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Microsoft set to revamp Office 365 channel set-up

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Sources indicate partners will now be asked to work through distribution, with end-user support also backed off to the channel's middlemen

29 May 2012

Infor revs up reseller recruitment engine

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Software player hunts ERP and CRM partners to make a bigger splash in the manufacturing arena

25 May 2012

Customers sign away their rights on cloud contracts

Skyscrapers and a cloudy sky

End users are failing to read the fine print in increasingly diverse cloud deals

24 May 2012

Massive rise in reseller-specific fraud

CIF rains on Cloud Alliance parade

SAP wants perfect ten to flesh out specialist channel

Vendor's UK channel chief John Antunes discusses partner recruitment strategy and getting incentives right for cloud sales

22 May 2012

Strike while Hadoop analytics apps are hot

Analytics software tipped to snowball answers to big-data business questions

08 May 2012

Software downloads not mere licence transfer

EU legal view is that a sale has taken place whether via internet or on physical media

24 Apr 2012

Oracle standardises price in government mega-deal

Cabinet Office inks deal designed to save £25m a year and calls time on "inflexible contracts" for differing departments

28 Mar 2012

Microsoft plies OEM partners with shiny new tools

System builders handed new support and installation freebies

22 Mar 2012

HP flexes muscles at UK Gold Partner Forum

New schemes in hardware, software and services as vendor calls on VARs to help plug skills gap and drive economic growth

14 Mar 2012

Outsourcing delivers for fast-growing Civica in FY11

Civica UK Ltd sees top line expand to almost £100m with big revenue and profit growth, while group-wide sales of both product and services enjoy healthy spike

07 Mar 2012

Windows Azure outage hits CloudStore

Ongoing availability problems with cloud platform's service management and compute platforms forces G-Cloud and others offline

29 Feb 2012

Ex-Salford boss Doggart pops up at Cloud Technology Solutions

Former leader of university-owned reseller appointed chief executive of Google partner

29 Feb 2012

Taking Google to the next level

As it talks up top enterprise customers and a far more rigorous channel operation, we ask the vendor, its partners and rivals where it goes from here

28 Feb 2012

Lynch urges HP partners to spearhead IT 'revolution'

Autonomy founder claims HP's channel is uniquely placed to profit as emphasis shifts from data to meaning

21 Feb 2012

Cisco CTO: Software is becoming a core competency for us

Padmasree Warrior talks up vendor's software, server and switching skills in opening speech at Cisco Live event

31 Jan 2012

Avnet and Northamber lose Microsoft OEM rights

Microsoft moves from eight to six OEM distributors in the UK following review process

06 Jan 2012

SBL posts stellar FY11 numbers

The artist formerly known as Software Box enjoys big sales and profit hikes

05 Jan 2012

Kace talks up rampant growth

Dell-owned systems management vendor puts out call to non-Dell partners

09 Dec 2011

Smaller Microsoft partners voice MPN concerns

Some resellers continue to harbour concerns that mechanics of new-look partner programme favour bigger firms

25 Nov 2011

UK reseller quintet collared for software offences

Microsoft announces settlements with five VARs who have admitted to illegally vending software

17 Nov 2011

Microsoft hard-launches deal registration scheme

Vendor says Solution Incentive Programme is robust enough to scale to up to 400 more UK partners following successful pilot

16 Nov 2011

Comparex "not picking fight" with York launch

Microsoft LAR says new base in York will allow it to create net new jobs for software licensing industry

14 Nov 2011

SUSE to slash directly managed resellers

Linux vendor to throw weight behind fewer than 20 UK & Ireland partners as it looks to get more aggressive with rival Red Hat

01 Nov 2011

Advanced Computer Software nets largest-ever deal

Healthcare specialist lands £17m deal to supply Northern Irish department with finance, procurement and logistics software

31 Oct 2011

Raging Jobs vowed to "destroy Android"

Former Apple boss pledged to spend vendor's "every penny" pursuing makers of "stolen product"

24 Oct 2011

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