Are you in startup mode? Are you looking for help with mentoring, partnerships and advice on how to raise funding? Then we have some good news for you. The...
Are you in startup mode? Are you looking for help with mentoring, partnerships and advice on how to raise funding? Then we have some good news for you. The start-up community has a number of resources for small to medium business. One of the biggest is the Startup Grind Annual Conference, happening next week in Redwood City, California, Feb. 21-22. Startup Grind is a community that connects more than a million entrepreneurs in 200 cities around the world. The group offers...
Are you in startup mode? Are you looking for help with mentoring, partnerships and advice on how to raise funding? Then we have some good news for you. The start-up community has a number of...
By Rudy Lukez, Director, ERP Product Marketing, Oracle Remember the PalmPilot? How about Apple’s Newton? If you do, I’m sure you wouldn’t trade your iPhones or...
By Rudy Lukez, Director, ERP Product Marketing, Oracle Remember the PalmPilot? How about Apple’s Newton? If you do, I’m sure you wouldn’t trade your iPhones or Androids for these relics. Yet I’ve found that many small and medium business leaders are willing to stick with outdated enterprise technologies or shy away from modern cloud applications because they lack familiar interfaces. Failing to migrate to the cloud can significantly hamper your future growth plans. After all,...
By Rudy Lukez, Director, ERP Product Marketing, Oracle Remember the PalmPilot? How about Apple’s Newton? If you do, I’m sure you wouldn’t trade your iPhones or Androids for these relics. Yet...
Today is Groundhog Day. Did you see your shadow this morning? Did you even step outside your burrow? I get it. It’s the dead of winter—the mid-point between the...
Today is Groundhog Day. Did you see your shadow this morning? Did you even step outside your burrow? I get it. It’s the dead of winter—the mid-point between the December winter solstice and the first day of spring. Much of North America is in a deep freeze. Mountain bike season is weeks away, and we haven’t even hit the best skiing of the season yet. Why venture outside when you can focus on lining your nest? So often, small and medium business leaders are so busy growing,...
Today is Groundhog Day. Did you see your shadow this morning? Did you even step outside your burrow? I get it. It’s the dead of winter—the mid-point between the December winter solstice and the first...
When Super Bowl LI kicks off in Texas this Sunday, not many viewers will be pondering the evolution of business software over the last fifty-one years. Yet, the...
When Super Bowl LI kicks off in Texas this Sunday, not many viewers will be pondering the evolution of business software over the last fifty-one years. Yet, the growth of the biggest annual sporting event in the United States—with over 110 million people tuning in this year—has propelled some incredible advances in broadcasting technology, which have moved in lock-step with business tech. In looking at these advances over the years, I've identified three major trends—and...
When Super Bowl LI kicks off in Texas this Sunday, not many viewers will be pondering the evolution of business software over the last fifty-one years. Yet, the growth of the biggest annual...
As we head into 2017, small and medium business executives continue to find themselves operating in a tough new reality. In this Age of the (digitally-savvy)...
As we head into 2017, small and medium business executives continue to find themselves operating in a tough new reality. In this Age of the (digitally-savvy) Customer, you have to compete with larger, resource-rich corporations and with nimbler start-ups. And, you need to do it in a way that grabs customers’ attention and imagination as they continue to adopt new technologies—all of which is happening at an unprecedented rate. To keep growing, you need to recognize trends and...
As we head into 2017, small and medium business executives continue to find themselves operating in a tough new reality. In this Age of the (digitally-savvy) Customer, you have to compete with larger,...
This is my favorite quote regarding technology and history: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented bronze tools,...
This is my favorite quote regarding technology and history: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented bronze tools, which were more productive.” Generally attributed to a former oil minister in Saudi Arabia, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, this quote highlights the connection between the supply and use of any given resource. Originally delivered as a warning to oil-producing countries overly dependent on petrodollars, the quote is often...
This is my favorite quote regarding technology and history: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented bronze tools, which were more productive.”...
By Sri Ayyeppen, President, Chief Technology Officer of Keste, a leading worldwide Oracle solutions provider based in Dallas If your small to medium business is...
By Sri Ayyeppen, President, Chief Technology Officer of Keste, a leading worldwide Oracle solutions provider based in Dallas If your small to medium business is experiencing high growth—or hopes to soon—you must make sure your database solution will grow with you. The reality is that in many cases, it can’t. Many established SMBs own costly, hard-to-maintain, on-premises systems that can’t maintain performance as demands on the system increase. So, when you require massive...
By Sri Ayyeppen, President, Chief Technology Officer of Keste, a leading worldwide Oracle solutions provider based in Dallas If your small to medium business is experiencing high growth—or hopes...
Today, efficiency defines business. This is very apparent during the holiday season, when performance matters and seamless in-store, in-app, and online...
Today, efficiency defines business. This is very apparent during the holiday season, when performance matters and seamless in-store, in-app, and online transactions rule across supply chains and drive overall customer experiences. Such efficiency requires rapid response. Yet small and medium businesses face challenges in delivering this fast functionality and keeping up with their larger competition. On-premises systems can devour both time (think “years” and “months”) and...
Today, efficiency defines business. This is very apparent during the holiday season, when performance matters and seamless in-store, in-app, and online transactions rule across supply chains and...
2016 was an eventful year for SMBs. Small and medium businesses made up 99% of all employer firms in the US SMBs employed more than 50% of the American...
2016 was an eventful year for SMBs. Small and medium businesses made up 99% of all employer firms in the US SMBs employed more than 50% of the American workforce More than 60% of new private sector jobs came from small and medium businesses SMBs are a force to be reckoned with. But, it is not easy to be an SMB executive. Obtaining capital, adhering to a variety of regulations and laws, concerns over data protection, and hiring qualified employees are still huge areas of...
2016 was an eventful year for SMBs. Small and medium businesses made up 99% of all employer firms in the US SMBs employed more than 50% of the American workforce More than 60% of new private...
