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SAP Shines the Spotlight on Small and Medium Businesses

SAP’s stellar success in building its blue-chip large enterprise business has often overshadowed its considerable but quieter achievements in small and medium business (SMBs) markets. But SAP is not a household name in the SMB community (more…)

Making Sense of SAP Business One with SAP HANA. Why Two Versions?

 

HANA, SAP’s in-memory computing engine has factored into SAP conversations for a couple of years now. Often HANA and in-memory computing are associated with “big data”, and hence associated with big companies. So the introduction of a HANA product for SAP Business One (more…)

Four Warning Signs for When Small Businesses Need to Become Big

Who would have guessed that the human tongue would become an internet sensation?

The marketers at Orabrush had a clue. (more…)

Sybase ASE Database: When Data Requirements are Big, but the Budget is Small

Database management needs don’t necessarily scale according to the size of budget. Medium-sized enterprises with modest means often have data management requirements as prickly as those of their larger, richer counterparts. Doing more with less means finding a relational database management system (RDBMS) that can deliver big-time database capabilities at an affordable cost. (more…)

SAP Sybase ASE Puts More “All” in SAP Business All-in-One

In a previous blog post, guest contributor Cindy Jutras, president of Mint Jutras, outlined the advantages of taking a platform approach, combining applications with database and technology. But in taking such approach Cindy cautioned against sacrificing functionality or performance. In that post Cindy set the stage (more…)

Can Database & Technology Reduce Complexity?

Simplicity – Reduced TCO – Optimized Performance

 

Fast growing small and mid-size companies can and should demand more from their enterprise business software today. Never before have there been more “moving parts” to both strategic and day-to-day tactical decision-making. (more…)

The Progressive SMB: Customer Stories are Worth 1,000 Analyst Words

I attended SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW 2012 several weeks ago and am finally getting a chance to share my thoughts on the customer meetings I had at with BigByte Corporation and KEEN Footwear at the event. (more…)

So Why Aren’t All SMBs Using ERP?

Recently I posted a blog that took a deeper dive into some of the data presented in an infographic that I collaborated with SAP to produce. The infographic titled “So, What’s Stopping You From Using ERP?” (more…)

SAP Business One, Chapter Two: Raising the Small Business Bar

In the world of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs), SAP Business One is sometimes overshadowed by SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO) (more…)

What Can ERP Do For Me?

Recently, I partnered with SAP in my role as ERP Research Analyst at the Aberdeen Group to produce an infographic titled “So, What’s Stopping You From Using ERP?” (more…)

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