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According to U.S. finance chief Anthony Mackle (pictured), the distributor has doled out $1.4 billion in new credit to its partners over the last 18 months to help them fund the transition from product reseller to cloud and professional service provider.

The new offering is the first to combine Microsoft’s productivity and collaboration suite with SkyKick’s data migration and backup products in a single, subscription-priced SKU.

The distributor’s new “Training-Development-as-a-Service” program allows vendors to deliver e-learning, e-training, and partner enablement resources to their channel partners more easily.

Resellers who engage with the distributor via the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program will be able to find channel pros with complementary skills on Dynasource’s partner-to-partner talent-sharing marketplace.

The ITaaS solution provider says the tool will help MSPs estimate the cost of running IT in Azure.

Called Mail Assure and announced during pre-day activities at the vendor’s Empower MSP conference in Orlando, the system acts as a protective layer for incoming and outgoing email.

MSPs who use itopia’s Google-based platform to host Windows workspaces can now import client and user data from ConnectWise Manage and export ticket and billing information back in return.

Arrow has been distributing the ConnectWise Manage PSA and ConnectWise Automate RMM solutions since June.

Part of an update to the cloud vendor’s appMailer email marketing system that also includes enhanced social media and security functionality, the new feature lets channel partners collect contact details from sales prospects in exchange for a free white paper.

Formally unveiled at the vendor’s Elevate partner conference, the new features are designed to help MSPs reduce administrative overhead and make more informed decisions about where and how to allocate resources.