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. This problem is further exasperated as the information creation moves from customer on-premises sources, to no...
Author: Sanjeev Aggarwal
IBM Lotus Foundations and ShoreTel (3-22-10)
3-22-10 IBM Lotus Foundations and ShoreTel "UCC-in-a-Box" Integrated Communications and Collaboration Solution Highlights: ShoreTel is teaming up with IBM Lotus Foundations to debut a
Top Trends Most Evident at the 2010 Small Business Technology Summit
Back in the beautiful Live Free or Die state after attending the 2010 Small Business Summit earlier this week. This is a fantastic event coordinated by Ramon Ray and Marian Banker, and held at the Digital Sandbox in the financial district in New York. Wheth...
Dell’s New Vostro 3000 Laptops: Designed for Small Businesses
The realities of a lingering recession and a do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos continue to frame today's economic climate. As entrepreneurs and small businesses went into financial shock beginning in mid-2008, they hunkered down and made do with older laptops (the dominant computing platform for these businesses) and other hardware instead of spending precious cash on new equipment. But with hints of ...
SAP Aims for SME
I dialed into SAP’s SME (small and medium enterprises) Global Business Update Call a couple of weeks ago. Jeff Stiles, SVP, SME, Volume & Ecosystem Marketing, provided analysts a recap of recent SAP SME highlights, and shared strategic directions for 2010. I’ve been following SAP in the SME market since it acquired TopManage (which later become SAP Business One) in 2002, so I’m always inter...
What is Social Media Management, and Why Should You Care?
March 8, 2010 — lauriemccabe (Originally published on March 4, 2010, in Small Business Computing) What is Social Media Management? As described in the column “
What is Social Media Management, and Why Should You Care?
(Originally published on March 4, 2010, in Small Business Computing) What is Social Media Management? As described in the column “
Relevance of Marketing Tools/Media in Customer Acquisition
The topic of lead generation and the role of various media solutions in the lead generation process draw significant conversation. From a survey of small businesses done in the summer of 2009 and detailed in my blog, '
NetSuite’s SP 100 Program: An Offer VARs Can’t Refuse?
In a bold move to get traditional value-added resellers(VARs) off the SaaS fence, NetSuite announced its new Solution Provider (SP) 100 Program, which gives business application VARs 100% margin on the first year of license subscriptions they sell. The program requires a 2-year minimum license commitment from the cus...
NetSuite’s SP 100 Program (2-28-10)
In a bold move to get traditional value-added resellers(VARs) off the SaaS fence, NetSuite announced its new Solution Provider (SP) 100 Program, which gives business application VARs 100% margin on the first year of license subscriptions they sell. The program requires a 2-year minimum license commitment from the cus...