Partner Trends #094
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Partnership Announcements
i-5O, a provider of AI-powered solutions for manufacturing optimization, has forged a strategic partnership with Cohere, a provider known for AI language models (LLMs), as part of Cohere’s Startup Program. This collaboration empowers i-5O to leverage Cohere’s state-of-the-art AI interface, accelerating product development and enhancing client offerings. Albert Kao, CEO and Co-Founder of i-5O, emphasized that this partnership allows them to focus on their core competency in AI computer vision while improving user interactions with their product. Cohere’s cutting-edge LLM models enable i-5O to revolutionize manufacturing managers' user experience, providing data access through a simple Q&A interface. With this milestone collaboration, both i-5O and Cohere aim to deliver enhanced value and innovation to the manufacturing sector and the competitive AI environment.
Digital Workforce, a provider of process automation services, has entered into a strategic partnership with Sema4.ai, an enterprise AI Agent company. The collaboration aims to integrate Sema4 AI Agents into Digital Workforce’s Outsmart business process automation platform. This development represents a significant leap in holistic business process automation, leveraging the combined strengths of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Large Language Models (LLMs). These AI agents will streamline knowledge work tasks that often demand manual effort, making processes faster and more efficient.
Prancer Enterprise, a provider of AI-driven solutions, has announced an exciting strategic partnership with Vanta, a provider of Trust Management solutions. The collaboration centers around integrating Prancer’s PenSuite AI platform with Vanta’s robust security infrastructure. Further, this alliance aims to streamline security operations for businesses by seamlessly transferring offensive security and penetration testing results to Vanta’s monitoring and remediation platform and promises enhanced security, efficiency, and peace of mind for businesses seeking to safeguard their digital assets.
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Partner Program Announcements
igolgi, Inc. has recently introduced its New Channel Partner Program, designed to provide broadcast and Pro A/V dealers and systems integrators (SI’s) access to a diverse range of encoding and transcoding products. With competitive pricing and a commitment to quality, igolgi aims to be a valuable addition to the channel community. Led by industry veteran Rich Hajdu, igolgi has installed thousands of live and VoD channels across N. America, leveraging its track record of innovative and reliable encoding and transcoding solutions.
Partner Program Updates
OTAVA, a leader in secure and compliant multi-cloud solutions, has unveiled its enhanced Partner Program, CloudPulse. With CloudPulse, OTAVA aims to create meaningful results for partners, customers, and the IT industry. This program empowers Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Resellers, and Advisor partners by providing a comprehensive framework for success across four program tiers. OTAVA’s portfolio includes multi-cloud infrastructure, business resilience solutions, and professional services, addressing critical needs like security and protection.
Akeneo, a Product Experience Management (PXM) solutions provider, announces the launch of its new App Store Partner Program. This program update aims to accelerate existing technology partnerships (including those within the MACH Alliance) while welcoming new partners, including system integrators and developers. Participating partners will contribute innovative solutions to Akeneo’s App Store.
The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) has been updated with new incentives, effective July 1. These enhancements empower AWS Partners to assist customers in migrating to the cloud more efficiently and at scale. Since its launch in 2016, MAP has supported numerous customers in transitioning to Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program, MAP helps partners build robust AWS foundations, expedite migrations, mitigate risks, and offset initial migration costs. Partners have expressed the need for additional resources to collaborate with AWS more effectively and better support customers during their cloud adoption and modernization journeys. The recent MAP improvements directly address this feedback, reinforcing AWS’s commitment to partner success.
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