The one & only Indian BI vendor, MAIA Intelligence hosted a Partner Conference in Mumbai recently.

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Cisco's Channel Exchange at Lisbon Maia holds partner conference
Last month Cisco organized a
2-day Channel Exchange event
at Lisbon, Portugal. Attended
by Cisco's global channels, the
event also saw the vendor
officially launching its partner
collaboration model, Global
Resale Agent. Also it
showcased a demonstration of
Cisco's Partner Connect tool
for collaboration amongst
Keith Godwin, Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Channels, solution providers,
Cisco Systems, giving a presentation at the worldwide
worldwide.
channel conference
The panelists (L to R) Sanjay Mehta, Janak Bhuta, Vikram Seth, Hemant
Nerurkar, and Suketu Shah
VMware announces award winners
The BI vendor, Maia Intelligence hosted a partner conference
VMware India announced seven award in Mumbai recently. Attended by its ISV partners, solution
winner partners during Partner partners, and system integrators, the event's main focus was
Exchange 2008 event. The winners 'Selling BI to SMBs'. The event had a panel discussion on
included Pentagon System & Services, 'What Next After ERP?' The panelists included Janak Bhuta
Ontrack Solutions, Sunfire of Globalware, Vikram Seth of Software At Work, Hemant
Technologies, Veeras Infotek, GT Nerurkar of MindCraft, Suketu Shah of Soham Computers,
Enterprises, and Frontier Business and Sanjay Mehta of Maia.
Systems.
quot;The VMware Partner Awards recognize
the outstanding achievements of our Broadband conference
partner community in India,quot; said
Ganesh Mahabala, Regional Director -
The winners of VMware Partner Exchange 2008,
posing for a photo Sales, VMware India & SAARC.
Canon's Image Fest in Chandigarh
Canon India hosted
Image Fest at Piccadilly
hotel in Sector 22,
Chandigarh recently.
Initially launched in
Jaipur, Chandigarh was The conference discussed how broadband can be made accessible to all
the second town for the through use of existing access devices and by making it affordable
Image Fest. The festival
aims at making A one-day international conference, '5th Broadband Tech
photography a part of India 2008' was held last month. The key objective of the
every Indian household. conference was to spread the use of broadband in India. One
Over the next few weeks of the luminaries present at the event, SD Saxena, Director
the Image Fest will travel Finance, BSNL said that broadband can be taken to several
to several tier-2 and tier-3 households if the existing devices can be converted into access
A counter was created for the PowerShot range of offerings for cities in India such as devices (like TV sets). quot;With low prices as our, we can push
the customers in Chandigarh
Surat and Patna. broadband services to the people,quot; he added.
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