Tag: artificial intelligence

  • Channel CTOs Need to Plug the Skills Gap

    Channel CTOs Need to Plug the Skills Gap

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The single biggest issue impeding growth across the channel is not products or services; it’s the absence of people with the skills needed to implement them. That’s the assessment of Eduardo Kassner, CTO for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft. To address that issue, his team will focus on proliferating skills across the channel by… Read more

  • Analytics Emerges as a Means to an AI Solution’s End

    Analytics Emerges as a Means to an AI Solution’s End

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Most advanced analytics applications today rely on statistical models to project an outcome based on all the data currently available. While not always 100 percent accurate, those models provide much higher degrees of certainty than previous generations of enterprise applications. Now, however, vendors are embedding machine and deep-learning algorithms into applications that promise to transform… Read more

  • IBM Brings the Cognitive Era to the Channel

    IBM Brings the Cognitive Era to the Channel

    Channel Insider Staff

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    At the IBM PartnerWorld 2017 conference this week, IBM made it clear that it wants partners to gain some hands-on experience using the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform to help them gain a better understanding of how to apply it across a variety of solutions. IBM announced that it has developed a PartnerWorld Advisor, a… Read more

  • SAP to Build Ecosystem Around Machine Learning

    Channel Insider Staff

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    At the SAP TechEd 2016 Barcelona conference, SAP signaled its intent to create dedicated partner programs to drive machine learning algorithms deep into all its applications. Those enhanced applications promise to be able to automate whole classes of functions in ways that neither partners nor customers have seen before. For example, Markus Noga, vice president… Read more

  • How Salesforce Is Bringing AI to the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    Artificial intelligence may seem like a concept that’s far removed from the channel. However, Salesforce on Nov. 3 unfurled an instance of its partner relationship management (PRM) software delivered as a service that comes infused with an Einstein AI engine that has the potential to transform how channels are managed. PRM applications are loaded with… Read more

  • When AI Comes to the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    For some time now, the folks that manage channels on behalf of vendors have been collecting massive amounts of data about almost every transaction conducted via the channel. Naturally, the goal is to make the channel a whole lot more efficient. IT vendors these days need to track everything from the relationship between the number… Read more