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Asigra announces general availability of SaaSAssure to address broad SaaS application market

Asigra has been a backup provider for decades, and is now expanding their portfolio with SaaSAssure, which provides comprehensive recovery for SaaS applications, with ten apps available at launch today, and 14 more set to become available in the near future.

Riverbed unveils advanced new AI-powered observability platform

Designed to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, remote work environments, and Zero Trust and SD-WAN architectures, the new platform, the first major initiative from new CEO Dave Donatelli, also adds modules like NPM+ and the Aternity Mobile monitoring solution.

Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company

Conga has made a series of major strategic initiatives since their merger with Apptus, with the idea of making the two companies work better together, improving the culture and increasing customer revenue opportunities.

More mature Conga channel strategy having success

Conga discussed the evolution of their channel strategy with ChannelBuzz, while some channel partners indicated what they were looking to see around the Conga event.

Prophix unveils their financial performance management platform, Prophix One

Prophix One is the company’s next generation financial platform, which makes it much easier for CFOs to execute business plans and handle large data sets and complex planning with even more speed thanks to more Generative AI and Machine Learning.

Nominal tackles legacy ERP systems with Generative AI

Nominal is targeting the SMB and midmarket with an ERP replacement system that is launching today, and will eventually rely strongly on channel partners.

 Morpheus Data announces new suite of data services to help assess VMware usage going forward

This provides an alternative that will let enterprises migrate off VMware Aria,   and also introduces the Morpheus Plugin Framework to let companies build their own integrations, which Morpheus will certify, and a new 7.0 version of Morpheus.

Check Point explains product strategy within overall strategic context

While Check Point has the reputation of  being a high end product that serves the high end of the market, they also sell to SMBs as well, and even though the focus this year was on high end strategy, their SMB portfolio got its share of important announcements.

Check Point scales up Harmony email portfolio with new Harmony SaaS offering

While Check Point’s original Harmony product came from a 2021 acquisition, the technology that specifically became Harmony SaaS came in a September 2023 acquisition, and is now formally available following its integration into the Check Point platform.

Check Point CEO lays out strategy to continue strong 2023 momentum in 2004

Gil Shwed emphasized that going forward, Check Point needs to be focused on its cloud-delivered platform together with an intensified AI strategy.

Sage Canada partners and customers attracted by Sage’s bold strategy at Transform

Sage’s new product portfolio and strategy had attendees saying this was the most exciting transform in their memory.

Sage launches new sustainability initiative at Transform

While sustainability informs several of Sage’s key new product issues announced at Transform, for the first time they also introduced sustainability initiatives for customers, which met with a positive reception and are likely to be expanded going forward.

Sage extends presence in sports platforms with Sportable partnership

Following up on last year’s partnership with Major League Baseball, Sage is announcing a different type of sports partnership, with Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform, which is designed to bring deeper, AI-led insights to major sports. 

Sage looks to improve SMB skills around carbon reporting with extended AWS partnership

The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.

Sage enhances AI vision and portfolio with major announcements at Sage Transform

Sage emphasized that this year’s Transform is a very important one, because of key changes, particularly around AI, that will greatly improve customers’ lives and productivity.

Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot

Sage Copilot is a new AI-based productivity assistant, whose AI has been specifically trained around accounting rules and best practices, and which is designed to help SMBs make better business decisions.

Prosimo strengthens multi-cloud network stack with Generative AI and Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking

Prosimo’s AI Suite for Multi-Cloud Networking closely resembles their core product that the startup has sold the last few years, Multi-Cloud Networking for AI ,has been beefed up with the addition of Generative AI, while the other suite component, Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking, is new with this release.

Infoblox strengthens DNA capability of BloxOne Threat Defense with new SOC Insights solution

SecOps Insights extends DNS capability to the InfoBloxThreat Defense platform, a move that InfoBlox says has strong appeal to customers and will make it easier for partners to keep them for life.

Nutanix lays out strategy to take advantage of partners’ Broadcom Blues

The details on what will clearly be massive change from Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware have been gradually being made public, and Nutanix is one of the VMware competitors who see opportunities created by channel disruption.

Parallels launches new DaaS solution for SMBs

While Parallels has made a Remote Application Server for years, they have now launched a cloud-based DaaS solution which can complement it, or be used as a separate solution on its own.