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Will Actian Connect, Analyze and Act on the SMB Market Opportunity?
After marking my calendar to attend Pervasive’s 2013 Integration World, I had to wonder whether or not Actian’s pending acquisition of Pervasive would be a done deal–or not–by April 14, when the...
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Is Big Data Relevant for SMBs?
There’s little doubt that “big data” is the latest “big thing” in the IT industry. But for many small and medium business (SMB) decision-makers, big data is a somewhat fuzzy term. Ask any number of...
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Putting Big Data To Work For SMBs
In my previous post, Is Big Data Relevant for SMBs?, I looked at the underlying trends driving the buzz around big data, and why big data is relevant for SMBs. I also discussed why “big” is a relative...
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Charting Your Big Data Journey
In the first post in this series, I examined the underlying trends driving the buzz around big data and its relevance for SMBs. In the second, I discussed how three IBM business partners (FYI...
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Seeing the Light: How SMBs Are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead
At a time when information is proliferating at an unprecedented rate, companies that effectively gather, create and use information can gain dramatic market advantages over those that don’t. SMB...
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Key Considerations: How SMBs Are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead
In the first post in this series, Seeing the Light: How SMBs are Using Data and Insights to Get Ahead, I shared the motivations that prompted three SMBs (BGF Industries, Oberweis Dairy and Twiddy &...
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How Zoos and Museums Use Big Data to Refresh and Reset Visitor Experience
For most of us, a trip to the zoo, museum or an aquarium is a fun and interesting way to learn about animals, history, art and other cultural experiences first hand. Behind the scenes, however, these...
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SMBs and Analytics: What Don’t You Know?
SMB Group is planning to launch the 2013 SMB Analytics and Big Data Study this fall. We decided to develop this survey study because even though “big data” is the latest “big thing” in the IT industry,...
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Big Data for the Little Guy
Originally published on November, 2013 on QBSBDC.com as the second of four blog posts in a series designed to help small businesses, and those that serve them, be successful. Big data is a big...
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SAP’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...
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Why Should You Take 3 Days Out of Your Schedule to Attend Dell World?
From November 4-6, Dell will host roughly 5,000 customer, partner and influencer attendees at its fourth annual Dell World conference in its hometown of Austin, Texas, and up to 10,000 attendees will...
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SMB Group Top 10 SMB Technology Trends for 2015
(Originally published on the SMB Group website and available here in .pdf format). Here are SMB Group’s Top 10 SMB Technology Trends for 2015! A more detailed description of each follows below. (Note:...
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Slide Show Version! SMB Group’s Top 10 SMB Tech Trends for 2015
(Originally published on the SMB Group website and available here in .pdf format). Here are SMB Group’s Top 10 SMB Technology Trends for 2015 in slide show format!
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The Cloud: Mother of Re-invention for IBM
As a 104-year old company, IBM has undergone many makeovers over the years to tack to the ever-changing winds of the technology industry and the market. 2015 ushered in what may prove to be one of it’s...
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As The Cloud Turns: Dell’s 1-5-10 Cloud Roundtable
The roots of cloud computing date back to the late 1990s, but the “cloud” continues to evolve—as does the conversation about its impact on technology and business. So I welcomed the opportunity to...
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Making The Internet of Things Real For SMBs
The World Wide Web became commercially viable 20 years ago, and it quickly became clear that the phrase “The Internet Changes Everything,” was spot on. The Internet has forever changed and continues to...
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Using Cloud Analytics to Make Big Data Actionable For SMBs
“Big data” is a big buzzword in the IT industry—and for good reason. Basically, we’re doubling the amount of digital data that we create every two years, according to the EMC Digital Universe Study....
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Modernize your Business with Predictive Insights: Paving the Way for Business...
Businesses have always needed the ability to track and measure critical success metrics in a quantifiable way. Yet this is often a tall order for midsize businesses (100 to 1,000 employees) to address....
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