Software

Cloud

HPE beefs up unified private cloud portfolio portfolio powered by HPE Morpheus Software.

May 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE beefs up unified private cloud portfolio portfolio powered by HPE Morpheus Software.
HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, and made new storage announcements and guarantees as well.

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Marketing

Certinia’s advanced partner program is designed to shape partner alliances and channel sales businesses

February 22, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Certinia’s advanced partner program is designed to shape partner alliances and channel sales businesses
Certinia runs both a Services-as-a-Business platform and a pthat powers and connects all aspects of services operations, from services estimation and delivery to customer success management and financial planning and accounting.

Cloud

Zoho strengthens Finance and Operations platform with three new tools

January 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho strengthens Finance and Operations platform with three new tools
Zoho has released three beefed-up tools to the Canadian market. They are Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, and Zoho Practice. All are part of the Finance and Operations platform. Zoho Books now supports electronic filing for both the Canadian and Quebec governments, Zoho Inventory adds advanced warehouse management capabilities and Zoho Practice is for accountants.

Channel Programs

Riverbed trims channel, simplifies channel program, to meet new demands

June 18, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed trims channel, simplifies channel program, to meet new demands
Riverbed has intensified its focus on AI while simultaneously simplifying its partner program, and reducing its partner program members by over 90 percent.

Cloud

Riverbed unveils advanced new AI-powered observability platform

May 7, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed unveils advanced new AI-powered observability platform
Designed to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, remote work environments, and Zero Trust and SD-WAN architectures, the new platform, the first major initiative from new CEO Dave Donatelli, also adds modules like NPM+ and the Aternity Mobile monitoring solution.

Artificial Intelligence

Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company

April 30, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company
Conga has made a series of major strategic initiatives since their merger with Apptus, with the idea of making the two companies work better together, improving the culture and increasing customer revenue opportunities.

Artificial Intelligence

More mature Conga channel strategy having success

April 24, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on More mature Conga channel strategy having success
Conga discussed the evolution of their channel strategy with ChannelBuzz, while some channel partners indicated what they were looking to see around the Conga event.

Artificial Intelligence

Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot

February 28, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot
Sage Copilot is a new AI-based productivity assistant, whose AI has been specifically trained around accounting rules and best practices, and which is designed to help SMBs make better business decisions.

Cloud

Sage Canada posts strong momentum as new products roll out

December 15, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage Canada posts strong momentum as new products roll out
Mark Hickman, Managing Director at Sage Canada, reviewed the recent news items of particular significance for the Canadian market, and noted some additional changes coming next year.

Artificial Intelligence

HPE introduces new AI-native architecture and hybrid cloud solutions

November 30, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE introduces new AI-native architecture and hybrid cloud solutions
HPE emphasized that Generative AI requires an architecture which is fundamentally different and more powerful than cloud-native architecture, and they unveiled it, along with related AI-native offerings.