The first secure, social network for Suppliers and their Channel Partners to use everyday.
It’s kind of like Facebook, but instead of friends – it’s a filtered group of Vendor feeds on a Social Wall.
"Using WSO2 ESB with FIX - Supporting Financial Messaging" - Webinar by Paul ...Prabath Siriwardena
In this session, Paul Fremantle - CTO of WSO2, and Asanka Abeysinghe - Architect, will look at how the WSO2 ESB supports the FIX protocol and examine scenarios linking FIX systems into the wider enterprise with a FIX enabled ESB. Building on the QuickFix/J project, the WSO2 ESB is the fastest Open Source ESB with built-in support for financial industry messaging. This session will outline the benefits of FIX integration, together with some example scenarios showing how the WSO2 ESB can add value to your FIX network.
Tom Tresser presented at a forum of privatization and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust at SEIU's Chicago HQ on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Visit http://www.civiclab.us. Contact Tom = tom@civiclab.us
Ecosystem Week - Canalys - Jay McBain - 6.21.22.pptxJay McBain
We are now firmly in the subscription era. Driven by changing customer behavior and software (powered by the cloud) eating the world, and accelerated by the pandemic, most technology vendors have either committed to or made significant strides to transform their business models.
Subscription and consumption business models are an effective hedge against the current macroeconomic uncertainty. The models look to build a stable base of recurring customers and create predictable revenue that vendors can plan for (and enrich) in the future. Benefits include exponential growth potential, when gaining new subscribers, and attaining greater than 100% retention of current revenue. Successful subscription businesses achieve more efficient and manageable growth.
Without the need to hit the reset button each quarter, vendors and partners can benefit from increased business agility. The new and never-ending customer journey can logically be divided into three steps: getting the customer to the dance (vendor selection), getting them up on the dance floor (initial purchase) and keeping them dancing all night long (retention and enrichment).
Large vendors are committing to subscription and consumption models
In addition to cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS companies that built their models as subscription, consumption, product-led growth (PLG) or value-based, we have seen a full commitment by the largest hardware companies in the world. Cisco announced Plus in March 2021, followed shortly after by Dell announcing Apex. Lenovo announced TruScale in September 2021 and the company it acquired its PC and infrastructure businesses from, IBM, spun out its infrastructure services business into Kyndryl and committed to a full multi-cloud, hybrid cloud and AI-focused recurring model. HPE started a pay-as-you-go model in 2006 and continued to develop what became the GreenLake announcement in late 2017, largely direct focused. Having a multi-year head start over its rivals, HPE was able to create a successful channel program (with some notable early bumps in the road) and recruit subscription-friendly partners as a first mover. GreenLake has now delivered three straight quarters of triple-digit growth, even outpacing the growth of supercharged IaaS leaders AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Suffice it to say, many customers and partners are ready for the subscription era. For those vendors looking to embrace that model, here is how to successfully build channel ecosystems to drive subscription and consumption models:
1. Channel programs must change from recognizing/paying at the point of sale to recognizing/paying at the point of (partner) value
For over 40 years, channel programs and the underlying technology have been designed to drive the sales motion. Enabling resellers, MSPs, distributors, retailers, dealers and agents to more frictionlessly market and sell products at scale was the goal of every channel leader.
"Using WSO2 ESB with FIX - Supporting Financial Messaging" - Webinar by Paul ...Prabath Siriwardena
In this session, Paul Fremantle - CTO of WSO2, and Asanka Abeysinghe - Architect, will look at how the WSO2 ESB supports the FIX protocol and examine scenarios linking FIX systems into the wider enterprise with a FIX enabled ESB. Building on the QuickFix/J project, the WSO2 ESB is the fastest Open Source ESB with built-in support for financial industry messaging. This session will outline the benefits of FIX integration, together with some example scenarios showing how the WSO2 ESB can add value to your FIX network.
Tom Tresser presented at a forum of privatization and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust at SEIU's Chicago HQ on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Visit http://www.civiclab.us. Contact Tom = tom@civiclab.us
Ecosystem Week - Canalys - Jay McBain - 6.21.22.pptxJay McBain
We are now firmly in the subscription era. Driven by changing customer behavior and software (powered by the cloud) eating the world, and accelerated by the pandemic, most technology vendors have either committed to or made significant strides to transform their business models.
