Choices, choices

Global trends driving adoption of SaaS and cloud computing mean good things for local SMEs. Lots of good things. How to choose is probably going to be the only problem.

Global

Samantha Perry

Defining the SME

INTRO - landscape Words: Janet Paterson IN CONTEXT Across the board, SME s are to be actively supported and encouraged as the lifeblood of a growing, sustainable economy – a role recognised in President Mbeki’s State of the Nation address for 2006, when he pledged that “to contribute to the growth of the SMME sector, the government will reform its procurement programme to access some of its goods and services from small and medium businesses, ensuring that it pays for what it purchases promptly.

Defining

Mobility a key tool for the SME

Foreword That small and medium enterprises (SME) are the engine room for growth and development in South Africa is a practical certainty.

Mobility

Mtn

SME Wireless Networking Leaders

COMMUNICATIONS Internal Networks PLAYERS Linksys and its parent Cisco continued to rule the US SME wireless networking market in the first half of 2007, according to the NPD Group/Distributor Track.

SME

Carel Alberts

Unified Comms – Premature and Difficult? Not Anymore

Siemens Enterprise Communications has scooped what might be the first unified communications success story in the SME market.

Unified

Siemens Enterprise Communications

What Sort of SME are You?

COMMUNICATIONS Telecoms Services SEGMENTATION An SME is not just an SME and klaar.

What

Carel Alberts

What’s To Buy?

HARDWARE Laptops and PCs PRODUCTS There’s been a lot of development in the laptop sector over the past two years.

What

Pamela Weaver

Small business with big clout

Seven years ago, Running Computers ‘resigned` 98 percent of its customers and downsized. Today, the business is more profitable than it`s been in years.

Seriously

Brett Haggard

Oracle 10g scales both down and up

Traditionally, enterprise applications have been out of the reach of small and medium businesses, but software developers have strategies to bring special versions to the increasingly important mid-market.

In Front

Warwick Ashford