Pedro Hernandez

Business process automation (BPA) isn’t exclusive to large enterprises anymore. Small businesses are increasingly adopting technology that lets them boost productivity and improve efficiency by ditching manual processes. Of course, small businesses aren’t quite deploying big budget solutions, said Seth Robinson, director of technology analysis for CompTIA, the IT trade organization. “You don’t have small […]

HP is dismantling the last technical barriers that prevent small and midsized business (SMB) workers from printing from their mobile devices. The company this week launched the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M476, the “industry’s first Mopria-certified printer,” boasted the company in a statement. Mopria is a wireless mobile printing standard from Canon, HP, Samsung […]

Only nine percent of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. have mobile-optimized websites, according to a report from Impact Research conducted on behalf of Hibu, a provider of website building services. In essence, 91 percent of American SMBs are passing up a huge opportunity to grow their businesses. Small business owners are missing out on an […]

If you want to achieve small business success, nothing beats a plan. In what should not come as a surprise, Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software, a provider of business-planning software, espouses this opinion. “If you plan, you’re going to grow your company 30 percent faster,” says Parsons citing a recent survey that her company […]

Googling yourself may sound a bit self-centered, but it can be an eye-opening, often sobering experience. Vizibility’s “Google Me” technology helps professionals avoid unpleasant surprises when they (or anyone else) run a search on their name. Vizibility, an identity management specialist and a division of All-State Legal, is the maker of VizCards, a hosted mobile-optimized business […]

IP telephony specialist Avaya is taking aim at small business call centers. To help SMB support organizations (skewing closer toward the midsized companies) deliver better customer service, Avaya has launched a new product, called IP Office Contact Center, which offers many of the capabilities of the company’s enterprise-grade customer experience management platform. IP Office Contact Center supports […]

Bitcoin may be on the receiving end of massive buzz, but small business owners really should think twice before accepting it as a payment method, according to Nick Vahalik, technical sales engineer at Commerce Guys, makers of Drupal Commerce. “Right now, it’s a novelty,” says Vahalik, whose company provides an ecommerce framework for the popular […]

Kabbage wants to be the funding source of choice when a small business owner finds herself in the right place at the right time and scores an amazing deal. The Atlanta-based online lender has published mobile apps for the iPhone and iPad that let small businesses apply for cash advances—or working capital, as the company […]

Network neutrality is dead. Or is it? The “Open Internet” is back in the news after The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided, on technical grounds, against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) open network rules governing Internet traffic. Should small businesses, particularly those that earn their money online, be worried? […]

Following up on the company’s big 7.0 release in October, Spiceworks has issued a new update that not only delivers performance enhancements and fixes 500 issues according David Babbitt, Technical Program Manager, but it also introduces three new integrations that presage the platform’s app-centric future. “Every time we do a .0 release, we plan a .1 […]

Microsoft and GoDaddy have teamed up to give small business email users a professional edge, courtesy of Office 365. GoDaddy now offers Office 365 packages, as part of a strategic partnership with Microsoft that goes beyond typical reselling agreements. The companies worked closely to provide subscribers with a seamless experience that links their domains to professional […]

Although dubbed the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), vendors also use the event to show off devices that are just as capable of doing serious work done as they are at entertaining. The lines have blurred between consumer and business tech—hence the term consumerization of IT and the skyrocketing popularity of BYOD programs—and CES provides a […]