When we think about implementing business software in an organization, we typically do so to improve productivity and efficiency, while saving time and money. However, there is a significant impact that business software has on the way we do business and conduct our daily lives. What is often missed when evaluating the benefits of bringing new software in is that human side of things; the intangible effects that software has on real people.
Capterra, the leading online business software directory website recently broke down this analysis to dive deeper into how business software is influencing the way people life their lives and how these tools have given back to the world over the last 12 months. Here's to the softer side of business software.
The results of their hard work is shown below in a fun infographic that has been developed to show you the impact that business software has had on the world in 2015.
There are some pretty impressive statistics included in the infographic above. We laid out some of our favourites below that you can share on Twitter. Simply click the link 'Tweet' to share this statistic with your followers:
14 million jobs have been created in the cloud software industry in the past 3 years - Tweet this
1.3 million underprivileged kids have been educated for FREE by Learning Management Systems (LMS) in 2015 - Tweet this
4,400 lives have been saved in 2015 with EHR Software - Tweet this
2.5 hours saved per-person daily by using project management software - Tweet this
