Partners are obsessed with exit strategies, with as many as three out of four MSPs wanting to participate in a merger or acquisition in the next five years. Vendors see channel consolidation as a threat when it’s more likely a benefit....
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Vendors and distributors need to seek out partners that are willing to take risks and break from conventional trends to address emerging and future market opportunities. ...
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Many people openly question the viability of distribution in a future market dominated by services and recurring-revenue models. Services will dominate, but we’ll always have product to move, and distribution is already evolving to avoid the death so frequently predicted. ...
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Many channel executives believe partner tiers are a thing of the past and replaceable by new systems. Nevertheless, tiers are essential and will persist even as the channel evolves....
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As more partners transform themselves into professional services organizations, vendors will need to adapt to a channel in which loyalty is less important and relevancy is paramount. ...
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Microsoft’s launch of its Microsoft Managed Desktop service sent shockwaves through the channel, which is dominated by managed services. Vendors should have managed services, but they need to take partners into consideration. Here’s why. ...
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Articulating goals and designing programs strategically can go a long way toward successful partner engagement....
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Vendors often start channel transformation processes with the notion that they need more and new partners. They might, but they truly won’t know for sure until they define what they need to do to address market opportunities....
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Having great products and channel programs isn’t enough to entice partners. Vendors need to define why partners should engage with them if they want robust and productive channels....
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Companies that built the various IT industry segments could always rely on knowing their competition would look and act more or less like them, but that’s no longer true....
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Carlos Blanco, senior director of Worldwide Cloud Service Providers at Citrix, joins Pod2112 to talk about the need for transforming the role of channel account managers in the cloud computing era....
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Alex Hart, a veteran executive of such vendors as Symantec, VMware, and Verizon Enterprise, joins Pod2112 to talk about the partnering fundamentals that remain unchanged amid disruptive technology trends....
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