Zoho BackToWork consists of six related modules, with a key one being an Employee Wellness module to define and score individuals, and use those scores to manage access and restrict individuals with failing scores from coming to work.
IMT, which has a major presence in the media and entertainment industry, offers SoDA to move an unlimited amount of data at a fixed monthly rate, and will sell it entirely through channel partners.
Ivanti Neurons uses what the company terms hyper-automation using AI and many types of bots to provide a secure, self-healing Autonomous Edge for remote workers.
Zoho has had a broad COVID response strategy involving multiple initiatives, which largely reflect its own philosophy as a company.
A new survey done on behalf of Zoho finds that while a significant majority of Canadian employees are happy with their companies’ corporate goals and their work in general, most are not happy with their technology, whether they are working in the office or remotely.
Ipro has been a powerhouse in the legal and public sector markets, and in the analysis end of the market, while NetGovern complements this with a strong presence in many verticals and a focus on the upstream part of the market involving collection and preservation of data.
Information Builders is now ibi – a term many customers called it in the past anyway.
Zycada is still in direct proof of concept selling, but plans to build out a channel of both MSPs and VARs.
While the heavy lifting in restructuring ServiceNow’s partner program was done last year, the company is building on that this year with multiple new enablement initiatives to further empower partners and enhance the partner experience.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends towards automation, but now that much of the work of responding to the new work situations is created has been done, Automation Anywhere looked to future issues around workplace resiliency at their virtualized customer event.
OpenLegacy is focused on API integration with legacy mainframe systems, and are strong in Canada with the large banks and insurance companies that built their IT in the mainframe era.
The new initiatives build on the familiar strategic principles which were outlined in last year’s next generation partnering initiative.
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.
LogicMonitor has intensified its channel focus since Mark Banfield joined the company as CRO from Datto 18 months ago.
Florida-based MSSP CyberPeak is the newest managed services partner for Respond, which initially targeted enterprises when they came to market last summer, but has since added a strong channel emphasis.
Canada remains the largest market for BlackBerry’s asset monitoring solutions for transportation and logistics, but the company has expanded its channel for Radar beyond Canada and the U.S. for the first time, to Mexico.
Droplet has partnered with Prianto Canada to build its Canadian channel for their cross-platform containerized application delivery offering.
Karen Armor comes to Goliath looking to continue their channel’s recent growth by segmenting the channel more effectively and increasing enablement resources, including the hire of a channel manager.
In addition to the cloud-native capability for OpenText applications, which will roll out over this quarter, OpenText makes a multitude of other enhancements and some new additions in the 20.2 release.
Adobe’s virtual Summit, a concession to the unprecedented circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, becomes the first annual customer event to try the virtual approach. While new product and strategic direction received less attention than at a regular event, and customer experience rather more, for Adobe specifically, that’s likely enough.
