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Category: Cloud Computing
Striven Strives for Success in the Small Business Management Cloud Software Market
Building market momentum for a new business management ERP-type of solution is never easy, even in good times. These days, its particularly challenging. But that hasn’t stopped Striven, which provides a fully integrated all-in-one software system for small businesses, from moving ahead. Below is my conversation with Scott Hammer, Marketing Manager of Str...
Life in the Fast Lane: Acumatica’s Cloud ERP
Acumatica bills itself as “the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP company.” While this kind of marketing slogan can be hard to prove, Acumatica is providing convincing numbers to back up its claim. In January, I attended Acumatica Summit, the company’s annual customer conference, where CEO Jon Roskill announced that Acumatica now has more than 6,500 inst...
Sage Intacct: Leading Sage into the Future
This fall’s Sage Intacct Advantage conference—and before that its Analyst Summit—showcased many new announcements and developments. Together, they signal significant shifts—not only for Sage Intacct, but for Sage, which acquired Intacct a couple of years ago. You can find all the product announcement details
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 ...
Cloud-based ERP—Helping to Solve the ERP Security Puzzle
As companies invest in more technology, the risk of cybersecurity breaches increases. Businesses must not only protect more data, but also secure and protect it in more places to give workers the anytime, anywhere access they need to get their jobs done. Balancing this need for business innovation with the need to safeguard company, employee, and customer data is difficult even for large cor...
Considerations for UCC Vendors in the SMB Market
The market opportunity for UCC vendors in the U.S. SMB segment is around $4.5B for 2016—and growing. According to SMB Group’s recently completed 2016 Small and Medium Business Communication, Collaboration and Mobility Study, although just 12% of small businesses (companies with less than 100 employees) and 28% of medium businesses (companies with 100 to 1,000 employees) currently use UCC soluti...
Using Cloud Analytics to Make Big Data Actionable For SMBs
“Big data” is a big buzzword in the IT i...
BizSlate: Weaving QuickBooks Into ERP for Small Businesses
“We focus on helping small businesses improve how they manage everything–customers, orders, vendors, inventory, logistics of the supply chain–and give them the tools that they need to succeed this very intense omni-channel market.”
Intuit: Finding New Footing In the Small Business Cloud
Intuit’s tack to build new, data-driven services for small businesses–such as its new lending service–provides the company with an exciting opportunities to disrupt the status quo and create new revenue streams.