The AMI-Partners Blog

Tweet AMI has a new press release about tablet PCs: New York, New York—March 24, 2011—Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs, firms with less than 999 employees) continue to strive to regain their place in a troubled economy. Recent AMI research indicates that SMBs who have embraced mobility generated 40% higher revenue growth over the last [...]

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Tweet It’s hard to turn on the TV, open the newspaper to the technology section, or visit your favorite technology web site without seeing an article or ad for tablet PCs. With the latest release of Apple’s iPad 2 in the United States on March 11th and sales skyrocketing, it makes you wonder where do [...]

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Tweet Smartphones are becoming the norm today. Which should I select, iPhone, Blackberry or Android? Today’s market reflects the battle of mobile OS and apps. But Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami highlight another aspects of smartphone requirements – disaster utility. Features and functions that today’s popular smartphones do not have will be crucial in times [...]

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Tweet As a new parent, I am realizing that raising children is all about the timing that can make tricky childhood transitions go more smoothly. Likewise in business, timing is of the essence in an era of instant gratification to appeal to consumers toting smart phones and mocha lattés, a significant number of us in [...]

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Tweet Recent findings show continued SMB interest in conferencing solutions, but how much of that will be premium (paid) solutions? Digging deeper into AMI’s 25 country tracking of the market, small businesses (SBs) are trending to bootstrap many free solutions together. Examining various cross-cuts of our data, strong clusters surfaced. Roughly 1 in 4 showed [...]

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“The missing piece of the U.S. economic recovery – job creation – is finally falling into place,” wrote The Washington Post on Friday. But is it?

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Cloud-based apps increase feature set, offering SMBs 3rd alternative to free and premium UC/collaborative solutions, says AMI

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Opportunity for IT vendors especially strong in Cloud Services, says AMI

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Greater growth is expected in the Asia-Pacific countries

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