The use of enterprise applications is transforming the way businesses function day-to-day. Traditionally, when a business needed a new solution, it was requested from the IT department, who would set to work to develop it.

However, in today’s fast-paced and changing market, it is no longer practical to wait for the IT department. Instead, businesses are turning to cloud-based, readily available solutions. Rather than establishing, installing, and monitoring their own hardware, more businesses are electing to use platforms installed in the cloud for their application development. In fact, mobile and cloud implementation are the primary motivators influencing application development today.

Enterprise application software services include payment processing, resource planning, automated forms, sales force automation, customer relationship management, business process management, and more. While these applications are increasing the efficiency of business operations, and in many cases lowering operational costs, the challenge is to ensure security. Training programs may need to be implemented to guarantee employees across the board understand how to best use these applications to increase efficiency in their specific daily tasks.

In order to be effective, users need to be able to access relevant enterprise applications on-demand, from anywhere, at any time. Businesses that put forth the effort to close security gaps, as well as provide a dependable and protected experience for users, will gain a competitive advantage over companies who lose sight of the importance of cybersecurity.