Tag Archives: Microsoft
Opportunities for channel partners in unified communications
In every downturn, there are always sectors of innovation that do spectacularly well. With companies cutting travel and with the growth in flexible working and dispersed teams, corporations are turning increasingly to unified communications to reduce costs, improve productivity and … Continue reading
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Power Relationships and Cloud Computing
Last week at the London leg of Lotusphere Comes to You, a potted version of the January Floridian Lotus Love Fest, I re-visited LotusLive, IBM’s SaaS offering. While the astute Nick Shelness neatly summarizes the set of services and though … Continue reading
Partner value chains vapourizing in the cloud
The arguments for SaaS or “cloud computing” are compelling. By sharing the infrastructure of a service provider, the customer is able to make significant savings as compared to the buried labour costs of on premises software incurred when testing, integrating, securing, installing, backing … Continue reading
Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite and Partners
Yesterday I attended a partner briefing at Microsoft UK for their new Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) which goes live in a few weeks in Europe and Japan. The service has already been up and running since November in the … Continue reading
Microsoft’s new direct retail channel
Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it had hired David Porter, a veteran of DreamWorks Animation and WalMart as their corporate vice president of Retail Stores. Just as Sony announced it would close its flagship PlayStation store in San Francisco, … Continue reading
