Beller talks with ChannelBuzz about how he intends to build on TIBCO’s recent history of driving its channel growth.
Cloud, Software
TIBCO introduces new Partner Ecosystem head Tony Beller at TIBCO NOW event
by Mark Cox •
Software
Cloud, Software
ServiceNow adds new digital transformation for COVID era in Paris release of its Now workflow automation platform
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud, Software
Zoho looks to take on Microsoft Teams with collaboration-focused Zoho Workplace
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Channel Communities, Software
Open source management vendor FOSSA adds channel, channel chief and channel program
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud, Software
Zoho launches BackToWork solution free to the end of 2020
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Software, Storage
Integrator IMT launches new software division and SoDA [Software Defined Archive] solution
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Artificial Intelligence, Security, Software
Ivanti unveils new Ivanti Neurons AI platform for remote workforce
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Delayed Canadian data centre one of few Zoho setbacks in COVID response
by Mark Cox •
Zoho has had a broad COVID response strategy involving multiple initiatives, which largely reflect its own philosophy as a company.
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Canadian employees think workplace tech tools aren’t the sharpest in the shed
by Mark Cox •
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.
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eDiscovery vendor Ipro bolsters channel by acquiring Montreal-based NetGovern
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
Information Builders rebrands, unveils product enhancements at Virtual Summit
by Mark Cox •
Information Builders is now ibi – a term many customers called it in the past anyway.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Zycada launches with bot solution to make e-commerce sites faster than Amazon
by Mark Cox •
Zycada is still in direct proof of concept selling, but plans to build out a channel of both MSPs and VARs.
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Channel Programs, Software
ServiceNow extends partner enablement and empowerment tools
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Automation Anywhere addresses business resilience issues with new RPA announcements
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Partnerships, Software
OpenLegacy expands partner ecosystem around their API integration for mainframes with BigID
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Software
SAP rolls out new partner initiatives at Global Partner Summit
by Mark Cox •
The new initiatives build on the familiar strategic principles which were outlined in last year’s next generation partnering initiative.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
Talend announces Talend Data Trust Score as they stress data integrity at virtual Talend Connect
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Managed Services, Software
LogicMonitor looking to recruit Canadian partners as they expand channel presence
by Mark Cox •
LogicMonitor has intensified its channel focus since Mark Banfield joined the company as CRO from Datto 18 months ago.
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Managed Services, Software
Respond Software continues to build MSSP channel for Robotic Decision Automation software
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Security, Software
BlackBerry doubles number of partners selling BlackBerry Radar
by Mark Cox •
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.
