The AMI-Partners Blog

AMI has a webinar on cloud computing coming up soon, called Cloud Computing and the Global SMB Market. This is an area AMI has amassed years of expertise in, so don’t miss your spot.

Here’s where to sign up.

A new article over at the Wall Street Journal anticipates huge growth in e-reader spending:

Two of the leading makers of electronic-book readers, threatened by the success of Apple Inc.’s iPad, slashed prices Monday in a move that could further drive e-readers into the mainstream.

Early Monday, Barnes & Noble Inc. cut the price of its Nook e-reader to $199 and introduced a Wi-Fi-only model for $149. Hours later, Amazon.com Inc. lowered the price of its Kindle e-reader to $189.

Read the rest here.

New York, New York – June 15, 2010 – Today, New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. announced its first annual Small and Medium Business Social Media Marketing Awards. AMI analysts will acknowledge Information Communications and Technology (ICT) providers that effectively use social media to inform the purchase process of small and medium businesses.

Full release here.

AMI has a new press release.

New York, New York – June 10, 2010 – Small businesses (SBs, or firms with less than 100 employees) in the US are increasingly relying on online channels to purchase computing hardware and packaged software solutions. This is a far cry from the days when retail stores and channel partners were the only relevant channels that catered to SBs. Channel partners and retailers still have the highest share of SB spending on basic computing products (such as PCs, printers, peripherals, etc); these channels, however, are slowly losing share to direct market resellers (DMRS) as well as online vendor direct.

Read the full release here.

AMI has a new press release.

New York, New York — June 3, 2010 — Interest in server virtualization among US medium businesses (MBs, firms with 100-1000 employees) increased significantly in the past year, according to AMI’s latest MB tracking study. The percentage of U.S. MBs that consider server virtualization strategically important has increased from 46% to 75%.

Read the full release here.

AMI has a new press release, on IT spending in India.

Bangalore, India – May 27, 2009 – India SMBs (small and medium businesses, with up to 999 full-time employees) are gradually recovering from the stagnation experienced during the economic downturn and are moving ahead, hiring new employees, opening new sites and marginally  increasing spending on IT. The overall spending on IT by India SMBs totaled US$9.9 billion and is predicted to rise by over 8% in 2010, says New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc., a leading consulting firm specializing in IT and Telecom sectors.

Read the full release here.

AMI will present a webinar on Wednesday, May 26, entitled “SMBs and Social Media, How SMBs are influenced by and are using social media.” Details here.

AMI has a new press release on its website, on how “HP’s acquistion of PALM gives tech giant an edge.”

New York, New York, May 20, 2010 – HP’s recently-announced acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion will enable the technology giant to offer an integrated mobile experience to businesses and consumers worldwide on a variety of devices. By controlling both the software and hardware for smartphones, tablets, netbooks, and other form factors, HP can control its own destiny, a new AMI report finds.

Read the full release here.

AMI has a new press release on social media and SMB:

Nearly 70% of U.S. SMBs use social media including Facebook, MySpace, blogs, YouTube, Twitter and much more. Although the number of SMBs using social media has grown drastically over the last few years the industry’s understanding of what drives SMBs to uses these tools remains limited. In addition, the understanding of how SMBs should be reached through social media is even less known.

Read the full release here.

AMI has a new press release:

New York, New York—April 28, 2010— In the current economic environment, home-based businesses (HBBs) in the U.S. are increasingly turning to the web to boost business. Social networking sites, web sites and VoIP are playing an increasingly prominent role in the survival of the HBB.

View the full release here.