A Peek Preview: Tech That Will Shape SMEs In 2020

It's that time of year again! While you list all of those New Year's resolutions, we are polishing our IoT-enabled crystal ball to find out what 2020 will hold for IT in your business.

- Aaron Thornton

As always, we take pride in our nerd-infused technology forecasts - and strive to make sure that local business owners are prepared for what’s around the corner! Let’s take a closer look:

Transitioning to fully managed Cloud solutions

We foresee a wholesale shift to completely managed and cloud-based IT for SMEs. Already, a small percentage of forward-thinking small businesses are completely cloud-based - with a mobile workforce, too. So, what does this mean, in practice? This means that the business has no power-guzzling server in the office (sorry Eskom!), and employees’ laptops carry no sensitive data, either. A closer inspection, this means that the office itself is becoming redundant! One only has to look up these days to notice the prevalence of trendy collaborative workspaces (think WeWork) and increasingly popular “hot desk” environments. Death of the office, anyone?