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Join us as we post daily content highlighting the amazing vendors that will be at our 2023 Sales Kickoff on February 21st! These highlights will get you excited for what’s in store at this event! Today’s post will feature Freshworks, DataCore, and IRONSCALES! Keep reading to see what’s on the horizon in 2023 for these sponsors…

All credit for the excerpts below belong to featured vendors 2/10: Freshworks, DataCore, IRONSCALES

Freshworks – 2023 Predictions

As the year comes to a close, enterprise organizations should reflect on successes and key takeaways to glean what businesses might expect in 2023. So what are some of the areas that leaders should pay extra attention to, as the economy tightens and companies reassess priorities?

Cut bloatware – the #1 priority for CIOs
According to their recent ‘State of Workplace Technology: Bloatware‘ report, 89% of IT professionals waste time weekly due to bloated applications and 54% say their company pays for software they never use. Just about every CIO is planning to review (or in some cases is already in the process of reviewing) their app inventory across the enterprise. It’s important to know which apps should be retired, maintained, replatformed or postponed.

Company headcount will increase in 2023…with bot workers
Customer expectations remain high and to meet demand, companies will need to increase efficiency. This means the deployment of more bot workers in 2023. Not only will this reduce human dependence on mundane tasks, but it will reduce costs and lower the margin for human error. We’ve started to see this trend with understaffed retailers, but it’ll soon be mainstream.

Automation rewriting automation
Despite many IT professionals saying their organizations pay for tools they don’t need, there is still a disconnect between the tools accessible to them vs. what they actually need. Next year we can expect to see the next wave of automation, technology automating its own development. Code will be written by AI engines, intelligently generating its own code.

Beware of deal sweeteners
With the broader macro environment we’re in, expect to see creative sales offers in an effort to secure longer-term contracts, but buyers beware. Review and re-evaluate your contracts on any subscriptions often to ensure you still need them and know what the cancellation terms are if you aren’t using them. Being mindful of what you are subscribed to gives organizations more flexibility when it comes to renewal time and stops you from buying more than you need.

Read the full article here.

DataCore – Media Workflows Post Pandemic

In this post-pandemic world, are you finding it even more complicated to choose the right storage and applications to build an efficient media workflow solution that supports in-house and remote workers, content coming in and out of the cloud, and growing content capacities? You are not alone!

Inspired to address this market need, SymplyPERIFERY and SymplyTRANSPORTER are built as All-in-One Media Archive Appliances with convenient and powerful tools to optimize media workflows and public cloud connectivity designed right in. Each of these solutions include their state-of-the-art Perifery Panel for Adobe Premier Pro users.

Read the full article here.

IRONSCALES – New @SCALE™ Partner Program

IRONSCALES, the leading enterprise cloud email security platform, has announced the launch of the IRONSCALES @SCALE (“At Scale”) Partner Program to support and drive growth for the company’s valued global channel partners. The new channel program is designed to revolutionize the way IRONSCALES partners with industry-leading technology distributors, value-added resellers (VARs), global system integrators (GSIs), managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. The new program will enable and incentivize partners to sell IRONSCALES as the company moves to a channel-first model.

The @SCALE program enables partners to provide comprehensive email security to their customers through a powerful, yet simple email security platform designed for today’s global enterprise organizations. @SCALE offers IRONSCALES partners guaranteed margins, significant growth opportunities, protected revenue, and world-class resources and tools.

Read the full article here.

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