Small businesses have different technology needs from big businesses. While they operate their businesses on a much smaller scale than the big boys, small businesses also need power, reliability, premium features and good price from their technology products. Thankfully, technology vendors are responding to meet those needs.
To find out what technology products small businesses use and trust, the Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Awards has awarded vendors considered by small businesses as the best in various technology categories. Given by SmallBusinessComputing.com, the awards were handed to vendors in three categories: hardware, software and e-commerce. Not surprisingly, some of these winning vendors considered by the small business community as the best of the best are the familiar names in the technology industry, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Macromedia.
The winners by category of the SmallBusinessComputing.com Excellence in Technology Award 2005 are as follows:
HARDWARE
Notebook PC: IBM ThinkPad T42 (with fingerprint technology)
Desktop PC: Dell OptiPlex SX280
Networking Product: Dell PowerEdge SC420
Black & White Printer: Xerox Phaser 3150 Desktop Laser Printer
Color Printer: Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 2550L
Multifunction Device: Hewlett-Packard Officejet 7410
Handheld, Smartphone or PDA: PalmOneTreo 650
Digital Camera: Canon PowerShot S70
Desktop Storage: Maxtor OneTouch II
Server-based Storage: Dell PowerVault 745N
E-COMMERCE
Site Hosting Service: Interland
Design Tool: Macromedia Contribute 3 for eBay
Store Front: Kurant StoreSense 5.7
Web Analytics: NetIQ WebTrends 7
Marketing: Roving Software Constant Contact
Customer Support/Service: AuctionVideo
SOFTWARE/SERVICES
Productivity: Corel WordPerfect Office 12
Accounting/Finance: Intuit QuickBooks 2005
Security: Symantec Norton Internet Security
Graphics/Multimedia: Jasc Software Paint Shop Pro 9
Sales/ Customer Management: Best Software ACT! 2005
Wi-Fi Service Provider: T-Mobile
Collaboration: Macromedia Breeze Live
Internet Tool: Mozilla.org Firefox 1.0
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