Summer is an ideal opportunity to lay the foundations for digital business transformation and business growth. Within the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience, several tenders have been announced, the purpose of which is the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Croatia. The funds are non-refundable, and the goal of the Call is to enable digitization for the purpose of digital transformation of Croatian SMEs by acquiring digital tools and equipment and strengthening digital skills for the development and application of new products, services and processes, which will ultimately result in strengthening the market position of the company and increasing productivity.

We bring you some solutions that you can implement in your business and make your everyday life easier:

• One of the best steps of business transformation and digitization is the transfer of paper to digital form. Digitization of office operations is one of the forms for which you can receive certain grants, and it saves the resources needed for the preparation, sending, receiving, archiving and storage of paper documentation.
• Also, another way to facilitate business is to automate transactions to eliminate errors caused by manual processing and save time.
• Another tool to facilitate everyday life is the implementation of an ERP solution (Enterprise Resource Planning) - a system that combines all essential functions for company management and is the basis for business development and growth.

You can spend the non-refundable funds on the following expenses:

• costs of purchasing equipment, hardware, software and associated training
• costs of purchasing standard and out-of-box software and creating/developing specific software (tailor-made for user needs), including its installation, programming, testing and/or configuration for user needs (e.g. ERP, CRM, DMS, HRM, CMS, CAD, CAM, ...)
• costs for licenses for the purchase and upgrade of software (permanent or lease from the date of purchase to the end of the project) or the acquisition of the right to use for a period of at most from the date of purchase to the end of the project
• costs of using various computer cloud services (Cloud)
• SaaS
• IaaS
• PaaS
• WPaaS
• Costs of designing and purchasing equipment for the needs of advanced digitization systems such as the Internet of Things, advanced network systems and processes for Industry 4.0, etc.
• expenses for other equipment and devices needed exclusively for direct project activities
• costs of implementing cybersecurity solutions and equipment
• costs of the Digital Transformation Plan preparation service

These projects should result in strengthening the company's market position and productivity growth. For more information on this topic, contact our experts, and you can find tenders with incentives for digital transformation on the official website Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development.

Data source: Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development