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Synnex, VARStreet Launch E-Commerce Initiative
Distributor Synnex Corp. and VARStreet Inc. are expanding their partnership to market the vendor’s e-commerce platform to the VARs and integrators that source product from the distributor. Synnex, of Fremont, Calif., already has an arrangement with VARStreet, of Santa Clara, Calif., to provide pricing and inventory information to VARs and integrators on the VARSstreet platform.…
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Avnet Creates “Miniature Channel” for HP VARs and ISVs
Distributor Avnet Partner Solutions unveiled this week an extension of its Market Connection program to team ISVs with VARs in vertical and geographic markets. The program focuses on Hewlett-Packard Co. VARs and essentially builds a “miniature channel” of HP VARs—one each in 11 sales regions—for ISVs with solutions in ERP, healthcare, Business Intelligence and IT…
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Watson’s Contextual Search Goes Free
Search startup Intellext Inc. today launched a free version of its Watson search tool. Intellext said its search sidebar is different from other tools, such as Google Inc.’s Sidebar, because Watson automatically searches for and generates information relevant to the document the user is currently viewing, such as an e-mail, Web page or Microsoft Word…
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Integrators Put Their Finger in Socket
Socket Communications Inc., which bills itself as a provider of mobile productivity products, is getting a boost from the channel. The company in October launched its Strategic Vertical Integrator Program with a dozen or so partners. At press time, Socket had 63 integrator allies. It’s not stopping there. Peter Phillips, Socket’s vice president of marketing,…
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Nemx Recruits VARs for E-Mail Security Solution
E-mail security typically has focused on incoming traffic, but regulatory compliance requires that businesses also control information leaving and traveling within their networks. For VARs, integrators and service providers, this more comprehensive approach to e-mail protection translates into new profit opportunities in a fast-growing market, said John Young, president of e-mail security vendor Nemx Software…
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Microsoft, SAP Weave Apps and Plan for More
As SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. hammer out the 1.0 version of Mendocino, their combined development project to offer mySAP process functionality in Microsoft Office for a seamless working environment between the two platforms, they’re also pounding out the second iteration. Mendocino 1.0, expected in July of next year, will hone in on four scenarios—budget…
