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13 hours ago
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E& enterprise named a Major Player in CPaaS by IDC MarketScape
Abu Dhabi – e& enterprise has been named a 'Major Player' in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52039625, February 2025), which assesses the communications platform–as-a-service (CPaaS) market through the IDC MarketScape model. Ahmed A. Omer, Vice President (VP), Customer Experience, e& enterprise, said: 'We are honoured to be recognised by IDC MarketScape for CPaaS. Businesses today demand intelligent, scalable, and secure customer engagement solutions and we believe this recognition validates our ongoing efforts to enhance AI-powered customer engagement, strengthen omnichannel experiences, and integrate seamlessly with enterprise ecosystems. Our strategic expansion ensures that enterprises across industries can leverage engageX to enhance communication experiences and drive business outcomes.' According to Courtney Munroe, Research VP, IDC 'e& enterprise's portfolio combining cutting-edge AI capability, scalability, and seamless integration across multiple channels is a competitive solution in the CPaaS segment. This will facilitate the ability to drive the next wave of transformation in communications to deliver real, measurable value for businesses worldwide.' With a strong international footprint and over 3,000 enterprise customers, e& enterprise's CPaaS platform, engageX, continues to empower businesses with seamless, AI-driven customer interactions. According to the report, 'engageX has a diverse portfolio of products and services including CPaaS, SaaS, and custom solutions to help businesses with omni-channel engagement strategies, automation, and operational efficiency.' These features enable businesses to optimise customer experiences and drive operational efficiencies. EngageX provides a comprehensive suite of communication solutions, including voice, SMS, video, email, number masking, and multi-factor authentication. The platform's seamless integration with CRM, CCaaS, UCaaS, and payment systems enables enterprises to streamline operations and deliver personalised, real-time engagement. Beyond technology, engageX delivers expert CX consulting services, helping businesses design and optimise customer journeys to maximise engagement and satisfaction. This consulting is complemented by dedicated developer advocacy, ensuring smooth implementation and ongoing innovation tailored to the diverse needs of various industries. Flexible pricing models—including pay-as-you-go, subscription, and usage-based options—make engageX accessible to businesses of all sizes, ensuring scalability and adaptability to evolving market needs. As part of its growth strategy, e& enterprise has expanded its CPaaS presence into Türkiye and Saudi Arabia (KSA), reinforcing its commitment to delivering next-generation customer engagement solutions in key global markets. More details on the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) 2025 Vendor Assessment can be found here: Contact: e& Media Office Shilpa Villait: svillait@ Nancy Sudheer: nsudheer@ Amer Obaid: amerobaid@ Noha Serageldin: nserageldin@ Grace Eid: Eid: geid@ mediaoffice@ About e& enterprise e& enterprise is a digital transformation leader supporting governments and large-scale organisations in building and scaling their digital core. Through optimising operations, enhancing customer engagement, and data-driven decision-making, we enable seamless, sustainable, and secure transitions into the evolving digital world. Currently operating in the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Oman, Türkiye, Qatar, and South Africa, e& enterprise brings cutting-edge digital scalable solutions designed to deliver tangible business value and address the unique challenges faced by organisations and executives across industries. With a proven track record as a trusted digital transformation partner, technical expertise, and the ability to deploy and manage complex solutions, e& enterprise provides collaborative tailored solutions that empower customers to navigate their end-to-end digital transformation journey. To learn more about e& enterprise, please visit About IDC MarketScape IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
TECHx
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- TECHx
HPE Unifies Partner Programs Under One Framework
Home » Tech Value Chain » Global Brands » HPE Unifies Partner Programs Under One Framework Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a unified partner program designed to enhance the partner experience across its entire portfolio. The new framework, named HPE Partner Ready Vantage, consolidates existing programs such as HPE Partner Ready and HPE Partner Ready for Networking. HPE reported that this integration will simplify enrollment, offer flexible participation, and provide comprehensive support. The rollout of the new program will begin in phases, starting on November 1. The company revealed that the program was built with partner input and incorporates best practices from HPE's award-winning programs. It enables partners to grow their expertise and deliver better outcomes to