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Interactive Ideas grows by third

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Distributor joins £30m club after strong open-source sales

13 May 2011

Interactive Ideas gets new HQ

Interactive Ideas grabs graduates

Naked truth promised at partner show

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Channel players will lay bare their latest strategies and offers in Coventry this May, says Fleur Doidge

18 Feb 2011

Interactive Ideas grabs graduates

Five new recruits secure permanent job after six-month placement at distributor

13 Dec 2010

Magirus breezes into SolarWinds channel

IT management vendor appoints Magirus to carry its Orion and Profiler technology in 14 European countries

07 Sep 2010

Cisco Capital to extend finance and training

Networking vendor lowers entry level for financing deals and encourages partners to skill up

30 Jun 2010

Large VARs add open source to armoury

Interactive Ideas claims open source is finally being taken seriously in the channel after posting a 45 per cent sales leap

07 Jun 2010

Interactive Ideas set sights on Germany

Distributor appoints account manager to oversee German sales drive

09 Mar 2010

Iberia hysteria for Maverick

Audiovisual distributor boosts Spanish credentials as it bursts into Portuguese market

18 Jan 2010

Steljes re-signs Smart Technologies for another five years

Interactive whiteboards funnelled through one authorised distributor for foreseeable future

18 Jan 2010

Interactive Ideas gets new HQ

Distributor buys new Enfield hub and aims for further growth and international expansion

25 Nov 2009

Zimbra gets Interactive Ideas

Open source specialist bolsters UK channel with distribution addition

28 Oct 2009

Securing a place on the map for Web 3.0

Resellers can give their customers the opportunity to apply Web 3.0 technology to their web sites with topics maps-based searching, which is more suitable for single sites than Google-style navigation

16 Oct 2009

Research paints bleaker education picture to continue

Annual BESA study predicts lower IT spend in 2011 by schools due to expected fallout from general election

09 Oct 2009

Sandberg joins Brigantia ranks

VAR group partnership will help vendor broaden its UK footprint

08 Oct 2009

Escape to the country for Channel Conference

The Channel Conference is almost upon us. Fleur Doidge looks at what awaits those who join us in Northamptonshire

02 Oct 2009

Interactive Ideas outgrows offices

Open source market growth helps distributor plan to double its size

28 Sep 2009

Steljes goes north of the border

An education specialist looks at the lessons the Scottish channel can teach the rest of the UK

25 Sep 2009

Promethean gets Clarity on Irish market to tune of €1m

Irish distributor outlines investment in interactive education brand

27 Aug 2009

Web 2.0 techniques move into the sales force

Martin Bowman says VARs can cut costs, shorten sales cycles and gain customers with sales 2.0

31 Jul 2009

NCS acquires OPTi Networks to target more county schools

Education the name of the game for Aylesford integration acquisition

06 Jul 2009

Solutions for shrinking margins

Sales of networked, interactive AV may boost reseller coffers this year

08 May 2009

Maverick stays In Touch

AV distributor extends partnership with educational technology vendor Promethean

17 Apr 2009

Promethean restructures UK and Ireland operations

UK and Ireland channel sales to education revisited and refocused

15 Apr 2009

School of hard knocks

The Bett expo from 14 to 17 January in London signalled promise for channel sales in 2009, as Fleur Doidge discovers

23 Jan 2009

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

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Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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