Tag: Microsoft
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Microsoft Survey Looks at Small Business Tech Buyers
Because of the company’s formidable presence in business environments, particularly in smaller companies, Microsoft makes up more than half of the managed service provider (MSP), reseller and services market. And that makes this week’s partner-focused Microsoft Inspire event full of implications for the channel. A big focus of the conference is opportunities for Microsoft partners… Read more
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Top Microsoft 365 Service Providers & Partners
Categories: Managed ServicesMicrosoft 365 implementation and operation can be tricky, causing many businesses, especially those with small or non-existent in-house IT teams, to turn to managed services providers (MSPs) for help. Implementation is also a time-consuming process. Businesses with less than 1,000 mailboxes to migrate could spend up to two full weeks on the project, while those… Read more
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Microsoft Inspire: Understanding the Importance of Partners
Categories: PartnersMicrosoft Inspire is Microsoft’s major annual partner event, and it is a partner love fest. But what is particularly interesting is the sharp contrast it offers with Apple and Google, both accused of anti-competitive practices while mining their partners for money. Interestingly, going back a couple of decades, Microsoft had a massive internal struggle about… Read more
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Cloud Service Providers & Channel Partners at Odds
The COVID-19 pandemic has obviously had a major impact on the ability of channel partners to engage their end customers. Because most channel partners have been unable to visit a customer in person, they have needed to rely on digital marketing to engage customers more than ever. Most channel partners even in the best of… Read more
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Low-Code Platforms Can Take Channel to a Higher Place
Solution providers are being continuously told to expand the scope of their services by adding or extending their application development capabilities. Only then will they be in a commanding position that will enable them to pull in the other technologies needed to deploy that application in the form of a complete solution. The only problem… Read more
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Are Microsoft Partners Feeling Inspired?
The recent Microsoft Inspire conference started me thinking about my many years of working with the vendor. I began selling Microsoft products in 1982. When the Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP) was introduced, my company joined immediately, having been partnering with the vendor for years. I remained a registered partner of the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN)… Read more