ServiceNow has expanded its partnership with Microsoft teams to cash in on remote working trends.
As part of ServiceNow’s Now Platform Rome release, the company is introducing a new collaborative app for its Employee Centre that integrates with Microsoft Teams and offers streamlined employee experiences in the hybrid work environment. In addition, the companies announced expanded investments in co-innovation and go to market efforts across ServiceNow workflows and Teams.
Tech Data is increasing investment in its Software Store self-service renewals platform introducing a monthly data pack option for partners that have a large number of upcoming renewals and providing dedicated business development support.
The company said it is seeing steady growth in usage of the nine portals via which software and service renewals can be tracked, quoted for, and ordered, and is on track to achieve half of all software licensing renewals through them by the end of the year.
Michael Holden, Tech Data, UK and Ireland, business development manager eCommerce, said that the new data pack option will provide larger reseller partners with all pertinent information on their up-and-coming renewals for automatic input into their own internal systems.
“Larger partners may have thousands of renewals they want to track and might need to give access to many different users while ensuring they conform to security and data policies. We’ve developed the data pack option to provide partners with an uncomplicated way to get all the information they need to automate their renewals business, whilst ensuring they are compliant.”
Software King of the World Microsoft has decided that thanks to the pandemic enough people are hooked on its Office 365 product so it is time to hack the price up.
Like any good pusher, Vole had released Office 365 free access to software for certain periods and a chance to delay payments and then had a record number of sign-ups due to Covid.
Microsoft has given its channel and customers plenty of notice of price changes, with increases coming into effect from 1 March 2022.
In a blog post, Jared Spataro, corporate vice-president for Microsoft 365, explained the rationale for the increases and pointed out that the vendor had resisted making a move for quite a while.
Microsoft has made an equity investment in the Zero Trust data management company Rubrik as part of a push towards ransomware protection.
The deal aims to better tackle the increasing ransomware threat and deliver enhanced data protection, as well as develop co-engineering projects to deliver Zero Trust data protection solutions built on Microsoft Azure.
That means customers and partners gain additional data protection, Rubrik says, so that critical Microsoft 365 data is secure and accessible in the event of a cyber attack.
Microsoft Inspire 2021, Vole’s partner conference, presented a virtual keynote focusing on the added strength and innovation – yes it’s that word again – of the partner’s egosystem and its commitment to equipping them with the most powerful technologies, tools, and solutions.
Inspire highlighted a list of upcoming benefits for partners, such as Deschutes taking the operating system to the Microsoft Cloud. This will let people stream their applications, tools, data and settings from the cloud to any device.
All Microsoft Teams customers will receive access to Dynamics 365 data in Teams at no extra cost. This implementation will break down barriers to productivity for customers and the “silos” between collaboration and business processes. The cooperation carries on to Microsoft Viva, an integrated employee experience combining communications, learning, “wellbeing”, and knowledge within the flow of work.
Software King of the World, Microsoft, has slashed its marketplace transaction fee from 20 percent to three percent in a bid to help partners get to market faster and build apps for every customer need.
Announcing the cunning plan at this year’s Microsoft Inspire, Vole said it wants to demonstrate its commitment to the success of its partners on its platform and help them keep more of their margin to invest in their growth. The reduction in the fee applies to every transactable application published in the commercial marketplace, including its digital storefronts, Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource.
Microsoft Cloud and AI chief operating officer Charlotte Yarkoni said this reduced transaction fee demonstrates its commitment to the success of partners creating value on its platform—and helps partners keep more of their margin to invest in their growth.
AvePoint has gone public after completing of its previously announced business combination with Apex Technology Acquisition Corporation.
The company, which claims to be the largest Microsoft 365 data management solutions provider, is expected to begin trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the ticker symbol AVPT for AvePoint common stock and AVPTW for AvePoint warrants.
Nokia has been telling the world+dog that it has come up with multiple AI uses cases delivered over the public cloud, with its chum Microsoft.
