Managed print service outfit Automated Systems (ASL) has written a cheque for Geerings Digital – its second acquisition of 2018.
Geerings was founded in Ashford in 1903 to focus on print, but over the past 115 years it has diversified into supplying office equipment and supplies to the commercial and education sectors across Kent, Essex, London, Sussex and Surrey.
It is jointly managed by Will and Adam Geering, the great-grandsons of its founder.
Manchester-based Bidooh which makes real-time, real-audience, digital billboard advertising gadgets has signed a contract with DBDB Labs, a media agency based in Seoul.
The outfit will use Bidooh digital billboard platform across 10,000 screens in South Korea. The 10,000 screens will be rolled out throughout three years. 2,000 screens currently in operation will be fitted with a Bidooh Box, and a further 8,000 new screens will be deployed. The deal follows the successful trial of a screen live in a corporate office in Seoul, which uses facial analysis technology to provide targeted, real-time advertising.
Insight’s latest figures show that EMEA business is its shining star, while other world regions are grinding to a halt.
Insight’s EMEA business has been doing well since the completion of an expensive $3.5 million restructure last year and the third quarter proved to be another three months of positive developments for Insight’s EMEA business.
Revenues increased by 11 percent to $345.2 million, while earnings from operations rocketed by more than 100 percent on a year-on-year comparison. Earnings climbed from $2.1 million in the red from the third quarter last year to a positive $4.6 million this year.
In-memory analytics database creator, Exasol, has discovered that 82 percent of retailers are committed to implementing a data-centric strategy in the next five years, with almost a third stating this is already in place.
Its research found 58 percent of retail decisions are being guided by data, although almost half are yet to implement a single customer view in the omnichannel era.
Retailers are relying on data to drive better insights and decision making to address specific challenges within their businesses, but the adoption of data analytics is not universal. Respondents stated they used data for decisions on sales and marketing campaigns (70 percent) price optimisation to overcome issues around diminishing margins and increased competition for revenues (64 percent), and better supply chain management (55 percent).
Nearly three quarters of IT leaders are concerned that Internet of Things (IoT) performance problems could directly impact business operations and significantly damage revenues.
Software intelligence company, Dynatrace, has announced the findings of an independent global survey of 800 CIOs, which reveals that 78 percent of CIOs said there is a risk that their organisation will roll-out IoT strategies without having a plan or solution in place to manage the performance of the complex cloud ecosystems that underpin IoT rollouts. 69 per cent of CIOs predicted that IoT would become a significant performance management burden
Omnichannel commerce outfit Intershop Communications has been building a webshop for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) running on Microsoft Azure.
This cloud-based e-commerce solution has been designed to offer a fully integrated digital shopping experience to sell RSPB products online. The original shopping website had been in operation since 2012 – since then website technology and customer expectations had moved on. The old site was struggling to handle peaks in customer visits and no longer supported new features.
Cyber security outfit CySure has appointed EnterpriseRed as a specialist reseller partner in the UK further.
The move will extend Cysure’s international network of partners across the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the USA and the UK. The Berkshire-based cybersecurity experts will resell CySure’s information security management system, Virtual Online Security Officer (VOSO).
After conducting a review of their solution portfolio, EnterpriseRed identified a gap for an information security management system to assist with compliance. CySure’s VOSO solution was chosen as it enables
Andrew Allen of Aabyss
While other vendors hum and haw about whether it’s better to sell their kit to their “partners” while they knife them in the back by circumventing the channel, it seems to ChannelEye that Datto really does stick to its last.
Last, as more literate readers of this online paper will know, is an archaic word for a shoemaker’s model for repairing a boot or a shoe. And if the shoe fits
DXC Technology has written a cheque for the London-based cloud service management firm TESM.
The move is part of a cunning plan to extend its ServiceNow capabilities. TESM is a cloud and automation specialist with offices in Dublin, New York, Sydney and Frankfurt.ServiceNow is a
SD-WAN outfit Silver Peak has announced a range of sweeping enhancements to the company’s global Partner Edge programme. In addition to onboarding seasoned channel executives to lead the organisation forward, the company is making strategic investments to build the industry’s most robust and expansive SD-WAN partner programme and equip partners to drive business opportunity and growth in a hyper-growth market that industry analyst firm IDC projects will exceed USD $8 Billion in 2021.
The outfit said it wanted its Partner Edge programme to be more predictable while making incentives and value-added offerings easier to obtain for partners. The intent is to shift the focus toward being partner-first by offering clear and concise
Genee World has gone into liquidation a former sales and marketing director has said on LinkedIn.
In a post on LinkedIn, Genee World’s former sales and marketing director Jez Warren claimed the firm had gone into liquidation, with all staff being made redundant.
Parker Andrews has since confirmed that it has been appointed as Genee World’s liquidator.
Genee World specialises in educational products, such as interactive touchscreens and software, and counts Altodigital among its partners.
Claranet has called for more focus on the human end of cloud security.
Steve Smith, senior site reliability engineer and AWS team lead at Claranet
“The cloud security challenges highlighted in this report have little to do with the platform itself, but everything to do with the people using it and, in our experience, people are the biggest weakness here. The major cloud providers like AWS set a lot of sensible defaults designed to support configuration – for example, S3 buckets are now private by default – but unfortunately, it’s straightforward to get things wrong if you don’t know how to use the platform,” he said.
A new report from the IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) revealed the biggest decline in the manufacturing sector in two years. The index showed that the manufacturing sector fell to 51.1 this October, down from 53.6 in September.
According to Jason Chester, Director of Channel Programmes for InfinityQS: “The report is indicative of what we are seeing across the manufacturing sector. Economic uncertainty fuelled by the lack of a final agreement on Brexit (despite Britain’s departure from the European Union being months away), in conjunction with the gradual decline of high-street retailers and a contracting construction sector is having a negative effect on supply-chain demand and restricting further growth.
Cisco launched its new IT Operations Readiness Index revealing how data is transforming the way businesses operate their IT.
The Index surveyed more than 1,500 senior IT leaders from across the globe to understand where organisations are on their IT operations transformation journey, revealing a four-step model for IT operations maturity, focused on how organisations handle events they face.
Joseph Bradley, Cisco’s Global Vice President, IoT, Blockchain, AI, and Incubation Business says: “Gone are the days of IT leaders relying on past monthly reports and hours upon hours of
Bolton-based VAR IDN Supplies has been acquired through a management buyout, and the firm will now be headed up by new joint CEOs David Shuttleworth and Darren Clayman (pictured).
Under the deal majority shareholder, Gareth Stocks will exit the company.
In a statement, the company said that Stocks was leaving the company in an extremely strong position.
“This MBO has been on the cards for over a year, allowing careful planning and structure. This is great news for all involved – our staff, suppliers and customers – because it means there will be virtually no change. It’s essentially business as usual.”
IDN was founded in 1988, initially selling IBM printer ribbons, and now provides a range of IT and audiovisual products.
The firm reported sales of £24.5 million for the year ending 31 July 2017, up from £21.7m in the previous year. Operating profit was £271,245.
Co-CEO Shuttleworth said: “The company has been growing from strength to strength. We have high hopes for the future of IDNS, and a clear vision and plan on how to move the company forward.”
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