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Commerce Tech “Inspired Individuals” Band Together To Save Small Businesses

Forrester IT

Commerce vendors are busy consulting to their clients to keep retail — online and offline — moving as best possible during the pandemic. Now some of those big-name vendors are helping small businesses adapt quickly through Keep Small Strong, an organization that didn’t exist until a little over a month ago.

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Translating Security For Small Business

Forrester IT

I had an invite to speak to a group of small business owners […]. And this year is the first year in 14 years I haven’t been there. This year I intentionally took an opportunity to punt on Hacker Summer Camp.

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Lenders: Speed Up Access To Small Business Loans

Forrester IT

Small businesses globally are experiencing a serious credit crunch from COVID-19 lockdowns. Many small and medium-sized businesses sit on little if any cash reserves and some have already lost most of their revenue; but they still have to pay their bills, maintain their supply chain, compensate their employees, and repay their debts.

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Small Business Banking Has Been Disrupted (And There’s No Going Back)

Forrester IT

But Forrester’s newest research reveals that executives should be just as worried — perhaps even more worried — about another market that is being upended: Small business banking. Small and medium-sized businesses […].

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How And What Insurance US Small Businesses Buy Is Changing

Forrester IT

As insurers look at the end of the industry’s big cash cow—private passenger auto insurance—many have amped up their small business lines. Big tech, telcos, and insurtechs are also breathing down the necks of traditional small business insurers. Figuring that out is […].

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Small Business Remains A Big Opportunity For Banks

Forrester IT

*This blog post is co-authored by Sohm Gough Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have been battered over the past three years by the continuing to face headwinds of inflation, supply chain interruptions, macroeconomic uncertainty, and disruptive technologies that threaten market upheaval.

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How Your Small Business Can Begin To Use Big Data

CTOvision

While big data can seem like an intimidating term when you are running a small business, it can be a very useful tool to drive your business’s success. Big data, as a term, encompasses many sources of information, some of which you may already use. Big data has many benefits to offer you, from a […].