(Originally published in Small Business Computing, July 27, 2009) Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what it all means. By its nature, technology vocabulary is often confusing and complicated, and ins...
Author: Sanjeev Aggarwal
What’s a Business App Appliance, and Why Should You Care?
(Originally published June 18, 2009 in Small Business Computing) Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what it all means. By its nature, technology vocabulary is often confusing and complicated, and insiders often add to the confusion by over...
What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care?
What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care? By Laurie McCabe May 7, 2009
What is Social Networking, and Why Should You Care?
(Originally published in Small Business Computing, April 7, 2009) Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what it all means. By its nature, technology vocabulary is often confusing and complicated, and insiders often add to t...
What is Cloud Computing, and Why Should You Care?
Whais Cloud Computing — and Why Should You Care? By Laurie McCabe March 11, 2009
Prognosis on SAP’s Business ByDesign – SaaS based ERP solution for the core mid-market
I came across a good analysis on some aspects of SaaS vs. on-premise vendors and solutions in the smoothspan post Why Do SaaS Companies Lose Money Hand Over Fist?
Boomi Widgets–Another Step Towards Simplifying Application Integration
Over the past few years, the SaaS subscription model has given small and medium businesses (SMBs) a much easier, more affordable and manageable route to deploy and use business applications. But integrating these applications isn’t always as easy as deploying them. Although things such as Web services and service-oriented-architecture (SOA) technologies promised to alleviate the situation, th...
Avaya-Nortel will prove to be a formidable competitor for Cisco in the SMB Voice & Unified Communications Market
Avaya has been in heavy competition with Cisco for the SMB and Mid-Market Unified Communications market, with Cisco steadily gaining market share in the SMB IP-communication segment. However, the combined Avaya-Nortel will position them with roughly twice the market share in the worldwide SMB market – close to 30%, almost 2X of Cisco.
Business Intelligence (BI) – Does it have a place in the SMB and Mid-Market Enterprises?
The recent demise of LucidEra has brought forward the discussion of the need for BI in the SMB and Mid-Market enterprises (companies with 1-999 employees and revenues usually less than $1 billion). My take is that this was based on the limited BI value LuidEra offered and the current difficult economic conditions vs. their SaaS based business mo...
The Compelling TCO Case for Cloud-based business applications in SMB and Mid-Market Enterprises
A 4-year total cost of ownership (TCO) perspective comparing cloud and on-premise business application deployment