SAP Business One: Big Business Capabilities on a Small Business Budget

Posted on May 26, 2011 by lauriemccabe

SAP has forged its corporate identity in the large enterprise space, serving the likes of Coca Cola and Dow Chemical. But, while attending SAP’s Sapphire user event last week, I had the opportunity to meet with Andreas Wolfinger, Global Head of Solution Management and Product Management for SAP Business One, and Jennifer Schulze, Director SME [...]

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Pervasive Puts Its Galaxy Integration Community Into Orbit

Posted on May 23, 2011 by lauriemccabe

–by Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, SMB Group At its annual Metamorphosis conference earlier this month, Pervasive announced Pervasive Galaxy, which merges an online integration marketplace and community into a single, streamlined platform. Pervasive has designed Galaxy to remove boundaries between buyers and sellers and make it easier for end-user customers to understand options, review [...]

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Social Media: How Does Your Small Business Stack Up?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by lauriemccabe

Social media offers small businesses an inexpensive, relatively friction-free way to accomplish different business functions, from generating new leads to getting input for new product development. Consequently, it’s not surprising that small businesses are rapidly moving to take advantage of it. How far along the social media curve is your business compared to your peers? [...]

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The New Dell and What it Means for SMBs: Takeaways from Dell’s 2011 Solutions for a Virtual Era Event

Posted on May 11, 2011 by lauriemccabe

Twenty-seven years ago, Michael Dell launched Dell with $1,000 and a streamlined sales and manufacturing model that revolutionized the PC industry. Sticking with this playbook, Dell achieved similar success in the server market, once again disrupting the status quo. However, times changed, and Dell started to look like a one-trick pony. As Michael Dell himself [...]

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Dell and Boomi: Doubling Down on Integration

Posted on May 3, 2011 by lauriemccabe

Originally published 4-26-11 as an SMB Group research brief in .pdf format, available here. When big companies gobble up smaller ones, you always wonder whether the acquired company will get swallowed up into the belly of the beast, derailed or morphed into something unrecognizable. In November, Dell acquired Boomi, which provides AtomSphere®, a cloud integration [...]

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