Cognizant banks on bundled AI capabilities to drive growth

The professional services company is expanding its technology partnerships across SaaS, cloud and frontier model providers, CEO Ravi Kumar S said during a Q3 2025 earnings call Wednesday.   

By John Moore • Oct. 30, 2025

Australian regulators sue Microsoft over ‘misleading’ pricing structure

The consumer watchdog said the vendor failed to disclose the existence of a cheaper Microsoft 365 plan sans Copilot, the latest query into the company’s bundling practices.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 27, 2025

The channel must move fast on agentic AI: TD Synnex CEO

TD Synnex CEO Patrick Zammit urged partners to capitalize on agentic AI quickly and said his company is driving AI adoption across every part of its business.

By Christine Horton, Channel Dive contributor • Oct. 27, 2025

Workday widens its channel, opens new doors for partners

The SaaS company’s expansion into ERP and AI has paved the way for revenue growth for IT service providers.

By John Moore • Oct. 24, 2025

Massive AI spend ‘hardly touches’ channel partners: Canalys

Some IT service companies have seen stock prices stagnate compared to the broader S&P 500. Others are bullish on AI's value.

By James Anderson • Oct. 23, 2025

Vendors don’t have answers to the ROI for AI question

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff underscored how agentic AI is changing vendor-enterprise relationships during Gartner’s conference Tuesday. 

By Lindsey Wilkinson • Oct. 23, 2025

Billion-dollar AI startup leans on collaborative deployment model, outcome-based pricing

Distyl AI recently raised $175 million for a business model that’s starting to spread across the IT services market.

By John Moore • Oct. 20, 2025

AppDirect wants to be a one-stop-shop for IT partners

The B2B commerce company has stocked up on IT asset management, energy brokerage and agentic AI capabilities in an effort to reach $1 billion in annual revenue.

By James Anderson • Oct. 20, 2025

AI-optimized IaaS spend will more than double in 2026

Infrastructure as a service for AI is skyrocketing among enterprises while tech giants continue to forge partnerships and make their own deep investments. 

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 20, 2025

Cloud marketplace sales set to skyrocket by 2030

Multiyear enterprise cloud commitments will lead software sales to increase more than fivefold in the next five years, according to Omdia.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 20, 2025

Oracle opens partner channels to drive multicloud data migrations

The company added third-party sellers to its hyperscaler alliances with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud during Oracle AI World last week.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 20, 2025

What Wipro’s global CIO learned about AI cost overruns

“AI without the right process orchestration is a very expensive experiment,” Kenny Kesar said.

By Matt Ashare • Oct. 20, 2025

Windows 10 end-of-support boosts global PC shipment growth

Despite the global rush to upgrade PCs before Windows 10 support ended, North America saw only modest growth, according to Gartner.

By Makenzie Holland • Oct. 17, 2025

Consultants, SIs back AWS agentic AI marketplace launch

Accenture, Cognizant and Deloitte are among the partners with offerings on AWS' AI Agents and Tools marketplace, which is expected to combine professional services and software.

By John Moore • July 16, 2025

AWS partners cite boost from GenAI, online selling updates

The ability to build industry offerings on Amazon Nova, easier online selling and accelerated application modernization intrigued partners at AWS re:Invent 2024.

By John Moore • Dec. 9, 2024