Laurie McCabe - Blog Archive for April (2012)

There were 8 blog postings during April (2012):

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IBM Smarter Commerce for Midsize Businesses - Future Trends
To help companies understand IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative, the SMB Group and CRM Essentials are working on a series of posts discussing how technology is empowering today’s customer, and why companies have to change their approach...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 3rd April '12

Intuit: From Products to Services, Applications to Platform
Last week I had the opportunity to attend Intuit’s Innovation Gallery Walk in NYC. Intuit uses the Gallery Walk to showcase new solutions that it is bringing to market as well as ones that are still in R&D. This year’s Gallery Walk...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 3rd April '12

The Ying and Yang of Mobile Applications For SMBs
What are SMBs top business challenges, and how well do mobile solutions help them meet these challenges? Interestingly, that depends on whether you’re asking them about the benefits of having their employees use internal mobile apps, or the...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 6th April '12

YouDazzle: Where Cloud Collaboration Meets Network Marketing
In SMB Group studies, small business decision-makers consistently put colleagues, friends and family at or near the top of the list as key sources for advice when it comes to selecting technology solutions for their businesses (Figure 1). Figure 1:...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 5th April '12

Top Customer-Facing Mobile Apps for SMBs Today-and the Trajectory for Tomorrow
How are SMBs using mobile solutions to interact with their customers, suppliers and partners? What are top mobile apps that SMBs offer for their external customers, partners and supplier to use? Just as important, what mobile applications are they...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 11th April '12

Host Analytics' New Twist on an Old Problem: Connecting CPM and BI Data in Midsize Companies
Host Analytics, which provides cloud-based corporate performance management software, recently launched Host Analytics Business Analytics, a new business intelligence toolkit designed to give finance departments in midsize companies a more...
Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th April '12

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 might provide...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 21st April '12

Dell 2.0: A Progress Report from Dell's 2012 Annual Analyst Conference
I’ve been tracking and writing about Dell since the late 1990s, when Dell was riding high on its success in essentially reinventing the PC and x86 markets with its direct and efficient supply chain model. Over the years, I have watched Dell go...
Laurie McCabe, SMB Group | 28th April '12