:: SMB Big Picture ::

I wrote back in November about how the flux in the business intelligence market following a heated round of consolidation might have an especially large impact on SMBs.
I noted that SAP’s VP for midmarket strategy was convinced that many of the company’s 17,000 midmarket ERP customers would see BI as a “logical extension of ERP, […]

I wrote last spring about how their flexibility and relative lack of red tape often help SMBs be more innovative than their larger competitors. (Of course, sometimes behemoths like General Electric can be incredibly innovative. Check out my post on their internal social network that boasts 400,000 users around the world.)
So I felt compelled to […]

Just a few weeks ago I wrote about SMBs and outsourcing, providing links to a number of articles, including one that illustrated the kinds of cost savings SMBs could expect to achieve by outsourcing different types of services and another that listed suggestions for companies considering outsourcing.
More valuable information on outsourcing is contained in this […]

As I’ve written before, one of the best ways for SMBs to compete for employees is to highlight the differences that set them apart from their larger competitors.
For instance, a Boston-based tech company called Pegasystems has been able to compete with the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft by offering employees expedited access to senior […]

Back in October I wrote about SMBs’ interest in unified communications, or at least in aspects of it. Most SMBs were adopting a piecemeal, rather than a platform, approach to UC, said several of the experts I cited in my post.
As I wrote then, SMB awareness of UC continues to grow. Vendors no longer […]