Sadly, this isn’t a post on the technical specifications of Captain Kirk’s weather-worn Starship Enterprise, which claims to ‘boldly go where no man has gone before’ (yes, the split infinitive hurts us, too). Instead, we’re talking enterprise software, so dubbed because it helps organizations rather than individual users achieve their operational goals. This can be a great resource for SMBs.
Cloud based software has taken the business world by storm in recent years. Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. It has the potential to dramatically improve how business is done and has thus gained currency amongst small and medium sized businesses (SMB). In the US, interest in cloud computing continues to increase and the number of companies using cloud technology is expected to more than double in the next 6 years¹. Continue reading