Trend Spotting: Getting Beyond the Facts

In the late 1960’s, the great management guru Peter Drucker wrote that one of the dangers of technology was also its greatest selling point—the computer’s ability to quickly and efficiently analyze large volumes of factual data. IT often lives and dies by fact-based reporting, generating sales reports, accounting reports and reams of transactional reporting. Many…

Does Software as a Service Make Sense for SMBs?

Software as a service (SaaS) providers are aiming their marketing efforts directly at the SMB market. This is because the value proposition of getting a sophisticated solution without all of the headaches of complex deployments and management is very attractive to organizations that have limited IT resources. It also makes a lot of sense when…