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2015 was a surprisingly good year for small businesses. What opportunities will 2016 bring?

In 2015

The economy was one of the strongest in the G7
Despite the headwinds of fiscal austerity and collapsing commodity prices, Britain remains one of the fastest growing large economies in the world. The latest OECD forecasts put Britain level-pegging with the USA at 2.4 per cent real annual GDP growth, creating a robust environment for business growth.

Sometimes a phone call just isn't enough when it comes to communicating with colleagues and customers. If you want to share information without meeting face to face, conferencing technology can facilitate. Please find below a review of some leading conferencing apps on the market.

Fuze Meeting Pro

For $69/ month workers can participate in meetings from every popular platform. It works particularly well for international businesses or businesses where a key members of staff travel. Fuze offers a basic but useful set of sharing tools. You can add content to the cloud at any point during the meeting to share on the screen or via a link. This virtual-meeting service can handle up to 12 video streams at once and has a visual chat feature for one-on-one side conversations. The video tool can display a variety of video file types, including HD video. 

Investment in IT hardware and software reaches a record high but SMEs struggle with complexity

A new survey by BNP Paribas reports that business investment in IT hardware and software has hit a record high, up by a quarter since the start of the 2008 financial crisis. The report says that business investment in information and communications technology jumped to £34.4 billion last year – up by 24% since the height of the recession in 2009, when businesses’ IT capital spending was just £27.6bn. 

According to a recent article in the Telegraph, start-up activity is on the rise. 49% of small businesses reported setting up their business with less than £2000 and one in ten companies started with no funding at all. So with no money in the pot how are these businesses communicating with their customers and growing?

Data analytics and cloud computing, two of the hottest IT trends of the moment, are combining to fuel growth in the cloud analytics market, new figures have suggested.