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5 Practical Technologies Every Ambitious SMB in Industrials Should POC

Social, Agile and Transformation

Manufacturing, construction, and other industrial businesses can leapfrog from technology-lagging organizations to ones driving competitive advantages. A chief challenge is escaping legacy mindsets, especially in small and medium businesses where technology is a commodity component that’s bought once and used well past its depreciation date.

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Salesforce launches Starter to ward off competition in the SMB segment

CIO Business Intelligence

Starter made its first appearance in June when the company launched it specifically in India, targeting one of the largest SMB markets in the world before it made the new offering available for the other markets. “As Other CRM packages such as Keap also offer easy-to-use sales and marketing growth tools attracting, Miller added.

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CDW now offers Apple Business Essentials direct to SMB customers

Computerworld Vertical IT

CDW, a business and enterprise solutions provider that operates in the US, UK, and Canada has announced plans to offer Apple Business Essentials to its small business customers (SMBs). To read this article in full, please click here

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Big Data, People and the SMB

Eric D. Brown

According to the 2014 IDG Enterprise Big Data survey , most large organizations today (almost 49% of survey respondents) claim to be well along the implementation path for big data initiatives and projects. Additionally, those large organizations are well ahead of their small and medium business (SMB) counterparts.

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More SMB Love Needed

Cloud Musings

In a recent post, titled “ 10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is ”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace: Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system.

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3 Digital Transformation Strategies in SMB

Social, Agile and Transformation

Digital transformation requires leaders to reconsider their business models in the face of market disruptions, changing customer needs, new technology capabilities, greater security threats, and new opportunities to empower a digital workforce. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.

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Data Classification Policy

Tech Republic Security

It doesn’t matter whether you are a large business enterprise, SMB, government or nonprofit, the collection, management, protection and analysis of data is a determining factor in your overall success. This policy from TechRepublic Premium establishes an enterprise-wide framework for categorizing and classifying.

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