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  • The Marketing Trouble With Engineering Companies

    It’s hard to think of a single instance in which the best product in any given IT category wound up being a market leader in that space. Just like in baseball, where good pitching almost always beats good hitting, it turns out in IT that vendors that spend a greater percentage of their budget on…

  • Arrow Launches a Global Training Alliance

    Arrow Electronics launched its Global Training Alliance with the announcement that Fast Lane, a provider of advanced IT training courses, is the first to join the global program. The alliance is designed to extend Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions education coverage and infrastructure with select partners. “When IBM decided to change their model with regard to…

  • Semiconductor Industry to See Less Volatility Long Term

    Semiconductor Industry to See Less Volatility Long Term Semiconductor Revenue Is Expected to Rise, but Slowly 77% of respondents say their company will see semiconductor revenue growth in the next year, compared with 75% a year ago. Small Percentage of Execs Expect Big Revenue Gains Only 22% of the respondents expect revenue to increase more…

  • The Snowden Effect on the Channel

    It’s pretty clear that Edward Snowden’s revelations concerning the extent to which the National Security Agency (NSA) is snooping on users of cloud and telecommunications services are weighing heavily on customers’ minds. We may never know how many customers in the United States, for example, will now opt to build private clouds on their own…

  • Can the Channel Field the Apple Opportunity?

    One thing solution providers are going to see a lot more of in 2014 is devices from Apple in their customer accounts. In the United States at least, Apple still dominates the consumer agenda. One way or another, a huge percentage of those devices, especially Apple iPads, are going to find their way into the…

  • SAP Makes a Bigger Line-of-Business Bet

    With line-of-business executives exercising more influence over the acquisition of applications than ever, there is a clear need to alter the way many vendors take their products to market. With a heavy focus on the way IT professionals think about applications, many app vendors and their solution provider partners are finding it challenging to market…

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