The IAMCP is a channel institution unique to Microsoft partners. A U.S. board member makes the case for membership as the organization undergoes changes that its leaders hope will lead to 250 percent membership growth in the United States over the next year.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- April 16, 2012
Microsoft may be an underdog in the crowded CRM software field, but with a new GM in the Dynamics CRM business, the company seems poised to take on Oracle, SAP and CRM giant Salesforce.com.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 09, 2012
Dell raised a few questions among virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) analysts this week with its announcement that it plans to acquire Wyse Technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2012
A complete list of Microsoft's 33 National Systems Integrator partners.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- April 02, 2012
Few partners can achieve Microsoft National Systems Integrator status, but that doesn't mean their success isn't repeatable for other Microsoft partners. Here are the strategies NSIs used to get to the top.
- By Barb Levisay
- April 02, 2012
During your early-stage and late-stage implementation phase, consider other steps where an inside approach can be implemented.
- By Ken Thoreson
- April 01, 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE: A Microsoft-sponsored survey of 3,000 companies shows that despite the threats of outages and security breaches, businesses are getting more comfortable with the idea of putting their data on the cloud.
- By Scott Bekker
- March 28, 2012
Big Blue's new CEO hails new era of computing based on intelligent systems that can crunch Big Data.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 26, 2012
Escorted by U.S. Marshals, Microsoft and some of its key partners in the financial services and IT security industry on Friday raided two key sites of the operations spreading the Zeus family of malware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 25, 2012
Microsoft officials say the Pinpoint infrastructure drove 1 million leads to partners in the last fiscal year. Some partners appreciate and take advantage of the system Microsoft has built, but others find it too much work for too little return.
- By Barb Levisay
- March 21, 2012
Portions of an exploit code that appeared in the wild last Thursday may have been leaked by a Microsoft security partner, Microsoft said recently.
- By Chris Paoli
- March 19, 2012
In an informal survey, Mike tries to figure out what's causing the tension between software vendors and their partners -- and what they can do to alleviate it.
- By Mike Harvath
- March 15, 2012
As more IT firms continue to adopt the professional practice model, the traditional salesperson no longer fits the model.
- By Howard M. Cohen
- March 12, 2012
For years, computing behemoth IBM viewed managed services providers (MSP) as competitors, but that's a thing of the past.
- By Pedro Pereira
- March 05, 2012
The Small Business Competency is coming to the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) in June, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 01, 2012