Swiss digital solutions and services for businesses - #SwissTechSeries
Welcome to the second article in our ten-part #SwissTech series, focusing the most innovative technology companies in Switzerland. After looking at the Swiss ecosystem for innovation and technology, we invite you to continue learning, this time about some of the country’s best business solutions and services.
In a world where the GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) are ubiquitous it is with pride that we showcase some of the most innovative companies in Switzerland bringing compelling alternatives to their international counterparts.
From hosting, emails, and more…
Infomaniak is one of Switzerland’s leading digital solutions provider, offering a wide range of highly qualitative solutions, mostly under the Ksuite branding: domain hosting, email management, cloud backup and storage, videoconferencing, password manager, and even online ticketing solutions. Infomaniak is a trusted company partnering with companies of all sizes, a compelling alternative to Gmail, GoDaddy (domain registration), or other cloud solutions (Amazon Web Services, Google Drive, or Microsoft Azure) for example.
If you are looking for free and secure email hosted in Switzerland, Protonmail is a great option. Featuring end-to-end encryption, intuitive design, and complete privacy, Protonmail is on a mission to building an internet that protects privacy. The functionalities and looks resemble very much to other email solutions such as Gmail, so you will not need a long time to get used to it.
And of course, impossible to speak about Swiss business solutions, without mentioning Swisscom, Logitech, and Bexio. Swisscom is the country’s largest phone operator, offering innovative solutions from IT outsourcing to IoT, Cloud to mobile, security and network management. Logitech is a global leader technology, usually related to hardware such as mouse and keyboards, they actually evolved and now offer a complete suite of products, from smart home to connected offices and much more. Last but not least in the business management solutions, Bexio is a cloud-based business software for small companies, from CRM to invoicing, it offers an intuitive one-stop shop for small and medium businesses.
To finding the perfect information…
Looking for an alternative to Google? Adopt Swisscows.com . While the name may have you smile, and with a market share remaining humble outside of Switzerland, they bring a safe and secure platform for search, in the same vein as Duck Duck Go, never storing your data. Their difference might also lay in their charitable engagement, and their focus on family-friendly content… We particularly like their intuitive and clickable “related search queries” on the right-hand side, as well as the “local search” toggle, empowering you to narrow the results.
Or interacting with your customers & workforce …
Image credit: www.bmyb.ch
We really like the approach taken by Well-come, an innovative Swiss-born startup, who developed an interactive self-reception kiosk, to ensures that visitors are welcomed at any time, under any circumstances. The system is meant to complement the human interaction in case of absence, during the lunch break for instance, but can also work as a full-time solution for small and medium businesses such as doctors, law firms, banks and more.
Picture here on the right shows the Well-come kiosk installation at bmyb.ch, another innovative Swiss company offering flexible office space rental solutions, and coworking spaces.
Looking for a solution to help you elevate the customer service you provide? Guuru pairs automation and peer-to-peer support to improve customer service both from a customer and company standpoint. Integrated with other systems, and intuitive, the solution has won several awards in Switzerland, Europe, and globally.
Looking for a Swiss version of DocuSign? Try Skribble…they provide a safe way to digitally sign documents, and already work with global companies such as Canon and EasyJet!
Finally, Vima is an innovative video-based solution combining expertise in psychology and artificial intelligence to improve the recruiting process and elevate the hiring quality.
Even to leverage your data…
Raw Labs, a Lausanne-based company taking data analytics to an entirely new level. Their NoDB platform makes the data available for analysis without requiring any preparation, data copy, or transformation, empowering users to query it through an SQL-like language.
Or manage your real estate….
Popety.io is a real estate focused solution empowering small and large realtors to operate in a digitalized world, connecting developers, buyers, and renters. On their side, Tayo software empowers realtors to manage their properties and digitalize the interaction between owners, property managers, and tenants, with a powerful, integrated, and intuitive ticketing service.
As you can see, Swiss companies have business solutions and services for most of your needs! Combined with the country’s tradition for excellence and quality, they represent compelling solutions for businesses globally.
In the coming articles, we will deep dive into specific domains such as EdTech, Biotech, Fintech and more, highlighting great homegrown companies, setting new norms in their respective industries.
We hope that through these examples we have convinced you to leverage Swiss solutions. Of course, there are hundreds of other innovative companies in Switzerland, providing compelling alternatives to the GAFAM. You may want to continue reading about them on Swiss Top 100 Startup’s site, as well as Startupticker.ch if you are interested in keeping up with the Startup scene in Switzerland.
Up next: Consumer products & services.
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