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...
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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...
Tech Tidbits for SMBs: Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard and InsideView
While it's tempting to paint the "SMB market" with one broad-brush stroke, the term actually represents very fragmented terrain. You can slice ...
Sage’s Rebranding: More than a Name Change
Love it or hate it, the first results of Sage North America’s brand transformation strategy have started rolling out in North America. Sage North America CEO Pascal Houilon announced the rebranding initiative last year, which aims to strengthen Sage’s brand--especially in North America (link to last years blog). The initiative is designed to address the fact that while many ind...
Making Small Business a Bigger Business: Intuit’s Acquisition of Demandforce
Intuit announced last week that it was acquiring Demandforce, which provides an integrated suite of Web-based social media and marketing tools for small businesses, for $423.5 million in cash. Demandforce automates many of the intern...