Mom-and-pop shops fly to the cloud
September 4, 2014
Grazed from CNBC. Author: Ari Levy.
The winners in the cloud-computing revolution so far have been vendors catering to big business. Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Workday and ServiceNow built multibillion-dollar companies by shifting massive enterprise applications to the Web, uprooting traditional software suppliers in the process.
A new crop of emerging cloud players is creating software for the millions of mom-and-pop shops, pulling some into the digital world for the first time. Goodbye paper spreadsheets and time punch machines. Tough Pups in Corning, New York, is the quintessential new buyer. Founded a decade ago by Leo Sanders, Tough Pups is a pet day care and training facility with six employees and less than $1 million in revenue…
In the past year, Sanders’ job as owner and “top dog” has gotten a lot easier. He’s transferred his customer support to an automated offering from Zendesk, moved his physical punch clock to software from Deputy, implemented Bench’s bookkeeping program and swapped out payroll tools from Intuit’s QuickBooks in favor of ZenPayroll…
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