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Top ISO Certification Services, Companies, Consultants, & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

Achieving ISO certification is a crucial step for companies striving to ensure their operations meet international standards of quality and safety. ISO certifications serve as a badge of trust and excellence, reassuring stakeholders and customers about the company's commitment to maintaining the highest standards. This certification can open new markets, enhance customer satisfaction, and improve operational efficiency.

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Our Three Secrets to Managing Change

Partner Path

Change management is leading to sleepless nights. More than 80% of the attendees at our last partner programs roundtable indicated it’s keeping them up at night (yowza). After two decades of partnership model and program consulting experience, we’ve seen all the warning signs of failure. Without organizational channel management, your new program, compensation plan, or portal initiative is pretty much worth the paper it’s printed on.

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7 steps to finding the right contact 

Stellar Partnerships

How is your partnership prospecting going? Unless you’ve got a Rolodex like a legendary PR guru, I suspect you don’t have the connections to the corporate partners you want. We often hear from non-profits that the board is full of technical experts or they’re not well-connected businesspeople. They claim they can’t provide connections or introductions to help the partnership team.

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FPGA vs. GPU: Which is better for deep learning?

IBM Business Partners

Underpinning most artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses multi-layered neural networks to simulate the complex decision-making power of the human brain. Beyond artificial intelligence (AI) , deep learning drives many applications that improve automation , including everyday products and services like digital assistants, voice-enabled consumer electronics, credit card fraud detection and more.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Video: ITsavvy Innovating the Retail Experience at Fresh Thyme Market

Channel Insider

The IT director of Fresh Thyme Market explains why he chooses to work with IT solution provider, ITsavvy. In part 1 of this episode of Channel Insider: Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso is joined by the director of IT for grocery store chain Fresh Thyme Market, Craig Diggs, and CEO of ITsavvy, Munu Ghandi. The two businesses partnered together when Diggs joined Fresh Thyme Market nearly one year ago.

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Building Your First Board: Lessons for Founders

INSEAD Knowledge

Sooner or later, every successful entrepreneur confronts the challenge of establishing a board of directors. Yet many founders approach this task too casually, relying on intuition rather than learning from empirical research or other entrepreneurs’ experience. Such founders tend to become disillusioned with the board they assembled, losing faith in its capacity to empower management to create shareholder value and foster sustainable organisations.It doesn't have to be this way.

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Maximising Hotel Profitability with Cloud Property Management Systems

TRG Blog

As global macroeconomic conditions and geopolitical factors remain challenging, achieving financial goals necessitates a strategic approach that leverages new technology. This is where a cloud-based property management system (PMS) steps in, offering a powerful tool to streamline operations, enhance guest experiences, and ultimately, drive profitability.

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Unlocking business value: Maximizing returns from your SAP investments

IBM Business Partners

Amid the dynamic realms of modern business and technology, organizations seek to maintain a competitive edge and elevate business outcomes and user experiences through their SAP investments. The crux of this endeavor lies in fostering continuous value creation throughout the journey. Drawing from my experience with clients across expansive, multi-year SAP engagements, there are three areas where collaborative value creation and charting future roadmaps intertwine seamlessly. 1.

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Melbourne’s Mantel Group Targets 275% Security Growth with Nick Ellsmore Hire

Channel Insider

Melbourne-based Mantel Group has announced the appointment of Nick Ellsmore to lead its cyber security capability, with the ambition of rapidly accelerating its capabilities in this area. Ellsmore is returning to cyber security after an eight-month career break. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Worldwide Consulting & Professional Services at Trustwave.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Top Telecommunications (Telecom) Expense Auditing, Consulting, Management, Contract Negotiation, Audits, & Cost Reduction Services

Jake Jorgovan

The world is more interconnected than it has ever been in any period in history. Efficient management of telecom costs has become paramount for businesses of all sizes. Our comprehensive list highlights the top Telecommunications Expense Auditing, Consulting, Management, Contract Negotiation, Audits, & Cost Reduction Services. From industry veterans to cutting-edge innovators, these services excel in navigating the complexities of telecom expenses, ensuring maximum savings and operational ef

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The Strength of a Team

Collaboration LLC

In any business, no matter how stable or successful, leadership transitions are inevitable and can present significant challenges. At JW Design, founder and President Jerry Williams has been a strong and influential leader, driving the company's success. Yet, as the time for transition approached, both Jerry and his successor, Derek, realized that due to how strongly Jerry has led the organization, transferring Jerry's role would be complex.

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Are You Ready to Drive Growth with Metering Solutions in Water Utilities?

Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan’s Sustainability and Circular Economy webinar series explored the theme ‘ Rapid deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) in water utilities across North America.’ Led by experts in the field, the session emphasized the significant megatrends affecting smart water metering, disruptive innovations, and growth opportunities.

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Simplifying IAM through orchestration

IBM Business Partners

The recent validated what many of us in the industry already knew: Identity has become the leading attack vector. The 2024 report showed a 71% increase in valid identities used in cyberattacks year-over-year. What really puts it into perspective is the realization that you are just as likely to have your valid identity used in a cyberattack as you are to see a phishing attack in your organization.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Video: Why Fresh Thyme Market Chooses ITsavvy as its IT Partner

Channel Insider

Fresh Thyme Market works with ITsavvy to bring technology to their farmer’s market-style grocery stores. In part 2 of host Katie Bavoso’s Channel Insider: Partner POV interview with ITsavvy CEO Munu Gandhi and Fresh Thyme Market IT Director Craig Diggs, Diggs explains how Fresh Thyme Market wanted to bring technology to their 70 grocery store locations in a way that was “seamless to our customers.” Solutions provider business, ITsavvy, had the people, expertise, technolog

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Cost Savings for Waste Management and Recycling: How to Prepare for Contract Negotiations

Jake Jorgovan

It's no secret that waste management and recycling contracts are detailed and often difficult to understand fully. Without the right approach to negotiations, costs add up quickly and strain budgets. You're likely searching for effective strategies to control these expenses. Fortunately, preparing thoroughly for contract negotiations can yield significant cost savings.

