SMB Forum
SMEs Keen to Adopt IT in Maharashtra but Lack the Knowhow
October 13, 2015The interesting thing about SMEs in across Maharashtra’s industrial belt (and possibly everywhere else across the country), is that they’re gradually realizing the importance of using IT to remain competitive. ...
Does Big Data have a Place in Small Businesses?
October 6, 2015– P.C. Kiran, AVP - Engineering, Impetus Infotech Big Data is the current fervor throughout several industry verticals. In not only business and industry, it is being leveraged also in public ...
How Pune Plastic SMEs are Using IT for Business Benefit
September 18, 2015– Sameer Joshi, Vice Chairman, Indian Plastics Institute-Pune Chapter Today, plastics and polymers are present everywhere from the lush green fields to clear blue skies. They’re present right from the morning ...
How Vashi’s Small Scale Industries Compete Globally Using IT
September 15, 2015We interacted with R.K. Jain, Chairman-IMC, Vashi and Ganeshan Pillai-Joint Director, IMC to understand IT usage by Vashi’s small scale industries and what further needs to be done to make ...
3 Things Every SME Needs for Successful Cloud Computing Adoption
September 14, 2015Just going for a cloud computing solution today is not enough. Here are three other technologies you also need. Indian SMEs are gradually accepting cloud computing instead of investing money upfront ...
HP Reaches out to SME Clusters Directly with BusinessNow Express
September 11, 2015In its bid to provide innovative IT solutions built for SME clusters, HP has kick-started its BusinessNow Express program. A part of this program involves taking a bus fitted ...
How PCPA is Helping Pune’s Plastic Manufacturers
September 11, 2015The Pimpri Chinchwad Plastic Association is taking a whole range of measures to address issues of its members, including organizing best training, events, and ICT solutions for them. We spoke ...
Karbonn Aura packs a 5″ display & quad-core CPU at Rs. 4,990
July 8, 2015Karbonn today launched its latest budget smartphone-Aura in India. The device comes with 5 inch (12.7cm) big IPS-LCD screen that offers a consistent and accurate colour from all viewing angles ...
Lack of IT Awareness is the Biggest Challenge for Rajkot SMBs: REA
May 20, 2015In order to provide solutions, it’s important to first understand the problem. The panel discussion during the PCQuest SMB event helped identify the key business challenges faced by Rajkot’s engg ...
‘Just like other industries, SMBs in Rajkot have also started adopting the latest IT technologies to support their business needs’
May 19, 2015We spoke to Gurpreet Brar, Director-Commercial Channels, HP, to understand how solutions providers are helping SMB manufacturers in overcoming their challenges. What sort of trends are you observing on IT usage ...
‘Larger companies use big and costly IT solutions such as ERP but SMBs use software for document management, workflow management and accounting.’
May 19, 2015We spoke to Gokul Sagpariya, President, Rajkot Engineering Association, to understand the business challenges confronting the smb segment in Rajkot. Here are the excerpts: PCQ: What type of companies comprise the ...
10 Best Open Source CRM Systems for SMBs
May 8, 2015Are you fed-up managing your new and existing customers' data? Well, there are many open source tools available for free that can not only solve all your queries ...
PCQuest SMB Forum–Dec 2012: Doing More with Less
January 3, 2013Last month, PCQuest conducted its popular SMB Forum series of events across Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, and Chennai. The event focused around technologies that can help Indian SMBs to do more with less
How Technology is Helping Surat’s Diamond Industry
July 30, 2012Surat is undisputedly the worldwide hub of diamond manufacturing and trading; we travelled to the city to find out the technological implementations and advances that is helping the industry maintain and grow in this position
PCQuest SMB Forum 2012–Pune and Delhi
May 1, 2012SMEs in Pune and Delhi clearly highlighted their key pain point as a lack of understanding of the technical jargon while adopting IT
The Seventh PCQuest SMB Forum
March 5, 2012We begin the 7th glorious year of this series of PCQuest events across India, by playing hosts to SMEs in Chennai, Hyderabad, Ludhiana, Kolkata, and Surat
PCQuest SMB Forum–July 2011
September 1, 2011The team PCQuest this time focused on the IT essentials that SMEs need to deploy to make their businesses more efficient and productive.
PCQuest SMB Forum
October 7, 2010The PCQuest partners came up with innovative products that were showcased in all five cities. Here’s a quick peek
PCQuest SMB Forum 2010
October 7, 2010We travelled to 5 cities pan-India this quarter and gathered interesting learnings about the IT related challenges SMBs face in India.
PCQuest SMB Forum — June 2010
August 1, 2010From capricious IT product purchases to precocious solutions deployments, IT adoption across SMBs in India has come of age