{"id":8448,"date":"2013-07-31T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jul\/31\/roundup-of-small-medium-business-cloud-computing-forecasts-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T08:30:00","slug":"roundup-of-small-and-medium-business-cloud-computing-forecasts-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/roundup-of-small-and-medium-business-cloud-computing-forecasts-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup of small and medium business cloud computing forecasts 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What sets apart the fastest-growing small businesses is their an innate strength at turning data and information into results.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s becoming easy to spot a smaller business who is going to break out and grow quickly.&nbsp; They often have these qualities:&nbsp; they highly value knowledge, expertise and speed over seniority or cronyism; they have successfully managed a geographically distributed supply chain, production and service operations early in their history; and long before they reach $20M in sales they have learned how to balance domestic and international customer demands.&nbsp; In short, they learned fast how to compete and win business globally.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several months research firms and enterprise software vendors have released studies on cloud computing adoption in small &amp; medium businesses (SMBs).<\/p>\n<p>The following are the key take-aways from these studies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Forrester forecasts that channel partners will increase their reliance on cloud software and services from 22% to &#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What sets apart the fastest-growing small businesses is their an innate strength at turning data and information into results.<br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s becoming easy to spot a smaller business who is going to break out and grow quickly.&nbsp; They often have these q&#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-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","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=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}