
5 Channel Partner and MSP Updates: Friday 18 September 2020
Today’s channel partner, MSP and entrepreneur news involves American Express, CleverTap, Collabra, CradlePoint, Ericsson, Monday.com, Okera, Salesforce, Shaq, Silver Peak SD-WANs and more.

Zendesk Acquires Base: ITSM Meets SMB Salesforce Automation Software
Zendesk acquires FutureSimple Inc. and Base, a small business salesforce automation software platform, CEO Mikkel Svane confirms. The move further blurs the line between IT service management (ITSM) and sales team automation.

Salesforce M&A Takeover Target List Includes PSA, IT Service Desk Companies
Salesforce.com has discussed merger & acquisition (M&A) targets like cloud PSA & IT service desk companies WorkDay, NewSuite, ServiceNow & ZenDesk.

5 Channel Partner Updates: 5 October 2016
Updates: AppDynamics, Carbon Black, eFolder, Egnyte, Equinix, HubStor, Ingram Micro, Logicalis, New Relic, SolarWinds MSP, StorageCraft, Synoptek & more.

5 Channel Partner Updates: 17 June 2016
Today’s updates involve CloudHealth Technologies, DataDog, CloudMGR, CloudCheckR, CloudAbility, Akumina, Tech Data, Datto, ConnectWise, CompTIA & more.

5 Channel Partner Updates: 1 June 2016
Today’s updates involve eFolder, CloudJumper, CompTIA, Microsoft SBS, Workday, ThreatQuotient, Salesforce, Demandware, Workspace as a Service (WaaS) & more.

Should You Have A ‘Preferred’ Cloud Service Provider?
Microsoft Azure is now Citrix’s preferred public cloud. And Amazon AWS is Salesforce.com’s preferred choice. Should VARs & MSPs make similar endorsements?

5 Channel Partner Updates: 16 May 2016
Today’s updates involve Impartner, IoT, Coupa, VMware NSX, Google I/O 2016, Acadia, ConnectWise, Kaseya, Office 365 cloud management, AtScale & more.

Salesforce Negotiating to Buy Channel Partner Sales Platform
Salesforce may purchase SteelBrick, which potentially competes in some channel niches against ConnectWise Quosal, Aspire QuoteWerks & VARStreet.