Sooner or later, every growing company wrestles with the question of whether it's better to keep consulting outside legal counsel or finally bring an attorney in-house. Here's advice to help you make the right call.
- By Fred Bayles
- March 01, 2008
Software as a Service is gaining momentum in CRM and messaging segments. Now, partners try to leap into the ERP realm.
- By Lee Pender
- March 01, 2008
Microsoft's super-sized server launch offers both increased work and new opportunities for integrators and ISVs.
- By Peter Varhol
- March 01, 2008
Microsoft's Infrastructure Optimization push gives partners a way to help customers get a handle on their IT investments -- and get a foot in the door on bigger engagements.
- By Doug Barney
- February 01, 2008
The phrase "managed services provider" means different things to different people, and the connotation isn't always positive. But MSPs are working to build credibility and show that their market holds big opportunities for customers, vendors and the channel.
- By Lee Pender
- February 01, 2008
No managed services provider can afford to be without solid business and IT management applications. Here's a guide to some of the top offerings.
- By Rich Freeman
- February 01, 2008
It failed to catch on in the enterprise in 2007, and it still faces hurdles to acceptance. But partners say that it's too early to call Windows Vista a failure in the enterprise. This could be the year that the beleaguered prince of Microsoft operating systems begins its ascent to the throne.
- By Lee Pender
- January 01, 2008
The new product launch wave hits early in 2008, so what's a partner to do? Microsoft insiders and partners point out channel opportunities and challenges in a year without Bill.
- By Anne Stuart
- January 01, 2008
Microsoft will arm partners with tons of new products to sell in 2008 -- including profitable tools like SQL Server and Windows Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- January 01, 2008
Ballmer, Raikes, Watson are names we know already. Here's a list of other Microsoft execs -- like Flinders, Bennani and Park and 17 others -- that partners should keep in their sites.
- By Anne Stuart
- December 01, 2007
With version 2.0, Citrix makes its thin-client tool even more SMB-savvy, while opening up its reseller program to non-Citrix partners.
- By Joanne Cummings
- December 01, 2007
While past performance is no guarantee of future results, Microsoft partners that serve the financial-services industry report that business is brisk-despite the recent chaos on Wall Street.
- By Rich Freeman
- December 01, 2007
RCP's most recent reader survey reveals that Microsoft partners are a happy bunch -- satisfied with the partner program and excited to be working with the software giant. However, that doesn't mean that everything's perfect in the Microsoft channel. A few concerns remain, even in good times.
- By Lee Pender
- December 01, 2007
IBM Corp. plans to announce Thursday that it will boost what it spends developing computer security products to $1.5 billion in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus for the company.
- By The Associated Press
- November 01, 2007
It's almost impossible to be too cautious about safeguarding your company's creative assets -- and it's never too early to start taking defensive steps.
- By Fred Bayles
- November 01, 2007
For customers struggling with managing multiple security wares for Exchange, Sunbelt offers an easy-to-use, all-in-one, multi-layered solution.
- By Joanne Cummings
- November 01, 2007
Earlier this year, a huge bust in China shut down a major pipeline that had been funneling pirated Microsoft and Symantec software to the U.S. market. Some partners helped the pirates. Some partners sided with authorities.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2007
Microsoft and Cisco are talking about collaboration in the nascent unified communications space, but they're approaching it from two very different angles. With customers heavily invested in both vendors' technologies, partners don't need to take sides -- yet.
- By Lee Pender
- November 01, 2007
Some of the biggest names in IT are ardently wooing partners who serve small and midsize businesses. Are their seductions working?
- By Rich Freeman
- October 01, 2007
Microsoft's new server products are supposed to sprout early in 2008. Partners prepared for those launches can expect a bumper crop of business later in the year.
- By Keith Ward
- October 01, 2007