Laurie: In this SMB Spotlight I’m talking to Boaz Grinvald, CEO of BrightInfo. BrightInfo just launched a B2...
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BI and Analytics for Mid-Market Businesses: My Podcast with SAP
I recently participated, with Paul Clark from SAP, in a thought leadership podcast on the topic of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence(BI) and Social Analytics for Midmarket companies. Brief Overview: We discuss the various aspects and uses of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Business Intelligence (BI), and Social Analytical tools within...
NYEXPO Panel: Using Technology to Drive Innovation & GROW Your Business
Thanks to all of you who came to our panel yesterday at NYEXPO, Using Technology to Drive Innovation & GROW Your Business,
A View From the MSP Trenches: Cloud Opportunities in the Midmarket
As discussed in my blog,
Today’s SMB Social Media Market Creates Opportunities for Tomorrow
SMB businesses are increasing their adoption of social media solutions year over year--rising from 44% to 53% in small business (1-99 employees) and 52% to 63% in medium business (100-999 employees). But what business functions are SMBs using social media for, and what social media tools are they using in different areas? Just released results from the SMB Group’s
Solving the SMB Social Media Marketing Conundrum
The SMB Group’s latest survey, 2012 Small and Medium Social Business Study, examines how and why small and medium businesses (SMB) are using social media in their businesses today. The study also provides trending analysis based on comparison wi...
Tech Tidbits for SMBs: Xactly Express Integration with Intuit QuickBooks
If you’re one of the four million small and medium businesses (SMBs) that uses Intuit QuickBooks and are wrestling with a clunky sales compensation process, I’m serving up this next tech tidbit for you. Last week, I was briefed on Xactly’s new Express integration with QuickB...
Tech Tidbits for SMBs: Elance
I’ve had several interesting briefings in the last couple of weeks to tell you about. Since I won't have the time to sit down and write them all up at once, I thought I'd dash them off as individual snippets instead. First up is this post about Elance. Do you have too much on your to do list? Elance can help you find a contractor to help you get the job do...
SAP Business One, Chapter Two: Raising the Small Business Bar
In the world of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs), SAP Business One is sometimes overshadowed by SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO), which has SAP’s large enterprise ERP at its core, and by and SAP Business ByDesign, which is SAP’s first software-a...
SMB Tech Tidbits: Focus on Social Collaboration!
This week I had a chance to attend the 2012 Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which focuses on social business and collaboration solutions. This edition of Tech Tidbits features a roundup of some of the more interesting collaboration and social apps aimed squarely at small and medium businesses (SMBs) that I was able to speak with at the show. ...