The retail sector has a well-earned reputation as one of the most challenging industries for participants to navigate successfully. Retailers – be they traditional brick and mortar companies, online sellers or, often, a combination of the two – must manage complex supplier relationships and inventories while also catering to the sometimes mercurial wants and needs of their end customers. For re...
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BrightInfo: Helping SMBs Make the Most of Their Digital Content
Laurie: In this SMB Spotlight I’m talking to Boaz Grinvald, CEO of BrightInfo. BrightInfo just launched a B2...
Drinking From the Dreamforce Fire Hose: Part 1, The Big Picture
Dreamforce, like Salesfo...
Sage Turns a New Leaf: Top Takeaways from Sage Summit 2012
At this year’s Sage North America 2012 event, Sage North America CEO Pascal Houillon unveiled Sage’s strategy to reckon with changing market re...
NetSuite SuiteCommerce: Transforming Commerce Solutions and User Experience
Last week I had the opportunity to attend NetSuite
Sage’s Rebranding: More than a Name Change
Love it or hate it, the first results of Sage North America’s brand transformation strategy have started rolling out in North America. Sage North America CEO Pascal Houilon announced the rebranding initiative last year, which aims to strengthen Sage’s brand--especially in North America (link to last years blog). The initiative is designed to address the fact that while many ind...
Making Small Business a Bigger Business: Intuit’s Acquisition of Demandforce
Intuit announced last week that it was acquiring Demandforce, which provides an integrated suite of Web-based social media and marketing tools for small businesses, for $423.5 million in cash. Demandforce automates many of the intern...
Tech Tidbits for SMBs: PaySimple and BizSlate
I’m back to serve up the second edition of Tech Tidbits, with a new sampling of SMB solutions that you might not know about, but could provide just what you’re looking for. On the menu this time are PaySimple and BizSlate. If you use or try either of these solutions, please let me know what you think! PaySimpl...
Tech Tidbits for SMBs: AnyMeeting, Desk.com and Xero
All too often, I don’t have the time to write a full-fledged post on many of the SMB solutions that vendors brief and demo for me. Which is a shame, as many of these come from smaller vendors that you might not know about, but could provide just what you’re looking for. So, I thought it might be helpful to at least serve up the ones that seem really useful and/or interesting in bite-size porti...
Host Analytics’ New Twist on an Old Problem: Connecting CPM and Siloed Data in Midsize Companies
Host Analytics, which provides cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software, recently launched Business Analytics, a new business intelligence toolkit designed to give finance departments in midsize companies a more comprehensive view of their businesses--without having to deploy an enterprise BI suite. With this announcement, Host Analytics is giving companies a new, pragmatic ...