Collaboration

Computers

The IT trends behind Canada’s learning spaces of the future

January 30, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on The IT trends behind Canada’s learning spaces of the future
HP Canada president Mary Ann Yule on the opportunity HP sees in the Canadian education market, and how solution providers can profit on it.

Bob Stegner, senior vice president of North American marketing at Synnex
Channel Communities

Varnex celebrates 10 years

November 14, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Varnex celebrates 10 years
As its Varnex reseller community turns ten, Synnex looks back at its history and forward to what comes next for partner members.

Wendy Bahr, senior vice president of Cisco's Global Partner Organization
Channel Programs

Simpler is better: Cisco pares programs

November 7, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Simpler is better: Cisco pares programs
Cisco announces a reduction in the complexity of its partner programs, while pivoting profitability towards software and recurring revenues.

Cloud

Salesforce, Google extend partnership with multi-faceted collaboration

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Salesforce, Google extend partnership with multi-faceted collaboration
Salesforce and Google have announced a major extension to their existing partnership, which will see much deeper integrations. It will not, however, place Google in a preferred position above AWS as a public cloud provider.
Cloud

What’s new at Dreamforce 2017? Upgrading existing services

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on What’s new at Dreamforce 2017? Upgrading existing services
Salesforce’s general managers discuss the innovations in their areas being announced at this year’s Dreamforce, and emphasize how they follow a common theme of allowing greater accessibility and customization capability.

Mark Hill, vice president of digitization, Cisco
Networking

Cisco eyes lower enterprise agreement limit

November 3, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco eyes lower enterprise agreement limit
Cisco will soon lower limits on its Enterprise Agreement software sales as it “looks to move more enterprise and commercial business to the new structure.

Cisco's Rowan Trollope demonstrates Spark Assistant at Partner Summit
Unified Communications

Cisco adding AI assistant to Spark collaboration tools

November 3, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco adding AI assistant to Spark collaboration tools
Cisco previews Spark Assistant, which aims to bring voice control to its collaboration tools, and ultimately create a AI-based meeting moderator.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins
Channel Programs

Editor’s Notebook: Random tidbits from the Cisco braintrust

November 2, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Editor’s Notebook: Random tidbits from the Cisco braintrust
Short hits from Chuck Robbins et al on how Cisco thinks about change, SMB, new partner types, cloud agnosticism, acquisitions, and more.

Cloud

SugarCRM moves up release cadence, introduces shareable dashboards in Fall ’17 release

October 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on SugarCRM moves up release cadence, introduces shareable dashboards in Fall ’17 release
The new release of the SugarCRM flagship product also modernizes the Email module and lets users drill down into the dashboards for more insights.

Raja Patel, general manager of corporate products at McAfee
Security

McAfee, Cisco partnership opens up cross-partnering opportunities

October 18, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on McAfee, Cisco partnership opens up cross-partnering opportunities
McAfee channel chief says data-sharing and automation partnership with Cisco will lead to Cisco partners coming to it for non-network security components.