by World Wide Worx | Mar 9, 2018 | News
The massive technology shift from dial-up to ADSL as the most common form of connectivity among small and medium enterprises is about to be repeated. Except that, this time, the shift will be from ADSL to fibre. This is one of the major early indications of SME Survey...
by World Wide Worx | Jul 28, 2014 | News, SME Research
City slickers really do have it better than country folk, at least where the profitability of their businesses is concerned. That’s one of the surprise findings of SME Survey 2014, which has revealed that businesses in cities, or headquartered in cities, are more...
by Arthur Goldstuck | May 25, 2012 | Internet Research, Market research, News, SME Research
Despite the clear benefits of Cloud computing, ranging from reduced costs to improved efficiencies, small and medium enterprise (SMEs) have yet to embrace this approach to technology use. According to the annual SME Survey, South Africa’s longest-running survey of...
by Arthur Goldstuck | Nov 11, 2008 | News
Five years since its launch, ADSL has finally replaced dial-up completely as the connection of choice for the South African SME. This was among the key findings of SME Survey 2008 on the use of information and communication technologies by small to medium South...
by Arthur Goldstuck | Oct 21, 2008 | News
South African SMEs are feeling the pinch of higher interest rates, as the cost of capital and bad debt begins to rise. While the majority of SMEs appear to be confident in their ability to weather the storm, it is the start-up and micro-enterprise that finds itself at...