March 25, 2010 5:17 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Android,
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
Droid,
DVI,
Google,
iPhone,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
SearchITChannel.com advisory board,
Virtualization
While many VARs may not agree with the now-approved healthcare legislation, those with a healthcare bent see it as a potential goldmine. This according to one member of the SearchITChannel.com Advisory board. Here are the top five takeways from yesterday's quarterly advisory board...
March 23, 2010 6:43 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesOne of the big perpetual gripes of channel types is the amount of investment it often takes to get their technical services teams up to snuff on certain new technologies, especially when things are as tight as they have been for the past two years.
March 19, 2010 9:32 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Autotask,
ConnectWise,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and servicesIs it me or is there a heck of a lot of activity going around in the professional services automation (PSA) world right now? I've always been intrigued by these applications, because of the discipline and process that they can bring to a solution providers day-to-day operations.
Right now, I'm...
March 18, 2010 5:35 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
Jerry York,
Lou GerstnerJerry York, the legendary numbers guy who played key roles at GM, IBM, Apple and other fortune 500 giants, died today. The cause was reported to be an
March 17, 2010 3:29 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
mobility,
Motorola,
Motorola PartnerEmpowerEmpowerment is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot these days, but I really love that Motorola has decided to call upon this theme as the name of its expansive new program for folks rallying around their enterprise mobility and communications technologies. It's called, simply,
March 12, 2010 3:30 AM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
Symantec channelMost technology vendors talk the talk about why partner-to-partner collaboration is so important for their channel. Symantec continues to encourage it through its referral program, which has now been in place for about a year.
March 11, 2010 4:59 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
ERP,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
NetSuiteThings are getting good in mid-market ERP--a segment that could use some caffeination.
Microsoft is offering NetSuite shops $850 per user in credit to move to its ERP lines. The money goes to end users--presumably the partner benefit would come from implementation work involved in...
March 10, 2010 7:06 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
ERP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Jodi Uecker-Rust,
Microsoft,
Robert Deshaies,
Sage SoftwareEmbarrassing to have missed this one but Robert Deshaies, once a channel exec at Microsoft, is now at Sage Software. Sage competes with Microsoft ERP and CRM...