Category: Social And Collaboration

Canceling or Postponing an Analyst Event? Make the Best of the Situation

Canceling or Postponing an Analyst Event? Make the Best of the Situation

  In late winter and early spring, my schedule is usually jam-packed with IT industry analyst events and analyst tracks at customer events. But this year, my calendar is gradually thinning out as coronavirus takes its toll and more and more vendors decide to cancel or postpone their events. From a public (and personal!) health perspective, this is clearly a good call. The virus conti...

Zoho’s Big Plans for Small Businesses

Zoho’s Big Plans for Small Businesses

Until recently, Zoho’s focus been on the small business market, which now accounts for more than 80% of its customers. But over the past couple of years, Zoho has launched a concentrated campaign to win business in larger accounts. All too often, once vendors go upmarket, they slowly but surely lose focus on the small businesses that “brung ‘em” to the dance in the first place. However, as I...

Zoho Ups the Ante on Data Privacy

Zoho Ups the Ante on Data Privacy

Most people are well aware that we are actually paying for the “free” applications we use with our data. From Facebook to Google to Pinterest, vendors monetize user data through advertising and by tracking and selling our data to third parties. But many people are not aware of the increasing scope of these practices. In November, for instance, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google had...

6 Workplace Technology Trends that SMBs Should Consider in 2019

6 Workplace Technology Trends that SMBs Should Consider in 2019

Are you drowning under an ocean of emails? Maybe your remote team finds it impossible to stay in sync? Do you feel like you’re herding cats and doing everything yourself? The reality for most SMBs – especially those on the smaller, start-up end of the spectrum – is that you find yourself spending more time doing the boring admin stuff than actually creating, producing, and marketing your pro...

Relative Importance of Unified Communications and Collaboration Features

Relative Importance of Unified Communications and Collaboration Features

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