MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general director for Spain and Portugal of Sage, José Luis Martín Zabala, announced this Tuesday that in 2023 the firm will launch a “complementary” subsidy plan to the Digital Kit and with which it intends that 100% of its clients internalize the technology as a business “growth lever”.
Zabala, who has participated in the meeting “The SME: protagonist of the transformation of the economy” organized by Europa Press and Sage, has highlighted that the idea of ??this complementary plan is to help both its clients and the Spanish business fabric.
“If obtaining the Digital Kit is delayed somewhat, if it is delayed somewhat due to the economic situation, we are going to subsidize and help that SME to take that step and begin to internalize technology as a lever for growth and evolution”, highlighted the CEO of Sage.
“We are going to open a very broad, very ambitious subsidy plan next year, not only for our clients, but for the Spanish business fabric, to help them speed up these deadlines and shorten them in the face of this situation of uncertainty that, obviously, does not helps make decisions consistent,” he added.
The Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Carme Artigas, and the president of Cepyme, Gerardo Cuerva, also participated in the meeting.
In this sense, Artigas has highlighted that one of the issues being worked on in the Secretariat he directs is to reduce the processing times of the Digital Kit.
In his speech at the meeting, Zabala highlighted that the pandemic has caused a change in the vision of the implementation of technology in companies in Spanish SMEs.
Thus, he pointed out that the Covid-19 has forced many companies to adapt and that investment in technology, which in his opinion was previously seen as one more expense, is now seen as a “lever” to allow SMEs to be more efficient.
In fact, he pointed out that, according to a study carried out by Sage, 56% of Spanish companies say that this year they intend and see it necessary to invest in technology, a percentage higher than that of other neighboring countries, such as France, for example.
Likewise, it has affected that 9% of SMEs have lagged behind due to the pandemic, although it has emphasized that 91% of the remaining companies “have made progress in this matter”. “This high percentage is also due to the great effort made by businessmen and associations such as Cepyme”.
However, from the company they consider that in Spain there is still a lack of investment culture in I D i, for which they consider that a “change of mentality” is necessary.
