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.
The enhancements include ease-of-use things like flipping the media player from horizontal to vertical, so that it, and the text to speech and associated analytics, run top to bottom instead of side to side, like everything else in mobility.
The integration of native mobile capabilities acquired with SkyGiraffe fundamentally reshapes the user experience and adds significant new capabilities, with more to come as other types of applications are addressed in the same way.
Automation Anywhere’s software robotics will allow partners involved in business process automation to scale it up more rapidly and at lower cost.
Adobe kicked off its Adobe Summit customer event in Las Vegas with its CEO explaining how Adobe ate its own dog food to digitally transform and fundamentally reshape what had been a successful business. He was then followed by Best Buy’s CEO, who described how his company had followed the same strategy to revitalize a company that had been on many endangered lists.
Zoho, which has expanded its CRM application into a suite of over 40 applications that sells for $30 per user per month, is proud of some elements of their business and product set that they acknowledge are somewhat offbeat.
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.
Office 365 itself is a notoriously low margin offering, and adding Pickit to it, in what should be a low-touch transaction, can double those margins.
Fahrbach also said that in comparison with the sales position held by his predecessor, Rodolpho Cardenuto, as SAP’s top channel official, he represents the entire global partner organization, and brings it to a higher level of importance within the company.
Fahrbach’s new position is a hybrid of the work he had already been doing and the large scope of the role formerly filled by Rodolpho Cardenuto, who recently left SAP.
Micro Focus brings together their legacy business with the software assets acquired from HPE into a single program designed to manage hundreds of product lines, including managing cross-sell opportunities smoothly.
TITUS has been successful selling to very large enterprises, but as their skillset becomes even more relevant to the broader data protection market, they are broadening their go-to-market strategy with an expanded system of both strategic technology and reseller partners, with the goal of a 100 per cent channel business.
While Attunity’s smaller channel, which is principally SI’s, will realize more significant and elastic capabilities through Qlik, Qlik’s legacy channel, which is much larger, will reap new data integration capabilities. This is something Qlik sees as vital because of where they believe the analytics market is headed.
For channel partners, Attunity’s new level of automation of the data pipeline to the Azure cloud frees them from migration processes that took months, and lets them provide more strategic services to customers.
Adam Drew, who recently was named Box country VP for Canada, has reworked Box’s internal sales teams to improve vertical focus, and is looking to add high-value partners to further the company’s enterprise strategy.
ServiceNow’s Canadian general manager Marc LeCuyer talked with ChannelBuzz about the company’s momentum in Canada, broadening its offerings to digitize workflows and enhance customer experience, with the growth in their channel business playing a critical role.
Information Builders is looking to expand beyond the enterprise by engaging more closely with their partners, rather than with the transactional model they used before, and have designed their first partner program to achieve this.
