Tag: SaaS

  • Ballmer Urges Partners to Embrace SAAS

    Ballmer Urges Partners to Embrace SAAS

    Peter Galli

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    DENVER—Microsoft and its partners must change the way they have traditionally done business to accommodate software as a service, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference here July 10. Ballmer started his keynote—to the tune of “Let’s Get It Started”—by going into the audience and shaking hands up and down… Read more

  • Trend Micro, Tech Data Team on SaaS

    Trend Micro, Tech Data Team on SaaS

    Jessica Davis

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    Trend Micro is taking its antivirus and content security software and services to a new usage-based, software-as-a-service license model for North American VARs and will offer the program through IT distributor Tech Data. The deal fits into Tech Data’s ultimate managed services architecture. The Clearwater, Fla.-based distributor last week at its TechSelect conference in Salt… Read more

  • Symantec Creates SAAS Backup Service for SMBs

    Symantec Creates SAAS Backup Service for SMBs

    Jessica Davis

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    Security and storage vendor Symantec will deliver a selection of its portfolio as software as a service in an effort to reach more small and midsize businesses, and the channel will take the lead, said the company and its partners. Channel partners will be able to resell the SAAS offering—called Symantec Protection Network—and add additional… Read more

  • Microsoft Releases Titan Code to Select Partners

    Microsoft Releases Titan Code to Select Partners

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Taking the next step in its walk toward an on-demand version of its Dynamics customer relationship management software, Microsoft announced Jan. 10 that it’s releasing the code for its next major upgrade, Titan, to about 300 partners. The early look-see could help ease some partner fears around the impact of an on-demand model from Microsoft.… Read more

  • SAAS: More, Not Less, Channel

    SAAS: More, Not Less, Channel

    John Hazard

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    When Bluewolf Group unwrapped an on-demand Salesforce.com implementation at the New York Times Co. earlier this year, it was already weeks ahead of the schedule an on-premises solution would have required. But the real work was just beginning. Bluewolf immediately plugged in 700 of the Times’ sales representatives to the Salesforce Enterprise Edition Customer Relationship… Read more

  • Autotask Stays Relevant with Monthly SAAS Updates

    Autotask Stays Relevant with Monthly SAAS Updates

    John Hazard

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    Autotask, makers of a business management platform for IT service providers, keeps users engaged with its product and on the edge of their seats by pushing out monthly updates of its software, according to users. In April the company introduced support for live reports for managed services accounts. In May, it rolled out support for… Read more