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European reseller powerhouse Computacenter has whipped the covers off a new web-based IT purchasing service aimed specifically at small and medium business (SMB) customers. According to the company, Computacenter Express combines the company’s experience of helping large customers maximise their IT spend with the ease of online purchasing, offering SMBs a cost-effective IT procurement option.
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Blue Coat charms Middle East channel
Blue Coat Systems gathered together its top distributors, systems integrators and resellers from across the Middle East for its recent channel partner conference held at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The event was Blue Coat’s biggest channel conference to date in the Middle East and drew resellers from 14 countries keen to find out more on market trends, operation updates and regional sales progress.
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Business software powerhouse Sage hit the road and headed to Bahrain to meet partners and customers and drum up interest in the company’s solutions. Sage’s regional management team were joined by Bahrain-based channel partners Fakhroo and Al-Moayed as well as Jordanian partner UBA at the solutions day, which was attended by 70 company owners and executives keen to learn more about Sage solutions.
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Cisco talks up channel collaboration
Networking giant Cisco has claimed that collaboration among channel partners contributes 31% of their sales. The results of the study were revealed during Cisco’s global partner summit in Honolulu. Cisco is doing its part to help resellers work together with the lauch of Partner Exchange, a network designed to help partners team up for projects.
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Ingres debuts partner programme
Ingres has launched a partner programme that it claims will both empower and showcase partners achieving success using the open source business model. Ingres, which provides open source database management software and support services, announced the programme launch at its global partner summit in Prague. Ingres claims that its new programme will help partners increase margins and reduce costs.
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Farabi climbs Microsoft’s channel ladder
Middle East systems integrator Farabi Technology has been awarded Microsoft gold partner status. Farabi has a strong pedigree as an integrator of Microsoft-based business solutions across the Middle East, North Africa and South-West Asia. Farabi also has expertise in unlocking IBM legacy assets for web and Windows platfroms.
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Wick Hill boosts reseller credit
Value-added distributor (VAD) Wick Hill has made an additional US$3m of credit available to its resellers. Wick Hill, which has offices in the UK and Germany, specialises in secure infrastructure solutions and offers the channel a wide portfolio of security solutions as well as web access and web management products.
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May the Salesforce be with you
eSolutions Force, which is part of the MDS Group, has struck a Middle East partnership with CRM player Salesforce.com. eSolutions reckons that it will become one of the first companies in the region capable of delivering end-to-end solutions in this sector. eSolutions also claims that the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market in the Middle East will be worth US$112m in full year 2008.
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Tinglobal, the parent company behind international refurbished high-end IT kit dealer Tindirect, has hit the acquisition trail, snapping up Powercore International and French operation Powercore SAS for an undisclosed sum. Tindirect works in the global business-to-business market for refurbished and reconfigured midrange computer equipment, including servers, storage, parts and associated services and networking infrastructure.
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The hunt is on across Europe for Raymond Nevitt, the one time components dealer turned supercar-driving playboy fraudster from Manchester, UK. International arrest warrants have been issued for Nevitt, 43, after he was found guilty of defrauding firms - including IBM Global Financing - to the tune of US$6m following an 11-week trial.
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