Betting on the digital transformation of Mozambican companies is undoubtedly Cegid Primavera's biggest goal. Today, at the Maputo International Trade Fair, the company presented a solution that allows for the digital management of data, including taxes.

This is Cegid Primavera ERP Evolution, a digital and innovative resource capable of adapting to the particularities of each company. In fact, the solutions are already structured to accommodate small businesses as well as medium-sized and large companies.

"It's a complete management solution, which incorporates various tools, not only in the transactional part for carrying out tasks, but also a lot of data analysis," said the Territory Manager for Mozambique and Angola, José Simões.

Cegid - a French group - is present in 22 countries and its solutions are used in more than 130. In Iberia, Latin America and Africa alone - Mozambique (for over 20 years), Angola and Cape Verde - it has a turnover of around 150 million euros.

The purpose of bringing this resource to Mozambique is, according to José Simões, to respond to the evolution of the market, but also because of the mass use of technology among young people.

In Cegid Primavera's view, this is the time when companies need to "think digital". This necessarily means finding secure ways of analyzing, sharing and storing information.

In this sense, "we are focused on training the people who are going to work with this technology and bringing them tools that present them with the data from the operations themselves," he said.

The tool proposes greater transparency in information management, as well as in the relationship between companies and their employees. stakeholders.

In Mozambique, the company has a portfolio of companies that use its services and are assisted by more than 100 certified Mozambican technicians. Meanwhile, the state machinery - the Tax Authority and the National Social Security Institute - is also 'experimenting' with this technological evolution in tax processing.

José Simões said that the state's interest in using the tool is growing. That's why he expects more small, medium and large companies to adopt the solution, "but only when the state puts pressure on them".

"This is a process that has to continue. Of course, it will evolve towards a time when the tax authorities themselves will bring in the concept of digital taxes and this will increase the pressure on companies. We want to prepare this market in advance," he clarified.

On the other hand, this evolution is expected to lead to Information Technology (IT) departments progressively occupying more prominent positions within companies and, at the same time, professionals in other departments will be required to master technological tools - "not least because Mozambique is a country very exposed to cybercrime."

"IT increasingly has to understand and be very close to the business, to make relevant decisions. There's no turning back! This is essential here in Mozambique if companies are to present a satisfactory business model for their customers. stakeholders" he said.