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SMB Tech Roll-up: Google Takes Docs Offline Again, IBM Offers Cloud Services Management
News in the SMB space this week is dominated by new releases. Bitrix has just upgraded its Intranet Portal offering with new social functionality, IBM has launched a SaaS services management help desk for SMBs while Google has been steadily adding more functionality to Docs.
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SMB Tech Roll-up: SMBs Restricting Social Networking Access, SAP Extends Reach of ByDesign
With all the talk of social media and its benefits for SMBs, new research from Webroot reveals that many enterprises are still restricting employee access. In other news, Intelestream and Insideview partner for extended CRM-on-demand, making it accessible to all and Linux Box releases its free email archiving solution.
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SMB Tech Roll-Up: Microsoft Releases Lync, Social Media Marketing Spend to Rise
There’s been a lot of Microsoft action this week. MS finally released Lync, Verizon’s IP mobility and networking components now integrate with MS online services and AvePoint migrates your content into SharePoint online. Microsoft Releases Lync You may recall the rebranding of BPOS as Office365 last month and the announcement
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Integrating CRM Processes and Support in the Cloud
Zoho's (news, site) latest launch brings support and help desk to the masses, even if it's already a pretty competitive market. Need Help? Zoho is rapidly building a fully-rounded offering for enterprises. Its newest addition, Zoho Support, is sure to please Zoho's current three-million strong
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Microsoft Announces Details, Pricing for Small Business Servers
For months we have been wondering about the names and pricing of Microsoft's (news, site) new servers for the SMB market. Microsoft has finally put an end to the speculation with a blog posted this week.
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Social CRM for SMBs: A Customer Centric Approach is Critical
In the midst of a still-struggling economy, SMBs are trying to do more with less, with renewed customer demand putting a strain on already limited resources.
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SMB Tech Roll-up: SMBs Use Social Media Marketing, Palm Pre 2 in US Next Week?
Online marketing dominates the SMB news this week with a number of new releases. While many people continue to look at social media to improve business, Trend Micro research reveals that most SMBs still worry about online threats and data leaks.
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Latest Release of Bitrix Site Manager Focuses on Usability
Bitrix (news, site) aims to shake up the website management market with a new push in usability and ergonomics to create a simpler way to work.
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SMB Tech Roll-up: HyperOffice Upgrades Cloud Offerings, Google Gives SMBs a Boost
In the SMB space this week, HyperOffice has launched a new cloud-based project management offering, while Google looks to release a new online advertising product. HyperOffice Offers Cloud Project Management Just when you thought the Microsoft vs. Google, Web Apps vs. Google Apps couldn’t get any tetchier, HyperOffice (news
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Content Marketing Strategy for B2B Software Vendors: Starring the ‘New’ White Paper Pt2
White papers are the most sought-out and influential content for B2B software Customers, as explored in Part 1. But most B2B software vendors have failed to deliver the white papers that their potential customers would like to use to help with decision-making buying cycles.
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Content Marketing Strategy for B2B Software Vendors: Starring the ‘New’ White Paper
For the past several years, multiple studies by different research firms have been conducted to evaluate the most sought-out and influential content for B2B technology customers during decision-making buying cycles, and every time, in every study, the #1 preferred content is the White Paper.
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SMB Tech Roll-up: SMBs Favored With BPOS Rebranding, Google Tweaks Docs
It’s been a good week for SMBs. In one day, we saw a new launch of a re-branded BPOS, which now sells under the new name Office365, and an upgraded Docs application from Google. Collaboration suites were also on people’s minds as was security -- information IBM was happy to advise on.
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SMBs Can Take Advantage of a Hybrid Cloud
A growing number of companies are looking at the under-exploited SMB cloud market and releasing products to fit. The latest is from Egnyte (news, site) which has just announced that this week its Office Local Cloud is available on the Netgear ReadyNAS business-class network storage platforms.
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SMB Tech Roll-up: SMBs Want Collaboration Tools, Data Recovery in the Cloud
There has been quite an amount of research done on SMB technology this week, the most striking showing that SMBs want affordable, sophisticated collaboration tools. Two tools announced this week were the cloud-based BPM from IBM and the security offerings from AVG.
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