TORONTO – Small businesses in Canada today manage approximately five cloud applications to run their business – email, payroll, accounting, scheduling – all at once, says Rogers Communications.
For a small business, this can be a difficult as they often have limited or no dedicated IT staff. So today, Rogers today launched Rogers Business App Market, a new online portal where small businesses can purchase, manage and get tech support to run business applications for their business.
"Many of our customers today are stretched thin, having to spend hours of time managing business applications. We want to make it simple and easy to use business applications, so we've launched our Business App Market with the latest apps and dedicated support," said Craig Bentley, senior vice-president of small enterprise, Rogers, in a press release. "Our goal is to provide access to a variety of apps that small businesses can easily use to run their businesses more efficiently."
The first two applications available in Rogers Business App Market include Google Apps for Work and Microsoft Office 365, and a number of new productivity applications will launch in the coming months. Rogers is also going to provide 'always-on' support, which includes an onboarding service and ongoing support from experts who will look after day-to-day software administration for apps.
Customers will be able to buy applications and pay for them on the same bill they use to pay for their other Rogers services and the platform also offers customers a single sign-on where they are able to use one user ID and password to gain access across all of their cloud services.
