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Cognitive Computing Promises Profit Boost for MSPs
With each passing day, it’s clearer that the delivery of managed IT services is becoming more automated. Arguably, most managed service providers are now engaged in nothing less than an arms race. By automating multiple IT services efficiently, MSPs can reduce their costs significantly. In turn, it’s almost inevitable those MSPs will pass those savings…
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Autodesk Aims to Bolster Its Cloud Ecosystem
At the end of the day, no cloud application is an island in itself. For it to be worth building in the first place, a cloud app must be able to consume and share data with other apps. With that goal in mind, Autodesk has made available several application programming interface (API) extensions to the…
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Channel Marketing: Defining Value Propositions
Channel marketing is about value propositions, but the devil is in the definition of “value.” For example, “terabytes of solid-state storage with gigabytes of cache buffering” may seem to some tech people like a high value proposition. However, it may not sound that way to your customers. In fact, they may not even know what…
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Digital Transformation: Why Failure Is Not an Option
Digital transformation complexity Digital Transformation: Why Failure Is Not an Option Customer expectation is driving the pace of digital transformation, but businesses face challenges around legacy infrastructure and steadfast company culture. Transformation Challenge 87% of global respondents believe digital transformation is a significant strategic challenge for their business. The percentage is significantly higher (91%) for…
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Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal: What’s the Channel Angle?
Why is Microsoft’s planning to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion? At first glance, it seems like a very expensive way for Microsoft to become relevant in the CRM space, particularly since Salesforce has been investing heavily in advanced analytics technologies that ultimately serve to unify the sales and marketing motions. Microsoft has yet to address…
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Channel Insider Named ChannelCon Event Partner
Channel Insider‘s editors and writers are pleased that we will be event partners with CompTIA for its ChannelCon 2016 conference Aug. 1-3 at the Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Fla. Highlights of the conference—with the theme “Breaking Boundaries”—will include presentations and panel discussions by IT and channel influencers, as well as networking opportunities. Attendees…
