Adequate cash flow is always crucial to business sustainability—and even more important in the face of COVID-19 and the havoc it is wreaking on businesses and individuals. Dell Technologies recently announced $9 billion in special financing to help its partners to weather this storm. Many of Dell’s partners are small and medium businesses (SMBs) themselves—and many more provide sales and sup...
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Striven Strives for Success in the Small Business Management Cloud Software Market
Building market momentum for a new business management ERP-type of solution is never easy, even in good times. These days, its particularly challenging. But that hasn’t stopped Striven, which provides a fully integrated all-in-one software system for small businesses, from moving ahead. Below is my conversation with Scott Hammer, Marketing Manager of Str...
Paving a Path to Digital Transformation for Your Business
More than 80% of small and medium business decision-makers agree or strongly agree that digital technology is impacting their businesses and industries. But as we discussed in this post, getting started on the path to digital transformation isn’t easy: only 24% of SMBs are cu...
Salesforce Launches Salesforce Care Small Business Grants to Help Small Businesses Weather COVID-19
COVID-19 has unleashed a medical and economic tsunami upon the world. SMB Group’s Impact of COVID-19 on SMBs Study shows that businesses of all sizes are feeling the pain of the pandemic.
Making Work at Home Work for Your Company: Advice from Wrike’s Andrew Filev
COVID-19 has disrupted our lives unprecedented ways. Many of us have been working under stay at home conditions for a month or more. We know the pandemic will eventually abate, but we don’t know how quickly this will happen, or how the crisis will reshape the “new” normal over time.
SMB Group’s 2020 Top 10 SMB Technology Trends
It’s that time of year again—when we unveil our SMB tech trends for the coming year! SMB Group’s 2020 Top 10 SMB Technology Trends are b...
Three Emerging Technologies Poised to Reshape Accounting and Financial Management
Businesses that can effectively harness data to identify trends, streamline operations, and make better business decisions have always had an edge over competitors. Today, as technology advances make it easier to digitize data at a seemingly exponential rate, this gap is widening. As the Economist put it in 2017, data is the new oil. Businesses that can use data to create business value and opp...
Will Your Business Disrupt—Or Be Disrupted?
“Digital transformation” may sound like a buzzword, but the drivers behind it are very real. In an era where technology is reshaping businesses and industries, companies that harness technology can reap big advantages over those that don’t. Businesses must first determine how to adapt their businesses for the digital age and then put technology to work to bring these changes to life.
Ready, Set, Grow: Future-Proof Your Business with Cloud-Based Financials
Technological change is accelerating at a frenetic pace—and with dramatic impact. It’s reshaping customer expectations, employee requirements and attitudes, and disrupting business practices, models and entire industries. While no one will ever be able to predict what’s next with complete certainty, businesses that can adapt in response to or even in anticipation of changing conditions will ...
Zeguro Cyber Safety: A Holistic Solution to Tackle SMB Security Requirements
Small and medium businesses consistently rate security as one of their most pressing technology challenges. But most resource-constrained SMBs are overwhelmed by the seemingly endless variety of cyber threats–and by the confusing array security solutions that promise protection. With that in mind, I was excited to talk to Sidd Gavirneni, who is Cofounder & CEO at Zeguro, an end-to-end cy...