Operations
Credit-Card Processing Options For SMBs
September 24, 2009 | It's a fact that adding payment options boosts sales, whether online, in brick-and-mortar stores, or even remote locations. Resource Nation helps small businesses understand how to leverage their credit-card processing options to increase revenue and speed payment.
By Merrin Muxlow
IBM's Cognos Express Brings BI To The Midmarket
September 14, 2009 | IBM's new Cognos Express -- introduced along with LotusLive Mobile and the IBM Mashup Center -- uses a modular approach to make it easier and less expensive for midsize companies to take advantage of business intelligence.
By
Fredric Paul
Electronic Document Storage For SMBs
July 23, 2009 | Electronic document storage system may not lead your company to the paperless office, but it just might save you some money while helping to save the planet.
By Merrin Muxlow, Courtesy of Resource Nation
Resurrected: 7 Technologies That Won't Stay Dead
July 22, 2009 | They're ba-a-a-ack! Despite being superseded and left for dead, a few hardy technologies keep springing back to life. Sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes not so much...
By
Fredric Paul
Why You Should Take Your Company Mobile
April 27, 2009 | Interested in starting up a business but concerned about infrastructure costs? Cut those down significantly with a mobile company. In this recession, it's more cost effective to invest in some laptops and smartphones rather than shell out a bunch of cash for a brick-and-mortar office.
By
Jennifer Moline
Financial Crisis Survival Kit
April 2, 2009 | In the face of the current financial crisis, small- and midsize-business owners need strategies, tips, and tricks to help their companies weather the storm and emerge poised for the future.
By bMighty Staff
Should Facebook Be Your Company's Intranet?
March 19, 2009 | For at least one midsize company, the answer is "Yes!" But using Facebook as a business intranet raises some serious questions about security, privacy, and the effect on company culture. bMighty gets an inside peek at Serena Software's social networking experiment.
By Rusty Weston
How To Make Facebook Your Company Intranet
March 19, 2009 | Setting up a Facebook group is a snap, but using Facebook groups as your company intranet has a few more wrinkles, including how to handle private business information.
By Rusty Weston
6 Cost-Effective Ways To Buy Hardware
March 9, 2009 | Small and midsize businesses don't always have a lot of cash flow as this recession continues. So bMighty has six alternative ways to buy hardware for less than the retail price. Because if you're still running your business on a 486, you might finally consider retiring it in favor of new equipment.
By
Jennifer Moline
How To Buy Hardware For Your Business
March 9, 2009 | Small and midsize businesses need to invest in hardware, but during these tough economic times, any purchase must be done wisely. bMighty talked to some experts about when to upgrade your equipment and what to consider when buying hardware.
By
Jennifer Moline
Q&A With STORServer's Kelly Lipp: Disaster Recovery Requires More Than Data Recovery
March 4, 2009 | Is your business prepared for a disaster? What if a Katrina-like hurricane hit? Or what if your head of IT had a heart attack? A disaster-recovery plan is vital to small and midsize businesses, says Kelly Lipp, CTO of the data protection company STORServer. He says that while having any sort of plan is impressive, there is one area in which companies overextend their energies.
By
Keith Ferrell
Disaster Preparedness For Small And Midsize Companies
March 4, 2009 | All organizations need to have disaster recovery and business continuity plans in place so that unexpected events don't derail the business. But when money and manpower are in short supply, how can IT get this done?
By
Keith Ferrell
bMighty Q&A: Leaders Talk IT For Your Business
February 19, 2009 | Leading executives, managers, and experts from SMBs and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that small and midsize businesses face.
By bMighty Staff
How To Take Your Business Green
February 12, 2009 | So your company wants to go green, but it doesn't know where to start? bMighty's Green IT Toolbox has the tools you need, including which aspects of your business can go green, what resources you can refer to, and how to get started. After all, green IT can be good for the planet AND your wallet.
By
Jennifer Moline
Follow The Money To Better Vendor Management
February 5, 2009 | Savvy vendor management can significantly reduce expenses by planning and optimizing IT purchases of products and services. By applying several best practices, business owners can improve dealings with vendors during critical moments in the management cycle.
By Aaron Hay, Courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group
Why -- And How -- Your Company Should Go Green
January 30, 2009 | Take a look at your company's eco-friendliness from start to finish. And then talk to your employees so that you can devise a plan to aim for 100% greenness. Smaller companies have an advantage to going green, and it can even save them money and help gain business.
By Chris Penttila
Mid-Market Heroes: Luring Big-Time Customers With SaaS
December 8, 2008 | Small companies need to do everything they can to meet customers' needs if they expect to compete successfully against larger companies. Ninety-employee Rapala outsourced its EDI functions through a software-as-a-service platform to do just that.
By
Scott Koegler
Create Your IT Budget
December 2, 2008 | Creating budgets is a necessary and time-consuming endeavor for every business owner and department head. Using this FREE IT Budget Template, you'll be able to develop your budget more quickly and easily identify opportunities to improve your IT operations.
