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Good news for Australian IT partners hoping to attract buyers! With M&As looking primed to go off for the Australian IT landscape — but the competition's going to be tough. While business owners focus heavily on revenue growth and balance sheets, marketing and branding plays a crucial role in assessment. Join Melanie Unwin at the Gold Coast as she shares marketing advice for technology business owners looking for M&A. Melanie joins keynote speakers tackling security, cloud, AI, M&A, hiring, revenue growth opportunities, customer cost realities, marketing, the future of distribution partnerships and more at Pipeline 2023. Don’t miss out on the conference. Book your tickets today to lock in the EOFY discounted prices. Prices go up on July 1! https://www.crn.com.au/pipeline-channel-conference-2023/

Is it time to prepare for a surge in IT M&A? “The competition's going to be tough because there are a lot more businesses that are still waiting to be snapped up than there was a year ago" - said Melanie U., Microsoft partner mentor and co-founder and director of B2B marketing firm Mogrify Watch the video below. “I think pretty much every customer we have has had a call this year to inquire about acquisition, but nothing's happened yet,” Unwin told us. Unwin has worked with various IT businesses that have gone onto M&A. She will appear on stage at CRN Pipeline in August to share how IT business's brands can factor in M&A. Register interest in attending here: https://www.crn.com.au/pipeline-channel-conference-2023 #CRNPipeline

Ahead of her appearance at CRN Pipeline 2023 in August, we asked Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions Director for ANZ, Vanessa Sorenson, about the realities of bringing people from outside IT into the channel. Watch the video below. CRN has spoken to technology business leaders who have looked to hire people from retail, automotive and other sectors. Programs exist to help with this – including programs that aim to help indigenous Australians, military veterans and athletes enter technology roles. But often, candidates who enter these programs don’t end up in the IT industry. That’s a problem Sorenson wants to address. For 18 months, Microsoft has been running the 10K Wāhine program in New Zealand, which aims to help 10,000 New Zealand women build skills and confidence to secure digital roles. Sorenson wants technology partners to commit to hiring 10K Wāhine participants, and she said Microsoft will look to emulate the program in Australia. She said "we are going to start mapping how many diverse roles are moving into partnership businesses." At Pipeline, Sorenson will also speak about customers’ expectations around value from technology spending, and the divide between Australian organisations that have moved to cloud and are going through their second round of digital transformation, and those that are yet to make the leap to cloud. She will join IT buyers, partners, vendors and distributors and others, who will tackle what partners should be preparing for next to grow their businesses. On the agenda will be security, cloud, AI, M&A, hiring, revenue growth opportunities, customer cost realities, marketing, the future of technology distribution partnerships and more. Lock in your EOFY Pipeline ticket before the price goes up: https://pages.crn.com.au/pipeline-2023-expression-of-interest?utm_campaign=CRN%20AU%20Pipeline%202023&utm_source=Pipeline%202023%20Microsite&utm_content=button1

The COVID-driven IT spending bonanza is over. So what now for IT spending? TRA analyst Trevor Clarke shared some macro considerations for Australian IT partners to consider. Watch the video. While the size of IT budgets hasn't changed much, in Clarke's view, he noted a shift in business priorities to operational excellence and that cost management had crept back up to the top of IT leaders’ priority lists. "I think a lot of it at the moment is, ‘Let's get a little bit more smarter cost management in place - more around liquidity and making sure we've got the funds available to do things, particularly as it relates to capital investments, when you have some of the challenges with the cost of capital at the moment and inflation,” Clarke noted. Clarke will be the keynote speaker at CRN Australia's Pipeline conference in August, where he will examine IT and digital market trends for Australian channel partners. See the Pipeline agenda and register your interest in attending: https://www.crn.com.au/pipeline-channel-conference-2023 #CRNPipeline

Network and grow your business revenue with the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow channel peers. Join over 150 like-minded peers at the channel's premier conference at the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort. Register your interest today: https://pages.crn.com.au/pipeline-2023-expression-of-interest?utm_campaign=CRN%20AU%20Pipeline%202023&utm_source=Pipeline%202023%20Microsite&utm_content=button1 #pipeline #crnpipeline #pipeline2023 #crnaustralia #crn #channel #channelpartner

Australian IT created some hot news stories in 2022, have a look at the top stories that made noise this year. #newyear2022 #CRN #AustraliaITChannel

Register your interest for CRN Pipeline 2022 - https://www.crn.com.au/pipeline CRN Pipeline 2022 will provide a highly interactive environment for the owners and senior decision-makers, of Australia’s most influential channel partners, to engage with each other and discuss how to maximise BAU revenues after two extraordinary years of transformation. Provide your details today to express your interest in attending CRN Pipeline 2022 at the Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort, Gold Coast between 23-26 August!

We're approaching the pointy end of the CRN Fast50. It's time to count down from 20 to 11! https://www.crn.com.au/fast50/presentation-2021 CRN Fast50 is Australia’s biggest celebration of channel success. Now in its 13th year, the CRN Fast50 recognises the fastest-growing companies in the Australian IT channel, based on year-on-year revenue growth. Thank you to the participants. Thank you to our sponsors Macquarie Bank BeyondTrust Arrow Electronics Schneider Electric Bitdefender Telstra CRN Australia #growth #crnfast50 #channelpartners #itchannel #channelstrategy #channelmarketing #channelsales #channelnews #channelpartner

The CRN Fast50 marches onwards. See the latest inductees as we count down from 30 to 21! https://www.crn.com.au/fast50/presentation-2021 CRN Fast50 is Australia’s biggest celebration of channel success. Now in its 13th year, the CRN Fast50 recognises the fastest-growing companies in the Australian IT channel, based on year-on-year revenue growth. Thank you to the participants. Thank you to our sponsors Macquarie Bank BeyondTrust Arrow Electronics Schneider Electric Bitdefender Telstra CRN Australia #growth #crnfast50 #channelpartners #itchannel #channelstrategy #channelmarketing #channelsales #channelnews #channelpartner

It's day 2 of the CRN Fast50! Find out who the latest inductees are at https://www.crn.com.au/fast50/presentation-2021 CRN Australia Fast 50 is Australia’s biggest celebration of channel success. Now in its 13th year, the CRN Fast50 recognises the fastest-growing companies in the Australian IT channel, based on year-on-year revenue growth. Thank you to the participants. Thank you to our sponsors Macquarie Bank BeyondTrust Arrow Electronics Schneider Electric Bitdefender Telstra #growth #crnfast50 #channelpartners #itchannel #channelstrategy #channelmarketing #channelsales #channelnews #channelpartner

The CRN Fast50 countdown starts this week! We will be counting down the 50 fastest-growing Australian IT providers of the last year from Wednesday 17 November. A big thanks to all our sponsors Schneider Electric, Bitdefender, ARROW ECS, BeyondTrust, Macquarie Bank Ltd and Telstra CRN Australia #fast50 #growth #success

The CRN Fast50 countdown starts this week! We will be counting down the 50 fastest-growing Australian IT providers of the last year from Wednesday 17 November. A big thanks to all our sponsors Schneider Electric, Bitdefender, Arrow Electronics, BeyondTrust, Macquarie Bank and Telstra CRN Australia #fast50 #growth #success