FREE SME IT solution enquiry service

More than 90% of Macau businesses are small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with less than 10 employees. These SMEs rarely have sufficient IT knowledge or dedicated resources to take advantage of information technology to increase business efficiency and reduce operation cost.

Manetic iCentre provides a "one-stop" IT solution enquiry service to SMEs of Macau for free, so as to assist SMEs to better utilize information technology to improve their daily business operation, and at the same time to ease the human resource issue. We achieve and deliver these objectives through the support of our partner network. Manetic will capture the requirements of SMEs, analyze it, provide professional recommendations, and help to search for appropriate solution and providers for the project.

We will feedback to SMEs within 14 business days regarding the progress.

Manetic free SME services:

• Assist SMEs on business operation analysis and provide suggestions for IT solution.
• Assist SMEs on utilizing open source solution to cut down IT expenses.
• Assist SMEs on IT solution and service supplier selection.
• Assist SMEs on IT solution implementation and support.

SME Financial Aid Scheme

Information technology adoption requires certain amount of investment at different project phases. The Macau government provides financial aid scheme to Macau SMEs to purchase equipments that enhance productivity and production capacity.

The fund appropriated for "SME Aid Scheme" can be used to finance: purchase of equipment (includes machinery for production, investment items such as computer or automation hardware and software that enhance productivity and production capacity) needed for operation; renovation, decoration and expansion projects; the capital for signing commercial concession contract or franchising contract; acquisition of exclusive right for use of technology and intellectual property; advertising and promotional activities; enhancement of capability for operation and competitiveness, or for SME directly affected by extraordinary, unpredictable matters or matters which are beyond human control, especially natural disasters or epidemic diseases, or dramatic changes in the business environment that rise the operating expenses or affecting the operating conditions of an enterprise.

For SME aid scheme details, please visit:  http://www.economia.gov.mo