Boon Tee, SBS-MVP

* What is the Small Business Market? * ABS Definition 0 to 4 employees (Micro Business) 5 to 19 employees (Small Business) 20 to 199 employees (Medium Business) 200+ employees (Large Business) * 2,051,085 actively trading businesses (6/2009) * 1,961,337 (96%) were small businesses

* Misconception of statistics * What do they tell us? * Who cares? * What are the takeaway values?

* 96% of all businesses are micro or small business * 35% contribution to industry by small business * 47% total workforce employed by small business * 94% of small businesses are have Internet access * 54% of them placed Internet orders * 29% of them received orders via the Internet * About 50% used social networking pages to reach their customers

* 60% reported a positive impact on their business * 2/5 employees want remote connectivity * GenY employees are willing to accept lower paying jobs in return for access to social media and device choice * 25% of employees work from home at least 3 days per week * In 2015, 98% of small business will use cloud technologies

* Cost vs Productivity * Cost of Downtime * Regulatory Concerns * Cutting Edge vs Stability * Trusted Advisor

* The W Group * Group of over 10 entities * Author of several investment books

* Group of over 10 entities * Wealth creation and Investment industry * Documentation and Storage of documents * “Safe, secure and accessible”

* Needed an “affordable, secure and remotely accessible system” * Wanted to reduce capital costs. Only 2-3 staff. * Remote connectivity, access to shared document storage

* Solution – Office 365, Windows Home Server * Low Capital Cost * Remote access * Online Storage * SugarSync for external party access

* Specialist Medical Practice * 1 doctor, 2 administrative staff * Office for consultation * Surgery at several hospitals

* LOB application called Genie, which employs a 4D database server. Has offline database capabilities, which integrates when connected back to main database. * s need to be online immediately * Uses iPhone and iPad with Macintosh

* Key points: Mobility and Disaster Recovery * Solution – SBS Essentials + Exchange Online * Client Backups * Database hosted on site, copied offsite * Multiplatform accessibility * Not dependent on unreliable office broadband

* Travel Agency * 5 consultants, 1 admin, 1 semi retired CEO/author * One or more staff normally away from office

* Line of business applications are online and hosted by various travel vendors * Use of in-house accounting system * Shared workstations * Consistent deployed desktop

* Key Points: Mobility, RWA, BYOD * Solution – SBS Essentials, Multipoint Server, Office 365 * Active Directory, Access to RWA * Terminal Service for remote workers * Exchange and Sharepoint * Multiple device access

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Used with permission of SMB MVP Community Roadshow Copyright (c) IT Pro Conference

* Small Business Server 2011 Essentials RWA, Client backups, server backups * Office365 Cloud Sharepoint, Communications and * Windows Storage Server 2008R2 Essentials Client backups, server storage and backup * Windows Multipoint Server 2011 Terminal solution * Virtualisation Solutions Windows Server 2008R2 Standard with HyperV

* Licensing OEM vs VL, MS Office $$$ * Brands Whitebox vs Tier1, serviceability, reliability * Services Managed Services * Backups Onsite vs Offsite, Data volumes

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