TIBCO’s CEO talked with ChannelBuzz about the company’s recent customer event, and how their long-time data strategy is getting new synergies in the COVID era.
They include Twilio Video Web RTC Go, a free toolkit for one-on-one video, EventStreams, which uses a single API to aggregate data from all Twilio powered experiences, Twilio Frontline for mobile workers, and Twilio Flex Ecosystem, a third party expansion of the Twilio Flex platform.
Centreon, which just expanded into North America from France in 2018, has had MSP partners as well as VARs, but this is their first complete MSP package with a pay-as-you-grow pricing model.
The new announcements fall under the blueprint areas of Any Data, HCI Analytics and the Responsive Application Mesh.
At the Partner Keynote that opened the TIBCO NOW event, TIBCO announced impending changes to the partner program, including a move to a multi-track model, and a new marketing tool.
Beller talks with ChannelBuzz about how he intends to build on TIBCO’s recent history of driving its channel growth.
Highlights include six new products, four of which are vertically focused around telcos, legal and financial services. A new Service Graph Connector programs for integrations is also part of the release.
Zoho Workplace is a suite of nine existing Zoho collaboration, productivity, and communications applications which have the advantage of being fully integrated with each other and with other Zoho business process apps.
Former Cloudera channel chief Scott Andress has been named Vice President of Alliances, and is putting in place a partner program to add a channel sales component to the Go-to-Market model.
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.
