{"id":4569,"date":"2012-11-13T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/nov\/13\/how-cloud-vital-progressive-smb-infographic\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T11:27:06","slug":"how-is-the-cloud-vital-to-a-progressive-smb-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-is-the-cloud-vital-to-a-progressive-smb-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the cloud vital to a progressive SMB? [infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What defines a progressive small to medium business (SMB)?<\/p>\n<p>According to Cisco, it&rsquo;s an SMB which is &ldquo;increasingly encroaching on the territory of their larger competitors&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the biggest takeaway from the Cisco research is that these SMBs, if they are to become more progressive, will need to move to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Other checkpoints for progressive SMBs are utilising the mobile workforce, collaborating in person and embracing social media.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing is increasingly seen as a viable option for small and medium enterprises, even if they don&rsquo;t realise it.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, a survey from Australian cloud software provider MYOB revealed that nearly four in five companies surveyed (79%) didn&rsquo;t use the cloud for business, despite evidence that it would be good for their business &ndash; 44% of SMEs surveyed in the cloud expected their revenue to rise in the next 12 months, as opposed to 22% of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What defines a progressive small to medium business (SMB)?<br \/>\nAccording to Cisco, it&rsquo;s an SMB which is &ldquo;increasingly encroaching on the territory of their larger competitors&rdquo;.<br \/>\nYet the biggest takeaway from the Cisco research is that thes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}