Subscription and consumption business models are an effective hedge against the current macroeconomic uncertainty. The models look to build a stable base of recurring customers and create predictable revenue that vendors can plan for (and enrich) in the future. Benefits include exponential growth potential, when gaining new subscribers, and attaining greater than 100% retention of current revenue. Successful subscription businesses achieve more efficient and manageable growth.
Without the need to hit the reset button each quarter, vendors and partners can benefit from increased business agility. The new and never-ending customer journey can logically be divided into three steps: getting the customer to the dance (vendor selection), getting them up on the dance floor (initial purchase) and keeping them dancing all night long (retention and enrichment).
Large vendors are committing to subscription and consumption models
In addition to cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS companies that built their models as subscription, consumption, product-led growth (PLG) or value-based, we have seen a full commitment by the largest hardware companies in the world. Cisco announced Plus in March 2021, followed shortly after by Dell announcing Apex. Lenovo announced TruScale in September 2021 and the company it acquired its PC and infrastructure businesses from, IBM, spun out its infrastructure services business into Kyndryl and committed to a full multi-cloud, hybrid cloud and AI-focused recurring model. HPE started a pay-as-you-go model in 2006 and continued to develop what became the GreenLake announcement in late 2017, largely direct focused. Having a multi-year head start over its rivals, HPE was able to create a successful channel program (with some notable early bumps in the road) and recruit subscription-friendly partners as a first mover. GreenLake has now delivered three straight quarters of triple-digit growth, even outpacing the growth of supercharged IaaS leaders AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Suffice it to say, many customers and partners are ready for the subscription era. For those vendors looking to embrace that model, here is how to successfully build channel ecosystems to drive subscription and consumption models:
1. Channel programs must change from recognizing/paying at the point of sale to recognizing/paying at the point of (partner) value
For over 40 years, channel programs and the underlying technology have been designed to drive the sales motion. Enabling resellers, MSPs, distributors, retailers, dealers and agents to more frictionlessly market and sell products at scale was the goal of every channel leader.
Top 10 Emerging Technologies Ranked - CompTIA CommunitiesJay McBain
What technologies does the channel think have near-term opportunities at driving significant margins? Look here for where AI, Blockchain, Drones, 5G, Augmented Reality, IoT, Quantum Computing, Biometrics, 3D Printing and Automation rank in channel professionals minds.
Deal Registration - Channel Chiefs Council Webinar - Jay McBain - Dec 2016Jay McBain
The Canadian Channel Chiefs Council (C4) is hosting a first of its kind webinar on a topic that has become the most hotly debated area in the channel today: deal registration. Taking place on Dec. 13th at 1 PM ET, the webinar will feature noted channel professional Jay McBain of ChannelEyes to outline what the future holds for deal registration programs in light of the recent announcement by Salesforce.com on its new Einstein tool.
Einstein is an artificial intelligence tool that promises to take all the data that organizations have dutifully been capturing to their CRM for years and put it to good use, at first making recommendations about what leads sales reps should call first, or what personalization path is most appropriate for a marketing campaign.
McBain, who was a channel executive at Lenovo and with AutoTask, intends to provide the audience of this webinar new information on how artificial intelligence and machine learning is going to impact the channel. He believes tools such as Einstein are an exciting new thing that’s going to rapidly change the way vendors look at deal registration today. McBain’s ChannelEyes organization works to provide real-time sales intelligence for channel professionals.
But Einstein is not the only topic of discussion for this webinar. McBain also plans on unveiling new strategies on deal registration for those who are still developing their channel structure and programs. He also has ideas for what to do in terms of conflict resolution and the rules of engagement when it comes to deal registration.
McBain also plans on answering questions from channel chiefs and other channel professionals at the webinar.
Channel Focus (Baptie) Webinar. seemingly every day - driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior.
Combine this with an unprecedented demographic shift coming in the next few years, and the job role of the Channel Professional will radically shift - both inside the organization and out.
