HOME We need a radical channel rethink to drive mass market adoption of smart home technologies in Europe, argues Stuart Wilson, Editor at Channel EMEA.
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Syscap pledges channel financing boost
UK-based IT finance provider Syscap has ring-fenced £50m (US$78.3m) for the IT channel in 2015 and is launching a new partner programme. The announcement forms part of a wider strategy to refocus the company as the primary source of channel finance. Syscap estimates that it currently deals with less than 10% of the reseller community in the UK that meets its new eligibility criteria.
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Ingram Micro UK adds SkyKick to cloud offering
Distribution giant Ingram Micro UK has added SkyKick to its cloud portfolio. The SkyKick migration suite is a solution that enables IT consultants, systems integrators, managed service providers (MSPs) and VARs to automate an entire Office 365 migration project, reducing costs and accelerating deployment.
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Opening the barriers to Europe
James Arnold Roberts, director at Genius Networks looks at what the barriers are to doing international connectivity business in Europe, and how resellers can overcome them.
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Armenia’s LED plans portfolio expansion
Next year’s DISTREE EMEA channel event in Monaco will once again unite brands with the region’s leading retailers, e-tailers and distributors of technology and consumer electronics (CE) products. Channel EMEA is an official Media Partner for DISTREE EMEA 2015. Over the next few months we will profile attending companies and bring you up to speed with channel insights from across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. First stop is Armenia where we catch up with LED Computers.
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Synaxon hooks Little Fish for 2015 event
Channel dealer group Synaxon has appointed event management firm Little Fish to deliver its 2015 UK conference. Little Fish was founded and is run by Lindsey Fish, who has extensive experience of channel event management and previously worked in senior marketing roles at cloud and services provider Exponential-e and prior to that at trade distributor, Entatech.
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Azlan ready to assist new Cisco resellers
Azlan, Tech Data’s VAD outfit for enterprise networking, server, storage and software solutions, has launched the next phase of its successful Momentum programme for Cisco resellers. Azlan is introducing a new Momentum business advisor team - a group of Azlan specialists dedicated to helping new Cisco partners drive opportunities and grow sales.
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DISTREE Events has launched a new summit series focused on how the retail channel will evolve to deliver smart technologies, solutions and services to consumers. The new session, entitled ‘Smart Channels: Retailing Connected Devices, Wearables and Internet of Things (IoT)’, will make its debut at DISTREE APAC in Singapore in October 2014. The ‘Smart Channels’ summit series will continue at DISTREE EMEA in Monaco in February 2015.
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Insight appoints Kaatz as EMEA VP
Technology supplier Insight has announced the appointment of Alexander Kaatz as VP sales and marketing EMEA. Kaatz, joins Insight from Systematic Inventive Thinking. Before that he spent 12 years at Microsoft in various senior sales and marketing positions.
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DISTREE Russia & CIS facilitates thousands of meetings between suppliers and channel partners
DISTREE Russia & CIS 2014 finishes today having successfully facilitated thousands of pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings between delegates. Taking place for the eleventh time in 2014, DISTREE Russia & CIS is the leading regional channel platform for interaction between vendors, distributors, retailers and resellers working in the ICT and consumer electronics (CE) channel.
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