|
|
|
| ABOUT | ||
| ||
| ||
| SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS brings you daily updates on trends that influence the global small business market. | ||
|
||
 |
|
Anita Campbell, Editor |
|
||
| Past life: CEO, corporate executive, tech entrepreneur, retailer, general counsel, marketer, HR ... (more) | ||
| email me | |
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||
|
||
| FREE BUSINESS MAGAZINES | ||
|
||
|
||
| Trade publications FREE to qualified professionals. No hidden offers and no purchase necessary. | ||
|
||
| |
On Wall Street The Deal Computing Canada |
CIO Employee Benefit Oracle Magazine |
|
||
| 100+ additional titles. Click to browse. | ||
|
|
|
|
|
| ARCHIVES & SEARCH | |||
|
|||
|
|||
| |
Previous Small Business Trends articles can be found at the links below: | ||
|
|||
| |
October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 |
||
|
|||
| |
Or, use the search box below to find a specific post: |
||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|
||
|
|
|
| NEWSLETTER |
|
|
|
| Sign up for our FREE Small Business Trends newsletter. (View Current)
We publish regularly and promise we won't share your email address with anyone. (Privacy Policy) |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| SMALL BIZ INFO & RESOURCES | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BLOGS TO READ DAILY* | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| * Don’t have time to read several dozen blogs a day? Pick two or three. Your brain will thank you for it. | |
|
|
|
|
| ONLINE COMMUNITIES | ||
|
||
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
|
|
|
|
| BLOG DIRECTORIES | ||
|
||
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
||
 |
|
 |
|
|
| THE BUZZ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SPECIAL RESOURCES | |
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Small Business Trends Radio Tuesdays, 1:00 PM Eastern U.S. time on Voice America network Click to listen November 1st: Torsten Jacobi, CEO of Creative Weblogging, joins host Anita Campbell. Sponsored by Six Disciplines. Show details. |
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saturday, October 25, 2003 | |
|||
|
|||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Weekly SMB Market Roundup | |
||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|||||
|
|
The high tech industry is aggressively courting small and midsize businesses. Here is a roundup of product and service introductions during the week ended October 24, 2003:
Microsoft formally introduces its 2003 Office System lineup. "Microsoft is making a massive push into the small business market with Office 2003 as well as its recently released Small Business Server 2003... ." More. IBM launches content management software for midsize businesses. "DB2Content Manager Express... enables smaller businesses to capture, manage and store corporate documents, as well as media and graphic files." More. Verizon enters the SMB Internet security market, offering round-the-clock Internet security services. More. Intel introduces a new marketing and training initiative for its distributors and dealers. It is designed to help the channel convince small businesses of the need to upgrade PCs and adopt wireless solutions. More. Toshiba launches 3 notebook computers to attract small businesses. Toshiba is following a trend by small businesses toward notebook PCs. More. ACCPAC International, Inc., a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc. launched a business intelligence tool for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) seeking a cost-effective system for improving their sales planning, analysis, and strategy development. More. Guarded Networks, a managed security services provider, has chosen to support Fortinet's antivirus firewall products in its BorderShield managed security service platform to capitalize on the growing demand by small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) for outsourced security services. More. Wireless Security Corp. announced a new security outsourcing service for wireless LANs to help IT staff at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) spend less time deploying and managing wireless systems. More. Solinus, Inc., a leading provider of e-mail messaging solutions, launched an online service, Inbox Genius, to remove SPAM and viruses' from e-mail before final delivery to workers' mailboxes. The service is targeted toward the SMB market. More. Siebel, NetSuite and Microsoft announced programs to offer down-scaled CRM product to the European SMB market. There are 10 Million SMBs in Europe and this market is vastly underserved. (However, don't conclude that the U.S. SMB market is saturated with CRM products. According to a Gartner Group spokeswoman, in North America only 5% of small businesses have a CRM solution, and only 20% of medium size businesses have one.) More. The above list is by no means exhaustive. But it does give a clue as to the importance of the SMB market to high tech, and signals a key trend. |
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
| |||
|
|||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
More news... more trends... more insight... | |
||
|
|
|
|
||
|
|||||
|
Home | Privacy | Terms | SmallBizTrends |
|
|
|
|
|
(c) Copyright 2003 - 2005, Small Business Trends LLC. All rights reserved. |