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Luzern eCommerce has signed a $multi-million deal with Panasonic, Nestlé Health Science and Schneider Electric. This follows as Luzern eCommerce extends its support beyond Amazon to include multiple online marketplaces. More recently it has extended integrated with leading marketplaces including Allegro, Bol.com, ManoMano, Zalando, FNAC, cDiscount, OnBuy and Walmart as …

In PCR’s August issue we will have a special focus on Edtech and how to simplify tech integration into the classroom. Tech for schools is a huge market for the UK tech industry, which has been accelerated by the shift towards remote learning. We will delve in to this lucrative …

Time is ticking for the deadline for this year’s PCR Awards! You have until July 13th to get your nomination in that’s just 1 working day from today! It’s knuckle bitingly exciting the prospect of who will scoop an award this year but you have to be in it to …

As the second of two winners of PCR’s Under 30’s Rising Stars of the Industry. Here we speak with Maverick AV Solutions’ Lewis Williamson about his interest in UC, IT and AV market segments and how he found his way into the channel. This is what Lewis Williamson had to …

Back in May we announced Intel’s Hannah Freeman as one of two winners of PCR’s Under 30’s Rising Stars of the Industry. Here we speak with Hannah about what lead her to pursue a career within the channel, how the channel can look to attract a younger workforce and what …

Alison Williams, Business Development Director, Amplience look at how SI’s can help to create ‘information architecture’ and coach customers to model their content effectively. We’re back in physical stores, but this has made little difference to the popularity of eCommerce, which continues steadily along its rising trajectory. This does not …

Derek O’Carroll, CEO of Brightpearl investigates the highly competitive world of ecommerce. The behind the scenes battle going on between the two biggest ecommerce platforms in the US – Amazon and Shopify – could have significant implications for merchants. Amazon’s real customer is the end consumer – rather than the …

 N-able, Inc. has acquired Spinpanel. Founded in 2015 as a spin-off of an innovative direct CSP, Spinpanel is used by a growing number of Microsoft partners and IT organisations across the globe. A significant majority of N-able partners manage and/or resell Microsoft Cloud services for their small and medium enterprise customers. …

WiseTech Global has acquired Bolero.net Limited, a provider of electronic Bills of Lading (eBL) and digital documentation. Richard White, Founder and CEO at WiseTech Global, said: “As the logistics industry continues to move toward digitisation, the need for paperless solutions that provide end-to-end execution and visibility are critical. We see …

Micron Technology, Inc. has announced commercial and industrial channel partner availability of Micron DDR5 server DRAM. It enables up to an 85% increase in system performance over DDR4 DRAM. It is ideal for for AI, HPC and data-intensive applications that require more CPU compute capacity and higher memory bandwidth than DDR4 technology …

PNY Technologies’ new EliteX-PRO USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C Portable SSD is a mobile storage solution that offers increased capacity and performance. As a portable SSD it offers fast transfer speeds up to 12x faster than external HDDs. Other benefits include performance of up to 1,600MB/s seq. read and 1,500MB/s …

Commvault has appointed Cesar Cid de Rivera as International Vice President of Sales Engineering. Cid de Rivera brings 25 years of experience in the software industry, including a significant period with Commvault from 2013-2017, when he led the Technical Services Organisation in EMEA South. A well-regarded industry veteran, he brings …