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5 Channel Partner Updates: Thursday 27 February 2020

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Here are five (actually far more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, February 27, 2020. Sip up.

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A. What’s Hot Today

1. Chatbots Are Disappointing: CIOs explain chatbot frustrations here.

2. MSP Education: Pulseway, which develops RMM (remote monitoring and management) software, has launched MSP Toolkit 2.0 in a bid to help MSPs "fine-tune their business model, generate leads and increase their revenue."

3. PartnershipJitterbit and Navint are partnering to connect Salesforce CPQ & Billing to enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms, bringing greater efficiency and alignment to the front and back offices, the two companies say.

4. Partnership - User Experience: Applause and Infosys are partnering to provide broader end-to-end digital experience testing services to clients, the companies say.

5. Cloud-based Data Analytics: Google is pitching BigQuery as a modern platform for data analytics. Detailed updates are here.

B. Upcoming Technology Conferences

  1. Zendesk Relate 2020 (March 3-5, Miami, Florida)
  2. HIMSS (March 9-13, Orlando, Florida)
  3. SaaStr (March 10-12, San Jose, California)
  4. Aruba Atmosphere20 (March 22-27, Las Vegas)
  5. Google Cloud Next 2020 (April 6-8, San Francisc0)
  6. Bonus: Top 50 Technology Events in 2020 for Partners
  7. BonusChannelE2E’s complete event calendar

Got news to share for our morning update? Email me: [email protected].

Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri is co-founder & editorial director of MSSP Alert and ChannelE2E, the two leading news & analysis sites for managed service providers in the cybersecurity market.