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To recruit talent and show how rewarding a career in sales can be, sales leaders need to do more to dismantle outdated and tired perceptions.

Gradient Billable works with PSA software to automate monthly customer billing tasks for MSPs (managed IT service providers), CEO Colin Knox says.

Accenture Interactive, armed with Openmind, gains consulting expertise for commerce, content, strategy, experience design & technology.

Thrive, backed by private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners, buys financial services MSP S7 Technology Group.

SoftwareONE acquires SE16N, an SAP cloud consulting company with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform expertise.

Sage's 20 for 20 program provides partners with tech, business development services and education to grow and scale their businesses.

Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) now owns McAfee enterprise security software business, but doesn't mention partner strategy.

Global IT consulting company Atos acquires Snowflake partner Visual BI; HPC company Nimbix; and Siemens manufacturing partner IDEAL. Asset sales coming?