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Dale Vile, research director of Freeform Dynamics, said "Our assessment of the report tells us that an increased focus on IT correlates with good performance in all of the size categories surveyed."
"This whole picture corroborates the notion that technology and hosted services can provide tangible business advantage, even for smaller companies, and it's not surprising to see that investment in IT and hosting goes hand in hand with good financial performance," he added.
The research was carried out by Vanson Bourne between November 2009 and January 2010 and analysed by Freeform Dynamics. It covered 3193 SMEs (defined as having up to 500 employees) in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the US.
