Small Business

Sage launches Sage Copilot for Sage X3.

This week, at its flagship event, Sage Future in Atlanta, Sage, which makes accounting, financial and HR software solutions, launched new Copilot capabilities, powering high performance for manufacturing and distribution worldwide.

Sage unveils new AI Trust proof of concept label to empower SMBs 

The AI Trust label is designed to provide customers with clear information about the way AI functions across AI, and to overcome customer concerns about trusting it.

Sage unveils AI  for Sage Intacct

This week, at its flagship event, Sage Future in Atlanta, Sage, which makes accounting, financial and HR software solutions, made a major announcement. They stated how Sage Intacct will leverage AI, automation and deep industry insights to propel finance teams into a new era of high performance. 

Zoho strengthens Finance and Operations platform with three new tools

Zoho has released three beefed-up tools to the Canadian market. They are Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, and Zoho Practice. All are part of the Finance and Operations platform. Zoho Books now supports electronic filing for both the Canadian and Quebec governments, Zoho Inventory adds advanced warehouse management capabilities and Zoho Practice is for accountants.

SonicWall rolls out SOHO and branch office-focused TZ80 small business firewall service

The TZ80 firewall platform features built-in integration with cloud-native zero trust network access (ZTNA) and VPN as a service (VPNaaS) for hybrid environments.

New Sage study examines role of channel partners in evolving SMB market in Canada and U.S.

Partners are engaging in significant changes to their business models to improve their capability to deliver new digitally-focused services that partners today are increasingly demanding.

Check Point explains product strategy within overall strategic context

While Check Point has the reputation of  being a high end product that serves the high end of the market, they also sell to SMBs as well, and even though the focus this year was on high end strategy, their SMB portfolio got its share of important announcements.

Sage Canada partners and customers attracted by Sage’s bold strategy at Transform

Sage’s new product portfolio and strategy had attendees saying this was the most exciting transform in their memory.

Sage extends presence in sports platforms with Sportable partnership

Following up on last year’s partnership with Major League Baseball, Sage is announcing a different type of sports partnership, with Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform, which is designed to bring deeper, AI-led insights to major sports. 

Sage looks to improve SMB skills around carbon reporting with extended AWS partnership

The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.

Sage enhances AI vision and portfolio with major announcements at Sage Transform

Sage emphasized that this year’s Transform is a very important one, because of key changes, particularly around AI, that will greatly improve customers’ lives and productivity.

Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot

Sage Copilot is a new AI-based productivity assistant, whose AI has been specifically trained around accounting rules and best practices, and which is designed to help SMBs make better business decisions.

Cradlepoint moves into smaller business market with E1005G router for small offices and retail pop-up sites

A key target is edge sites, which can be part of larger companies, but which serve niche use cases that will give them 5G and cellular technology that is priced for the use case, and far superior from a technology perspective than the consumer grade products that are often used for these purposes now.

Sage Canada posts strong momentum as new products roll out

Mark Hickman, Managing Director at Sage Canada, reviewed the recent news items of particular significance for the Canadian market, and noted some additional changes coming next year.

Guardz targets MSPs working smaller SMB market with joint cybersecurity and insurance solution

Guardz has also just added a new Growth Hub for MSPs, which gives them  multiple new cybersecurity tools aimed at small business customers.

HPE announces new high-level Aruba Networking SMB switch and access point at Atmosphere Bali event

The Aruba Instant On AP22D, a Wi-Fi 6 access point, and the Aruba Instant On 1960 stackable switch are both SMB products laden with enterprise technology, and are aimed at SMB customers who want performance.

AI cybersecurity firm AaDya Security rebrands around their product to become Judy Security

Judy offers an enterprise-grade platform with seven separate solutions that are designed and priced for the SMB market.

Trend Micro’s SMB Sales Manager Tammy Allen confronts challenges in Canada

Trend Micro’s Canadian sales manager for SMBs and MSP discusses the challenges these kinds of partners face, and what Trend is doing to assist them.