Teesside University’s Industrial Digitalisation Technology Centre (IDTC) has formed a new partnership to boost digital transformation opportunities for Tees Valley businesses.
Through its new partnership with North East-based software and consultancy business ZEST I/O, the IDTC is providing new digitalisation opportunities to the businesses it works with to help them succeed.
The IDTC helps local businesses to make digital technology work for them by highlighting where SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) which have signed up for the funded programme are on their digital journeys and where they want to go.
It develops a bespoke technology roadmap for the businesses it works with and assists SMEs with consultancy and support around innovation projects, as well as helping them to find and implement new, useful digital technologies.
ZEST I/O offers modular, agile and tailored software for SMEs. Its core product, ZEST Cloudsuite, incorporates modules such as contacts, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, accounting, projects, maintenance and more. Customers can pick and choose modules according to their business requirements and utilise add-on modules as they grow.
Zeynel Badak, Founder and Director of ZEST I/O, said: “The benefits and opportunities digital technologies bring to businesses are evident and successful applications are abundant. However, many companies, especially SMEs, are still struggling to realise the potential benefits and opportunities. IDTC at Teesside University bridges this gap and supports SMEs to discover and explore a range of digital technologies and opportunities which could help them on their digital journey and benefit their business.”
