Software

Artificial Intelligence

Automation Anywhere addresses business resilience issues with new RPA announcements

June 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Automation Anywhere addresses business resilience issues with new RPA announcements
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.

Partnerships

OpenLegacy expands partner ecosystem around their API integration for mainframes with BigID

June 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on OpenLegacy expands partner ecosystem around their API integration for mainframes with BigID
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.

Channel Programs

SAP rolls out new partner initiatives at Global Partner Summit

June 3, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP rolls out new partner initiatives at Global Partner Summit
The new initiatives build on the familiar strategic principles which were outlined in last year’s next generation partnering initiative.

Big Data

Talend announces Talend Data Trust Score as they stress data integrity at virtual Talend Connect

May 28, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Talend announces Talend Data Trust Score as they stress data integrity at virtual Talend Connect
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.

Channel Programs

LogicMonitor looking to recruit Canadian partners as they expand channel presence

May 25, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogicMonitor looking to recruit Canadian partners as they expand channel presence
LogicMonitor has intensified its channel focus since Mark Banfield joined the company as CRO from Datto 18 months ago.

Managed Services

Respond Software continues to build MSSP channel for Robotic Decision Automation software

May 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Respond Software continues to build MSSP channel for Robotic Decision Automation software
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.

Security

BlackBerry doubles number of partners selling BlackBerry Radar

May 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry doubles number of partners selling BlackBerry Radar
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.

Software

Droplet Computing brings ‘offline DaaS’ containerized solution to Canada

May 4, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Droplet Computing brings ‘offline DaaS’ containerized solution to Canada
Droplet has partnered with Prianto Canada to build its Canadian channel for their cross-platform containerized application delivery offering.

Managed Services

Goliath Technologies appoints new head of sales to continue channel expansion

April 24, 2020 Mark Cox 1
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.

Backup

OpenText Cloud Editions arrives as part of OpenText Release 20.2

April 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on OpenText Cloud Editions arrives as part of OpenText Release 20.2
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.