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Weekly Recap: Top Ten Stories On Channel Times [April 10-14]

Weekly Recap

This week we see some important updates that can interest the IT channel community.

MAIT, the apex body representing India’s IT hardware, training and R&D servicesectors today announced the elevation of Nitin Kunkolienker, Director (Member on Board) at Synegra EMS Ltd. as President during the Executive Council Meeting.

Other important channel movement include, Deskera expands MEA presence through channel. South Gujarat Information Technologists Association plans event on smart city initiative.

We bring to you some tips for buying CRM for System Integrators. We also bring to you insight into how Cloud brings more revenue for the channel. The more solution providers focus on cloud solutions, the faster they can expect to grow and the more margin they can expect to make.

Read on to check out the stories that you might have missed over the week:

MAIT Appoints Nitin Kunkolienker As New President
MAIT, the apex body representing India’s IT hardware, training and R&D service sectors today announced the elevation of Nitin Kunkolienker, Director (Member on Board) at Synegra EMS Ltd. as President during the Executive Council Meeting on April 13, 2017. Read More

Confed-ITA Gets New Team; Stresses On Innovation

Confed ITA, the IT forum of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry recently conducted its AGM and member summit here. The two-night event witnessed participation from the vendors in the form of sponsors, regional distributors, sub-distributors, resellers, retailers and solution providers. The summit was conducted at Kodaikanal for the second time in the decade. Read More

Phalgune Infotech, Computer Port Conduct CIO Meet

Coimbatore based leading channel solution provider, Phalgune Infotech has recently conducted a CIO meet along with CIO Klub’s Coimbatore chapter on the various solutions provided by Computer Port.
The event witnessed participation from major CIOs across different verticals including manufacturing, industries and healthcare. The event titled: ‘InTegrITy’ was conducted inorder to bring together the IT giants in an open dialogue, under one roof to discuss about VDI using UDS Enterprise, Private cloud using Open Nebula, Hyper Converged Infrastructure and vNAS Solutions using CompuVerde, Disaster Recovery Management using Zerto. Read More

Deskera Expands MEA Presence Through Channel

Deskera, a cloud-based software solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, is expanding its footprint in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) market. It has launched a channel partner program to bring MEA enterprises business software to serve their customers.
The company has a pan India presence with offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune.
The company said, it has seen impressive growth around the globe, with 100% increase in revenue in the past three years, Deskera aims for a greater investment in the MEA market. Read More

Tips For Buying CRM For System Integrators
IT System Integrators sell IT Solutions to the whole world, but when it comes to automating their businesses, they are always reluctant, even the basic tools like CRM for System Integrators. So here are few tips for buying CRM for System Integrators.

But before discussing CRM, let’s address the pain areas of System Integration Business. In service Industry, biggest problem is to get time and cost analysis of Team Members and Customers. Bigger challenge is to get it effortlessly. Read More

DMX India Rolls Out Everest Partner Program
IT services and solutions DMX India has rolled out its first Everest Partner Program, the key objective of which is to fulfil ever changing requirements of the IT infrastructure Industry by offering full technical support, innovative products, product training and product marketing which partners need. Read More

Barco Appoints VDSPL As ND For Projector Series In India
Visualisation and collaboration solutions provider Barco has appointed Visual Display Solutions Pvt Ltd. (VDSPL) as the national distributor (ND) for its ProAV Projector series in India. The tie-up is aimed towards facilitating more robust market and channel penetration for Barco’s projection solutions to meet the rising demand in visitor attractions, museums, theme park, 3D mappings and large venues in the Indian market. Read More

Cisco Cyber Range Lab Elevates Opportunites For The Channel
Deepening its commitment to enhance cybersecurity in India, Cisco India today inaugurated its Cyber Range Lab in Gurgaon, India. The Lab aims to provide highly specialized technical training workshops to help security staff build the skills and experience necessary to combat new-age threats. Dr. Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India, inaugurated the Cyber Range Lab in the presence of Dinesh Malkani, President, Cisco India and SAARC at the Cisco India Summit 2017. Read More

Cloud Brings More Revenue For The Channel: Study

The more solution providers focus on cloud solutions, the faster they can expect to grow and the more margin they can expect to make, according to a new study by value-added technology distributor, Westcon-Comstor. The value-added distributor’s ‘Voice of the Customer’ survey also reveals the most popular attributes of successful cloud solution providers (CSPs), where opportunities lie and how value-added resellers (VARs) can more easily transition to a CSP model. Read More

South Gujarat Association Plans Event On Smart City Initiative
Following the success of IT Expo’17, SITA, (South Gujarat Information Technologists Association) is planning to conduct an event on start-ups and other new avenues for the IT fraternity.

SITA is planning to organize the event jointly with SMC in relation with Surat Smart City Initiative to discuss different opportunities related to existing IT industry. The association has always planned activities that could be helpful for the members in terms of grooming them about technology, innovative activities to enrich the capacity and satisfy their interests. Read More

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