While both Quest and erwin have hybrid sales models, erwin’s channel has been more successful at driving new business, something that Quest is eager to emulate as it expands its channel business beyond fulfilment.
The second generation of Ataccama’s platform, which reworks and extends the innovations of the first generation of this offering, is now in limited beta and scheduled for GA in February,
Naveego supplements its Master Data Management capabilities with broader data integration ones that make Naveego a complete data integration solution and let them get in front of customers they missed in the past.
Boomi situates the Integration Center of Excellence service they launched earlier this year into a fuller collection of services offerings, which will have a channel component.
This release now provides 120Hz VSync support at resolutions up to 4K, which improves both VR and AR capabilities, and also facilitates collaborate real time rendering of high level graphics from employees distributed in home locations.
Information Builders is now ibi – a term many customers called it in the past anyway.
At their virtualized Global Forum, SAS also previewed their upcoming Viya 4 release.
SAS will select Azure as the preferred cloud platform, and the two companies will look for ways to embed SAS’ analytics offerings through Microsoft’s stack.
The Talend Data Trust Score provides built-in trust scores for specific data, which comes from a new Data Inventory application, and allows the user to press a button to fix many data issues.
Splunk Data Stream Processor, Machine Learning Toolkit and Splunk Connected Experience get major updates, while Splunk reiterates how their Google partnership and new Remote Work Insights App fit into their strategy.
The biggest change is Couchbase’s vastly increased automation capabilities, which will be of particular interest to customers with large Kubernetes deployments.
Crushbank Insights uses Watson to glean emotion and sentiment analysis from help desk tickets, to provide information about how the tickets are being handled, for specific clients, and by individual engineers.
SAS partners played a bigger role than ever in the event this year, as SAS continues to move beyond its legacy direct sales days and invest more in its channel.
While Splunk Enterprise 8.0 delivers manageability at scale, Splunk Data Fabric Search provides the ability to search humungous data sets, including ones outside Splunk in stores like AWS and Hadoop. Data Steam Processor will also speed up analysis by doing it in a stream in motion, before it gets to a Splunk Index.
In addition to Mission Control, which integrates Splunk’s SIEM, UEBA and SOAR within a single pane of glass, the 6.4 release of the Phantom SOAR adds a mobile app and changes pricing to be by analyst rather than by event.
Splunk’s CEO talks about with ChannelBuzz about the company’s expansion strategy, where he sees the company going, and the limits to innovation.
All partners will see enhancements to the deal registration and CPQ systems, while Technology Alliance Partners get more perks and a clearer progression path.
Splunk CEO Doug Merritt updated the audience at the company’s .conf19 event on the company’s strategy, and unveiled some important new pricing changes that give customers a lot more choice.
Naveego also now uses machine learning to add the ability to profile data at the edge without having to transfer it.
The New Zealand based company has just launched a version of their new platform designed for MSP partners, with channel veterans Eric Martorano, who took over as CEO last fall, and Len DiCostanzo, who built the Autotask channel before the Datto merger, steering an aggressive channel re-orientation.
