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How Small and Medium Businesses Can Overcome the Challenges of Sustainable Manufacturing in the Cloud

What if greener practices—beyond reducing, reusing, and recycling—could help your manufacturing business grow more efficiently? What if you had data that helped you understand opportunities hidden in your spreadsheets? These questions could be answered with software and devices that monitor your equipment and help you gain insights. As it stands, the manufacturing sector accounts for […]

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Why Cloud IT Helped a Small Telemedicine Company Meet Increased Patient Demand

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, demand for easy-to-access telehealth services skyrocketed. Luckily, Argentina-based Llamando al Doctor (“Calling the Doctor” in English) and its software development partner, Eudaimonia (Euda), could scale to meet the moment: They had already integrated Amazon Web Services (AWS). We recently spoke with Llamando al Doctor Commercial Director Guillermo Gonzalez and Eudaimonia […]

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Why Small and Medium Businesses Are Missing Out on the Full Benefits Data Can Provide

In a world where organizations and consumers generate data non-stop, many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have more information than they know what to do with. While many SMBs like yours have begun to move this data to the cloud, much of it remains largely siloed and disconnected. This means the data can provide only […]

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Four Reasons to Upgrade Your Small or Medium Business’s Website or App in the Cloud

Your website is the digital front door for your business and should both establish trust and make it easy for visitors to convert into customers. No matter what type of business you are in, customers expect to find and communicate with your business online at any time—whether it’s through an internet connection at home or […]

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How a Medium-Sized Insurance Brokerage Navigates IT Challenges Amidst Acquisitions

For small and medium businesses (SMBs) experiencing rapid growth, integration of new acquisitions can present challenges—both culturally and operationally. For instance, when it comes to IT, many find it tempting to rely on legacy, on-premises technology rather than pricing out cloud migration opportunities. After all, SMB business owners may not have in-house tech talent that understands […]

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Which Recurring Business Processes Can Small and Medium Businesses Automate?

What are the major challenges facing your company’s latest digitization project? Perhaps you’re operating on a patchwork of systems and software that pre-date your time. Maybe your teams are concerned that any updates might jeopardize the existing IT system and small inefficiencies are worth the price of not modernizing. The outdated, resource-intensive business procedures that […]

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Three High Impact, Low Effort Tasks Small and Medium Businesses Can Do to Optimize IT Costs

Did you know managing cloud IT spend is one of the top challenges for 80 percent of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs)? In today’s turbulent business landscape which includes inflation, supply chain constraints, and rising energy costs, it has become important for all the businesses around the world to proceed with caution. Especially for SMBs with […]

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How Small and Medium Businesses Can Develop a Modern Data Strategy

In the era of big data, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often find themselves wrestling with a deluge of data from an ever-growing range of sources. According to Gartner, 60 percent of organizations do not measure the costs of poor data quality. A lack of measurement results in reactive responses to data quality issues, missed […]

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What’s Next in Manufacturing Technology for Small and Medium Businesses?

As the last few years have demonstrated, anything that affects manufacturers will likely have a ripple effect, influencing businesses throughout other industries. That’s why it’s important for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in all sectors—not just manufacturing—to be aware of the emerging trends that are transforming the manufacturing landscape. By staying on top of these […]

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Smart Business Day 2023 Recap: Opportunities for Small and Medium Businesses

In the past, small and medium businesses (SMBs) struggled to compete with larger enterprise companies. Limited budgets and resources kept SMBs at a disadvantage. Today, all this has changed, thanks to cloud technology. Amazon Web Services brings the power of cloud to SMBs, offering the most comprehensive—and widely used—cloud technology, with more than 200 fully […]