By integrating Nokia’s security framework with Microsoft Azure’s digital architecture, communications service providers (CSPs) can securely inject AI into their networks nine times faster than using private cloud and scale fast across their network. AI use cases are essential for CSPs to manage the business complexity that 5G and cloud networks bring, and will help accelerate digital transformation.
SoftwareONE is working with Microsoft to speed digital transformation for Non Profit Organisations (NPOs) worldwide.
The move is part of a cunning plan to enable NPOs to deploy leading-edge, innovative technology to have a greater impact on the world’s most critical social issues.
SoftwareONE’s global dedicated ONEImpact team offers digitalisation and transformation solutions to enable its +3,000 non-profit customers to adapt to an increasingly digital world.
ONEImpact, it is claimed makes it easy for NPOs to access Microsoft enterprise-grade technology at low or no-entry costs while offering a wide variety of services, advice and support to NPO IT teams who are typically understaffed and overstretched.
Pre-owned software reseller ValueLicensing has filed a claim in the High Court in London against Microsoft, claiming that Vole abused its dominant market position and used restrictive contractual practices.
It claims that Microsoft made it impossible to sell pre-owned software licences in the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). ValueLicensing has pointed to contractual clauses that prevent the resale of a perpetual licence as a condition of a discount. The case is that this behaviour is anti-competitive under European Union laws.
The reseller is seeking damages of £270 million for the loss of sales in the UK and European Union (EU) from 2016 onwards. ValueLicensing states that the losses are ongoing and it reserves the right to change that figure to reflect the scope of the claim.
Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Commercial Partner, has announced she is to leave her current role.
Rodney Clark will be the new corporate vice president of Global Channel Sales and channel chief for Microsoft. Having spent 23 years with Microsoft himself, Clark most recently served as vice president of IoT and Mixed Reality Sales.
In a LinkedIn post, the Microsoft veteran said it was time to “pass the torch”.
“Over the coming months I am committed to helping Rodney onboard and helping my teams close the year strong and prepare the business for the future”, Schuster said.
SoftwareONE has reached a strategic agreement with Microsoft to accelerate growth for application services and SAP on Microsoft Azure globally.
Under the arrangement:
• SoftwareONE will expand its application services and SAP on Azure capabilities by hiring and training up to 5,000 additional specialists by the end of 2023, in line with the SoftwareONE and Microsoft business plan and expected revenue growth over that period.
Software King of the World – that is Microsoft, folks – has bought the rapid prototyping company The Marsden Group,
Vole’s corporate vice-president of cross-industry solutions Omar Abbosh said the acquisition will help Microsoft to create new customer value through experimentation and deep industry solutions based on the Microsoft cloud, edge and AI products.
The Marsden Group was already a Microsoft Gold Partner and works in the industrial, manufacturing and automotive sectors.
Software king of the Word, Microsoft, has spruced up its channel programme to encourage more co-selling across its ecosystem.
Microsoft’s improvements are aimed at getting more activity across the ecosystem with co-selling into SMEs and working more closely with ISVs as well as providing more online tools for the channel.
Firstly, there is a central partner centre that will unify all the vendor’s channel capabilities on a global basis on a single platform. It will give partners the opportunity to get access to co-sell, cloud solution provider programme details and other certification and incentives.
Nick Parker, corporate vice-president, global partner solutions at Microsoft, penned a blog post to usher in the changes and commented: “Partners influence more than 95 percent of Microsoft’s commercial revenue, either directly or in partnership with Microsoft.”
“Microsoft continued to see growth in the second quarter of FY21, especially across the Microsoft Commercial cloud. This trajectory is expected to continue as Microsoft partners build devices, applications and cloud-to-edge solutions,” he said.
A report has shown how Microsoft’s channel can play a key role in helping the UK economy recover from the pandemic and make a bob or two on the side.
Goldsmith’s, University of London has come up with a study which is based on an earlier creating a blueprint for UK competitiveness. That report was released in October and found a £48 billion opportunity for UK firms to improve their competitiveness by introducing some small changes.
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