Chris Rimer, Global Head of Partner Business for the Google Cloud Platform, Google Enterprise will join a growing number of key Cloud Computing industry executives speaking at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Chris will participate in the Cloud Channel Summit Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Industry Roundtable which will discuss Cloud Partner Success Stories: What’s Working and What’s Not. The roundtable panel session will also include:

Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technology
Russell Hertzberg, Vice President Technology Solutions, SoftServe Inc.
Kevin O’Brien, Senior Director of ISV/OEM Business Development at Oracle

The Summit will include additional panel roundtable sessions focused on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Big Data, and Small/Med-Size Business (SMB) partner opportunities in the Cloud.

The Summit will also include a “Speed Networking” session to give attendees additional time to meet others interested in exploring new partnership opportunities.

CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SoftServe as returning sponsors supporting this year’s peer-to-peer, executive networking forum.

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Ron Huddleston, Senior Vice President of ISVs and Channels at Salesforce.com, and Kevin O’Brien, Senior Director of ISV/OEM Business Development at Oracle are among the growing number of Cloud Computing industry executives speaking again at the third annual Cloud Channel Summit on Monday, November 4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Salesforce.com and Oracle are also joining CallidusCloud, Corent Technologies, CorSource Technology Group and SoftServe as returning sponsors of this unique peer-to-peer, executive networking forum.

Ron and Kevin will join the following speakers at this year’s Cloud Channel Summit:

Daniel Saks, President and CEO, AppDirect
Feyzi Fatehi, CEO, Corent Technology
Eileen Boerger, CEO, CorSource Technology Group
Rory Cameron, SVP Corporate Development & Emerging Platforms, CallidusCloud
Russell Hertzberg, Vice President, Technology Solutions, SoftServe Inc.
Carlos Roman, Director, Insight Cloud Programs, InsightCloud Solutions

Tim FitzGerald, Vice President of Avnet Technology Solutions’ DataCenter & Cloud Technology Solutions Practices, will kick off this year’s Summit.

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One of the ironies of today’s IT marketplace is that the rapidly expanding array of Cloud alternatives which promise to accelerate the rollout of new functionality via simpler solutions have actually stymied many organizations that are overwhelmed by the various options available to them. Many IT organizations are enlisting trusted technology advisors and specialized service providers to help them assess their needs, identify viable Cloud alternatives, guide them through the deployment process and help them optimize the performance of the Cloud solutions on an ongoing basis. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ view about the business implications of this trend on the InsightCloud blog.

THINKstrategies, Inc. announced today that EPM Live has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program administered by THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace to recognize SaaS companies that are delivering measurable business benefits to specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Part of Upland Software, EPM Live is a work management platform that transforms the way organizations manage projects and do their day-to-day work. Built on project and portfolio management (PPM) cost saving disciplines, EPM Live offers a full work management application marketplace that allows organizations to extend their PPM capabilities to all areas of their business regardless of size, work type or maturity.

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THINKstrategies announced today that ProProfs has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program administered by THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace to recognize SaaS companies that are delivering measurable business benefits to specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

ProProfs is a leading provider of comprehensive online tools for building, testing and applying knowledge. ProProfs’ Quiz, Survey and Training products offer trainers, marketers and educators powerful, yet simple features without requiring users to download or learn expensive software. ProProfs offers a vast library of public quizzes and assessment tools via the Web, as well as a robust tracking and measurement dashboard. ProProfs gives users a valuable feedback engine … Read More »

A persistent myth in the tech world is that major enterprises in highly regulated industries are risk-averse and reluctant to adopt new technology innovations. In the case of the financial services sector, this has not been the case for years, and it is being disproved again as a growing number of financial institutions aggressively pursue a widening array of cloud computing alternatives. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ view about the market implications of this trend in E-Commerce Times.

Last month’s announcement of a “major” strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Oracle attracted plenty of industry attention; but it holds more meaning for enterprise decision makers about how a new pragmatism is overtaking the polemics of the past in dealing with the realities of moving to the cCloud in a hybrid environment. Click here to read THINKstrategies’ perspective regarding the implications of this alliance for enterprise decision-makers on Sandhill.com.

Over 2200 companies are now listed on THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace and more than 4400 people are following THINKstrategies’ latest updates on Twitter.

The Cloud Computing Showplace is the oldest and largest, vendor-independent, online directory of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions, including Managed Services, and resource center of industry best practices. Over 15,000 corporate decision-makers have subscribed to the THINKstrategies Cloud Computing Showplace newsletter.

The latest example of the business value of our online directory and industry best practices resource center comes from Justin Phipps, Director of Marketing at DocLanding.com, a secure Cloud document management provider based in Omaha, Nebraska, who told us, “Cloud Showplace accounts for 12% of referral traffic and 7.4% of new accounts for DocLanding.”

If your company isn’t already listed on the Showplace, you an add your corporate information in the appropriate application, industry and service areas by completing online registration form at … Read More »

It was about ten years ago when a new generation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives started to gain acceptance and adoption among organizations of all sizes. And, it has only been about five years since Amazon Web Services captured the attention of the marketplace with its Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 offerings which opened the door to a vast array of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings. Now, the third piece of the Cloud Computing puzzle is beginning to win over organizations seeking to build their own apps – Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

While SaaS and IaaS solutions have experienced exponential growth and are forecast to continue to displace traditional, on-premise software and systems, PaaS has remained a relatively dormant segment of the Cloud marketplace. The lack of adoption of the various PaaS alternatives which have emerged over the past few years has been understandable. Organizations could … Read More »

With nearly every market forecast and growing anecdotal evidence pointing to escalating demand for cloud-based alternatives to traditional on-premises systems and software, the challenges of integrating the new on-demand solutions to existing applications and data sources are becoming even more critical.

Data integration continues to be a pivotal part of successfully adopting today’s rapidly expanding assortment of Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service alternatives, based on the results of Scribe Software’s recent survey of more than 920 technical professionals, business leaders, systems integrators, VARs and other channel partners.

Click here to read THINKstrategies’ perspective on these survey findings and what they mean for the cloud computing movement in E-Comerce Times.