Is Your SMB Equipped to Adapt, Innovate and Grow?
Does your business have the technology foundation necessary to support growth in the digital economy? If you’re like most SMB decision-makers, you know that business success increasingly relies on...
View ArticleSAP’s Digital Transformation Story For SMBs
“Digital transformation” is one of the top trending buzzwords in technology today. But what does digital transformation mean? In broad terms, many define it as using digital technology to enable...
View ArticleSAP Anywhere – Enabling SMBs to market, sell and commerce with an integrated...
The retail sector has a well-earned reputation as one of the most challenging industries for participants to navigate successfully. Retailers – be they traditional brick and mortar companies, online...
View ArticleSAP Anywhere – Enabling SMBs to market, sell and commerce with an integrated...
The retail sector has a well-earned reputation as one of the most challenging industries for participants to navigate successfully. Retailers – be they traditional brick and mortar companies, online...
View ArticleSAP’s 5 + 1 Strategy to Build SMB Consideration and Adoption of Business One
When it comes to business management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, SAP often isn’t on the radar for small and medium businesses (SMBs). But, while the ERP giant is best known for...
View ArticleTaking the Plunge: Triggers for Small Businesses to Move to SAP Business One
When it comes to business management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, SAP often isn’t on the radar for small and medium businesses (SMBs). But, while the ERP giant is best known for...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, SAP Does Have a Real Small Business ERP Solution
When it comes to business management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, SAP often isn’t on the radar for small and medium businesses (SMBs). But, while the ERP giant is best known for...
View ArticleMy Top 10 Posts from 2014
Wow, December really came quickly this year! So I figured that I would post my most popular blogs from 2014 now, before people are devoting all of their online time to holiday shopping! Cloud Is The...
View ArticleFive Things SAP Needs To Do To Make “Simple” Real
There’s probably nothing harder for a business to accomplish than these two things: 1) make the complex simple; and 2) change market perceptions. But, at SAP’s recent SAPPHIRE NOW 2014 user event, SAP...
View ArticleSAP’s Big Bet on SMBs—With a Fast Growth, Millenial Twist
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to meet with Kevin Gilroy, SAP’s Senior VP and GM for Global Small and Midsize Enterprise Segment & Indirect Channels to hear about SAP’s plans to go big in...
View ArticleTop SMB Takeaways: SAP Sapphire 2013
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend Sapphire 2013, SAP’s annual user conference. As is the norm for these events, SAP opened the fire hose to reveal new directions, product and...
View ArticleSAP Shines the Spotlight on Small and Medium Businesses
SAP’s stellar success in building its blue-chip large enterprise business has often overshadowed its considerable but quieter achievements in small and medium business (SMBs) markets. But SAP is not a...
View ArticleBI and Analytics for Mid-Market Businesses: My Podcast with SAP
I recently joined Paul Clark from SAP in a thought leadership podcast to discuss the topics of Business Intelligence (BI), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and Social Analytics for Mid-market...
View ArticleThe Progressive SMB: Customer Stories are Worth 1,000 Analyst Words
I attended SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW 2012 several weeks ago and am finally getting a chance to share my thoughts on the customer meetings I had with Big Byte Corporation and KEEN Footwear at the event. These...
View ArticleSAP Business One, Chapter Two: Raising the Small Business Bar
In the world of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs), SAP Business One is sometimes overshadowed by SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO), which has SAP’s...
View ArticleKey Themes from SAP TechEd 2011–How Do They Relate to SMBs?
As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for...
View ArticleSAP Business One: Big Business Capabilities on a Small Business Budget
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...
View ArticleSAP Aims for SME
I dialed into SAP’s SME (small and medium enterprises) Global Business Update Call a couple of weeks ago. Jeff Stiles, SVP, SME, Volume & Ecosystem Marketing, provided analysts a recap of recent...
View ArticleNetSuite’s SP 100 Program: An Offer VARs Can’t Refuse?
In a bold move to get traditional value-added resellers(VARs) off the SaaS fence, NetSuite announced its new Solution Provider (SP) 100 Program, which gives business application VARs 100% margin on the...
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