Our enterprise business intelligence (BI) buying guide and midmarket BI buyer’s guide looked at many of the best-known business intelligence vendors. But this article, our small business BI buying guide, focuses on lesser known products that might be every bit…
Our last business intelligence (BI) buyer’s guide featured SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAS, Information Builders and MicroStrategy. It was loosely labeled an enterprise guide, though many of these products also play well in the midmarket. All of them should be…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) might has been clearly demonstrated recently, with its Google+ social network closing in on 20 million users sharing more than a billion items a day in the first few weeks of operation. The fact that the service…
Our first two CRM buying guides covered the enterprise CRM and midrange CRM markets. This article will focus on the small business customer relationship management (CRM) market. Note that it ignores companies like Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, who increasingly serve…
Our Enterprise CRM Buyer’s Guide covered Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, SAP, Microsoft, RightNow, Pegasystems and Sword Ciboodle. While many of those vendors also play in the midmarket and small business CRM markets, they won’t be included in this midmarket CRM guide…
ERP systems were once used almost exclusively by large companies. In recent years, though, an increasing number of ERP solutions for smaller businesses (SMBs) have entered the market. Some are sold by vendors that primarily serve SMBs, although software giants…
A few months back, Enterprise Apps Today published an Enterprise ERP Buyer’s Guide. That first ERP buyer’s guide focused on market giants SAP (NYSE: SAP), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Now it’s time to visit the ERP software…
Business intelligence (BI) remains one of the hottest enterprise technologies, but finding a BI solution that fits dependably into your organization remains a challenge for enterprise IT buyers. Boris Evelson, a business intelligence analyst at Forrester Research, notes that business…
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, held in Los Angeles earlier this week, attracted a record crowd of more than 1,000, showing that business intelligence remains one of the hottest enterprise software markets. Gartner analyst Bill Hostmann discussed how the business…
Social CRM was by far the most dominant topic at the Gartner 360 CRM Conference in Los Angeles this week. Gartner analyst Gene Alvarez said customer relationship management (CRM) is at a crossroads, and social CRM is the way forward.…