(Originally published on June 9, 2010, in Small Business Computing) What is Hybrid Computing? A hybrid computing platform lets customers connect the packaged small business software applications that they run on their own internal desktops or servers to applications that run in the cloud. As discussed in
Author: Sanjeev Aggarwal
What Does Cloud Computing Mean for the Channel? Presentation at Sage Insights 2010
What Does Cloud Computing Mean for the Channel? Last week I attended 2010 Sage Insights, Sage Software's annual partner conference, and had the opportunity to present
Acumatica’s Best of Both Worlds ERP Story
Just want to let you know that we are publishing highlights from recent vendor briefings on the SMB Group web site. As time permits, we discuss our takeaways from the more interesting briefings. I'll try to remember to post them here as well....
Acumatica’s Best of Both Worlds ERP Story (4-23-10)
Highlights: Acumatica is a relatively new player on the SMB ERP scene. It delivers its web-based ERP solution both on premise, and via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Targeting companies with 5–1,000 employees (or roughly $5M - $500M in annual revenues), Acumatica provides accounting, CRM and distribution capabilities, and worldwid...
Does Your SMB Marketing Message Need a Makeover? Seven Questions to Ask
Countless technology vendors are targeting the increasingly coveted yet still somewhat elusive small and medium business (SMB) market. We do our share of message testing and market strategy work with them, and attend innumerable briefings from other vendors aiming to make their mark in this crowded space. All too often, we see some warning signs that indicate gaps a vendor hasn’t created a str...
Highlights from Iron Mountain Digital 2.0 Industry Analyst Meeting
Highlights: The overall annual growth in data volumes is beings driven by an increase in unstructured data created by social media and collaboration solutions, mobile solutions and rich media which is leading to much higher costs for information storage and management. Th...
What Is an App Store, and Why Should You Care?
(Originally published on April 8, 2010, in Small Business Computing) An app store can offer a lot more than just mobile apps. Essentially, it is a Web site that aggregates software solutions for business or personal use. App stores, also known as an applications marketplaces, are typica...
What Is an App Store, and Why Should You Care?
April 12, 2010 — lauriemccabe (Originally published on April 8, 2010, in Small Business Computing) An app store can offer a lot more than just mobile apps. Essentially, it is a Web site that aggregates software solutions for business or personal use. App stores, also known as an applications marketplaces, are typically created and built by a “marquee” vendor, such as Adobe, Apple, Google, Int...
Dell 2.0: Top Takeaways from Dell’s Virtual Era Event
A couple of weeks ago, I attended Dell’s Solutions for a Virtual Era analyst and press event in San Francisco. At the event, Dell unveiled its new strategy to help companies more readily and easily provision ...
Getting in the Social Media Management Game
Social media management for small businesses is a very hot area. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about social media management solutions available to help small businesses manage their online and social presence more efficiently and effectively. While this is still a very nascent...