Laurie McCabe on IT-Analysis.com

Are Business App Stores Gaining Steam with Small Businesses?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:30:30 +0100

I've been reviewing data from our latest survey, the 2011 SMB Routes to Market Study, which zeros in on how SMBs discover, learn about, evaluate and purchase software and service technology... [Read More...]

My Love-Hate Relationship With Twitter

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:36:31 +0100

If you're in the IT industry, tweeting has probably become a regular part of your day, like brushing your teeth. I know it has for me, as an industry analyst and researcher. But, since joining... [Read More...]

Reflections on Dreamforce 2011: Now the Cloud Can Ride the Waves

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:24:40 +0100

This year, Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event-with a record-setting 45,000 attendees-got me thinking about the early days before the cloud was the cloud, how far its come, and how... [Read More...]

Pervasive Puts Its Galaxy Integration Community Into Orbit

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:49:31 +0100

Pervasive announced Pervasive Galaxy at its annual Metamorphosis conference earlier this month. Galaxy merges an online integration marketplace... [Read More...]

The New Dell and What it Means for SMBs: Takeaways from Dell's 2011 Solutions for a Virtual Era ...

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:29:17 +0100

Twenty-seven years ago, Michael Dell launched Dell with $1,000 and a streamlined sales and manufacturing model that revolutionized the PC industry. Sticking with this playbook, Dell achieved similar... [Read More...]

Dell and Boomi: Doubling Down on Integration

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:13:05 +0100

Originally published 4-26-11 as an SMB Group research brief in .pdf format, available here. When big companies gobble up smaller ones, you always wonder whether the acquired company will get... [Read More...]

WITI Summit: Shining the Spotlight on Women in Technology

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:59:32 +0100

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to attend my first WITI Women and Technology Summit (#witisummit), held this year in San Jose-and was truly impressed and inspired by this conference.... [Read More...]

Dimdim-A Bright Light In the Web Conferencing Market

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:03:02 +0100

With the recession stubbornly lingering, many small and medium businesses (SMBs) are still pinching pennies and looking to trim expenses. Dimdim, which provides free Web conferencing for up to 20... [Read More...]

What is Business Intelligence, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:01:57 +0100

(Originally published on July 30, 2010 in Small Business Computing) What is Business Intelligence? Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term used to encompass the processes, methods,... [Read More...]

What is an Online Collaboration Suite, and why should you care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:06:29 +0100

An online collaboration suite provides businesses with an integrated set of tools that span... [Read More...]

Will the Appliance Approach Gain Traction in the Wake of Recent Cloud Outages?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:35:00 +0100

This week's service outage at Intuit is fueling a new round of speculation about the dark side of cloud computing - and whether businesses can depend on cloud-based services to run their... [Read More...]

Recent Vendor Briefing Highlights: IBM's Cast Iron Acquisition

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:09:30 +0100

We are publishing recent vendor highlights on the SMB Group web site. As time permits, we discuss our key take-aways from more interesting briefings. I will try to remember to post them here as well.... [Read More...]

Does IBM Lotus Really Want to Get Small? My Take on Brent Leary's Podcast

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:01:27 +0100

I still haven't had time to write about Lotusphere 2010, but in the meantime, you may want to listen to the conversation I had with small business guru and friend�Brent Leary. Last week, Brent... [Read More...]

Standing Out in a Sea of Green IT: IBM's Scalable Modular Data Centers for Midsize Companies

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:42:34 +0100

As a follow up to my post What Is Green IT and Why Should You Care?, I had the opportunity to talk with Steve Sams, VP for IBM's Global Site and Facilities Services, along with several other... [Read More...]

SMB Collaboration Battle Heats Up: VMware Announces Deal to Acquire Zimbra

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:24:15 +0100

As we predicted just a couple of weeks ago in our 2010 Top 10 SMB Technology Predictions, the collaboration battle is heating up! VMware just announced that has entered into a definitive agreement... [Read More...]

What Is Green IT, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:03:40 +0100

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand... [Read More...]

2010 Top 10 SMB Technology Market Predictions

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:13:19 +0100

Fellow SMB analyst Sanjeev Aggarwal and I have teamed up to bring you our top ten technology related predictions-plus three bonus predictions-for the SMB (companies with 1-1000 employees)... [Read More...]

What is SEM, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:58:30 +0100

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand... [Read More...]

Flying Through the Cloud: Dreamforce Takeaways at 50,000 Feet

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:17:56 +0100

A couple of weeks ago, I attended Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event-along with about 19,000 other people. Having had a chance to digest the proceedings (as well as Thanksgiving dinner),... [Read More...]

Top Takeaways from IBM's General Business Influencer Summit

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:33:46 +0100

Last week, I attended IBM's General Business (GB) Influencer Summit for analysts covering the mid-market (companies with 100 to 1000 employees and larger enterprises that are not currently... [Read More...]

Small Business Has a Big Appetite for Digital and Social Media Marketing

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:15:07 +0100

Small business adoption of technology-based solutions rarely keeps pace with the expectations of vendors, analysts and pundits. When it becomes adoption of digital marketing and social media tools,... [Read More...]

Another Plea for Plain English!

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:12:35 +0100

Yesterday, I was listening to NPR's Here and Now at lunch time while running a few errands in my car. I tuned into a great story about the Plain English Campaign, which was... [Read More...]

PDFSalesLeads - A Clever Solution to the Pesky .PDF Problem

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0100

In our industry, vendors spend a lot of time and money developing white papers to educate prospects about new technologies. White papers that are well-researched and clearly written can help explain... [Read More...]

Workingpoint's New Twist on SaaS Pricing for Small Businesses

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:57:38 +0100

In a post earlier this month, I raised the issue that SaaS vendors targeting small businesses need to start experimenting with different pricing options if they want to create a true volume market... [Read More...]

FinancialForce: A New Force in Cloud-based Accounting

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:29:40 +0100

Last week, Unit 4 Aggresso, parent company of CODA, announced that it has teamed up with Salesforce.com to launch FinancialForce.com. FinancialForce.com is actually Coda2Go, the cloud based... [Read More...]

What are Managed Services, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:42:43 +0100

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand... [Read More...]

Prescription for Subscription Fatigue? Time for New SaaS Pricing Models

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:18:03 +0100

As an analyst that's covered the software-as-service (SaaS) market since 1999, I am briefed by vendors introducing new subscription services into the market on a regular basis. Many of these... [Read More...]

What is a Thin Client, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what... [Read More...]

What is Social Networking, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what it... [Read More...]

What is Cloud Computing, and Why Should You Care?

rss@it-analysis.com (Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the... [Read More...]