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FEATURE

TOP SIGNS THAT YOU’VE

OUTGROWN YOUR

CURRENT SOFTWARE

How you can tell when it’s time to

upgrade to a cloud-based solution

BY SARAH ASH, SIMPRO SOFTWARE

Growing and scaling a business is a major achievement for any
entrepreneur. Through many trials and tribulations, it’s an exciting
moment when the time comes to finally take on more service, project, and
maintenance work that will take your electrical business to the next level.

But how do you make sure your business the new challenges you’ll face as you take This is vital so that you can keep
is set up for success as you grow? As you on larger projects, especially with more at track of your resources and
build out your business growth strategy, stake financially. appropriately manage cash flow. Most
you need to make sure that you have the importantly, it gives you valuable
right technology in place that helps drive Luckily, more sophisticated software is data that you need to make the
new business in a sustainable way (and one of the best resources you can invest in data-driven decisions necessary to
keeps your head from spinning off). as part of your business growth strategy. grow your business sustainably.
And cloud-based field service software is
Suppose you’re currently using basic the perfect solution to support scaling and Here are the telltale signs that you’ve
office software or free or open-source growing a business. outgrown your current software so that
field service management software. In that you can determine if it’s time to leave
case, you need to consider how well these Cloud-based field service management your old software behind as you build
solutions will support you and solve software helps you manage every out your business growth strategy.
workflow, all from one solution, keeping
you organized every step of the way,
from lead to final invoice.

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