The tools your business needs to thrive in 2025
In the blink of an eye, we’re in another January. After what we hope was a restful festive period, most businesses are back in full swing, looking ahead to what they can achieve in 2025.
However, the challenges you faced in 2024 remain. If you want this year to be better, you need to enforce change with solutions that accurately combat your issues.
We’ve put together the tools businesses should be investing in and utilising in 2025, with hands-on guidance and case studies about how to use them well.
AI and Microsoft Copilot
It will come as no surprise that AI isn’t going anywhere this year. There has been significant buzz around it for a long time now, but many businesses struggle to get the rewards it promises.
In our experience, the success of any AI tool depends on your ability to apply it to genuine problems. A problem we were facing was excessive administration and repeat data input in our recruitment process, making it more time consuming to compare candidates to the job spec and harder to consider them to future roles.
Using Copilot, we’ve been able to streamline this process – saving over 30 hours per month. Find out how we used Copilot to reclaim time.
Cyber Essentials
Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly common across businesses of all sizes. However, few organisations have the resource and expertise internally to know how to tackle the risk and protect their business against financial loss and reputational damage.
Cyber Essentials is a government-backed scheme, designed to help organisations better safeguard themselves against common risks. It’s incredibly accessible, with clear guidelines to implement in your business and support to help you follow them. Plus, the accreditation can make you stand out.
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A cloud-ready IT infrastructure
Cloud computing is crucial for any modern business. It enables you to be agile, scales as you grow, provides robust security and makes it easier to embrace new technologies like AI.
But implementing a cloud-ready IT infrastructure can require significant change if you aren’t already prepared.
ERP
ERP is the backbone of any business, covering finance, operations, inventory and beyond. Yet many businesses struggle on with legacy ERP solutions that aren’t fit for purpose, don’t provide data for better decision-making and keep teams working in silo.
Fortunately, there are many modern ERPs on the market, providing advanced functionality, AI infusion and system connectivity to fuel your performance.
Business Central is the market leader when it comes to ERP. But to ensure it’s right for you, we’ve compared it against the rest in our comparison guide.