Alexa

Partnerships

Plantronics rebrands as Poly, unveils new product and strategic initiatives

March 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Plantronics rebrands as Poly, unveils new product and strategic initiatives
Poly is designed to provide a new joint identity for the Plantronics-Polycom combination. In addition to new pipeline product announced at Enterprise Connect this week, the company also emphasized new and expanded strategic partnerships which have more joint offerings on the way.

Mobility

BlackBerry fleshes out Spark strategy with new partnerships and projects

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry fleshes out Spark strategy with new partnerships and projects
Following BlackBerry’s announcement of its Spark platform for what they call the Enterprise of Things in September, they used their October event in New York City to highlight new strategic relationships and applications that have already developed from Spark.

Cloud

New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners

December 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners
AWS made such a flurry of announcements at last week’s re:Invent event that it was sometimes difficult to keep track. Canadian partners and customers at the event did, however, have pretty clear ideas about what they liked.

Cloud

AWS unveils potentially disruptive Alexa for Business

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on AWS unveils potentially disruptive Alexa for Business
AWS brings its Alexa technology to the office. The one negative for Canadian users is that out of the gate, it’s only available in the U.S East region.

Cloud

Sage doubles down on bots throughout portfolio

June 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage doubles down on bots throughout portfolio
Sage announced that their Pegg chatbot capabilities are being introduced into their Sage One cloud solution. But that’s only the beginning.

Cloud

Vancouver systems integrator TriNimbus sees massive potential in new AWS announcements

December 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vancouver systems integrator TriNimbus sees massive potential in new AWS announcements
TriNimbus, AWS’ only Premier partner in Canada, highlighted several of the many AWS announcements at the AWS re:Invent show as being highly relevant to their customer base – as well as one that will have less direct short term relevance, but longer term will likely have massive significance.