Accenture, Avanade scoop Microsoft partner award

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Avanade have been recognised by Microsoft as Alliance Partner of the Year for the ninth year in a row and twelfth time overall. As voted by Microsoft global sales, Accenture and Avanade received Microsoft’s Alliance Partner of the Year...

First for Phoenix adds Stratus everRun

Broad0based software distributor First for Phoenix has partnered with Stratus Technologies, in a move that will see the company bringing Stratus’ everRun availability and virtualisation software to the local market. Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of First for...

Networks Unlimited is Riverbed Distributor of the Year

Networks Unlimited has won the Riverbed Technology Distributor of the Year 2015 Award for South Africa. The local awards were presented at the Riverbed Partner Connect Conference 2016, in Johannesburg, on April 20th, recognising regional partners for great...

Revolutionising the partner opportunity

Businesses are changing and, as a result so is the channel, writes Nathan Nayagar, MD of Lexmark – South Africa & English-speaking Africa. Companies are now looking to digitalisation and are increasingly turning to advanced technology to innovate the way...

New partner programme from Lexmark

Lexmark has launched its new Connect Partner Programme to meet the changing needs of its channel partners and address the shifting dynamics of the market. This new programme is designed to support partners selling to customers who are increasingly looking to adopt a...

Smart tech purchases to grow business

In these digitally-centric yet tough economic times, there is a tendency by purchasing managers, to focus on price and budget as the main criteria, above all else when purchasing the tech products that have become essential to doing business, writes Liezl Beneke,...