01732 759725 BULLETIN 10 Brother upgrades industrial labelling support Brother UK has launched a new next-day maintenance service for its industrial thermal printer range. The new Brother ONSITE service is available for its TJ range of industrial label printers and is additional to its standard three-year return-tobase warranty. It guarantees that an engineer will visit the customer’s site the next working day if requested before 3pm to help bring devices back online. Cover is available for five or seven days a week. Brother ONSITE’s additional cover is targeted at users with essential labelling needs. That includes retail and logistics businesses that have 24/7 warehousing operations, which require a faster turnaround to fix any device faults than what’s currently provided under standard warranties. The new service aims to bolster channel partners’ offering to customers that require industrial labelling devices. www.brother.co.uk Tech Data acquires Tech Data has acquired the specialist hosted platform provider Advanced Technology Trading (ATTCo) and its subsidiary EKM Global Limited (EKM). The transaction accelerates the distie’s ability to offer innovative and flexible technologyas-a-service and remote service automation enablement to its IT ecosystem partners. ATTCo’s online platform – which is fully integrated with Tech Data's ecommerce tools and connects with a growing list of recognised finance partners – enables end customers to manage a fully automated, cost effective, easy-to-manage, end-to-end process for hardware, software and services subscriptions. Meanwhile, the EKM solution enables partners to remotely manage printing and imaging device fleets at scale on behalf of partners’ end-user customers. Roman Rudolf, Vice President, Strategy and Services Endpoint Solutions, Europe at Tech Data, said: “This acquisition is a further demonstration of Tech Data’s commitment to investing in digital capabilities that drive greater agility and growth for the IT ecosystem.” www.TDSYNNEX.com Exertis expands North American operation DCC Technology, which trades as Exertis has announced its acquisition of Almo Corporation in North America. The acquisition is the biggest yet in the history of parent company DCC plc. The move signals an ambitious strategy for Exertis, extending its international scale in the Pro AV sector and ramping up its expansion in the North American market. The addition of Almo Corporation builds on other acquisitions in North America such as Stampede, Jam Industries, The Music People and JB&A, adding depth to its consumer portfolio. It expands Exertis’ Pro AV capability to form the largest specialist Pro AV business in North America. Exertis’ expanded North American operation becomes a $2.4 billion business overseen by Martin Szpiro, Managing Director of Exertis North America. It forms part of the international expansion strategy of Exertis International, under Managing Director Clive Fitzharris. Tim Griffin, DCC Technology & Exertis Managing Director said: “The acquisition of Almo Corporation is the largest in DCC’s history and signals our confident and ambitious intent to expand DCC Technology. By integrating Almo with our North American Business, we will form the largest specialist Pro AV business in North America. Almo’s 75-year history of growth and success, combined with its longstanding relationships with industry partners and its ability to continually innovate and expand will be great assets to Exertis. In turn, we will bring significant economies of scale, global supply chain access and other benefits to the customers of Almo Corporation.” www.exertis.com Docker and Nuaware team up Docker, Inc. has announced a distribution agreement with Nuaware to advance the adoption of Docker throughout the software engineering departments of large organisations. Part of specialist cybersecurity services group Exclusive Networks, Nuaware is a hyper growth, born-in-the-cloud distributor at the leading edge of cloud, DevSecOps and cloud-native application development, offering advanced cloud-native services, security expertise, and support to channel partners. www.docker.com Strengthened cloud support services Tech Data has launched a strengthened cloud support services program for its partners in Europe. The new services framework, known as the ELITE Cloud Support Service (CSS) Partner Program, is designed to provide a broad range of highly flexible, granular and customisable options, enabling partners to build a profitable cloud services and licensing portfolio to suit their business goals and drive end customer growth. Partners can choose between core and extended ELITE CSS Partner Program options in cobranded or white label versions. The program includes an extensive range of services modules, which are billed according to usage in a flexible structure which enables partners to create bespoke service packages according to an individual customer’s needs. Denis Fouquet, Vice President, Cloud and Software, Europe, Tech Data said: “The ELITE CSS program enables partners to transform their cloud services capabilities with a relatively low investment, leveraging the scale and cloud specialisation of Tech Data. The program heralds a new era for cloud services, enabling the partner to develop truly customised service offerings by mixing and matching between the numerous add-ons and white-label options. We believe that this sets a new standard for customer-centric cloud services that will fast become a must-have for our partners and their end customers.” www.TDSYNNEX.com Tim Griffin Roman Rudolf
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