Jay McBain will explore what this demographic shift means, as well as predict what Channel Management will look like when there are more vendors in the world than partner
5 Channel Trends You Should Be Planning for Today - Ingram Cloud Summit 2016Jay McBain
Speaker: Jay McBain
The pace of change in the indirect sales world has been mind-numbing over the past few years. There are new business models and partner types popping up seemingly every day - driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior.
Combine this with an unprecedented demographic shift coming in the next few years, and the job role of the Channel Professional will radically shift - both inside the organization and out.
This session will explore what this demographic shift means, as well as predict what Channel Management will look like when there are more vendors in the world than partners.
How to Become a Best in Class Cloud Provider - Ingram Cloud Summit 2016Jay McBain
Almost every solution provider and MSP today are offering an array of cloud technologies to their customers. As the cloud matures, forward-thinking providers have begun to figure out highly profitable niches and start to target very industry and segment specific opportunities that drive lucrative, referenceable and repeatable business.
What differentiates the best providers from the rest?
Understanding the intersection points of vertical and horizontal solutions along with building defendable intellectual capital are blurring the lines between the traditional vendor/partner relationship. With 70% of buying power now residing in the lines of business, successful providers have evolved their business models and sales/marketing strategies to take advantage of this shifting world.
Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) - Five Future Channel ...Jay McBain
The pace of change in the indirect sales world has been mind–numbing over the past few years. There are new business models and partner types popping up seemingly every day – driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior.
Combine this with an unprecedented shift in the makeup of the IT channel and the relationship between vendor and partner coming in the next few years, and the role of an alliance or channel professional responsible for maximizing this relationship will radically shift — both inside the organization and out.
Our presenter, a well–known thought leader and IT futurist, explores what this shift means for partner managers and predicts what Channel Management will look like when there are more vendors in the world than partners. Gain insights to:
Evaluate who your partners should be as the shift takes hold
Adapt your program to the new reality of the shifting relationship between vendor and partner
Grow your abilities to take on the brave new world of channel management
Managing Indirect Channels - Webinar for ASAP AssociationJay McBain
Webinar for ASAP - Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals. Topics include global state of channel partner and alliance management, multiple roles of the channel chief, and the shift in partner demographics. Channel Partner recruitment, nurturing and development as well as how to enter adjacent markets. A peek into the future of the channel as well as the 10 Channel Commandments.
ChannelCandy is the world's largest mobile partner platform featuring communication, enablement and sales tools to drive channel partner revenue & loyalty.
ChannelEyes Introduces OPTYX - The First Sales Workflow Product for Channel A...Jay McBain
OPTYX is the first workflow tool purpose-built for channel account managers and the indirect partner sales channel. OPTYX not only improves overall channel management and makes channel managers more productive, but it allows them to increase partner coverage and drive more revenue through their channel programs.
How does OPTYX work?
OPTYX gathers transactional data from your Salesforce CRM as well as additional partner intelligence from various external sources – such as Dunn & Bradstreet, Mention, News wires, Twitter and others – and then leverages an analytics engine to produce partner specific alerts & notifications, actionable tasks, channel health scores, standardized partner reports, and much more.
Using data science to deliver this level of functionality, OPTYX will increase channel manager productivity and overall partner coverage to drive more revenue from your channel program.
The Magic Behind the ChannelEyes Indirect Channel Sales PlatformJay McBain
ChannelEyes is the world’s largest channel acceleration platform for vendors to connect with their partners. We power most of the indirect channel mobile apps on iOS and Android today.
The platform drives better real-time communication, new ways to engage, and dozens of purpose-built channel modules that increase partner loyalty and revenue. This is backed by a deep set of analytics and an easy to use content system.
Learn more at: http://channeleyes.com/
Touching on the story of Paul Revere from Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Dandelion Marketing, this presentation to college students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY focuses on entrepreneurship best practices and growth hacking.
Infographic: Guide to Technology TradeshowsJay McBain
Some technology professionals choose one or two events to attend for the year, while others log tens of thousands of miles criss-crossing the globe in search of additional visibility and leads.