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How to Use Schema Markup to Enhance Your Auto SEO Efforts

SEO Magazine

Schema markup is like a secret code, giving search engines clear clues about what your content means. This tool helps auto SEO by delivering precise data to Google and others, improving how they display your site’s information. Think of it as making your website speak the same language as search engines; this boosts web visibility. By adding specific tags for products, reviews, or articles on pages, our clients enjoy an enhanced presence in searches, which often translates into more clicks

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Are you aware of the growth potential within the smart water meter ecosystem?

Frost & Sullivan

Water utilities around the globe are exploring new solutions to adapt to climate change. This has driven decision makers to implement water conservation policies that prioritize leak reduction and a holistic approach to minimizing non-revenue water (NRW). This shift necessitates continuous collaboration within the smart water meter ecosystem. Further, strategic partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions are fueling this collaboration, allowing stakeholders to expand their offerings towards building

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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4 key metrics to know when monitoring microservices applications running on Kubernetes

IBM Business Partners

Understanding how microservice applications works on Kubernetes is important in software development. In this article, we will discuss why observing microservice applications on Kubernetes is crucial and several metrics that you should focus on as part of your observability strategy. Why should you observe microservice health running on Kubernetes and what are the Kubernetes metrics you should monitor?

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Ntiva’s The Purple Guys Acquisition Heats Up the MSP Arena

Channel Insider

IT services company Ntiva finalized the acquisition of The Purple Guys (“TPG”), a regional IT services firm that under the stewardship of Kian Capital Partners established itself as a formidable MSP operating throughout the Central and Southern United States. The acquisition was finalized last week and signals the emergence of one of the industry’s largest and most specialized MSPs in the country.

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6 Key Technologies Driving Industrial Automation in 2024

Jake Jorgovan

Every day, old industrial automation strategies clash with new innovations. You navigate this terrain daily, grappling with both the predictable patterns of traditional manufacturing and the disruptive forces of Industry 4.0. This tension is not just theoretical. It impacts real budgets, real schedules, and real lives. Every decision you make hinges on understanding these forces.

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Advanced Strategies for Optimizing Photos and Videos with AI

SEO Magazine

Today, we have cool AI tools to make our photos and videos better. These smart helpers can look at what’s in a video, pick out the best parts, and put it all together nicely. They even suggest music or how to switch from one scene to another, making everything look professional with less work for us. But that’s not all. Making voices for videos often takes lots of time and money, but now AI can do this, too!

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Are You Ready to Accelerate Growth by Revolutionizing CX with Innovative Building Technologies?

Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan’s Homes and Buildings webinar series explored the theme ‘ How Are Innovative Building Technologies and Services Optimizing CX?’ Led by industry experts, the session emphasized areas of growth for companies, innovation in products and technology, and the competitive environment in customer experience (CX). The panel included Melvin Leong, Growth Expert and Senior Director at Frost & Sullivan; Janice Wung, Growth Expert and Industry Principal at Frost & Sul

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Empowering security excellence: The dynamic partnership between FreeDivision and IBM

IBM Business Partners

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, businesses are constantly seeking robust solutions to fortify their defenses and navigate the complex challenges posed by cyberthreats. FreeDivision, an IBM Business Partner, stands out in the field by understanding the local needs of its clients. Operating as a security service partner, FreeDivision leverages IBM’s endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, IBM Security® QRadar® EDR, as part of its solution, freedivision.io,

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How to Assess the ROI of Your Strategy Execution Software Investment

ClearPoint Strategy

Maximize your investment with our essential guide on calculating the ROI of strategy execution software. Learn to quantify the value of your software!

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Top Manufacturing & Industrial AI (Artificial Intelligence) Consultants & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

Staying ahead in the manufacturing and industrial sectors is no small task. Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a luxury—it's a critical edge. This article takes a look at the top manufacturing and industrial AI consultants and consulting firms. Miss out, and you risk falling behind with a technology that’s only just emerging but has a fascinating future.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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impact.com Welcomes Several Large, Global Brands, Receives Top Affiliate Network Ranking During Strong First Quarter of 2024

Impact

Q1 highlights include welcoming over 500 new brands and partners, being ranked top affiliate network by multiple industry analysts, and launching new product features and innovations. NEW YORK—May 8, 2024 —impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, announced continued strong performance so far in 2024, adding more than 500 brands and partners to its total client roster, welcoming leading brands including Gatorade, Forever 21, Under Armour, and AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens)

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NetSuite Awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Global Company of the Year Award for Leading Innovation in Cloud Business Management Solutions

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — May 7, 2024 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the cloud ERP market and, based on its findings, recognizes Oracle NetSuite with the Global Company of the Year Award. NetSuite is an integrated cloud business system that helps businesses simplify core processes, improve productivity, expand insights, and grow more efficiently.

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Helping enterprises across regulated industries leverage hybrid cloud and AI

IBM Business Partners

At IBM Cloud, we are committed to helping enterprises across industries leverage hybrid cloud and AI technologies to help them drive innovation. For true transformation to begin, we believe it is key to understand the unique challenges organizations are facing—whether it is keeping data secured, addressing data sovereignty requirements or speeding time to market to satisfy consumers.