Tag: VAR
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Computer Associates Stresses VAR Collaboration
Categories: News and TrendsIn the next step toward creating a strategy that will increase sales while improving the bottom line for its channel partners, CA has developed a plan intended to drive more sales through the partner channel. In a letter that is expected be sent to Computer Associates International Inc. partners Tuesday, CA executives outline the program,… Read more
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Group Aims to End VAR Ignorance on RFID
Categories: News and TrendsRadio-frequency identification networks are the next big thing in retail, distribution, inventory tracking and nearly every other corporate operation that involves moving things from here to there and keeping track of them once they’ve arrived. RFID systems use smart tags that can be attached to cases, pallets or individual items, and they broadcast their data… Read more
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Healthcare VAR Nightmare? Drug System Can Lead to Errors
Categories: News and TrendsComputerized systems that reduce certain medication errors increase the risk of others, concludes a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. CPOE (computerized physician order entry) is widely hailed as an important solution for reducing medical errors. However, the study, led by Ross Koppel at the University of Pennsylvania, listed over… Read more
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Breaking Out of the Crisis Marketing Cycle
Categories: News and TrendsMany resellers have a problem with marketing. They all know it is important. They all admire great marketing in other companies and they all have occasional strokes of marketing genius. But as a practice, marketing is often put way below priorities such as current projects, sales and product development. Procrastination, ad hoc implementation and penny-wise/pound-foolish… Read more
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Linksys Launches New VAR Program For Small Business Market
Categories: News and TrendsLinksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., is launching a new VAR program this week that aims to drive Linksys products into the relatively robust small business market, offices with 25 or fewer users. The Linksys Partner Connection Program provides value pricing, demo discounts, marketing tools and support and training to VARs interested in reselling… Read more