On average, there are 4 shows running everyday – 7 days a week – for the entire year. Yes, 1,593 major tradeshows and conferences! This doesn't include regional meetings, roadshows and other city-to-city events that companies, magazines, associations and peer groups host.
Most road warriors have a sense when busy season is and how many times they trek through McCarran Airport per year.
Are you making these 14 Channel Marketing Mistakes? - ChannelEyes WebinarJay McBain
It doesn’t come as a surprise to Channel Professionals that things are changing faster than ever across the partner ecosystem. A perfect storm of new technologies, transforming business models, rapidly evolving competition, consumerization and economic forces have fundamentally changed the traditional supplier/partner relationship.
Not only are things moving much faster, the relationships have become significantly more complex. Ten years ago, a solid email, portal, phone, advertising and events strategy was all that was needed to communicate effectively to partners and customers. Today we have more than 30 marketing vehicles in play, and the level of noise and clutter is, at times, out of control.
Most of us were taught to measure ROI and then focus on the top 2-3 things that drive results. The problem is that these 2-3 things aren’t working the way they used to:
Email newsletters aren’t getting opened or clicked thru.
Beyond the usual suspects, webinar and tradeshow traffic is dropping.
Advertising, whether print or digital is not having the same impact as years ago.
Portal traffic is at an all-time low – partners just aren’t coming in the same numbers.
While every situation is different – the following 14 Channel Marketing Mistakes are common throughout our industry:
Not utilizing new automation tools for Email & Newsletters
Too reliant on the Partner Portal for communication
Not taking advantage of Communities
Too focused on the home run
Expecting too much from social
Not having or sticking to an editorial calendar
Producing too much boring or sales-related content
Under-utilizing the media
Thinking Direct Mail is too expensive
Segmenting Partners into Revenue Tiers Only
Expending too much effort on Partner Recruitment
Underperforming Tradeshows
Renewing tactics year to year without justification
Not taking advantage of Mobile
How Disruptive Technologies Drive Innovation in the ChannelJay McBain
Speaker: Jay McBain, Co-Founder, ChannelEyes
A look at disruptive technologies such as the internet of things, pervasive computing, consumerization, connected advertising and marketing, smart factories, intelligent traffic management, parking space management, waste management systems, smart electricity grids, smart water systems and smart warehouses will drive future profit and innovation for the technology channel. The latest numbers on BYOD, BYOA and 7 futurist predictions on what the next 10 years will bring for the IT industry.
ChannelCandy is a custom branded mobile app designed for Vendor, Distributor and Associations to deliver Channel highlights, company news and sales tools into the hands of Channel Partners. Developed by the team at ChannelEyes, it is reinventing Channel communication for leading firms in our industry.
ChannelCandy runs on iPhone, iPad, Android as well as all mobile web enabled platforms such as BlackBerry, Windows and the PC Web Browser.
The mobile app delivers an innovative way to drive:
Channel Sales Enablement – Deploying the tools and resources necessary to make your Channel act as an extension of your own sales team. Vendors can even send motivational messages to drive the sales cycle forward!
Channel Education – Publishing rich media such as videos, whitepapers, case studies and certification courses, Vendors can raise the level of knowledge and capabilities of their Partners.
Channel Incentives – Partners admit that they leave money on the table because they don’t regularly stay up to date. With a mobile app, they can set alerts and be notified each time a new incentive is launched.
Channel Tools – by customizing the app with external tools such as configurators, calculators, quoting tools, deal registration and product information, Vendors will drive better sell-thru, stronger options and accessories attach, as well as more robust program participation.
Technical Updates – keep your Channel Partners up to date with tech bulletins, service fixes and other critical updates in real-time. Technicians can customize the app to receive push notifications and collaborate with other members of the community, leveraging the wisdom of the crowd.
Mobile is a truly disruptive technology – it has been driven primarily out of the consumer market and will impact almost every part of a company’s operations in 2013. This includes sales, marketing, customer service and yes, the Channel.
