SME tech spending to surge this year
News Global SME IT spend will reach its highest level in the past decade, growing by 8.3 percent in 2007, while overall IT sales are set to rise by 6.5 percent. Adopting technology such as PCs and internet access will be more rapid in China and India...
[February 2, 2007, 9:42]
SME associations call for EC-funded IT training
News European associations representing small and medium-sized enterprises have called for more European Commission-backed funding for SME employee IT training. The pan-European ICT and e-business network for SMEs (PIN-SME), which represents more than...
[March 7, 2008, 10:30]
Dell targets SME market with storage server
News Dell — like its peers, IBM, HP and Sun, among others — has been desperately courting the SME market. Dell, like any supplier, faces the issue, when trying to simplify storage for the SME market, that price depends on what the customer wants.
[September 11, 2007, 16:35]
HP challenges Dell in the SME market
News HP, in contrast, offered a reasonably detailed specification of what an exact system for an SME could look like (see diagram below). HP insists that the system, which sits on its c-Class blade chassis, has been optimised for the SME market and is...
[September 13, 2007, 13:32]
Microsoft to launch latest SME push
News He acknowledged that although the company has profited from SME customers, it has not done enough work to get to know the needs of such businesses so that it can create more products tailored for them.
[September 7, 2005, 7:25]
An ITIL-Based Solution to Record and Retrieve Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Based on Giga Knowledge Management Framework in the SME Companies
White Papers Also SME companies have high impact on business market, today. SME's are engines of developing the economy of developing countries. ITIL is the most widely used IT framework in most organizations in the world now.
[February 10, 2009, 0:20]
Employees blamed for SME security breaches
News More than a quarter of European SME IT managers said they believe company employees are responsible for security problems, according to research commissioned by security software company Websense. IT managers in small and medium-sized businesses...
[August 24, 2007, 8:51]
Intel unveils SME server building blocks
News Referring to research from AMI-Partners, Intel said global SME server spend this year will grow at a double-digit rate over 2007 to reach $19.8bn (£10.1bn). Intel on Friday launched a set of modular-server building blocks for original equipment...
[January 14, 2008, 7:12]
Boom predicted in SME managed services
News Small business customers are likely to be offered a wide range of managed services in the future as broadband providers struggle to hang on to their SME base, analysts have claimed. A new report from Analysys, entitled Strategies for Selling More...
[March 5, 2007, 15:24]
IBM ploughs deeper into SME market
News IBM announced on Friday a raft of scaled-down software products for small businesses, including SME versions of Rational Build Forge and Tivoli Network Manager. IBM's new SME products also includes the following:
[October 8, 2007, 13:12]
Network Box SME 250 review
Reviews VAT; £2,800 per annum after the first year) SME 250 that we tested is designed to handle networks with 50-75 users. Whatever the model or setup, the Network Box appliance provides the same set of services starting with a stateful packet inspection...
[February 13, 2006, 10:10]
Oracle forgoes profit to hit Microsoft's SME plans
News Oracle is hoping to ruin Microsoft's plans to dominate the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) ERP market by sacrificing short-term profits in favour of market share. Competition in the European SME application market is brutal at the moment...
[November 27, 2003, 16:30]
IBM joins SME storage battle
News The announcement came on the heels of EMC’s launch of its latest mid-range Clariion CX3, also aimed at the SME market. The SME market for storage has become much more competitive this year with NetApp finding its traditional dominance in this area...
[May 10, 2006, 15:35]
Using Rational Unified Process in an SME - A Case Study
White Papers This paper presents a case study of a Norwegian SME that tried to adopt RUP in the simplest way, by introducing the methodology by providing comprehensive documentation and some simple training. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a comprehensive...
[April 26, 2006, 1:00]
DellEMC AX100 Entry SAN Solution Addresses SME Demands
White Papers The AX100 SAN solution is designed ideally for SME requirements and targets companies without existing SAN installations - although the AX100 array also appeals to large enterprise customers as a cost-effective direct-attached or near-line storage...
[June 18, 2009, 14:28]
EMC gets serious about SME storage
News It may have the products ready to be successful in the SME market, but EMC also needs to have the right partners. Long dominant in the enterprise data centre, EMC now has its sights set at the other end of the storage spectrum and is going after...
[February 5, 2006, 23:05]
Utilization of UML in Bulgarian SME - Possible Training Strategies
White Papers Considering the application of UML in SME as an example, more general consideration about how to deliver training resources are derived. This paper investigates the utilization of UML in Bulgarian small and medium companies as a general purpose...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Smart Mailing for SME’s
Blog For SME marketers, budgetary restraints necessitate a clever and efficient approach to campaign management if brand presence is to be established and sustained. But, it is not just at the SME level that marketers are feeling the pinch.
[December 22, 2008, 16:37]
HP makes SME security move
News HP will charge $20 (£11) per month per employee for a new security and data back-up service it launched on Thursday in a bid to break into the SME security market. Kevin Gilroy, senior vice-president and general manager for HP's SME unit, said: "It...
[May 20, 2005, 11:20]
Breaktime SME
Downloads Breaktime SME v2 controls H and S break policy encoraging users to take regular breaks from the computers at specified times reducing RSI complaints. A log is kept of wether the user accepted or rejected the break.
[November 22, 2007, 11:52]



