Changes are coming, due in large part to the impact of technology evolution delivered by vendors and channel partners. We can and should look forward to the future with optimism....
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When Microsoft surpassed Apple to become the most valuable company in the world, the business press made no mention of partners’ contributions to the company’s success. This slight isn’t uncommon, and it’s something channel chiefs need to counteract....
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Vendor mergers and acquisitions are disruptive to partners for a variety of reasons. Vendors need greater transparency when bringing two companies together. Here are a few tips for what to share with partners during such deals....
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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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Sandra Glaser Cheek joins Pod2112 to talk about the new program, the Ciena Partner Network, and what it took to build a channel initiative that’s different from the marketplace standard. ...
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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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Atrion CEO Pat Grillo joins Pod2112 to share his story and discuss what vendors need to know about the consequences of channel conflict from a partner’s perspective....
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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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Michael Dolbec from GE Ventures talks to Pod2112 about the future of IoT and what makes a digital start-up investment-worthy in today’s competitive climate....
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Technology vendors are facing the need to change their business and sales models. They find such change is hard because different generations have different attitudes toward how things should be done....
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Perry Lea, principal technologist at Microsoft and the co-founder of Rumble, joins Pod2112 to discuss the growth path of these technologies, how Moore’s Law is impacting their evolution, why fog computing is the clear route to our future, which industries will flounder and excel, and...
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