The Cloud and Mobility Pivot - How MSPs can retool for the next 5 yearsJay McBain
The Managed Services model continues to grow and evolve. This presentation makes the case for building a cloud and mobility practice on top of the recurring revenue MSP model to drive success over the next 5 years. Supported by data from CompTIA, the cloud and mobility opportunity is very real in all customers segments and industries. The Channel is well positioned to take advantage of the consulting, policy and compliance services as well as the ongoing management and infrastructure needs of this emerging opportunity.
ChannelEyes - the single place to follow the ChannelJay McBain
ChannelEyes is the next generation communication and engagement platform for suppliers and their Channel Partners to connect every day. It delivers relevant channel program highlights over a secure network making it simple to engage with the entire channel, targeting the right people with the right information at the right time.
ChannelCandy - Mobile Branded App for IT Channel VendorsJay McBain
The latest sneak peek into ChannelCandy.
ChannelCandy is a custom branded mobile app designed for the Vendor community to deliver Channel highlights, company news and sales tools into the hands of Channel Partners. Runs on iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
It comes from the team at ChannelEyes - the next generation communication and engagement platform for vendors and their Channel Partners to connect every day. It delivers relevant channel program highlights over a secure network making it simple to engage with the entire channel, targeting the right people with the right information at the right time.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Top 10 Emerging Technologies Ranked - CompTIA CommunitiesJay McBain
What technologies does the channel think have near-term opportunities at driving significant margins? Look here for where AI, Blockchain, Drones, 5G, Augmented Reality, IoT, Quantum Computing, Biometrics, 3D Printing and Automation rank in channel professionals minds.
Deal Registration - Channel Chiefs Council Webinar - Jay McBain - Dec 2016Jay McBain
The Canadian Channel Chiefs Council (C4) is hosting a first of its kind webinar on a topic that has become the most hotly debated area in the channel today: deal registration. Taking place on Dec. 13th at 1 PM ET, the webinar will feature noted channel professional Jay McBain of ChannelEyes to outline what the future holds for deal registration programs in light of the recent announcement by Salesforce.com on its new Einstein tool.
Einstein is an artificial intelligence tool that promises to take all the data that organizations have dutifully been capturing to their CRM for years and put it to good use, at first making recommendations about what leads sales reps should call first, or what personalization path is most appropriate for a marketing campaign.
McBain, who was a channel executive at Lenovo and with AutoTask, intends to provide the audience of this webinar new information on how artificial intelligence and machine learning is going to impact the channel. He believes tools such as Einstein are an exciting new thing that’s going to rapidly change the way vendors look at deal registration today. McBain’s ChannelEyes organization works to provide real-time sales intelligence for channel professionals.
But Einstein is not the only topic of discussion for this webinar. McBain also plans on unveiling new strategies on deal registration for those who are still developing their channel structure and programs. He also has ideas for what to do in terms of conflict resolution and the rules of engagement when it comes to deal registration.
McBain also plans on answering questions from channel chiefs and other channel professionals at the webinar.
Channel Focus (Baptie) Webinar. seemingly every day - driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior.
Combine this with an unprecedented demographic shift coming in the next few years, and the job role of the Channel Professional will radically shift - both inside the organization and out.
Jay McBain will explore what this demographic shift means, as well as predict what Channel Management will look like when there are more vendors in the world than partner
5 Channel Trends You Should Be Planning for Today - Ingram Cloud Summit 2016Jay McBain
Speaker: Jay McBain
The pace of change in the indirect sales world has been mind-numbing over the past few years. There are new business models and partner types popping up seemingly every day - driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior.
Combine this with an unprecedented demographic shift coming in the next few years, and the job role of the Channel Professional will radically shift - both inside the organization and out.
This session will explore what this demographic shift means, as well as predict what Channel Management will look like when there are more vendors in the world than partners.
How to Become a Best in Class Cloud Provider - Ingram Cloud Summit 2016Jay McBain
Almost every solution provider and MSP today are offering an array of cloud technologies to their customers. As the cloud matures, forward-thinking providers have begun to figure out highly profitable niches and start to target very industry and segment specific opportunities that drive lucrative, referenceable and repeatable business.
What differentiates the best providers from the rest?
