Category Archives: Affordable Technology

The penetration of information technology in the business enterprises around the world is minimal. Though the costs of computers (hardware) keeps reducing, there is still no sure way of reducing the cost of software. Is Open Source a solution? Or Web Services? Or Application Hosting Providers? This is the next big revolution. How will it unfold? We are here to watch and make it happen.

Expense Claims Workflow

Thumbnail for expense workflowCompanies having a team that is distributed across multiple locations, with a centralized accounts department find it cumbersome to process expense claims by employees. This article suggests an expense claim workflow that is best suited for such distributed teams.
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Implementing Sales Management – Where to Start?

An old friend recently called us for help. He runs a successful small business that provides networking solutions, as well as another firm that provides contractual staff to large corporates. He wanted to know where and how he should start implementing ERP in his organization. "Can you ask me some questions that will get me started?". That got us thinking... here is our first mail to him.
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How to choose technology solutions

Information Technology is rife with jargon. Every IT enterprise creates new terminology and adds to the noise. How can a small/medium sized enterprise make the tough decisions about choosing the right technology? What are the options? What are the risks? What are the costs? This second article in the series attempts to answer some of these questions.
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What can Information Technology do for a Small/Medium Sized Business Enterprise?

Small businesses owners are hard-pressed for managing with scarce resources. How can technology ease their stress levels? Information Technology (IT) is often touted as the magic potion that has solutions for almost any business ailment. But IT is a confusing world of jargon, with incomprehensible abbreviations like ERP, CRM, SFA, SCM, EAI, BPM ... and so on. How does a small business owner make sense of all this jargon, and what is a practical approach to adopting IT? This is the first article that begins the series to analyze and answer this question.
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Why Open Source?

What role does open source play in bringing affordable technology to evolving enterprises? We would like to cut through the hype of free software and get down to the bottom of why open source makes sense, when, and for whom.
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Software for Everyone

How hardware vendors are bringing down costs of hardware, and what needs to be done to bring down software costs to make it available to everyone
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