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Social Media: How Does Your Small Business Stack Up?
Social media offers small businesses an inexpensive, relatively friction-free way to accomplish different business functions, from generating new leads to getting input for new product development....
View ArticlePervasive Puts Its Galaxy Integration Community Into Orbit
–by Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, SMB Group At its annual Metamorphosis conference earlier this month, Pervasive announced Pervasive Galaxy, which merges an online integration marketplace and...
View ArticleSage 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...
View ArticleReflections on Dreamforce 2011: Now the Cloud Can Ride the Waves
This year, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event–with a record-setting 45,000 attendees–got me thinking about the early days before the cloud was the cloud, how far its come, and how perfectly poised it is...
View ArticleIs Salesforce.com Outgrowing SMBs?
Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff is a great visionary with a big appetite for change. From packaged software to the cloud, from CRM to platform-as-a-service, he’s painted a color by number picture for...
View ArticleKey Themes from SAP TechEd 2011–How Do They Relate to SMBs?
As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for...
View ArticleSAP 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...
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A View From the MSP Trenches: Cloud Opportunities in the Midmarket
As discussed in my blog, IBM’s Managed Service Provider Initiatives for Midmarket: An Interview with Mike McClurg, IBM views MSPs as an increasingly critical channel for delivering cloud-based...
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MSP Cloud Challenges in the Midmarket–and How IBM Helps Meet Them
In my recent post, A View From the MSP Trenches: Cloud Opportunities in the Midmarket, I examined how MSPs see the midmarket opportunity shaping up, and why they are partnering with IBM to capitalize...
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Sage Streamlining Takes a Major Turn With the Sale of ACT! and SalesLogix
Last week, The Sage Group announced that it is selling its Sage Act! contact manager and SalesLogix CRM to Swiftpage. Swiftpage is a U.S. based digital marketing software vendor and has been a Sage...
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Infusionsoft: Big Dreams for Small Business
Infusionsoft: Big Dreams for Small Business Last week I attended InfusionCon 2013, Infusionsoft’s annual user event. In case you’re not familiar with Infusionsoft, they provide web-based all-in-one...
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CollaborHaitian: How CIC Uses Social Business to Crowd Source Medical Care in...
When small business owners and entrepreneurs think of IBM, they often mistakenly assume that IBM’s sophisticated solutions are only affordable by large corporations. And IBM sometimes lags the...
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Collaboration and the Progressive SMB
Almost all businesses aspire to success–but not all achieve it. SMB Group has identified and written quite a bit about what we term “Progressive SMBs.” Progressive SMBs are more growth driven and...
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SMB Spotlight: IBM’s New Midmarket GM Talks About the SoftLayer Acquisition
Laurie: Hi, this Laurie McCabe from the SMB Group, and in today’s SMB Spotlight I’m speaking with John Mason, who is IBM’s new General Manager and VP for Midmarket. Hi John. Thanks for joining me on...
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Using ATS and Assessments for an Automated, Uniform Recruitment Process
Whether a business is large or small, identifying, qualifying and hiring the right employees is critical to innovation and growth. But, as the recession wanes and the economy picks up, more companies...
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Intacct Collaborate: Bringing Sales and Finance Together
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...
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SMB Spotlight: IBM’s Midmarket GM On New Partner Strategy and Programs for...
Sanjeev: Hi, this Sanjeev Aggarwal from the SMB Group, and in today’s SMB Spotlight I’m speaking with John Mason, who is IBM’s General Manager for Midmarket. Hi John. Thanks for joining me in this...
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Infusionsoft: Big Dreams for Small Business
Infusionsoft: Big Dreams for Small Business Last week I attended InfusionCon 2013, Infusionsoft’s annual user event. In case you’re not familiar with Infusionsoft, they provide web-based all-in-one...
View ArticleKey Themes from SAP TechEd 2011–How Do They Relate to SMBs?
As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for...
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