News Ingram Micro launches Xvantage in the UK


INGRAM MICRO has recently launched its new ‘digital experience’ platform, Xvantage, in the UK as part of the company’s global strategic development.


Described by executive VP and global chief digital officer


Sanjib Sahoo as neither a website nor a platform as such, but an ecosystem, Xvantage has been designed to take the complexity out of doing business. It unifies different elements and creates a seamless single pane of glass experience for Ingram Micro, its partners, their customers and vendors. Populated with a comprehensive archive of transactions and information, Xvantage learns through a real time data mesh on Cloud.


“This AI-powered digital ecosystem is the digital twin of Ingram Micro,” said Mr Sahoo. “It is an intelligent, self-learning ecosystem and fully customisable. Staff can be proactive rather than wasting time dealing with the mundane.” The ethos behind Xvantage is to bring the consumer experience into business, creating engagement for the user and personalisation through learning, much like consumer-focused platforms such as Netflix. Where the benefit lies for channel partners is in the intuitive combination of real time insights alongside the integration not just of hardware, but cloud, services, subscriptions etc.


With the more background elements such as certifications, training, billing, credit and financials all embedded as well, Xvantage enables partners to further the conversation with their customers and sell solutions rather than just products. Xvantage is in place of the long-established website and users are switched over automatically.


CloudCover Shuttle takes off after


virtualDCS signs agreement with Seagate CLOUD COMPUTING and disaster recovery specialist virtualDCS is continuing to improve the speed at which its partners can restore, move, and consolidate data, after forming a partnership with mass data storage solutions company, Seagate. The new Seagate Lyve offering, known as CloudCover Shuttle at virtual DCS, offers a fast and secure method of physical data transfer, to avoid long transfer times that are dependent on internet bandwidth. The shuttle enables businesses to move their data quickly, securely, and simply from endpoints to the edge and to the landing destination of the data – be it private, public, or hybrid clouds. Organisations that are seeding backup data, recovering data after a disaster, or carrying out hardware upgrades and Cloud migrations, can now access a physical data ‘shuttle’ service, without the need for capital expenditure and hardware purchases.


The shuttle offers a range of storage capacities and is delivered promptly, as well as being securely encrypted and tracked while it is being transported. Once the shuttle is returned, it will then undergo a full crypto-erase. This offering is an extension of the virtualDCS CloudCover suite of services, which enables virtualDCS partners and their customers to backup and replicate business-critical data on their terms.


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Sonata Software partners with Sinequa to scale enterprise search solutions


SONATA SOFTWARE, a modernisation and digital engineering company, has signed a Global Gold Services partnership agreement with enterprise search cloud company Sinequa. This partnership enables Sonata to offer its customers a powerful intelligent search solution on which knowledge-intensive organisations can support enterprise-wide search and develop customized domain and situational applications.


In January 2020 Encore Software Services, a Sonata company, entered into a Gold Services Partnership agreement with Sinequa covering the United States. Since then, Encore has successfully implemented Sinequa’s Search Cloud Platform for customers in pharmaceutical, manufacturing, banking and insurance and created a Sinequa Center of Excellence in Chennai, India with certified consultants to provide high quality implementation services to its global customers.


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