SME - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Videoconferencing links Westpac SME experts to remote branches

  Westpac is rolling out videoconferencing to its branches around Australia to remotely connect small businesses with financial experts at the bank’s headquarters.

• Google, ACCI team to get small businesses online

  Google has joined forces with the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) to get more small businesses online.

• Australian startup snapshot: Cloud Awakening

  Cloud Awakening is a Sydney software developer that has just launched its first product, Asset.Guru, which is a platform for tracking and managing physical assets in small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

• Australian startup snapshot: OneConfig

  OneConfig website is a Sydney startup that is building a cloud-based network management platform for Juniper devices targeting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

• IT both a challenge and opportunity for SMEs: Survey

  Technology is posing both a challenge and an opportunity to the Australian small to medium enterprise (SME) market, new research has claimed.

• Seagate GoFlex packs streaming and backup punch

  Seagate has announced a new network attached storage (NAS) drive for the 'Terabyte home', the GoFlex Home.

Whitepapers about SME

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  Scaling SMEs, Building a flexible platform for growth: A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit

  Scaling SMEs: Building a flexible platform for growth is an Economist Intelligence Unit report that discusses how highgrowth small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are scaling their organisations to provide resources for growth whilst ensuring flexibility to respond quickly to changes in market conditions; the role of technology in scaling SMEs; and success factors in scaling headcount. The findings of this briefing paper are based on desk research and on in-depth interviews conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit with founders and managers of SMEs and other experts.

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  Infographic: What SME Leaders Think About Digital Transformation in Australia

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  EMC VNXe: Enterprise Features, Entry-level Simplicity

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  Aberdeen Group Research: IP Telephony TCO for the SME: Think beyond equipment cost