Couchbase Sets Up First Formal Channel Program
Document databases over the last several years have emerged as the dominant form of so-called NoSQL databases. Of course, document databases are “NoSQL” because they are not based on a relational database engine. They typically can support a variant of SQL along with other programming tools and languages. The relative ...
ConnectWise Preps SDK to Simplify Integration
ConnectWise, a provider of a professional services automation (PSA) and remote management and monitoring (RMM) platform plans to make available a software development kit (SDK) that will make it simpler for IT vendors to expose the company’s platform to channel partners via the vendors' portals. The SDK is the next ...
Xerox to Merge with Fujifilm
Xerox and Fujifilm Holdings Company announced today that the two companies would merge in a deal valued at $6.1 billion. The two companies have been operating a joint venture together for 56 years. The combined companies collectively generate $18 billion in annual revenues. Current Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson will remain ...
Xerox Simplifies Channel Program
Xerox has become the latest vendor to simplify its channel program as part of an effort to reduce the friction and overhead associated with getting compensated. The revamped channel program announced today now includes a lower entry-level tier and access to an online dashboard that promises to make tracking partner ...
D&H Focuses on Wireless Mesh Networking
Wireless mesh networking represents a significant advance in that it makes managing wireless networks easier while at the same time making the overall networking environment more resilient. Multiple access points are treated as one logical entity, and if any one of them fails the other access points will pick up the ...
Autotask Survey Finds Managed Services Key to Partner Success
The top reason IT services providers are seeing more customers renew contracts is an increased demand for managed services. A recent survey of over 1,000 IT services providers conducted by Autotask, a provider of professional services automation (PSA) platform, finds nearly half the respondents (48%) credited managed services with improving ...
Xerox Looks to Partners to Spur Digital Business Transformation
Xerox as part of an effort to rely on partners to drive adoption of document management solutions that include output devices is gearing up to create turnkey application templates aimed at vertical industries for partners to sell. Xerox has already developed a series of solution templates for the healthcare industry ...
Microsoft Grows Cloud Channel Partner Ranks by 33%
Some six months after launching one of the most ambitious efforts ever to transform the channel, Microsoft revealed today that it had increased the total number of partners certified to sell cloud solutions by 33 percent over the past year. Today there are now north of over 68,000 partners participating ...
Kaseya Aims to Inject Automation into MSP Operations
There are a lot of manual tasks that conspire to make managed service providers (MSPs) inefficient, ranging from something as trivial as managing job tickets to integrating multiple applications. Kaseya with the launch today of version 9.5 of the VSA remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform is promising to help ...
