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SMEs: 5 steps to boost my company's productivity

SMEs: 5 steps to boost my company's productivity

By Grégory Coste.

Published: 23 April 2025

What IT software tips for your SME? Ready to sign a success pact with the future? Here's what we have to say about entrepreneurship, and our modest contributions on financing, HR issues and business management. Ready to innovate and boost productivity? Let's get started!

Supporting business start-ups and facilitating fund-raising

Whether they are setting up a new business, preparing to launch one, or in a growth development phase, the managers of small and medium-sized enterprises have to look for funding. To help you with this initiative, we recommend two organisations.

The CGPME

The Confédération Générale des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises, or CGPME, represents small and medium-sized businesses at national, European and international level. The CGPME's mission is to support and defend French businesses, including SMEs and SMIs, whatever their sector of activity. Independent, private and recognised, it represents a serious support with its regional federations, professional structures which accompany the head of company to the chamber of commerce.

bpifrance

Through its "Tous nos projets" website, bpifrance aims to be a crowdfunding marketplace. The site covers all aspects of a company's life: initial investments, growth partners for SMEs, international expansion for ETIs, etc. Calling on bpifrance and the CGPME is a viable financial solution for raising funds.

Create your investment platform with Particeep

A software solution in SaaS mode, Particeep enables you to create investment marketplaces, such as participative financing. In terms of investment functionalities, Particeep offers in particular the management of investors (the start-up likes), participative financing, management of securities and shares. 100% customisable, this cloud solution dematerialises your financing operations: online signature and payment save you time, but also productivity with real-time activity reporting and connection to third-party applications. Find out more about this ready-to-use solution on our comparator.

Integrating HR issues and professional training obligations

Human resources and the obligations of SMEs

Whatever their size, SMEs have to ask themselves the same questions as large companies:

  • What are their obligations in terms of skills management?
  • How do you comply with the reform of vocational training ?
  • Should they take on a new employee or capitalise on in-house talent?
  • How do you manage payroll, talent management and training all at once?

When you're an employer, there's a long list of obligations and constraints to comply with... The CGPME can help you with issues such as transfers, managing your training, applying for Agefice funding, etc.

Yourcegid RH Y2 On Demand: the peace of mind of SaaS mode

All HR managers want to use HRIS software that offers automated and secure payroll processing, while complying with current legislation. On all these points, Yourcegid RH Y2 On Demand makes all the difference: you can work with complete peace of mind because legal changes are automated in your software.
Your talent management is also supported by essential functionalities such as the skills map and online training open to all. Managing your human capital in collaborative mode takes on its full meaning. Pilot your HR ecosystem with the modular solution tailored to SMEs: explore it urgently on appvizer.

ERP dedicated to SMEs: tailor-made business management

Why coordinate all your activities?

With ERP software, you can optimise planning and organisation throughout your business. Your various departments have access to the same information in real time: the database is centralised and automated by your management software. This streamlines procedures and boosts performance throughout the company: for example, when a sale is concluded, this automatically impacts your stock management, accounting management, turnover and finances.

Optimise your operational processes with Gestimum ERP

Like a seasoned accountant, Gestinum ERP integrates seamlessly into your IT system. You can add the modules essential to your business as you wish. For example, you can choose to combine the accounting management module with assisted sales management. Everything is also designed to simplify your accounting: fixed asset processing, bank reconciliation, e-commerce integration, etc.

Behind this user-friendly tool, information flows are managed in complete security. Your management solution provides all the modularity you need: it can scale from 5 to over 100 workstations, and can be customised to suit your business model and all your users. To see the full range of possibilities, use our search engine.

VSEs and SMEs revolutionise the way they manage mileage expenses

Kilometric allowances: often a headache

There's no need for a barometer to measure the difficulty:

  • you have to keep track of all your travel expenses, fuel costs, mileage, etc.
  • you have to take into account the official tax scale for kilometres travelled each year,
  • your employees want to know how much they can deduct as actual expenses on their tax return.

With supporting documents to keep and complicated calculations to make, not to mention possible errors in dates or legal constraints that have not been respected, many entrepreneurs (from micro-businesses to the general management of SMEs) have been tearing their hair out...

Manage your IK in zen mode with Izika

No more nightmares: just connect your Outlook or Google calendar to Izika. The application takes care of the rest:

  • import your appointments
  • calculating distances and mileage
  • generate your instantaneous statements,
  • fuel consumption,
  • calculation of mileage costs based on the vehicle,
  • constantly updated with the latest mileage scale in force in the application,
  • create official declarations for your employees.

Would you like to find out more about this innovative company, which is revolutionising the information system applied to mileage expenses? You've got everything to gain. Find peace of mind at appvizer...

Encouraging entrepreneurship: the added value of a CRM tool

CRM software to accelerate customer relations

The success of any business depends on the success it achieves with its customers. From prospecting to customer loyalty, it's all about strengthening links: contact management, customer account tracking, purchase history, deliveries, customer loyalty - everything needs to be managed and tuned like clockwork!
Prospect satisfaction doesn't wait, and neither do sales. To manage customer relations like a maestro in tune with customer expectations, you need CRM software that harmonises your marketing actions with your database without any false notes.

Oryanoo CRM: going international

Is your SME aiming for export and internationalisation? Oryanoo CRM's ambition is to give you all the resources you need to achieve this: this French CRM software capitalises on 15 years' experience. All your teams have access to a collaborative working environment thanks to the cloud, and have all the tools they need to undertake their business with complete peace of mind: team management, sales management, financial and stock monitoring, management and monitoring of contacts with prospective customers, customer support, messaging and collaboration. Oryanoo CRM also speaks several languages, because entrepreneurship knows no borders! This CRM solution and the success of your customer relations are just a click away.

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Managing your business means choosing the right software tools. We're convinced that the solutions we offer will give you all the efficiency you're looking for, as well as productivity gains you've never seen before: enjoy your visit to appvizer!

Article translated from French