Software

HP Anyware adds enhanced multi-use collaboration, federated authentication, with 23.04 release

HP Anyware’s remote connectivity software, which combines HP’s old ZCentral Remote Boost Software with Teradici CAS and its PCoIP technology HP acquired two and a half years ago, gets upgrades which address some key pain points.

Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies

Panasas has substantially evolved their portfolio in the last few years to become much more of a software company, and is working on skilling up their channel further to sell the new solutions.

Riverbed unveils new ACE program for MSPs selling Alluvio product family

The new MSP program, the first shoe to drop in what will be a complete restructuring of Riverbed’s partner program by the end of this year, is focused on broadening Riverbed’s presence downmarket from their traditional enterprise base for their Alluvio Unified Observability Solutions.

Conga launches Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud and announces expanded partnership

The new Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud fundamentally reworks Conga’s solution portfolio by rearchitecting all their applications into microservices, while the expanded partnership with Accenture turns what had been reactive joint sales to customers into common sales and engineering activity where the two companies will collaborate much more extensively than in the past.

Software collaboration vendor Appfire fine tunes channel strategy in move upmarket

Appfire has been selling its software for years through a channel-first strategy, principally through the Atlassian platform and ecosystem, but has now formalized and beefed up its own channel program to make partners more productive and recruit more good ones.

Zoho continues to unify collaboration experience with Zoho Trident

Trident, a native app to consume Zoho Workplace, is just one of several new collaboration experiences from Zoho, which they expect will ultimately expand beyond the Workplace apps into other areas like marketing and sales.

Swedish PIM vendor inriver deepens North American push with new senior executive hires

This is all part of a change in strategy following the company’s purchase by a growth-focused American venture company, which also includes the appointment of a new CEO.

New Veeam global channel chief pledges continuity rather than change

Larissa Crandall becomes Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances, the first time Veeam has brought these areas together globally under a single executive.

Veeam Backup for Salesforce now available on Salesforce AppExchange

Veeam is also announcing a free 50-seat version of the native backup application for Salesforce, and indicated that a couple more product-specific like this one and an earlier one for Microsoft 365 are on the roadmap.

Redstor enters QuickBooks backup market to give lower cost option to SMBs

Most QuickBooks data is not backed up today, in part because Quickbooks’ own backup options are limited, and expensive for smaller businesses.

French-based Kurmi Software continues North American expansion with release of Kurmi Provisioning Suite Version 7.8

Kurmi’s focus is on enterprise UC provisioning and the new version of the suite extends support for Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft.

SAP Build low code solution for business users highlights start of SAP TechEd

SAP also announced a partnership with training platform provider Coursera to train new professional developers for entry level jobs in the SAP ecosystem.

Sage beefs up Canadian capabilities on heels of Transform event

Today Sage is announcing a renewal of its sponsorship of the Canada Games movement, following up on the announcement that Sage Membership and Masterclass is now available in Canada.

CloudBees looks to better enable new types of partners with revamped CloudBees Partner Network

The new channel program is particularly designed to support partner types like system integrators and CSPs that CloudBees has recently made a priority in their channel-building efforts.

OpenText lays out product roadmap, with a major unknown being impact of unclosed MicroFocus acquisition

OpenText’s new CE 22.4 release was clearly set within the Titanium roadmap,  and while the final stage of that roadmap, the integration of MicroFocus, remains under wraps till the deal closes, the successful turnaround of Documentum under OpenText’s stewardship augurs well here.

OpenText CEO Barrenechea provides update on Project Titanium  and Business 2030 vision at OpenText World

Barrenechea, commenting on OpenText’s ongoing transition from an on-prem company to a cloud one, joked that being reborn in the cloud is better than being born in the cloud.

Lenovo celebrates 30th anniversary of ThinkSystem servers with major portfolio enhancements

They include new Lenovo V3 Infrastructure solutions, a new Lenovo XClarity One cloud-based software management platform, and the fifth generation of Lenovo Neptune water-cooling technology.