Most people realize that digital technologies are reshaping our lives and changing the way we get work done. As cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, robotics, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) mature and converge, the possibilities seem to be limited only by our imaginations. But how are SMB (includi...
Author: Laurie McCabe
Sales Cloud Lightning Essentials: Putting Salesforce Back on the Small Business Track
At Dreamforce 2017 a few weeks ago, Salesforce launched Salesforce Sales Cloud Lightning Essentials, its latest offering for small businesses. This new solution—which I’ll call Sales Essentials from here on in—follows pretty quickly on the heels of SalesforceIQ, which the vendor introduced just two years ago. But unlike Salesforce IQ, which was built on a different code base than the ...
Why Now is the Time to Rethink Your Company’s Collaboration Strategy
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Do Small Businesses Need Another Bank? Why Seed Thinks They Do
Do small businesses need another bank–or another way to bank? I rece...
Revolutionizing Agriculture with Digital Transformation Strategies
Author: Sanjeev Aggarwal, SMB Group How many of you have visited a farm recently? I had the opportunity to visit one as part of Dell Technologies IQT Day held in New York City on October 11, 2017. AeroFarms is far fr...
NetSuite: One Year After the Oracle Acquisition
It’s been about one year since Oracle acquired NetSuite for a neat $9.3 billion. At Oracle Open World’s SuiteConnect, we got a glimpse into what’s new and what remains unc...
What is Bitcoin? 58 Facts in One Infographic
Only a small percentage of ...
Acumatica’s Strategy to Woo On-Premise Accounting and ERP Customers to its Cloud
Acumatica estimates that tens of thousands of SMBs are still using on-premise accounting and ERP—and that now is the perfect time to woo them to its cloud-based ERP platform. At Acumatica’s Analyst Day event last week, CEO Jon Roskill made the case that adoption of cloud ERP has lagged in comparison to other areas because businesses have been hesitant to trust cloud vendors with core transac...
Know Before You Go: English Proficiency in International Markets
Are you considering expanding your business into overseas markets? Moving beyond U.S. borders to international markets can help companies reach new customers and fuel business growth. Using digital technologies, even very small businesses can take advantage of opportunities to enter new markets, sell their products and services to new customers, and grow their top and bottom lines. C...
One Year In: Going Big Pays Off for Dell Technologies
Last week, Dell Technologies celebrated the one-year anniversary of its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, which was the largest tech deal in history. One year ago, many doubters posited that the combined entity would be too big, too slow,...