Small and Medium Sized Businesses That Embrace IT Make More Money
By Anna Johnson on February 14th, 2010Microsoft Corp’s global SMB IT and Hosted IT Index 2010 indicates that small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) across multiple segments tend to make more money, the more advanced is their use of technology.
Despite the global recession, 52 percent of SMBs reported an increase in revenue in 2009, up from 39 percent in 2008.
And of the SMBs that saw IT as critical, 60 percent achieved higher revenues in 2009. Among SMBs that stated IT was not important, less than 29 percent saw revenues rise during the year.
The SMB IT and Hosted IT Index 2010 commissioned by Microsoft involved surveying 3,193 SMBs in a cross section of private industries in 15 countries.
