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'What Can I Do For You?' Technology Evolution Changes The Way The Channel Sells

With the growth of cloud solutions and recurring-revenue business models, solution providers are steering their sales teams to focus more on what...

Technology financing – it’s more important than you may think

OEMs, resellers and financing partners all have an important role to play in achieving the ideal solution for all parties involved, most...

SWC's Ric Opal On Bringing Digital Transformation To The Midmarket

The solution provider exec says mid-size firms can be "disruptive," yet need help with innovation.

Top 25 Sales Leaders Who Help Make It Happen For Partners

Who are the top 25 channel sales execs who work to bring success to partners? Here they are, as part of CRN's Top 100 Executives of 2017.

Blog Roundup: Perfecting The Customer Experience

These three posts from solution providers offer insights into how businesses can get closer to their customers – and what they're saying.

Solution Providers Told: Don't Leave Developers Out Of Business Conversations

When you're working with customers, the people who build the applications count too, a Red Hat executive tells ChannelCon.

Google Chrome to discontinue Java support, prevents access of USPTO resources

This change to the Chrome browser system is one of which U.S. patent applicants will want to be aware because of its impacts to some of the digital resources made available by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

How OPM Could Have Avoided the Data Breach

Recently, a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) demonstrated once again the vulnerability of data and how even when an organization has seemingly deployed the right tools, security holes can be exploited to gain access to highly sensitive information.

Google's Plan to Incorporate Truthfulness in its Search Rankings

Google ranking always triggers controversy and debate. Every time there’s a new Google algorithm up for release, rumors fly thick and fast as to which type of sites may be penalized and which are likely to be rewarded.

Five Signs You Have What It Takes To Be A Successful Public Speaker

What does it take to be a successful public speaker?

Big Data Moves Toward Real-Time Analysis

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Big Data Spells Huge Opportunity For Solution Providers

As businesses rely on increasing volumes of data, they'll need more help in harnessing it and translating it into action.
 

Tax Credit Serves As A Boost For VARs, Systems Integrators, Solution Providers

The R&D Tax Credit, which has been around since the 1980s, can help a company's bottom line amid a growing systems integration market.

Take A Vacation? Do I Have To?

It's prime season for workers to take vacations, but research finds that many are still plugged in.

Security At The Roots: What Worries U.S. Consumers

Fears over cybersecurity from recent research have implications for businesses, and the solution providers that serve them.

Think GDPR Doesn’t Affect Cloud Service Providers? Think Again

If you have clients that do any business in the European Union, the new data protection rule applies to you too.

POLL: The Cloud Future

As more businesses discover the value of moving some of their technology to the cloud, what workloads are most likely to move there?

K12 - This is U.S. history, I see the globe right there.

It’s that time of year again; school instruction is coming to a close and Jeff Spicoli is about to get a visit from Mr. Hand to go over the history lessons he ignored (reference: Fast Times at Ridgemont High).

Mobile Computing Is the Tip of the Digital Business Transformation Spear

Digital business transformation is a concept that tends to be in the eye of the beholder. In fact, business and technology service providers usually have different interpretations of what’s involved.

Become a disruptor: Announcing new cloud integration capabilities

Digital business transformation is the biggest business disruptor of our age. Consider that the world’s top accommodations provider owns no real estate, and the world’s biggest taxi company launched without owning a single car.

Announcing IBM integration capabilities for blockchain

Everyone loves making year-end predictions, and this one was a popular pick from last year: blockchain would disrupt everything in 2017, including integration. Those making that claim are right on the money. Blockchain—a shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions—needs the...

I Wouldn’t Do That if I Were You – The Surveillance Market

Physical security and cybersecurity go hand-in-hand with protecting corporate assets; and while news of cybercrime has recently dominated the headlines.


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    Dump Clutter From Your Website

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    Solution Provider Spotlight

    Recent ITBestOfBreed interviews with channel execs.

    • Q&A With Axispoint's Dan DiSano On A Key Acquisition And Building Client Relationships
    • Marco's Jeff Gau: How Millennials And Boomers Bring In Sales
    • Getting Off The Ground: Q&A With George Ferris Of New Service Provider CompassMSP
    • Chris Grandi Of Abacus Group, A Hedge Fund’s IT Helper
    • Q&A With Ray Pasquale Of Unified Office: Moving VoIP Into The Future
    • Wendy McQuiston Of Logicalis: We Can Ease M&A Migration Pain
    • Q&A With Rod Fontecilla Of Unisys: Here's Why We're Bullish On Artificial Intelligence
    • Scott Gibson Of Teneo: SD-WAN Is Taking Off
    • CentricsIT's Derek Odegard On Rolling With Change Over The Last Decade

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    Coverage Of The Best Of Breed Conference 2016

    The Best of Breed Conference 2016, hosted by CRN and IT Best of Breed parent The Channel Company, brought together industry executives from CRN's Solution Provider 500, Tech Elite 250, Next-Gen 250, Fast Growth 150 and Managed Service Provider 500 communities to examine the future of the channel.

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