The apps provide accounting and human resource assistance to help businesses extract and manage data at a more efficient pace.

The Sleekr HR app, set for release in mobile app stores at the end of February, will among other things help companies manage employee attendance, leave, claims, reimbursement, tax calculations and social security.

Meanwhile, the Sleekr Accounting app is able to calculate ratios and produce aging reports related to cash management, sales and procurement and automated depreciation.

Sleekr co-founder and CEO Suwandi Soh said the software would record and store statistics, which company managers typically struggled to compile.

“We want to try and build our service in a way that will enable even startup founders with no financial background to manage their own accounting,” he said. “Our platform has saved clients around 400 hours by reportedly reducing time on administrative work by 80 to 90 percent.”

Sleekr has been offering services since 2015, with over 10,000 active users of Sleekr HR and 5,000 users of Sleekr Accounting.

Several company users include Salestock, Midtrans, Uangteman and Burgreens.

In late November, Sleekr merged with local accounting platform Kiper to create Sleekr Accounting, which also marked its entrance into the accounting service.

Up to 41 percent of Sleekr Accounting’s users are companies operating in the retail sector, while 36 percent of Sleekr HR users are application service providers. Both services require subscriptions.

In the future, the company plans to dip its toes into the tax sector and mobile phone credit reimbursements.

Suwandi further said as the trend for management systems was shifting toward cloud, Sleekr’s system would help ease the operations of SMEs and allow greater accessibility to an online system.

Efforts to digitalize SMEs have been stepped up recent years as a response to the growing mobile and online culture adopted by Indonesian businesses and the public.

These efforts are also considered vital to improve efficiency, enabling them to contribute more to the country’s economic growth.

Among the efforts is the Industry Ministry’s initiative to provide training and guidance for SMEs to encourage online trading under the e-Smart IKM Industry initiative.

To expose SMEs to the regional and global stage, the Communications and Information Ministry has also offered to provide free domain names to around 8 million SMEs until 2020 to allow them to benefit from the fast surging e-commerce sector. Initially, the domain names will be given to 1 million SMEs that are customers of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), by 2018.

Earlier last year, tech giant Microsoft also encouraged both Indonesia’s small and large business entities to take advantage of available technological innovations to help them cut costs and improve efficiency.

Microsoft itself runs the Azure public cloud service, which provides businesses with relatively inexpensive and efficient data center servers.

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