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Adobe enhances its Sensei AI with new services

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.

Pickit image service moves into channel with Ingram Micro bundle around Office 365 sales

March 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Office 365 itself is a notoriously low margin offering, and adding Pickit to it, in what should be a low-touch transaction, can double those margins.

Datrium shifts licensing default to software model with Datrium Forward

March 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.

Druva targets VMware customers moving to AWS cloud with DRaaS update

March 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Enhancements include new failback recovery capabilities, and recovery for cloud workloads with cross-region/account support.

SAP Chief Partner Officer Fahrbach says his new role reflects partner focus away from selling and towards delivering customer satisfaction

March 11, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Fahrbach also said that in comparison with the sales position held by his predecessor, Rodolpho Cardenuto, as SAP’s top channel official, he represents the entire global partner organization, and brings it to a higher level of importance within the company.

Konica Minolta reboots Workplace Hub as workplace of future focus, with new dealer resources

March 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub has been on the market for over a year, but the company thinks that what it sees as a ‘next-gen’ product is now ready for prime time with their dealer channel, and so they featured it heavily at their Dealer Conference.

SAP names Karl Fahrbach first chief partner officer in reworking of channel chief role

March 7, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Fahrbach’s new position is a hybrid of the work he had already been doing and the large scope of the role formerly filled by Rodolpho Cardenuto, who recently left SAP.

Intermedia adds free Envision analytics for partners to Unite platform

March 4, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

Envision provides a Partner Dashboard showing all customers, and a QoS Dashboard that drills down into a single customer, with more analytics dashboards on the roadmap.

Sergio Farache, senior vice president of strategy and specialist business at Tech Data

Tech Data launches Cloud Solutions Factory [Podcast]

February 25, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Tech Data’s Sergio Farache discusses the distributor’s new framework for offering integrated cloud solutions to common business issues in this edition of the Podcast.