With budget limitations and smaller IT staffs, SMBs have to focus on keeping the doors open and making smart investments in technology. But with business savvy and a keen eye toward market trends, SMBs can often outmaneuver the big guys. Increasingly, vendors are paying more attention to SMBs and developing products that uniquely fit the needs of smaller businesses, particularly in the booming software-as-a-service market.
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The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing
Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >
Art of Answering RFPs: Focus on Ones You Can Win
Ann All spoke with Tom Searcy, founder of Hunt Big Sales , a sales consultancy and thought leadership organization. He is co-author with Barbara Weaver Smith of "Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Deals and Transform Your Company" (Wiley) and author of “Landing Big Sales with an RFP." His new book... More >
No Tolerance for Mobile Policies
The explosion of mobility for businesses of all sizes has led to an equally noisy explosion in the concern organizations have about letting employees run around the town – or the globe -- subscribed to expensive rate plans and using devices packed with sensitive corporate information. The... More >
Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience
This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.
Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
Dell Takes a Hit in Third Quarter
Dell reported profits for the third quarter fell 54 percent , which sent its stock price reeling. Bloomberg blamed lost market share and higher PC component costs. The PC maker reported net income of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of 15 percent. At a time when other tech companies -- Intel,... More >
So Many Ways Startups Can Fail
In a presentation at the University of Washington, aQuantive co-founder Scott Lipsky said he had made a list of 721 reasons startups fail. However, he winnowed it down to 10 for his talk, reports TechFlash . Yes, one of them is funding problems -- not just getting money, but failing to maintain a frugal mindset, he... More >
Intuit Launches CRM for SMBs
Intuit has released a CRM application called Customer Management aimed at the same small businesses that use its Quicken and QuickBooks applications, reports VentureBeat . That puts it into competition with CRM vendors such as Salesforce.com. The story says CRM applications for SMBs tend to be stripped-down versions... More >
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