Topic: Partner Programs - Page 83

Channel pros who invest in building high-performing cloud practices will be first in line to benefit from the new resources, which are designed to make Microsoft’s top partners more visible to sales prospects.

The new offering is available as an optional feature of AppRiver’s Skype for Business service.

Added incentives support new customer acquisition, solution selling, and wireless specialization.

In an opening day keynote presentation, Microsoft’s CEO highlighted snap-together business applications, artificial intelligence, and “mixed reality” solutions as core elements of Microsoft’s long-term strategy.

The enhanced MAPP offering features a “Business-in-a-Box” toolkit to help partners establish and maintain a repeatable data migration practice.

The new offering allows the hosting provider’s partners to sell Microsoft Azure and Office 365 licenses together with support from Rackspace technicians.

The COO will leave the company for a CEO role in the financial services sector at the end of the month, in a transition that also has members of Microsoft’s senior leadership team assuming new responsibilities.

Written largely by pre- and post-sales engineers with front-line experience, the new partner education resource is designed to help resellers capitalize on new and emerging opportunities.

The cyber defense company offers its partners training, MDF, sales resources, and deal registration, among other benefits.

A security specialist serving the U.S. and Canada, EarthBend is the latest supplier to join AVG’s evolving lineup of preferred regional distributors.