By bMighty Staff
The Smart Way To Slash IT Costs
November 12, 2008 | In tough economic times, business owners often turn to IT for quick cost savings. In "Opportunities & Challenges In IT Cost Reduction," Info-Tech Research Group outlines a proven, research-based framework for strategic IT cost management that can help cut your technology costs without crippling your business. This exclusive report is offered as a no-cost bonus with your free bMighty.com registration.
By bMighty Staff
On-Demand Staffing: Online Labor Exchanges Come Of Age
November 3, 2008 | From Elance to eBay, Lime Exchange to Craigslist, today's online labor exchanges offer resource-strapped businesses easy, on-demand access to workers with specialized skill sets -- and you pay only for what you use.
By Rusty Weston
12 Easy Ways To Cut Your Company's Tech Costs Now!
October 29, 2008 | Today more than ever you need to watch your company's IT spending. Fortunately, there are plenty of easy ways to quickly reduce your business technology costs. From all-in-one printers to open source alternatives and more, get started now with these 12 simple suggestions.
By
Scott Koegler
Ask Steve: How To Get Rid Of Old IT Assets
October 20, 2008 | Are there old PCs, servers, printers, or network cables lying around your office? You don't use them anymore, yet there they sit gathering dust. Yankee Group's Steve Hilton discusses what to do with your outdated technology and how asset recovery programs can save your business money and ensure you comply with government regulations.
By Steve Hilton, Courtesy of Yankee Group
5 Strategies For Cutting Cellular Costs
October 8, 2008 | IT departments should take an active role in managing cellular phone policies and practices across the business. By implementing a comprehensive management plan, IT managers and business owners can cut monthly costs and see significant savings.
By Jayanth Angl & Candice Low, Courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group
Q&A With David Allen: How Growing Businesses Can Get Things Done
September 22, 2008 | Renowned productivity guru David Allen shares his insights about working smarter and tips to help managers promote a culture of productivity and accountability within a department or across an entire company.
By
Naomi Grossman
How-To Select An E-Mail Archiving Solution
August 11, 2008 | Though many businesses have identified the need for an e-mail archiving solution, it's crucial that business and IT decision makers identify relevant business drivers and build an implementation strategy that ensures vendor offerings meet business goals.
By Vince Londini, Courtesy of Info-Tech Research
ANTenna Blog
News, Views, Insight, And Advice
| Remote Assistance Thriller: Dial "S" For "Scam" |
A new scam involving remote support software recently surfaced in the United Kingdom. Before you snicker at just how gullible the victims appear to be, ask yourself whether your company's PCs are vulnerable to precisely this sort of attack. Read Post |
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| Project Honey Pot: Over One Billion Spammers Served |
This week, Project Honey Pot identified its one billionth spam message. Find out what it has learned from that torrent of junk email -- and what you can do to make its efforts to stop spam even more successful. Read Post |
| HP Software To Boost Cloud Computing For SMBs |
HP Operations Orchestration and HP Cloud Assure for cost control are designed to help companies take better advantage of cloud computing's inherent flexibility and elasticity, while mitigating potential risks. Read Post |
2010 Cybercrime Goals: Symantec
What do cybercrooks want next year? According to Symantec Hosted Services, they want bigger and badder botnets, pathways through CAPTCHA traps, local language spam and plenty of hooks as good as Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. Read Post |
Laptop? Smartphone? Netbook? How about a Tablet?
Small is the new Large! Given users newfound proclivity to bound from place rather than sit at their desks, suppliers have been developing a bevy of mobile devices. Broadcom is the latest supplier to jump into this space with silicon that can be used for a portable computing tablet, a market that soon could receive a big boost from industry game changer, Apple Inc. Read Post |
iMac Shipments Delayed: Multiple Problems Reported
The 27-inch iMacs, introduced in October, are now showing a two-week ship time. Apple has not said why, but an independent website has been documenting issues with the new machines ranging from flickering screens to whistling displays. Read Post |
ADTRAN Jumps Into Unified Communications Market
Aimed at companies with 5 to 2,000 users, the networking vendor's NetVanta Unified Communications (UC) Solution Suite includes voice mail, unified messaging, fax server, presence, and auto attendant features. Read Post |
Egnyte Extends Cloud-Based Hybrid Storage To NAS Devices
The company is announcing Egnyte Local Cloud on Network Attached Storage (NAS), which expands the hybrid concept from Direct Attached Storage (DAS). The combination is designed to let SMBs combine local and cloud-based storage to maximize security, backup, and performance. Read Post |
"Favorite Places On Google" Takes On Zagat, Yelp
In addition to its announcement of Real Time Search today, Google also rolled out a program to put stickers in the windows of 100,000 local businesses in 9,000 cities across the country. Read Post |
Comcast-NBC Deal Highlights Net Neutrality Issue
What does it mean when the nation's largest Internet Service Provider, like Comcast, buys one of the biggest content creators in the world, like NBC? For one thing, it means the already contentious issue of Net Neutrality is about to get even more heated. Hopefully, it will galvanize the FCC to create and implement Net Neutrality rules that protect the interests of small and midsize businesses. Read Post |
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