Posts tagged: SMB

Questions SMBs should ask when going mobile

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (July 28, 2011; page B5) had an article by Joe Mullich entitled “5 questions SMBs should ask when going mobile.” The article identifies 5 questions: How can you ensure your information always stays safe? Can your device match your workforce’s stamina? can the device accommodate changing needs Can workers perform tasks [...]

Friday July 29th, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »

How SMBs Are Democratizing Access to Their Data

John Wilkinson, SAP’s VP of Business Analytics for Global Ecosystem and Channels, joins me in my latest quarterly SAPInsider “SME Insights” column to explore how small businesses and midsize companies are overcoming three important challenges that they have traditionally facedin making good, data-driven decisions: ensuring the integrity of information, democratizing the availability of information, and [...]

Saturday July 23rd, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Lady Gaga, the mythical Indian middle class, and the SMB (software) market

I’ll start off by admitting that I am a big fan of Lady Gaga’s — more for her market savvy, somewhat for her music (even if I am, sad to say, tone deaf), and less for her over-the-top clothes. So, it wasn’t a big surprise that an article entitled “Lady Gaga Romances India – Taps [...]

Wednesday June 8th, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »

Small Businesses and Midsize Companies hit the big stage at SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW

Orlando, May 17th, 2011: Bill McDemott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, SAP’s co-CEOs, just delivered their keynotes — and in doing so, advanced SAP’s efforts (read my recent article on this topic — “SAP’s best kept secret”) to tell the world about its offerings for SMBs. They highlighted Under Armour and FreshDirect — customers that are [...]

Tuesday May 17th, 2011 in , , , , | No Comments »

SAP’s Best-Kept Secret….

While I have always enjoyed writing, it’s been a while since I have written professionally. I suspect that having been trained in the scientific ways, there is some part of me that wants a “complete story” — data and all — before documenting it. My work over the last decade has been more entrepreneurial and [...]

Wednesday April 20th, 2011 in , , , , | No Comments »