Monday is the kickoff for both the launch in Canada of the full StreamOne e-business platform in Canada and the internal realignment of Tech Data Canada’s sales division along the same lines as the AIS in the U.S.
The completion of the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will allow Lenovo to provide North American partners with smartphones for the first time. But don’t look for them to provide BlackBerry devices any time soon.
Cisco’s Roy Purtill and Citrix’s Michael Murphy join the podcast to discuss their companies’ latest
moves in the cloud and mobility spaces respectively.
Taking mobility to a strategic level creates a CEO-level conversation about “business and human outcomes” of IT projects, Citrix exec says at Toronto event.
While Janam sells mainly MIcrosoft OS, and still sells some Palm systems, the XT1 with Android 4.2 OS represents their first effort in what they are calling a ‘device coexistence’ phase in the commercial market.
The Margin Rewards program gives an additional discount when the partner does business with new logos, to reward them for bringing in new business. It goes into a discount pool that the partners can use to buy software, which they can pass on to a new end user, or use themselves.
The company has designed a new program for kiteworks, its next-gen enterprise mobile file sharing and collaboration solution, which will ultimately see it shifting to a 100% channel sales model.
The company began working with resellers in the U.S. a year and a half ago, and in March 2014 a partner program was formalized in the U.S. That program has now been extended to Canada.
ShoreTel says the new virtualized router will let their VARs be more aggressive in small 5-15 unit mobile deployments, because eliminating the router cost for a 10 unit deployment cuts the initial investment in getting 10 users live by two thirds.
KidoZen, a very young startup with a mobile app platform which facilitates the development of enterprise mobility solutions, is seeing customer acceptance as it goes against well-known brands like IBM and SAP.
IBM and Apple have formed a partnership to make iPhones and iPad more valuable enterprise tools, and build a new, growth-oriented act for both companies.
Microsoft will make Surface Pro 3 available to WPC attendees at a discount, but remains unclear on when (or if) partners will be able to resell the device.
A new partnership will see HP, Microsoft and Intel work together on a cohessive commercial mobility strategy from hardware through to go-to-market strategy.
If you’ve been wondering what happened to webOS, the operating system that became a symbol of HP’s flailing mobile strategy, take a look around your living room.