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Intelisys Global, a technology services distributor responsible that claims to offer a new and highly profitable channel procurement model to the UK, has identified five key cloud technologies as valuable additional channel sales revenue streams for 2017. By bringing multiple telecommunications and cloud services providers together, Intelisys Global aims to provide its sales partner community with access to all the education, sales tools and support they need to add new cloud services to their portfolio.
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Cisco hands out Middle East channel awards
Networking giant Cisco recognised sixteen partners from the Middle East region for their outstanding performance in 2016 during its annual partner conference which took place in San Francisco, California. The Cisco partner summit awards are designed to recognise best-in-class business practices and serve as a model to the industry within their respective countries and regions. Areas of consideration include innovative practices, architecture-led successes, strategic business outcome-focused programmes, seizing new opportunities and sales approaches.
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Coolshop chooses Mirakl’s marketplace solution
Mirakl, a marketplace solutions provider, has announced today that Coolshop, one of Europe’s fasting growing online video game and accessories stores, is using Mirakl’s business-to-consumer (B2C) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplace platform as a foundation for future growth and expansion. Operating from stores in seven countries - UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Netherlands and Denmark - Coolshop has served over 1.6 million customers since its foundation in 2003. Originally focused on computer games, the business has expanded to sell across 22 categories.
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Yasser Zeineldin, eHosting DataFort
Why are businesses shifting to managed services for their IT needs? Yasser Zeineldin, CEO at eHosting DataFort, explains.
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AskIT, a free on-demand, one-on-one support service for anyone looking for help with a technology-related issue, problem or question, has been launched in a beta version by technology association CompTIA. AskIT provides consumers with free technical assistance and support for common everyday issues and problems related to computing, connectivity, peripherals, security, software, and more.
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Switch to cloud or wither away
Todd Thibodeaux, CEO at IT industry association CompTIA, pulls no punches in his message to channel companies and their need to adapt to changing market dynamics. Speaking to Channel EMEA at CompTIA’s recent EMEA conference in London, Thibodeaux said: “Channel partners that do not make the transition to cloud now will see their business wither away. Some still believe they can survive with the old model, but this will become harder and harder. Our best practice roadmap is screaming a simple message as loud as possible to them: change your business model now.”
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TechAccess gains Huawei CSP status in UAE
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) VAD outfit TechAccess has gained certified service partner (CSP) status from Huawei for the UAE. TechAccess began its relationship with Huawei earlier in the year and is the vendor’s only GCC-wide distributor. TechAccess has assigned a dedicated team to cover several countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Inoapps picks up Oracle awards
At Oracle OpenWorld 2016, Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has won both the EMEA and global Oracle excellence awards for specialised partner of the year, in software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud transformation. The awards encourage innovation by Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members, who use Oracle’s products and technology, to create value for customers and generate new business potential.
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Madison Dearborn to acquire Intermedia
Cloud business applications provider Intermedia has been acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), a leading private equity firm based in Chicago, USA. As part of the transaction, Intermedia’s shareholders, led by Oak Hill Capital Partners, will sell their stake in the company to MDP and company management. The partnership with MDP will help accelerate Intermedia’s rapid growth trajectory through increased investment in the company’s channel partner programmes, support experience, new and existing products, vertical industry solutions, and additional acquisitions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Intermedia appoints Martorano as global sales boss
Intermedia, a cloud business applications provider, has appointed Eric Martorano as its new senior VP of worldwide sales, effective September 15th. Martorano comes to Intermedia from Microsoft, where he most recently served as general manager of US partner sales and developed, launched and managed channel partner programmes.
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