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		<title>Amazon Consulting’s Approach to a Unified Global Partner Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Diane Krakora – CEO In our previous blog post, we introduced Quest Software and its business partner needs. Unifying the channel program for Quest and its partner community became a vital corporate priority. Quest engaged Amazon Consulting to help build collaboration with industry partners, increase opportunities for partners to grow sales and profitability and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1873&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SAP’s Cloud Strategy and Partner Ecosystem:</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can the Software Giant become Accessible, Flexible and Mobile? by Beth Vanni – Vice President At the recent SAP Influencer Summit, the software giant came out swinging around their ability to extend their market dominance in applications to the cloud arena. But can their approach to partnering be part of that new religion and give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1891&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Approach to a Unified Global Partner Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Diane Krakora – CEO We have been discussing partner specializations over the past few weeks, so I’d like to share a story of partner program and defined specialization success. Imagine a corporation that, after a period of growth by acquisition and a focus on indirect sales, could attribute about 40% of worldwide annual revenue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1871&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud Era of Channel Success: Is Your Organization Partner-Ready?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Diane Krakora – CEO At the recent Channel Cloud Summit event, Diane Ruth, Executive Director of Business Development at Boomi (the Saas integration leader that was recently purchased by Dell), discussed their strategy for success with partners. Ruth’s first point was vendors can increase their flexibility by aligning their go-to-market models with the partners’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1867&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Solution Providers Can Turn for Financing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tim Lowe – Director, Consulting Channel financing issues can be at the core of a solution provider’s mobility or the reason why you keep hitting roadblocks. For solution providers in today’s economic environment, credit is no longer readily available. Several credit facilities that were options five years ago no longer exist today. Finding sources [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1884&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Steps to Building a Successful Channel Program in the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Diane Krakora – CEO Ron Huddleston, SVP ISV Alliances at Salesforce.com spoke at the Cloud Channel Summit event a couple weeks ago. He stressed the channel is not shifting to a cloud platform as fast as the market and that channels are missing out on massive opportunities. Huddleston outlined his five steps vendors should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1864&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s About Building Trusted Relationships</title>
		<link>http://amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/trustedrelationships112811/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Diane Krakora – CEO At the recent Cloud Channel Summit event, Marc Sternberg, CEO Rising Tide Media, was bullish on the opportunities to partner with cloud services.  He commented that with cloud computing gaining broad based market acceptance and cloud solutions delivering tangible business benefits, cloud vendors need partners help.  Sternberg stressed success in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1862&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life at Apple after Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/appleafterjobs112211/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will channels ever hold its own for investment and innovation? Beth Vanni – Vice President Apple stands at a crossroads. They are the only major IT vendor that has it all – the cool computing devices, the operating system, and the server and storage technology to run the backoffice. Their thriving community of ISVs and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1856&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New “VAR”</title>
		<link>http://amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/new%e2%80%9cvar%e2%80%9d111411/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Diane Krakora, CEO You are probably thinking “Diane, the ‘VAR’ label, is so passé – get with the times, girl.” And you’re right. We transitioned off the ‘VAR’ label to ‘Solution Provider’ years ago, as reselling took a back seat to providing the customer with a full solution to their business needs. If you’ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1850&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Niche Distributors, the Future is Cloudy</title>
		<link>http://amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/nichedistributors110711/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avnet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Fox, Consultant Many vendors are unclear what role, if any, distributors may play in their cloud strategy. As for niche technology distributors, the future is even more unclear.  Behemoths the likes of Avnet, Ingram and Tech Data are scrambling to claim a piece of the pie. Who can blame them? IT spending is projected to grow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4289035&amp;post=1814&amp;subd=amazonconsultingblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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