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    Channel Insider is the most innovative and progressive channel support organization in the market today. Through its online, digital, print, marketing and services offerings, Channel Insider provides IT solution providers, value-added resellers, systems integrators, service providers, distributors and IT vendors with the technology insights, business best practices and market intelligence needed to increase revenues, grow businesses and make the channel profitable for everyone involved.

    Channel Insider knows the channel today, and knows where it’s going in the future. The channel is going through a transformative period, in which the tens of thousands of solution providers in the channel community are rapidly adopting new technologies and adjusting their business models to capitalize on their own innovations, opportunities presented by vendor partners and meet the needs of their business-technology consumer clients. Only Channel Insider understands the nature of this transformation and how to connect solution providers with the information and resources they need to cross the chasm.

    Channel Insider services all technology and market segments of the IT channel. Channel Insider believes in returning “value” to the term “value-added reseller” by providing proscriptive technical, business and marketing guidance to solution providers how technologies can add value to their businesses and the businesses of their clients.

    Channel Insider knows all facets of the technology marketplace. Channel Insider, in concert with its Ziff Davis Enterprise sister publications, is the only channel professional services organization that touches all points of the channel lifecycle: IT vendors, distributors, developers, solution providers and business-technology consumers.

    Channel Insider is your gateway into the $600 million North America IT channel.


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