Information Builder Summit this year did not see any splashy new technological announcements or partnerships, but there were some significant new items, with some still in tech preview.
Unstructured Data Management-as-a-Service adds former Qumulo channel leader Jim Choumas as Vice President of Channel, while channel veteran Leonard Iventosch becomes Chief Channel Advisor.
The enhancements to the StaffConnect platform make the management capability much more flexible and granular, which is of particular importance to larger customers.
The key theme stressed by Vella, in his first presentation at the company’s big customer event since replacing the founder and longtime CEO this year, is that Information Builders is committed to redesigning processes that allow for true scalability by ensuring data is trusted, so that tools will actually be used.
The SDK is part and parcel of AtScale’s move to a more agile quarterly release cycle. The platform also improves analytical query and security capabilities.
Citrix switched its focus a bit at this year’s Citrix Synergy, held recently in Atlanta. While its Workspace environment has long focused on providing workers access to the tools they use, at Synergy it previewed what it calls the Workspace Intelligent Experience, due to debut by the end of 2019, which changes that to giving…
Cherwell has had a limited partner presence in Canada, but their partnership with Uni-TI, who will lead with them and promote them aggressively, is expected to have a significant impact.
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.
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.
Cherwell has remade its old partner program, which was undiversified and not very effective, and is looking to add a select number of focused reseller and delivery 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.
Zoho still does most of its sales direct, but the channel presence continues to grow, and Zoho is encouraging partners to pursue larger opportunities, especially by leveraging the Zoho One suite.
For 15 years, Zoho has run a training facility in India as an alternative to traditional higher education, designed to make students more serious and not force them to roll up debt. Now, the same philosophy is coming to their new headquarters in Austin.
Timothy Kasbe was hired by Zoho two months ago as their first head of enterprise sales, and he is looking to shake up the enterprise software space by leveraging some traditional Zoho strengths, as well as utilizing newer ones, like enterprise-focused channel partners.
Sage introduces significant enhancements to its midmarket ERP offering which include advanced options and functionality in the AWS cloud, improved API capabilities, and the start of what will be a major reworking to make user experience delightful.
At the Zoholics event, Zoho discussed its distinct corporate culture and its growth strategy extensively — and stressed the relationship between them.
Commerce Plus is not part of Zoho One, but is a separate offering, which sits on top of it. Zoho also indicated the identity of a forthcoming second vertical solution.
The new Zoho MarketingHub app provides coordination of other marketing applications, both ones which are part of Zoho One and those outside it, while Zoho Orchestly enhances business process automation.
