Microsoft vet Aziz Benmalek takes over as Splunk’s global channel chief, while the company announced new partner incents, improvements to their partner portal, and the implementation of the new partner tracks announced at last fall’s Splunk .conf18.
TSANet has successfully facilitated IT vendor interoperability for almost a quarter-century. Getting channel partners to join has been a challenge, however. The new initiative is designed to encourage their vendor members to bring their channel partners in.
SAP and Apigee are both seeing good synergies from their approximately two year-old partnership, the type of ISV alliance strongly being broadly pursued by both companies.
OpenText has historically been mainly a direct player, but is looking to leverage its strong partnership and personal relationships with SAP, and its relationship with SAP partner Accenture to build up its channel business in Canada.
Predixion’s technology is well suited to the IoT because its small footprint can push predictive analytics out to the edge, to sensors and machines with limited connectivity.
Liaison has offered enterprise data integration and data management solutions for 15 years, but their new Alloy Platform features exceptionally agile micro-services architecture to handle modern data workloads and deliver the plumbing infrastructure which powers enterprise analytics.