In today's world overloaded with buzzwords, terms such as "Business Intelligence (BI)", "predictive analytics" and "Corporate Performance Management (CPM)" are confusing to mid-market enterprises. BI technologies provide historical views of a company's business operat...
Category: Blog – Sanjeev Aggarwal
Could Video Conferencing become the SMB segment ‘Killer App’ ? At least Cisco thinks so with the Tandberg acquisition!
Good move by Cisco. The key beneficiary of Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg will be the SMB and mid-market. Cisco already has video Telepresence solutions. However, these Telepresence solutions are primarily enterprise solutions – way beyond the affordability of the SMB (1-499 employees) or the mid-market enterprises (500-1000 employees). Both se...
Interest in Social Media among Small Businesses Correlates to Number of Years they have been in Business
Related insight to my recent blog Small Businesses interest in Social Media increasing rapidly , related to the Number of Years a small business has been in existence. See figure below:
Small Businesses interest in Social Media increasing rapidly
In a recent very small business (businesses with 10 employees or less), Social Media ranked at the top of the list among the tools used by small businesses to market/promote their business (see Figure 1). The use of all 'Digital Media' tools by SMB has seen a dramatic increase in the past 2 years at the at the expense of 'traditional media' tools. Many businesses are finding that marketing c...
Deciding what survey software to use?
SurveyGizmo is very easy to use; value priced and provides the most extensive set of features among all the survey software solutions I evaluated.
Prognosis on SAP’s Business ByDesign – SaaS based ERP solution for the core mid-market
I came across a good analysis on some aspects of SaaS vs. on-premise vendors and solutions in the smoothspan post Why Do SaaS Companies Lose Money Hand Over Fist?
Avaya-Nortel will prove to be a formidable competitor for Cisco in the SMB Voice & Unified Communications Market
Avaya has been in heavy competition with Cisco for the SMB and Mid-Market Unified Communications market, with Cisco steadily gaining market share in the SMB IP-communication segment. However, the combined Avaya-Nortel will position them with roughly twice the market share in the worldwide SMB market – close to 30%, almost 2X of Cisco.
Business Intelligence (BI) – Does it have a place in the SMB and Mid-Market Enterprises?
The recent demise of LucidEra has brought forward the discussion of the need for BI in the SMB and Mid-Market enterprises (companies with 1-999 employees and revenues usually less than $1 billion). My take is that this was based on the limited BI value LuidEra offered and the current difficult economic conditions vs. their SaaS based business mo...
The Compelling TCO Case for Cloud-based business applications in SMB and Mid-Market Enterprises
A 4-year total cost of ownership (TCO) perspective comparing cloud and on-premise business application deployment
Intuit’s Federated Apps Cloud Computing Partner Platform Will Provide Very Significant Benefits to ISVs
One of the key technology pain-point (for SMBs) relate to multiple disparate SaaS/on-premise based business and collaboration applications that do not talk to each other (requiring re-entry of the same data) and each with their own separate access, UI, billing and pricing schemas – making it very difficult for them to resolve problems when they oc...