Sobel, a member of CompTIA’s Executive Committee of the Emerging Technology Community, discussed what the committee has identified as the top three technologies for 2019 – as well as one that was not even on the Top Ten list, but which Sobel thinks is critical for solution providers.
UiPath has strong relationships with most of the global system integrators, and will be announcing more extensions of these partnerships going forward, but the Deloitte one involves so many joint customers that it is being announced now.
Mike Sharun and Paul Katigbak, who run Dell EMC’s enterprise and commercial businesses in Canada respectively, discuss Dell Technologies’ digital transformation strategy in Canada.
The companies will establish a Centre of Excellence for customers by the third quarter, and plan to have new solutions out in 2020.
The free trial lasts three weeks, and is designed both to expose Blue Prism to Azure customers and to raise awareness of an Azure deployment among Blue Prism’s on-prem customer base.
The early-stage Israeli startup just completed a seed funding round, and while they are still in proof-of-concept stage, the plan is to take it to MSSPs and MDR partners.
The growth of digital transformation is stimulating accelerated growth of digital work processes, and WorkFusion thinks its new product release gives it strong momentum to take advantage of this opportunity.
Pat Finerty, leader of the partner business for SAS Canada and Latin America on where partners can find opportunities around AI, and how to get themselves up to speed on an ever-changing, ever-expanding topic.
SAS COO Oliver Schanberger on how solution providers can identify customer challenges that can be solved through AI and analytics, and build confidence with quick wins.
Dell Technologies held the final one of their four Canadian events around the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence on Tuesday, emphasizing both the advantages and the challenges involved.
The new capability comes from Conga’s acquisition a year ago of Counselytics, and gives Conga’s software new machine learning capabilities. Their primary channel play is through Salesforce and their partners.
Automation Anywhere’s announcements this week include a new partnership with Toptal, which provides human talent, and which will see the companies add Digital Workers to that talent pool. It’s part of a plan to take RPA beyond IT and embed it more broadly and deeply in business processes.
Automation Anywhere CEO Mihir Shukla kicked off the company’s annual event in New York City by defining three themes they deem necessary for success going forward – and then briefly previewing how they intend to address each in their May software release.
Automation Anywhere launched their Bot Store a year ago, with all the bots being free. Now they are looking to expand both the number and the capabilities of the available bots, by allowing them to be sold.
Automation Anywhere’s software robotics will allow partners involved in business process automation to scale it up more rapidly and at lower cost.
Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.
In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.
This is the last big improvement to the Comm100 customer experience platform before a next-gen version is introduced in about four months.
