This video interview was originally posted on SMB Group Spotlight. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3oDggLhOw4&w=425&h=350] Laurie: Hi, this is Laurie McCabe from SMB Group and today I’m here on the SMB Spotlight at Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2014 Conference. I’m ta...
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Sage Summit 2013: That Was Then, This Is Now
I’m a bit behind in getting my wrap up and thoughts on Sage Summit--Sage's annual event for business partners and customers--together. But better late than never! As yo...
Tech Tidbits for SMBs: AnyMeeting, Desk.com and Xero
All too often, I don’t have the time to write a full-fledged post on many of the SMB solutions that vendors brief and demo for me. Which is a shame, as many of these come from smaller vendors that you might not know about, but could provide just what you’re looking for. So, I thought it might be helpful to at least serve up the ones that seem really useful and/or interesting in bite-size porti...
Sage Summit 2011: Tackling the Sage NA Branding Challenge
A couple of weeks ago, I attended Sage Summit 2011, Sage’s first combination partner and customer event. I’ve been attending Sage partner, customer and analyst events for several years, observing and commenting on its ongoing attempts to unify it’s corporate brand across multiple small and medium business (SMB) solutions. Earlier this year, following Sue Swenson’s retirement, Pascal Houillon to...
What Are Integrated Payment Solutions and Why Should You Care?
(Originally published January 30, 2011 in Small Business Computing) What are Integrated Payments Solutions? Integrated payment solutions are tools that your business can use to integrate accounting, customer relationship manag...
Acumatica’s Best of Both Worlds ERP Story
Just want to let you know that we are publishing highlights from recent vendor briefings on the SMB Group web site. As time permits, we discuss our takeaways from the more interesting briefings. I'll try to remember to post them here as well....
FinancialForce: A New Force in Cloud-based Accounting
Last week, Unit 4 Aggresso, parent company of CODA, announced that it has teamed up with Salesforce.com to launch FinancialForce.com. FinancialForce.com is actually Coda2Go, the cloud based accounting application that CODA built from the ground up on the Force.com platform, and sold through AppExchange. The deal pushes FinancialForce into the spotlight as a poster child for Force.com, and under...
Will CPAs Bring the Cloud to Earth for SMBs?
Just last week, I blogged about how some IT pundits and vendors are falling into the trap of turning the cloud into yet another confusing and over-hyped industry buzzword, and the need to bring cloud conversations down to earth for small and medium business (SMB) customers. A couple of days after I wrote this post, I had a briefing with Intacct, the American Institute of Certified Public Acco...