Automation Anywhere’s announcements this week include a new partnership with Toptal, which provides human talent, and which will see the companies add Digital Workers to that talent pool. It’s part of a plan to take RPA beyond IT and embed it more broadly and deeply in business processes.
Automation Anywhere CEO Mihir Shukla kicked off the company’s annual event in New York City by defining three themes they deem necessary for success going forward – and then briefly previewing how they intend to address each in their May software release.
Automation Anywhere launched their Bot Store a year ago, with all the bots being free. Now they are looking to expand both the number and the capabilities of the available bots, by allowing them to be sold.
Cloudian has partnered with large service providers for years, but has established a new program for smaller MSPs, and is looking for those with some kind of vertical or other focus that differentiate them from generalists.
Zoho still does most of its sales direct, but the channel presence continues to grow, and Zoho is encouraging partners to pursue larger opportunities, especially by leveraging the Zoho One suite.
For 15 years, Zoho has run a training facility in India as an alternative to traditional higher education, designed to make students more serious and not force them to roll up debt. Now, the same philosophy is coming to their new headquarters in Austin.
Timothy Kasbe was hired by Zoho two months ago as their first head of enterprise sales, and he is looking to shake up the enterprise software space by leveraging some traditional Zoho strengths, as well as utilizing newer ones, like enterprise-focused channel partners.
Sage introduces significant enhancements to its midmarket ERP offering which include advanced options and functionality in the AWS cloud, improved API capabilities, and the start of what will be a major reworking to make user experience delightful.
At the Zoholics event, Zoho discussed its distinct corporate culture and its growth strategy extensively — and stressed the relationship between them.
Commerce Plus is not part of Zoho One, but is a separate offering, which sits on top of it. Zoho also indicated the identity of a forthcoming second vertical solution.
The new Zoho MarketingHub app provides coordination of other marketing applications, both ones which are part of Zoho One and those outside it, while Zoho Orchestly enhances business process automation.
The designs, one around HPE SimpliVity and the other a ProLiant/Nimble combination, run in the GKE environment, and will be available both through a standard reference architecture and through HPE’s GreenLake consumption-based as-a-service offering.
Lacework has a unified multi-cloud security solution that offers customers multiple types of protection in the cloud, and has begun building out a channel of focused security specialists who want a compelling message for customers transitioning to the cloud world.
HPE adds Nutanix and its free AHV hypervisor to their HPE GreenLake consumption-based service, while Nutanix’s channel gets to sell an integrated appliance which combines HPE servers with Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software.
To highlight the importance of cloud visibility, Sophos is also concurrently releasing a new report highlighting the extent and persistence of attacks on cloud honeypots.
Ed Rodriguez talks at length with ChannelBuzz about his perception of his new assignment, how he hopes to increase channel business in Canada, and some major changes, which add new resources, that have been implemented to help make this happen.
The enhancements include ease-of-use things like flipping the media player from horizontal to vertical, so that it, and the text to speech and associated analytics, run top to bottom instead of side to side, like everything else in mobility.
NetSuite channel chief Craig West joins the podcast at the company’s SuiteWorld event to discuss its new SuiteLife partner engagement model and all things going on in the NetSuite channel community.
IBM is making a broad series of storage announcements today at an event in Rome, with completion of the Storwize refresh with the V5000 series, including new NVMe models, being the highlight.
Axcient has named Gina Thompson as Vice President of Channel and Worldwide Distribution.
