Year: 2013
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Gen Y Ups the Ante for Technology in the Workforce
Categories: Managed ServicesGen Y for Technology Bye-Bye Baby Boomers As older Boomers reach retirement age, Gen Y and Gen X workers will be filling the gap. The workforce is expected to shift to Gen Y by 2020. This means businesses will need to adapt to a new set of expectations, attitudes and work preferences, including IT tools… Read more
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Aria Simplifies Recurring Billing for the Channel
Aria Systems has developed a cloud-based unified billing product that addresses the challenges faced by businesses that sell recurring revenue products and services through multiple channels. The Unified Channel Billing platform enables the entire billing process in each channel to be automatically managed and reported for each entity in the chain. The platform supports recurring… Read more
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SaaS and the Channel: The Hidden Perils
Categories: Cloud ComputingSaaS Market Growth Through 2015 SaaS market is expected to grow 16.8 percent this year. 2012 – $14.3 billion, 2013 – $16.7 billion, 2014 – $18.9 billion, 2015 – $21.3 billion Read more
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MSP Platform War Escalates Across the Channel
Categories: Managed ServicesFor more than 10 years, a slow but steady migration toward managed services has been taking place across the channel. There have been many challenges facing solution providers making that migration, including the fact that most customers are still not managing IT as a service. Without that fundamental shift in philosophy about the management of… Read more
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SAP Pushes the Channel Toward the Cloud
SAP is seeking to get closer to channel partners that are making the transition to the cloud sooner rather than later. While SAP still values partners that resell traditional software and hardware, the rate at which customers are moving to the cloud has the company looking for partners that can push adoption of everything from… Read more
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BYOD Trend Creates Opportunities for the Channel
Categories: Mobile DevicesDoes Your Organization Have a BYOD Policy? Most organizations are still playing catch-up with BYOD. Yes – 41 %, No, but plan to have one – 17%, No – 41%, Don’t Know – 1% Read more