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1. The Key To Creating Synergy With Channel Partners: How To Maximize Opportunities With CO-OP/MDF 4/24/2017

   Each year, manufacturers spend billions of dollars into creating Co-op/MDF opportunities for channel partners. Disturbingly, however, nearly half of incentive fund opportunities go unused. This is a significant amount of money.

2. 8 Considerations When Starting A Business 3/30/2017

   Every year 100 million new business are launched across the globe. That’s the equivalent of just over three businesses every second, or 11,000 per hour. It is, therefore, a common experience.

3. Product Comparison: Backup And Recovery Software 3/1/2017

   We compare the certifications, pricing structures, and support of 10 business continuity solutions.

4. Business Intelligence Trends To Look For In 2017 1/18/2017

   In recent years, organizations have become infused with data, big and small. Organizations that saw the competitive advantage in collecting, storing, and harnessing this data quickly began to innovate quicker than ever before. The old way of approaching business intelligence was fading, and the business and IT sides of companies began collaborating to maximize this new found influence. Since this infusion of data and collaboration with IT and business, trends in the business intelligence industry have become a hot topic.

5. How 2016 Cyber Attacks Will Impact 2017 Security Strategies 12/27/2016

   Survey finds despite escalating threats, few changes to security are planned in 2017. By Christine Kern, contributing writer

6. Digital Business Transformation: 4 Recommendations For Success 12/19/2016

   DBT is the overarching strategy that guides the reimagining of the business in a customer-first, networked world. It is the thread that unites the organization’s digital efforts and compels business leaders to radically rethink the ways in which the business will meet customer needs in an always-on world. By Sheldon Monteiro, global Chief Technology Officer, SapientNitro

7. Reinventing The Channel: 5 Top Emerging Trends 12/13/2016

   While it has always been incumbent upon a manufacturer to keep pace with changes in technology to ensure success of its channel partners, the challenge to do so has never been greater. By Stephanie Dismore, Vice President & General Manager, U.S. Channels at HP Inc.

8. 5 Solutions That Can Streamline Your Business Operations 11/2/2016

   With technology advancing at a rapid pace, more and more companies are finding it difficult to streamline their operations, often enduring painful consequences. Companies that don’t want to get left behind, stuck in the old days, would be wise to consider implementing these five solutions to keep up with the times.

9. 5 Of The Most Challenging Obstacles In Channel Management 11/1/2016

   Channel managers are required to possess a plethora of social and tactical skills; not just someone whom wears many hats, but someone with a comprehensive understanding of the channel industry, it's ever-evolving modification (in both technology and economics), the complexities and miscommunication it produces as well as the ambiguous gamble an indirect partnership entails.

10. Top Takeaways From ISVs On Raising Capital 10/18/2016

    Four ISV executives — Granbury Solutions’ CEO Tom Bronson; Tony Glowacki, CEO of Gusto; Jon Halpern, Co-Founder and CEO of AthleteTrax; and Software Logic Founder and CEO Luis Reyes — took part in How To Build A Successful Reseller Program, a panel held as part of the Business Solutions ISV IQ Live! conference October 6 in Philadelphia. The four discussed different avenues available for raising capital and how to successfully grow a software business.