Technology Reseller - v12 2018

01732 759725 NEWS : VENDORS 16 Indigenous languages preserved in cloud Nuxeo is providing the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, a Canadian Crown corporation based in British Columbia, with a cloud-native Content Services Platform for storing, managing, protecting and providing access to Indigenous language assets. The solution is helping the Council’s FirstVoices initiative to archive and preserve Indigenous languages in the province of British Columbia, by storing and managing 400,000 multimedia language assets, including documents, photos, videos and audio recordings. FirstVoices provides a dynamic platform for technically-savvy Indigenous youth to partner with their fluent-speaking elders and document their languages for future generations. www.nuxeo.com Adobe Microsoft strengthen partnership Adobe and Microsoft have expanded their strategic partnership, with deeper integration of Adobe Sign and Microsoft Dynamics for more automated sales processes; self-service tools for handling GDPR privacy requests; and the ability of all Microsoft Office 365 users with a subscription to Adobe Document Cloud to create, manipulate and view PDFs right from the ribbon in online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and SharePoint. www.adobe.com Cofense, a provider of human-driven phishing defence solutions, has launched a free tool to help enterprises understand what SaaS applications are in use and what cloud services are configured. CloudSeeker provides visibility into cloud services configured for a corporate domain and highlights applications that are in use but may not have been provisioned with the knowledge of IT. Results can be compared against future scans to identify changes . https://cofense.com/ Free tool shines light on shadow IT Sabio selects aBILLity Communications provider Sabio is using the aBILLity platform from Union Street Technologies to streamline its billing processes. The implementation includes a white-labelled billing management portal for use by Sabio’s end-user customers. Union Street’s engineers have configured aBILLity to automate the process of collecting and importing call data records from Sabio’s wholesale suppliers, saving Sabio an estimated five man-hours per week. Once imported, aBILLity will automatically check for any unusual charge rates or calling patterns that could indicate fraudulent activity on customers’ lines. www.unionstreet.uk.com Justin Orde Spitfire celebrates 30 years Connectivity and Hosted PBX provider Spitfire, which provides telecommunications services to end-user customers and through 500 channel partners, is celebrating 30 years in business. The company was established in 1988 by Joint Managing Director Justin Orde and today has an annual turnover of £26 million and around 100 employees. Orde said: “Spitfire began life as a one-man enterprise supplying fax machines and mobile phones. Today we are one of the largest independent voice and data solution suppliers in the country. Our success has been accomplished by providing our partners and customers with excellent products coupled with outstanding levels of support and service.” www.spitfire.co.uk Sennheiser BlueJeans compatible Sennheiser’s portfolio of unified communications headsets, including the MB 660 headset and all wired, double-side Culture, Circle and Century series models, are now fully interoperable with the BlueJeans meetings platform. www.sennheiser.com Lifesize and Voicera bring AI to meetings Lifesize is teaming with Voicera to bring an in-meeting artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to Lifesize video and audio calls. Once invited to a meeting, AI assistant Eva will take notes and create a searchable, actionable meeting transcript. www.lifesize.com Avocor builds new display category with Microsoft Avocor is working with Microsoft to introduce Windows collaboration displays, a new category of large interactive displays that will help teams connect, collaborate and perform. The new collaboration displays are fully compatible with Windows 10 and deliver the power and productivity of Office 365 and Microsoft Teams at room scale. The upcoming Windows collaboration product line by Avocor will feature integrated cameras, stereo speakers, far field microphones, pens and built-in sensors that connect to Azure IoT. www.avocor.com StorageCraft integrates with ConnectWise StorageCraft, a provider of backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions, has enhanced its integration with ConnectWise business automation software. The integration saves MSPs time and money as partners can sync StorageCraft licenses and cloud usage to their PSA accounts for automated billing. The StorageCraft Plug-in for ConnectWise Automate (RMM) enables partners to manage and monitor all their data protection from within the ConnectWise Automate Control Center and remotely install/uninstall, license and update the SPX backup agent on any machine. www.storagecraft.com