Topic: Partner Programs - Page 60

Membership benefits include automated marketing tools, free training resources, and credit options tailored to resellers of Cisco small business solutions.

Tech Data Corp.’s three-day event for partners features business and technology sessions, plus opportunities for networking.

Chris Frey, who will step aside as head of the company’s North American commercial business at the end of the month, will be replaced by two executives, including one focused exclusively on sales of server, storage, and networking gear.

Targeted at developers, the new partner benefits seek to make building, listing, and selling Salesforce-based apps easier, while new functionality for Salesforce’s Quip productivity solution integrates that system with the vendor’s software platform.

Through the Armor Global Partner Program, the companies will work together to provide organizations with flexible, military-grade security and compliance solutions to meet their unique business needs.

Now available in North America, the European vendor’s product is optimized for affordability and ease of use. It’s also the first solution backed by a new venture that seeks to bring overseas solutions to domestic channel pros.

The new offering will enable qualified Oracle resellers to offer bundled solutions that wrap services around Oracle’s infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service products.

The new products and procurement options include “as-a-service” payment options and a cloud-based managed services administration tool for solutions from the vendor’s Aruba networking unit.

Ready or not, Microsoft partners, commissions on new sales of cloud services under Microsoft’s so-called “Advisor model” end on September 30th.

The three-day event focuses on emerging channel opportunities and the digital evolution.