Pedro Hernandez

The end of the year is fast approaching, and apart from blockbuster sales this quarter, another way that small businesses owners can improve the bottom line is to reduce their tax burden. With the proper deductions, small business owners can turn a good profit into a great one. The less money they pay out in […]

Cybercriminals target point-of-sale (POS) systems for reasons that go beyond the obvious monetary motivation. The holiday shopping season offers a unique opportunity to break in and steal financial data. Unlike most computer workstations that require frequent updating and maintenance, point-of-sale (POS) systems “are usually touch-once and deploy,” Travis Smith, senior security research engineer at Tripwire, […]

Despite the IT industry’s best efforts to set the world on a paperless path, people still conduct business using physical documents. Inundated on a daily basis with piles of paper—medical forms, legal contracts, and handwritten receipts—small businesses must capture it all digitally, and then incorporate the information into their collaboration, accounting, and business process software. […]

‘Tis the season for small businesses to stress over shipping. Though the holidays are a traditionally a time for merriment and cheer, merchants instead have visions of the great shipping debacle of 2013 dancing in their heads. Beset by a smaller holiday shipping window, a last-minute crush of online orders, and icy weather, both UPS […]

Ironically, instead of improving employee productivity, the wealth of available collaboration software tools makes it tougher for many workers at small and midsized businesses (SMBs) to get their jobs done. Take email, the quintessential collaboration app. A survey sponsored by online collaboration software provider Samepage, polled 300 SMBs (three to 500 employees) in the U.S. […]

Like many of its customers, Sage is undergoing a reinvention. For a variety of reasons, most small businesses balk at turning over control of their applications and data to the cloud; they happily run accounting software suites like Sage’s on-premises. Yet, the software industry has clearly set course on a cloud-based trajectory. With the release […]

Characterized as a game-changing technology, cloud computing can accelerate a business’ digital transformation and, at the same time, level the playing field between small companies and major corporations. And while most entrepreneurs have heard the message, not all of them take the news as gospel. In fact, less than half of the businesses surveyed use […]

When it comes to buying software to run your small business, SAP may be among the last technology companies that sprint to mind. After all, the German software giant helps the largest and most complex organizations in the world to manage resources, to coordinate efforts and to move product. SAP has roughly 300,000 customers globally, […]

Most entrepreneurs know the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as a trove of information and a guide to countless resources that help get shops, professional services providers, and technology startups off the ground. While bookmarking the SBA.gov website certainly isn’t required, you’d be crazy not to do so. In addition to dispensing helpful advice—from putting […]

Dell has partnered with Cylance, a threat-prevention security software startup, to level the playing field between small businesses and increasingly sophisticated malware. This week, the companies announced that they are integrating Cylance’s technology into Dell Data Security solutions in early 2016. While an enterprise-grade solution is in the works, small businesses can acquire the protection […]

Though the cloud beckons, retailers, professional services firms, and other small companies still flock to servers. Today, Dell unveiled four new PowerEdge small business server systems designed to help those small and midsized businesses (SMBs) progress along their technology journey with plenty of room to grow. Undeniably, the IT industry has its head in the […]

Another week, another security breach. In what’s starting to feel like a regularly scheduled event, a major retailer or service provider makes the news because of a major data breach. Rarely, if ever, do security breaches affecting small businesses grab headlines. But they happen, and when they do they can seriously damage a company’s finances. […]