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SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
News The UK's new cyber security strategy will make a particular effort to engage small and medium-sized enterprises, according to a government-funded security group involved in introducing the initiative. [29 Jun 2009]
The Right Contacts
White Paper Supplying contact management solutions to SMEs and to the departments of enterprises used to be a simple process. But in the past few years a number of things have happened to make the market more complicated for... [25 Jun 2009]
Hosted Services for SMEs
White Paper Service Providers (SPs) face a challenge in offering a range of managed services to the enterprises that leverage their infrastructure investment. Today the SPs, mainly telcos, provide voice services and connections such as DSL access. [25 Jun 2009]
Mobile & Wireless Technologies: A Business Case for Scottish SMEs
White Paper The Scottish Enterprise E-Business Group commissioned this paper to determine which mobile and wireless technologies could make a different to Scottish SMEs in the short to medium term. The group also wishes to... [25 Jun 2009]
Mobile Working - a Buyer's Guide for SMEs
White Paper A business whose workforce can be productive away from the office is potentially a business with an edge over its competitors. But which technologies should you choose? This guide examines the issues. [25 Jun 2009]
A P2P and SOA Infrastructure for Distributed Ontology-Based Knowledge Management
White Paper The Digital Business Ecosystem Integrated Project funded by the EU aims at the development of a Europe-Wide virtual economic environment where European SMEs will advertise themselves and their service offerings with the... [25 Jun 2009]
Centralised and Decentralised Public Procurement
White Paper The rationale for relying on a decentralised approach is that by placing the procurement function closer to the needs of the final user, it is likely to be more economically efficient and better able to promote the development of the... [25 Jun 2009]
Infrastructure Simplification - a Buyer's Guide for SMEs
White Paper Complex IT infrastructures are hard to manage and inflexible when business conditions change. This guide examines the technologies that can deliver a simpler solution. [25 Jun 2009]
How to Win and Retain More Business Customers: A Guide for Telcos
White Paper Rivalry between telcos to win the more profitable business accounts of small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and corporate companies, has generated business customers that have little loyalty to their existing... [25 Jun 2009]
The Access of SMEs to Public Procurement Contracts
White Paper Small and medium-sized enterprises are a unique source of innovation and competition in the internal market and count for 99.8% of the total number of EU enterprises. The European Commission has always paid particular attention to them. [25 Jun 2009]
London Borough of Haringey - SME Development
White Paper Most of the businesses within the London Borough of Haringey are SMEs, i.e.small and medium sized enterprises who are defined as employing 250 staff or less. At least half of the SMEs in the locality are... [25 Jun 2009]
A Guide to eProcurement for the Public Sector: Suppliers
White Paper On the other hand, some SMEs have welcomed the opportunity to trade using the new technologies because, all things considered, they see benefits for their own business in terms both of internal processes and of expanding... [25 Jun 2009]
Think Smart... Think Voluntary Sector! - Good Practice Guidance on Procurement of Services From the Voluntary and Community Sector
White Paper Although the primary focus of this paper is to improve the participation of the VCS in public service contracts, it is also highly relevant to procurement relationships with small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), and... [25 Jun 2009]
e-business in Manufacturing Industry
White Paper It is an example which clearly illustrates how customized integrated e-business solutions can help small and medium enterprises (SMEs), boost efficiency and increase performance by further improving their business... [25 Jun 2009]
The Integrated Security Appliance: The Best Solution for Small- to Mid-Sized Enterprises
White Paper Small to mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) need the same network security as larger enterprises, but often must deal with restricted budgets and limited resources. The remedy is the new integrated security appliance, which... [25 Jun 2009]