Top 2010 ICT trends the industry isn’t talking about in the global SMB markets were released today by AMI-Partners.

Much attention has been given to 2010 trends such as the increasing adoption of SaaS, managed services, virtualization and mobile applications. Although AMI acknowledges most of these are well documented predictions, its team of go-to-market analysts have identified the following six (6) trends that the industry hasn’t fully explored.

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Bangalore, India – January 8, 2010 – India SMBs (small and medium business or companies with up to 999 employees) took requisite steps to increase revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009. These SMBs are set to spend US$4.49B on ICT in the next three months. There is a significant increase in investments for new customer acquisition among verticals such as transportation, construction, healthcare and FIRE (comprised of banking and financial services, insurance and real estate). This comes from the latest study by New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. In the retail sector, over one fifth of India SMBs mentioned another key focus area for technology adoption is data management.

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