Microsoft announced a string of new capabilities coming to Dynamics 365 on Monday at its Ignite conference, taking place this week in Orlando, Fla.
- By Gladys Rama
- September 25, 2017
In a move that combines two major providers of managed hosting and cloud services, Rackspace this week announced it is acquiring rival Datapipe in its biggest acquisition to date.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- September 11, 2017
Besides answering questions about valuation, tax advisers can help partners settle the many other tax obligations that are part of selling any IT services company.
- By Reed Warren
- August 09, 2017
Most partners are not investing enough resources to take full advantage of the cloud opportunity, despite owing an ever-growing proportion of their revenues to cloud-based sales.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2017
Done right, hosting can be very profitable for partners, but it's hard to compete with the mega-vendors without taking a co-location approach.
- By Per Werngren
- August 07, 2017
Microsoft this week announced some additions to its FastTrack for Dynamics 365 program aimed at driving more active usage of the cloud-based CRM/ERP suite.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 01, 2017
It's elementary.
- By Barb Levisay
- July 26, 2017
A lot of money in the pockets of the major MSP tools companies means investors see opportunity, and opportunity means winners and losers -- and open conflict.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 24, 2017
The landscape inside Microsoft is in flux as the company reorganizes its sales structure. For partners, the chaos presents both threat and opportunity.
- By M.S. Partner
- July 18, 2017
In Part 3 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Microsoft One Commercial Partner CVP Ron Huddleston talks about two of the most important new concepts for partners to understand to succeed in Microsoft's revised channel model.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2017
In Part 2 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Ron Huddleston, head of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner unit, explains how Microsoft is trying to simplify its partner-facing organization to work more effectively with its massive partner network.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 14, 2017
In Part 1 of a three-part Q&A from the Microsoft Inspire conference, Huddleston explains his philosophy on partnering and how his background at Salesforce.com and Oracle is informing his approach to the channel at Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 13, 2017
With the European Union preparing to overhaul its data privacy laws next year, Microsoft is urging its partners to take advantage of the opportunity as customers grapple with the changes.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 12, 2017
As cloud pushes the channel to evolve, Microsoft solution providers must proactively seek to partner with other ISVs to target that DevOps sweet spot.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 12, 2017
Microsoft is making it possible for more partners to build solutions around its HoloLens mixed reality technology.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 11, 2017