Liongard has provided roundabout integration with Autotask through their existing integration with IT Glue, but the integration streamlines the process, and provides access to Autotask customers who don’t use IT Glue.
The enhanced integrations, along with IT Glue’s new Open Platform Manifesto, are both designed to reassure the market that despite the company’s acquisition by Kaseya late last year, nothing has changed with respect to their commitment to working with all the PSA players in the industry, notwithstanding their being competitors of Kaseya.
Carbonite retreads a path that others have taken with their announced purchase of Webroot, bringing together natural adjacencies in backup and security. While they are confident about what they see as key synergies between the two companies, some key questions still remain about how the deal will unfold after it closes.
Unitrends now leverages the Kaseya IT Complete suite, and will pay both higher margins on the initial sale of a Unitrends solution, and a full recurring revenue share for any Kaseya IT Complete solution that customer buys, ever.
New Datto CEO Tim Weller attended the event, and talked with ChannelBuzz about Datto’s plans in Canada, and other items of interest.
RapidFire Tools also sees the new offering’s platform as being one that can handle multiple compliance regimes. It already supports GDPR, and they intend to roll out additional regulatory support this year.
Liongard’s new Metrics feature gives their MSPs the ability to generate their own metrics to provide deeper insight into issues of concern to their customers.
Kaseya’s CEO detailed that the IT Glue acquisition actually took place two years ao, and has been kept under wraps. He also indicated what will happen with IT Glue now that the acquisition has been formally announced, and dropped some hints about what is next on the acquisition front.
Kaseya will maintain Vancouver-based IT Glue as a standalone company to sell to its competitors, while also working closely to integrate its technology into the Kaseya Suite of offerings. Kaseya said IT Glue’s existing management team will guide operations in the wake of Day’s departure.
Malwarebytes announces a new partnership with Bask Technology, which both highlights their endpoint protection product, and is part of the company’s plan to significantly expand their presence in the SMB space going forward.
ITBoost offers full functionality in documentation, password management, BI and customer feedback through an integrated pane of glass, and is at the ConnectWise IT Nation Connect 2018 event this week looking to differentiate themselves and impress MSPs.
Vancouver-headquartered IT Glue, the market leader in IT documentation for MSPs, has designed their first partner event around the principle of providing MSPs with valuable takeaways, rather than just talking about themselves.
The acquisition immensely strengthens Kaseya’s compliance offerings, and they immediately announced a new compliance solution from the RapidFire technology, which was sufficiently important that they delayed announcement of the acquisition for two months, until the new product was ready.
Unitrends also promotes Clark Brown, who formerly managed their DMR relationships, to the channel chief role.
The new offering is much stronger than what Kaseya had before for Office 365 Backup, and is something that Kaseya partners should be able to sell to their own customers at a good margin,
New improvements in Kaseya VSA 9.5 for technicians include native Microsoft PowerShell integration, and improved file management capabilities.
New automation profiles, enhancements to the Panorama network visualization environment, and a new integration with Kaseya Live Connect are the big changes here.
The new bundles are part of new As-a-Service offerings for their AuthAnvil and Traverse products, and are designed to help Kaseya MSPs get more proactive and aggressive about selling these.
GMS Live Expert will provide Kaseya’s MSPs access to their help desk services, in a deal that covers Kaseya’s main VSA platform, as well as their BMS PSA offering and NOC operations.
The expanded relationship between the two companies leverages the Webroot Unity API, which they rolled out last year, and which is designed specifically for MSPs.