Understanding the intersection points of vertical and horizontal solutions along with building defendable intellectual capital are blurring the lines between the traditional vendor/partner relationship. With 70% of buying power now residing in the lines of business, successful providers have evolved their business models and sales/marketing strategies to take advantage of this shifting world.
Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) - Five Future Channel ...Jay McBain
The pace of change in the indirect sales world has been mind–numbing over the past few years. There are new business models and partner types popping up seemingly every day – driven by technology, economic challenges and customer behavior.
Combine this with an unprecedented shift in the makeup of the IT channel and the relationship between vendor and partner coming in the next few years, and the role of an alliance or channel professional responsible for maximizing this relationship will radically shift — both inside the organization and out.
Our presenter, a well–known thought leader and IT futurist, explores what this shift means for partner managers and predicts what Channel Management will look like when there are more vendors in the world than partners. Gain insights to:
Evaluate who your partners should be as the shift takes hold
Adapt your program to the new reality of the shifting relationship between vendor and partner
Grow your abilities to take on the brave new world of channel management
Managing Indirect Channels - Webinar for ASAP AssociationJay McBain
Webinar for ASAP - Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals. Topics include global state of channel partner and alliance management, multiple roles of the channel chief, and the shift in partner demographics. Channel Partner recruitment, nurturing and development as well as how to enter adjacent markets. A peek into the future of the channel as well as the 10 Channel Commandments.
ChannelCandy is the world's largest mobile partner platform featuring communication, enablement and sales tools to drive channel partner revenue & loyalty.
ChannelEyes Introduces OPTYX - The First Sales Workflow Product for Channel A...Jay McBain
OPTYX is the first workflow tool purpose-built for channel account managers and the indirect partner sales channel. OPTYX not only improves overall channel management and makes channel managers more productive, but it allows them to increase partner coverage and drive more revenue through their channel programs.
How does OPTYX work?
OPTYX gathers transactional data from your Salesforce CRM as well as additional partner intelligence from various external sources – such as Dunn & Bradstreet, Mention, News wires, Twitter and others – and then leverages an analytics engine to produce partner specific alerts & notifications, actionable tasks, channel health scores, standardized partner reports, and much more.
Using data science to deliver this level of functionality, OPTYX will increase channel manager productivity and overall partner coverage to drive more revenue from your channel program.
The Magic Behind the ChannelEyes Indirect Channel Sales PlatformJay McBain
ChannelEyes is the world’s largest channel acceleration platform for vendors to connect with their partners. We power most of the indirect channel mobile apps on iOS and Android today.
The platform drives better real-time communication, new ways to engage, and dozens of purpose-built channel modules that increase partner loyalty and revenue. This is backed by a deep set of analytics and an easy to use content system.
Learn more at: http://channeleyes.com/
Touching on the story of Paul Revere from Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Dandelion Marketing, this presentation to college students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY focuses on entrepreneurship best practices and growth hacking.
Infographic: Guide to Technology TradeshowsJay McBain
Some technology professionals choose one or two events to attend for the year, while others log tens of thousands of miles criss-crossing the globe in search of additional visibility and leads.
On average, there are 4 shows running everyday – 7 days a week – for the entire year. Yes, 1,593 major tradeshows and conferences! This doesn't include regional meetings, roadshows and other city-to-city events that companies, magazines, associations and peer groups host.
Most road warriors have a sense when busy season is and how many times they trek through McCarran Airport per year.
Are you making these 14 Channel Marketing Mistakes? - ChannelEyes WebinarJay McBain
It doesn’t come as a surprise to Channel Professionals that things are changing faster than ever across the partner ecosystem. A perfect storm of new technologies, transforming business models, rapidly evolving competition, consumerization and economic forces have fundamentally changed the traditional supplier/partner relationship.
Not only are things moving much faster, the relationships have become significantly more complex. Ten years ago, a solid email, portal, phone, advertising and events strategy was all that was needed to communicate effectively to partners and customers. Today we have more than 30 marketing vehicles in play, and the level of noise and clutter is, at times, out of control.
Most of us were taught to measure ROI and then focus on the top 2-3 things that drive results. The problem is that these 2-3 things aren’t working the way they used to:
Email newsletters aren’t getting opened or clicked thru.
