The ultimate guide to being cash flow positive and maintaining profitability

whitePaper | June 1, 2021

The IPA takes an active role in the promotion of policies to assist the small business and SME sectors, reflecting the fact that approximately three-quarters of our members work in these sectors or are trusted advisers to small business and SMEs. The IPA pursues fundamental reforms which will result in boosting productivity growth and in easing the disproportionate regulatory compliance burden placed on small business.

whitePaper | December 7, 2019

As a small or medium business professional, chances are you’ve heard about phishing. Phishing scams—ploys that cybercriminals use to trick unsuspecting people into revealing sensitive information and steal their identities—are a serious problem for both consumers and business owners. In fact, over the last five years, there has been a steady increase in attacks targeting businesses with less than 250 employees, with 43 percent of all attacks targeted at small businesses in 2015.1 But phishing attacks aren’t only targeting businesses, they’re also targeting employees in order to gain access to a business’ sensitive data. The number of spear phishing campaigns targeting employees increased by 55 percent in 2015.2

whitePaper | June 21, 2021

A growing business needs a good Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. It helps you manage critical customer information in one place — and gives you a complete view of your business. You’ll gain key business insights that help you close more deals, boost sales, and improve forecasting accuracy. But is now the right time for you?

whitePaper | January 6, 2020

Salesforce’s innovative outlook holds customers at its core, with no other company creating products designed to connect entire businesses — across sales, service, marketing, community, analytics, and apps — around the customer. This whitepaper explores the ways in which Salesforce can benefit businesses, helping them gain an upper hand on their competition.

whitePaper | April 4, 2020

Key Considerations for Small and Mid-size Businesses In small and mid-size businesses, the main roadblock is often a lack of understanding of what needs to be done now around security to ensure sufficient protection, and how priorities must be set in the current climate in support of the digital, mobile and cloud-based enterprise

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

During the first two months of the pandemic, many small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) underwent two years’ worth of digital transformation. And over the past six months, SMEs have gone through even more change as they search for a “new normal.” Of course, none of this has really felt normal. And many SME IT leaders have begun to realize that any sense of normalcy we do come to won’t be something that happens on its own. The new normal is going to be something they create.