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Sage Turns a New Leaf: Top Takeaways from Sage Summit 2012
At this year’s Sage North America 2012 event, Sage North America CEO Pascal Houillon unveiled Sage’s strategy to reckon with changing market re...
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...
The Progressive SMB: Customer Stories are Worth 1,000 Analyst Words
I attended SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW 2012 several weeks ago and am finally getting a chance to share my thoughts on the customer meetings I had at with Big Byte Corporation and KEEN Footwear at the event. These two customers are very “real” SMBs. BigByte has 52 employees; KEEN has 130. Neither is a Silicon Valley venture capital startup, which let’s face it, are a different breed. W...
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. ...
Mobility for SMBs: An Interview with Dell’s Ron Hyde
I recently had a chance to talk to Ron Hyde an Enterprise Technologist from Dell, who has a strong background in mobile management and security, to get his perspective on what SMBs need to be thinking about as they mobilize their businesses. If you’d like to listen to the recorded podcast, click the link below. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/47882376" params="auto...