Beyond the usual suspects, webinar and tradeshow traffic is dropping.
Advertising, whether print or digital is not having the same impact as years ago.
Portal traffic is at an all-time low – partners just aren’t coming in the same numbers.
While every situation is different – the following 14 Channel Marketing Mistakes are common throughout our industry:
Not utilizing new automation tools for Email & Newsletters
Too reliant on the Partner Portal for communication
Not taking advantage of Communities
Too focused on the home run
Expecting too much from social
Not having or sticking to an editorial calendar
Producing too much boring or sales-related content
Under-utilizing the media
Thinking Direct Mail is too expensive
Segmenting Partners into Revenue Tiers Only
Expending too much effort on Partner Recruitment
Underperforming Tradeshows
Renewing tactics year to year without justification
Not taking advantage of Mobile
How Disruptive Technologies Drive Innovation in the ChannelJay McBain
Speaker: Jay McBain, Co-Founder, ChannelEyes
A look at disruptive technologies such as the internet of things, pervasive computing, consumerization, connected advertising and marketing, smart factories, intelligent traffic management, parking space management, waste management systems, smart electricity grids, smart water systems and smart warehouses will drive future profit and innovation for the technology channel. The latest numbers on BYOD, BYOA and 7 futurist predictions on what the next 10 years will bring for the IT industry.
ChannelCandy is a custom branded mobile app designed for Vendor, Distributor and Associations to deliver Channel highlights, company news and sales tools into the hands of Channel Partners. Developed by the team at ChannelEyes, it is reinventing Channel communication for leading firms in our industry.
ChannelCandy runs on iPhone, iPad, Android as well as all mobile web enabled platforms such as BlackBerry, Windows and the PC Web Browser.
The mobile app delivers an innovative way to drive:
Channel Sales Enablement – Deploying the tools and resources necessary to make your Channel act as an extension of your own sales team. Vendors can even send motivational messages to drive the sales cycle forward!
Channel Education – Publishing rich media such as videos, whitepapers, case studies and certification courses, Vendors can raise the level of knowledge and capabilities of their Partners.
Channel Incentives – Partners admit that they leave money on the table because they don’t regularly stay up to date. With a mobile app, they can set alerts and be notified each time a new incentive is launched.
Channel Tools – by customizing the app with external tools such as configurators, calculators, quoting tools, deal registration and product information, Vendors will drive better sell-thru, stronger options and accessories attach, as well as more robust program participation.
Technical Updates – keep your Channel Partners up to date with tech bulletins, service fixes and other critical updates in real-time. Technicians can customize the app to receive push notifications and collaborate with other members of the community, leveraging the wisdom of the crowd.
Mobile is a truly disruptive technology – it has been driven primarily out of the consumer market and will impact almost every part of a company’s operations in 2013. This includes sales, marketing, customer service and yes, the Channel.
The Cloud and Mobility Pivot - How MSPs can retool for the next 5 yearsJay McBain
The Managed Services model continues to grow and evolve. This presentation makes the case for building a cloud and mobility practice on top of the recurring revenue MSP model to drive success over the next 5 years. Supported by data from CompTIA, the cloud and mobility opportunity is very real in all customers segments and industries. The Channel is well positioned to take advantage of the consulting, policy and compliance services as well as the ongoing management and infrastructure needs of this emerging opportunity.
ChannelEyes - the single place to follow the ChannelJay McBain
ChannelEyes is the next generation communication and engagement platform for suppliers and their Channel Partners to connect every day. It delivers relevant channel program highlights over a secure network making it simple to engage with the entire channel, targeting the right people with the right information at the right time.
ChannelCandy - Mobile Branded App for IT Channel VendorsJay McBain
The latest sneak peek into ChannelCandy.
ChannelCandy is a custom branded mobile app designed for the Vendor community to deliver Channel highlights, company news and sales tools into the hands of Channel Partners. Runs on iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
It comes from the team at ChannelEyes - the next generation communication and engagement platform for vendors and their Channel Partners to connect every day. It delivers relevant channel program highlights over a secure network making it simple to engage with the entire channel, targeting the right people with the right information at the right time.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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