Small Businesses / SMB stories

LogMeIn has announced a new contact centre outbound calling solution for GoToConnect, aimed at sales organisations and expanded inbound capabilities. >>

The power that high-end technology brings to business should be in the hands of the many, rather than an elite few, writes giniPredict general manager for A/NZ By Fung Lim.>>

Paytron, a financial services business, has raised $4.35 million in its latest seed funding round, with the money going towards helping SMBs better manage their finances.>>

Data management company StorageCraft has released major updates to its flagship backup and recovery platforms.>>

Another New Zealand software firm has been snapped up by an overseas buyer.>>

Information technology service providers are losing thousands of hours every year due to needless cloud administration, according to SkyKick.>>

Vonto has released new product integrations to its business insights app, to better support Australia and New Zealand’s startup and SMB community.>>

Everything from communication and collaboration tools to administrative applications and data storage is now increasingly being handled in the cloud.>>

Five years of advances in digital transformation for New Zealand businesses has occurred in a period of eight weeks, due to COVID-19, a new report finds.>>

Many businesses turned to the cloud for support, which highlighted the need for cloud data security.>>

What are your business goals for the year ahead? What are the key actions that can put your business in a strong position for growth and success?>>

“The speed at which we are moving is unprecedented and exhilarating," says Zomentum cofounder.>>

The range of six gateways sets new standards of protection against the most advanced cyber attacks for SMBs, giving greater ease of deployment and management.>>

ShadowProtect SPX 7 is the next edition of the company's ShadowProtect offering, which is a SMB data recovery solution. >>

Based on the Mirakl platform, it offers SMBs over 100,000 products and services from 350+ local vendors.>>

“This new target for government procurement will further improve cash flow to Māori businesses. It also helps diversify the customer base for Māori businesses and build more resilience into Māori economic activity.”>>

Developers can qualify for the programme and a reduced 15% commission if they earned up to US$1 million in proceeds during the previous calendar year.>>

The survey found that 60% of managed service providers report that their SMB clients have been hit as of Q3 2020. >>

Kaspersky has recognised a worrying trend of cyber criminals targeting small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Southeast Asia (SEA), and has released a new offering in response. >>

Many software solutions promise to provide accurate market analysis, which helps in price management of your product. But some solutions are more helpful than others.>>

The changes to the partner programme include improved RPA for quotes, as-a-service support, and incentives for SMB sales growth.>>

Xero has bolstered its platform automation by building Hubdoc machine learning technology into the next phase of Xero Expenses. >>

Smaller enterprises are exposed to a level of sophisticated cyber-attack ordinarily reserved for large multi-nationals.>>

Ricky Kapur warns that despite digital transformation every business is at risk - no matter how large or small they are.>>