ServiceNow’s Canadian general manager Marc LeCuyer talked with ChannelBuzz about the company’s momentum in Canada, broadening its offerings to digitize workflows and enhance customer experience, with the growth in their channel business playing a critical role.
The new version of Ivanti Automation [acquired last year from RES] is the first that is fully integrated with the other Ivanti solutions, while Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager, brings together the old Landesk Endpoint Manager and the Ivanti Environment Manager Policy, a former AppSense product.
Hitachi Vantara expands their midrange offerings for both all-flash and hybrid platforms and extends their flat service model from the all-flash series to their hybrid series as well.
While Calabrio has been expanding its cloud presence with new partnerships with Contact Centre-as-a-Service providers, they are also leveraging their strategic platform and reseller partners and looking to expand into new kinds of platform markets.
The RES brand will disappear, and its technology will be folded into the Ivanti service management and digital workspace businesses.
Riverbed says that the new platform will make it easy, for the first time, for traditional networking partners to deliver services around Riverbed technology.
LANDESK had been working on rebranding itself for nine months, and the bringing together of the company with HEAT Software into Ivanti provides an ideal opportunity to create a brand – and a strategy around it – to cross-market and cross-sell all the company’s solutions.
LANDESK CEO Steve Daly, who will head the new firm created by merging LANDESK and HEAT, talks about how HEAT will enhance LANDESK’s service management business, especially on the MSP side. He also discusses integration issues, the new company’s strategy, and channel issues — as well as why the new firm will likely have a new name.
Current LANDESK CEO Steve Daly will become CEO of the new company – as yet unnamed. HEAT CEO John Ferron becomes the Executive Chairman of the new company’s Board of Directors.
HEAT has not had an out-of-the-box offering designed for MSPs to date, and is remedying that with HEAT MSP Cloud, which adds new features and capabilities specifically for MSPs to the core HEAT cloud service management offering.
The strategic acquisition of assets Absolute wanted to divest to focus on its core business continues HEAT’s transition from FrontRange’s old SMB business to an integrated endpoint management platform that increasingly appeals to enterprises
The company says it acquired a cloud based services management platform to provide a simpler and low cost pure play offering to the partners who want it, and that their partnerships with the major PSA vendors will continue.
