The AMI-Partners Blog

Tweet After the first four months of 2013, it seems obvious that the US economy continues to at least inch upwards, despite the uncertain path to full recovery. Albeit to a modest extent, consumers are buying and companies are hiring. This positivity is reflected in the equities markets, but not all sectors are created equal. [...]

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Tweet As small and medium business (SMB) demand for cloud services continues to accelerate, vendors are finding it increasingly challenging to support their partners in the migration to a cloud based business model. To this end, AMI is introducing its Partner Transformation and Enablement Program. This program provides vendors’ partners with an actionable strategic blueprint [...]

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Tweet AMI-Partners actively studies several information and communication technologies (ICT) used by small and medium businesses (SMBs of 1-1000 employees).  Several of our blogs to date have been about device or software utilization–very important areas for this market.  However, equally important is the mindset and decision making process that these SMBs go through when purchasing [...]

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Tweet Today, there are over 69,000 partners in the US who focus on the Small and Medium Business (SMBs with under 1,000 employees) market. Of these partners, roughly 42,000 are offering at least one cloud based service such as SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Remotely Managed IT Services, or Cloud Consulting Services. AMI’s recently published 2013 [...]

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Tweet It  has been  a successful year in 2012 for the SMB-focused Cloud Partner (“MSP”) ecosystem with average cloud service revenues increasing by a healthy 12% according to our latest Cloud Partner Review based on a sample of over 250 UK MSPs conducted in the last 2 months.  We have simultaneously surveyed similar numbers in [...]

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Tweet A couple of weeks ago, I attended the SAP SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) Summit in New York City with some colleagues of mine. It began with a panel discussion featuring highly distinguished individuals from the private, public, and government sectors, including Co-CEO of SAP Bill McDermott, about the state of the SME market. [...]

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Tweet So many times one comes away from a conference with a feeling that SMBs (small and medium businesses) are given a prominent place and they have been echoed many times in the plethora of PowerPoint presentations. However, the vendor really does not get it.  Furthermore, when you study the SMB space as extensively as [...]

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Tweet Virtualization is becoming increasingly popular among SMBs (small and medium businesses), and AMI predicts that over half of MBs (medium businesses) will be using server virtualization by 2016, with desktop virtualization tipping over 50% penetration by 2017.  Server based computing has several benefits and is a frequent topic that is discussed by industry analysts. [...]

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Tweet It seems to be common knowledge that SaaS (software-as-a-service) technologies are a popular option for firms looking to upgrade or replace their on-premise solutions with healthy growth potential into the foreseeable future. From a delivery perspective, we can’t dispute the fact that “hosting” has become a profitable revenue stream as an addition to a [...]

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Tweet The remotely managed services space is one that has seen rapid growth and demand among small and medium business (SMB) customers. AMI data predicts the total SMB market for remotely managed services will swell to nearly $15B by 2017. This represents a 10% year over year growth from today. To take advantage of this [...]

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