Brilliant Business Systems (BBS), a company in the Softline group, says it is pursuing an e-commerce solution for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) which will be based on telephony integration.
Recognising the growth in the SOHO and SME market NEC have launched a range of product developed specifically for this market segment.
Lotus and Xerox have released KnowledgeShare, a document management solution designed to improve knowledge sharing throughout small and medium-sized enterprises.
Comztek, the communications distributor in the Mustek group, has been appointed sole distributor of the Accton range of high-end Ethernet and Fast Ethernet adapters, hubs and switches.
SalesBid, a provider of outsourced commerce solutions, will form a joint venture company with Commerce One South Africa (Distributor Operations) focused on the small and medium enterprise market.
ABSA Bank and Pastel Software have launched PlanetPastel.com, an e-commerce portal for small to medium enterprises.
IBM and Lotus Development have restructured their Business Partner compensation plan for PC and Unix workstation software to target mid-market and small businesses.
The Shopcreator software suite promises to enable any business, from small and medium enterprises to large corporates, to establish fully functional e-commerce trading sites within a day of registering for the service.
The Internet Solution (IS) says Cyberknowledge Systems has joined its Value-Added Partner programme in order to provide Internet connectivity to small and medium-sized businesses.
A comprehensive library of standard business forms such as delivery notes, invoices and job cards, credit limit letters, and notices of dishonoured cheques, can now be downloaded free of charge off the Internet.
Intekom, an Internet service provider, has launched the Inzuzo Internet portal which aims to promote business interests of the small to medium enterprise (SME) market.
While small businesses around the world are taking readily to the Internet and other IT-related matters, research finds that European firms are among the least prepared to take the plunge into e-business.