Survey: "IT Failing One in Four Small Businesses"

I came across this article the other day (see link below) from e-Channel Line. It confirms what I’ve been encountering for the past year, as I’ve made my way through the SMB space in an effort to understand the IT challenges that the owner operators of these smaller businesses are facing these days.

This survey that was taken in support of this article, known as the international "IT Effectiveness Index (ITEI) Mid-Year Report 2009", reports that 25% of the respondents have scored the effectiveness of their IT with a letter grade of a “D” or an “F”.

Whilst an additional 37% have scored the IT capabilities of their company with a letter grade of a "C" indicating that they are barely keeping up with their IT demands as they move forward through these challenging times.

The heavyweight implementations of Microsoft Dynamics and SAP have taken their toll on the SMB market (100 or less employees) who find themselves falling further and further behind as their IT solutions become stale from a lack of ongoing care and feeding.

Adequately maintaining these traditional “bricks and mortar” IT implementations simply isn’t tenable for the smaller company who doesn’t have the deep pockets required to keep up.

The current economic climate is simply increasing the gap that companies will have to make up in order to remain competitive with their IT capabilities particularly once the resurgence begins.

Now is the time for owner operators to look very, very seriously at the alternative prospect of switching out these heavyweight solutions in favor of a pay-as-you-go, cloud-based solution like NetSuite, that will lower their cost base dramatically and won’t require anything close to the heavy maintenance burden they experience today, in order to stay competitive.

If you find yourself in this predicament, contact us at TrueCloud. We can help.

Here is a link to the article


Dave Rice, CEO TrueCloud

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