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Lenovo Plans Portal Partner Play, Extends Best Buy Agreement
As part of Lenovo’s plan to complete its separation from IBM, over the next few weeks the company is migrating channel partners from the IBM Partner World portal to a new Lenovo portal. The change comes nearly two years after the Chinese PC giant acquired IBM’s PC division. The company also plans to move its…
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Microsoft Gives SAASy Advice
Microsoft has issued new architectural guidance for organizations looking to implement software as a service systems. On Feb. 8, Microsoft announced its new architectural guidance in the form of a sample application, said Tim O’Brien, director of platform strategy at Microsoft. The Microsoft sample SAAS application is known as LitwareHR, a fictitious human resources application…
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Can ID Theft Be Solved with More Regulation?
SAN FRANCISCO—Early one morning several years ago, the police knocked on Robert Maynard’s door and told him he was under arrest for fraud. There was just one problem: The Robert Maynard the police were looking for did not actually exist. Maynard was the victim of identity theft. Today, he is co-founder and chief operating officer…
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IDS Scheer, E2E Announce New Integration Technology
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—At its annual ProcessWorld conference, held Feb. 6-7, IDS Scheer gave a nod to the technology side of its software business with a new integration tool, dubbed ARIS Bridge. Developed with a little-known systems integrator, E2E Technologies, which is based in Basil, Switzerland, ARIS Bridge could have a profound impact on the actual…
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Profiles in Channel Courage
One of the most difficult missions any company can assign itself is to move from a direct to an indirect sales force. It basically entails re-engineering every process in the company to the point where personnel turnover rates can easily reach 100 percent. So after doing precisely that, it might be instructive to take a…
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Novell Offers Data Center Management Blueprint
Novell on Feb. 7 put a blueprint forward on its vision for helping IT implement automated management spanning the desktop to the data center. Novell’s Desktop-to-Data Center Management Blueprint, based on ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) methodologies, is intended to describe for Novell customers and partners how to manage complex IT infrastructures to maximize use of…
