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VAI, Berbee Partner on ERP Bundle
With industry giants like SAP pushing deeper into the enterprise resource planning midmarket, Vormittag Associates Inc. has moved to broaden its reach with smaller customers by partnering with Berbee Information Networks. The deal, inked on July 24, could potentially lead to VAI’s S2K software being distributed through CDW’s catalog, and as a hosted application for…
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Tech Data a Laggard No More?
Tech Data over the years has played the role of laggard as other large distributors have rushed to adapt to changing market pressures and the evolution of technology. It’s an approach that often has paid off for the world’s second largest IT distributor, but don’t think it will remain de rigueur. CEO Bob Dutkowsky said…
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Red Hat Gains Service Modeler
Red Hat’s JBoss division is developing a service modeling technology based on a design donated to Red Hat. Thomas Erl, founder of SOA Systems, in Vancouver, B.C., and an SOA (service-oriented architecture) expert, has agreed to contribute the design for his service modeler technology to Red Hat. It will be integrated into the Red Hat…
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Vendors Cast a Shadow Over Managed Services
Recent acquisitions by both Dell and Hewlett-Packard are probably giving solution providers across the spectrum cause for pause as they contemplate the ambitions that major vendors are beginning to harbor towards managed services. As everyone knows by now, Dell moved to acquire SilverBack Technologies, a provider of a platform for managed services that has relied…
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New MBS Chief: Partners Need Stability
Microsoft partners anxious about the new MBS (Microsoft Business Solutions) chief got their chance to meet him at the vendor’s Worldwide Partner Conference July 10 to 12 in Denver. Kirill Tatarinov, the new Corporate Vice President, Windows Enterprise Management Division and head of the MBS division, said the message he has heard from partners is…
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IBM’s Corgel Explores Channel Ecosystem
Mike Vizard:We’ve been talking about the notion of trying to leverage channel echo systems for a long time now. It’s the whole concept of how do I get the traditional solution providers to hook up with ISVs and in turn maybe also connect them back to consultants and the influencers so that we can just…
