Microsoft will raise the gold competency membership fee in the Microsoft Partner Network by an undisclosed amount later this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 23, 2012
For Microsoft partners to remain relevant, they have to stay on top of Microsoft technology and keep aligned with customers' real needs.
- By Barb Levisay
- July 16, 2012
What does Microsoft's Jon Roskill think is driving the most profound change in the partner channel?
- By Howard M. Cohen
- July 11, 2012
Microsoft is making major changes to the way partners can earn money on the Dynamics suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) products.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012
Quest Software, one of the largest providers of Microsoft tools, is expanding the Quest Partner Circle (QPC) program to include global partners and service providers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012
Microsoft for the first time will allow its broad base of partners to handle customer billing for the Office 365 suite, addressing what has been the single biggest controversy in the Microsoft channel for the last few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2012
Sales contests are a great way to encourage high performance among sales teams while keeping it light. Here are some tips for setting up a sales contest.
- By Ken Thoreson
- July 04, 2012
Which Microsoft partners are the "biggest of the best" in terms of competencies? RCP scoured thousands of pages of the Microsoft Pinpoint directory to find the 50 Microsoft partners worldwide with the most Microsoft competencies.
- By Gladys Rama, Scott Bekker
- July 02, 2012
Steven Guggenheimer, who has served as corporate vice president of Microsoft's original equipment manufacturing (OEM) division for four years, is leaving his position for a new role within the company, Bloomberg reported on Saturday.
- By Gladys Rama
- July 01, 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft finally took the wraps off its "Surface" tablet, and it's pretty striking. While it's too early to tell whether Surface will be a coup or a flop, Monday's launch event gave us plenty to think about. Here are our first impressions.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2012
Who are the executives with the highest compensation packages among Microsoft channel companies, and how much do they make? We dug through corporate filings to find out.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2012
Not always seen as the most partner-friendly cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking key steps to reverse that perception.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 13, 2012
In many ways, the channel is eagerly waiting for Microsoft to catch up to the market with its next OS. Will customers stand still long enough for the new OS to catch on?
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2012
Pittsburg-based Microsoft partner GrapeCity has acquired .NET component and tool vendor ComponentOne, the company announced at a pre-TechEd event in Orlando, Fla. on Sunday.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 10, 2012
There's only one "thought-processor" tool that has helped me develop perhaps thousands of different kinds of projects.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- June 05, 2012