Tag: “it channel”

Growth of the Gig Economy: What SMBs Need to Know

Major trends are converging to reshape the makeup of the SMB workforce, as we discuss in Trend #2 of SMB Group’s 2018 Top 10 SMB Technology Trends. One key trend is that the gig economy is growing. Just what is the gig economy? Basically, Americans are increasingly making more of their income through fre...

Top Takeaways: 2018 Acumatica Summit

Acumatica celebrated it’s 10th anniversary with 1,100 of its best friends, customers and partners at the 2018 Acumatica Summit in Nashville, TN. CEO Jon Roskill and other Acumatica executives provided us with an update on 2017 performance, and a glimpse into the company’s future directions. 2017: A Banner Year Buyers have many choices for cloud ERP deployment, including softw...

Sales Cloud Lightning Essentials: Putting Salesforce Back on the Small Business Track

At Dreamforce 2017 a few weeks ago, Salesforce launched Salesforce Sales Cloud Lightning Essentials, its latest offering for small businesses. This new solution—which I’ll call Sales Essentials from here on in—follows pretty quickly on the heels of SalesforceIQ, which the vendor introduced just two years ago. But unlike Salesforce IQ, which was built on a different code base than the ...