilled treasury employees spending >50% of time on currency hedging to minimize losses due to exchange rate fluxuations.

Business Solution
Automated solution with optimized intelligence to reduce the transaction cost, minimize losses due to currency fluctuations providing greater efficiency, transparancy and dynamic reporting capabilities.

Business Benefits
Employees spend<10% of their time in managing currency hedging fluctuation, freeing up their time for value adding activities.

Cloud App Improving Efficiency and Generating Additional Revenue for a Human Capital Consultancy

SUMMARY

Business Problem
On-site consultants use a homegrown Access application to monitor progress of organizational business objectives and corresponding human capital initiatives. Inefficiencies in gathering and processing timely and accurate data impacts the quality of consultants recommendations to their clients.

Business Solution
Cloud based application that allows the Human Capital Consultancy company and its clients the ability to efficiency monitor Employee group structures, memberships and measure Employee Group’s impact to achieve organizational objectives.

Business Benefits
Intellectual capital encapsulated in the solution allows the Human Capital Consultancy to make better recommendations to its clients and capture additional revenue without the need for on-site consultants. Customers manage and monitor their own data providing them with greater control and visibility.

Improving Visibility of Vessel Capacity and Cargo Demands to Ship Brokers to Maximize Opportunities.

SUMMARY

Business Problem
Ship brokers spend >60% of their time working through thousands of emails to manually identify vessel capacity and cargo demand, critical information for closing deals.

Business Solution
Automated solution that extracts key information fields and eliminates duplicates from thousands of daily emails in order to present prioritized and relevant information in real time to ship brokers.

Business Benefits
Ship brokers spend majority of their time closing deals as opposed to scanning emails, saving time and capturing more opportunities.

¹ Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch; McKinsey quarterly, Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika 2011