“For a Changing World” was the theme at the Workday Rising user conference, held the week of October 14th in Orlando. At the event, Aneel Bhusri, Workday Cofounder & CEO, pitched machine learning (ML) as the means through which it will enable companies to transform business management to successfully navigate through changing workplace and workforce realities. In Bhusri’s keyn...
Author: Laurie McCabe
Three Emerging Technologies Poised to Reshape Accounting and Financial Management
Businesses that can effectively harness data to identify trends, streamline operations, and make better business decisions have always had an edge over competitors. Today, as technology advances make it easier to digitize data at a seemingly exponential rate, this gap is widening. As the Economist put it in 2017, data is the new oil. Businesses that can use data to create business value and opp...
Will Your Business Disrupt—Or Be Disrupted?
“Digital transformation” may sound like a buzzword, but the drivers behind it are very real. In an era where technology is reshaping businesses and industries, companies that harness technology can reap big advantages over those that don’t. Businesses must first determine how to adapt their businesses for the digital age and then put technology to work to bring these changes to life.
Ready, Set, Grow: Future-Proof Your Business with Cloud-Based Financials
Technological change is accelerating at a frenetic pace—and with dramatic impact. It’s reshaping customer expectations, employee requirements and attitudes, and disrupting business practices, models and entire industries. While no one will ever be able to predict what’s next with complete certainty, businesses that can adapt in response to or even in anticipation of changing conditions will ...
Six Steps to Help SMBs Get Started on the Digital Transformation Path
Whether you call it the information age, digital era or the fourth industrial revolution, we are in the midst of a major transformative change that is reshaping the way we live, work and relate to one another. Today, companies are increasingly using technology to blur the lines between the physical and digital worlds—and creating incredible new products and services that disrupt “business as...
Zeguro Cyber Safety: A Holistic Solution to Tackle SMB Security Requirements
Small and medium businesses consistently rate security as one of their most pressing technology challenges. But most resource-constrained SMBs are overwhelmed by the seemingly endless variety of cyber threats–and by the confusing array security solutions that promise protection. With that in mind, I was excited to talk to Sidd Gavirneni, who is Cofounder & CEO at Zeguro, an end-to-end cy...
SMB Digital Transformation Initiatives and Barriers
SMB Group recently completed our 2019 U.S. Small and Medium Business Digital Transformation Study. In an earlier post, I discussed small and medium business...
How Small Business Should Think About Financing in 2019
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SMB Understanding of Digital Transformation Grows, But Challenges to Taking Action Remain
SMB Group just wrapped up our U.S. Small and Medium Business Digital Transformation Study. This is the second version of the study, which we originally conducted in 2017. We are seeing some very interesting trends in how small and medium businesses (SMB...