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Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment On surprises in Tiscali's SME research. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003. Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a... [21 Feb 2008]
What's swallowing your IT budget?
Comment Mid-market companies saw an average increase of 3.4 per cent and SME budgets rose by an average of 1.6 per cent. Small is beautiful when it comes to making the IT budget sing, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) being more efficient and... [18 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... petty cash, Vista sales, swelling SMEs...
Comment SME growth spurt? What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [01 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: DIY enterprise mobility
Comment This isn't a SME experimenting but one of the world's largest companies, a global brand. I was at the Mobility Summit earlier this week (good event, terrible tag line: 'Delivering Business Value in the Mobile Enterprise') and heard about an... [03 Jul 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment According to market researchers AMI Partners, worldwide SME spending on VoIP solutions topped $3bn in 2006, up 26 per cent over 2005. If your business uses or is considering rolling out VoIP, you should be aware of the many ways your systems could... [09 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?
Comment SME users have precious little time to waste on ads - why not subsidise mobile services that give them some of that time back? Sometimes you see a new invention and you think 'great idea'. Take the Valentine's Krispy Kreme donut - so bad, it's good. [27 Feb 2007]
The SME hype cycle
Comment The problem is that none of this works very well in the SME space. Meanwhile, the rest of us look on thinking 'here we go again', knowing that it will all blow over as most of the pretenders discover that working the small and medium-sized... [25 Jul 2006]
Leader: Listen to SMEs
Leader The truth is that when we say SME, we're speaking about organisations as large as 1,000 employees and as small as five. But only by changing this approach will vendors break through to SME customers - and put an end to the recurring cycle of... [20 Jul 2006]
The right way for SMEs to make calls
Comment When the time comes for a small and medium-sized business (SME) to choose telecoms services, here are some options to consider. Telcos have struggled to support the SME segment successfully, so Evans believes that resellers will step up a grade to... [18 Jul 2006]
SMEs and open source - a perfect marriage?
Comment Vendors of proprietary software such as Microsoft are busy courting small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers with their products. Sirius's Taylor uses the Asterisk open source voice over IP system, for example, essentially replacing a SME... [11 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: SMEs rule the world
Comment The really interesting feature of the SME sector has been the impact of the internet. Unfortunately, it seems the vast majority of the SME population have a poor web presence and generally fail to gain from the leverage that the latest technologies... [10 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How small businesses buy IT
Comment Vendors transitioning their offerings to the SME market are often coming at it with an enterprise sales culture that does not translate. This is where the would-be suppliers to the SME market struggle. [03 Jul 2006]
Leader: VoIP and SMEs - a good match?
Leader This can quickly add up and require said SME to shell out more money for a higher bandwidth line. We can't stress enough how individual a choice an organisation's telecoms solution must be - what works for one SME isn't necessarily right for another. [17 Mar 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Is CRM still dead?
Comment FrontRange and Maximizer continue to produce solutions aimed at the SME/mid-market, and have pulled themselves out of being seen as just multi-user personal information management systems. One of the more hyped technologies in recent years, CRM is... [23 Sep 2005]
Jonathan Steel's Blog: Is Microsoft growing up?
Comment But they've struggled for more than a decade to make equivalent inroads outside the PC market, largely because they have never really understood the corporate world - it's not in their DNA (which is exactly the same reason that most of the other... [09 Aug 2005]
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