Category Archives: SMB

SAP & SuccessFators: There is still no “S” in SAP

SAP has agreed to acquire cloud-based human capital management (HCM) offerings provider SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. Under the acquisition, SuccessFactors’ team and technology will be added to SAP’s cloud assets and the combination of SAP and SuccessFactors will establish an … Continue reading

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Intel’s SMB Strategy: Time to Re-ignite, Reboot?

SMBs are going through a Transformation, moving from a building block IT adoption to Flat IT in a virtual era. And within this Transformation, PC is still important in its role as the center of IT universe. SMBs need only … Continue reading

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SMB Business Intelligence Spend & Adoption: Market Ripe for Growth

Global SMB Business Intelligence spend is estimated to be US$2.9 Billion in 2011, a little more than half of estimated spend by Enterprises at US$5.7 Billion. However, confusion abounds because of proliferation of front-end analytics tools and back-end Business Intelligence … Continue reading

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VMware SMB Strategy: Products to address Small Business Virtualization Needs

VMware just announced two new and updated cloud offerings for the SMBs – VMware Go Pro and VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus. VMware Go Pro is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product designed to make it easy for SMBs to manage, monitor, … Continue reading

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Dell’s Transformation: A New New Company

Solutions. Cloud. Mobility. Datacenter. Solutions again. Dell is a new company. It was evident at the recent Dell World 2011 held in Austin. There was a distinct zip in Michael Dell’s walk and what was most exciting about the event … Continue reading

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Vendor Actions Needed to Overcome SMB Cloud Adoption Barriers

Techaisle SMB surveys in multiple countries are showing that SMB cloud computing non-users will increasingly get comfortable with the idea of Cloud based services once there are enough proof points in the market. The question remains though whether there are actions … Continue reading

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Salesforce.com Strategy: Dreamforce ’11 Announcements Are Equally Relevant for SMBs

Pilgrimage Salesforce.com held its annual customer and partner pilgrimage last week called the Dreamforce 2011. This mega event had a whopping 45,000 registered attendees and at least 15,000 were present for the opening keynote by Marc Benioff. The much anticipated … Continue reading

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Dell SMB Cloud Strategy: Dell Cloud Business Applications steps into the Promised Land

Announcement Dell just announced its full intention to assist SMBs with their Cloud Computing adoption by launching Dell Cloud Business Applications, a family of integrated SaaS applications with cross-application cloud analytics supported by end-to-end Dell services specifically for SMBs. Key benefits … Continue reading

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How HP’s Possible Spin-Off Could Impact SMBs

Major changes at the tech giant will have a trickle-down effect on smaller companies. Here are four things to keep in mind. As the world’s largest technology vendor overhauls its business, much smaller companies are certain to feel the effects. That … Continue reading

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SMBs Unmistakable March to Virtualization

The entire IT industry is on an unmistakable path to virtualization with certain segments adopting it faster than others (e.g. financial sector, hosting companies, etc.) Server virtualization is still the primary driver of virtualization although, in the last couple of … Continue reading

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