customers. HPE Partner Ready Vantage features: One program framework A single compensation model A consistent experience Partners can choose from different centers and competencies to align with their business goals. They may focus on developing or integrating solutions, reselling HPE technologies and services, or delivering services under the HPE brand or their own. Simon Ewington, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem at HPE, stated that the program reflects HPE's commitment to empowering partners and accelerating business growth. HPE noted that partners enrolled in the Sell Track can now resell the full HPE portfolio, including both opex (HPE GreenLake Flex) and capex models. Dedicated centers are available for Compute, Hybrid Cloud, and Networking. The program also enables cross-selling across the HPE portfolio. Partners will access training and certifications based on requirements in each center. Optional competencies allow them to specialize in areas such as: Private Cloud HPE GreenLake Flex Hybrid Cloud Operations SASE New and updated certifications include: HPE Solutions for AI HPE Sovereign Cloud HPE Morpheus VM Essentials HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G HPE emphasized partner enablement by offering tools, training, and certifications to support ongoing development and market differentiation. The company also announced several new initiatives alongside the unified program: HPE CloudPhysics Plus and new migration tools to optimize IT estates and new migration tools to optimize IT estates Expanded AI opportunities to help partners build scalable AI practices to help partners build scalable AI practices New HPEFS financing for HPE Private Cloud AI developer systems for HPE Private Cloud AI developer systems HPE Smart Choice for preconfigured data center solutions targeting SMBs and mid-market clients HPE CloudPhysics Plus will be available for free in Q4 FY2025. It allows partners to assess IT environments, including Hyper-V, bare metal, Kubernetes, and public clouds. Rapid migration tools will help partners deliver assessments, recommendations, and seamless workload migrations. Partners in the Professional Services center can access the rapid migration tool for free. It includes support for VM Essentials migrations and provides detailed feasibility analyses. AI Focus partners will gain access to enablement tools, AI assessments, and co-investments. HPE is expanding this initiative to 20 more countries. The goal is to support partners in developing and scaling AI offerings. The AI Acceleration Workshops now include insights on emerging trends such as agentic AI and physical AI. NVIDIA experts will contribute to the workshops, helping partners deepen technical skills and build customized practices. Additionally, HPE Financial Services is offering limited-time reduced-rate financing on the HPE Private Cloud AI developer system. This option spreads costs over 36 months, allowing partners to demonstrate the system's capabilities without large upfront investments. HPE Smart Choice, now globally available through the channel, provides ready-to-go solutions for SMB and mid-market customers. With fixed pricing and curated SKUs, the program streamlines ordering and accelerates sales cycles. It currently includes: HPE ProLiant Compute servers HPE MSA and tape storage systems HPE Tech Care Services The company revealed upcoming additions to Smart Choice, such as HPE Compute Ops Management (COM) and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. According to HPE, Smart Choice addresses the demand for fast, easy-to-deploy solutions. Kevin Samuels, Director of E-Commerce Brand and Content Management at BlueAlly, stated that Smart Choice allows faster order fulfillment and improved customer satisfaction in today's competitive market. HPE continues to focus on simplifying partner engagement, expanding capabilities, and driving customer success through its evolving programs and solutions.
Web Release
14 hours ago
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Global M&A resilient to tariff shock as executives lean in with dealmaking to exploit disruptions—Bain & Company M&A Midyear Report
Global mergers and acquisitions activity by leading companies is set to remain robust this year despite ongoing tremors from tariffs inflicting the third significant shock in five years to corporate executives' confidence in the business environment, Bain & Company forecasts today. Unpredictable shifts in tariffs policies are again heightening uncertainty over M&A decision-making, in the wake of earlier shocks from, first, the Covid-19 pandemic, and then soaring interest rates. But Bain's M&A Midyear Report concludes that the tariffs shock will be different, with executives who have weathered past crises drawing from the lessons to pursue bold strategic moves. Today's analysis anticipates a new wave of M&A dealmaking as companies focus on future-proofing businesses through greater scale, expanded capabilities, and strategic divestitures – despite continuing challenges from persistently higher rates, regulatory hurdles and AI disruption, as well as tariffs. The best companies are already working to determine how second- and third-order impacts from tariffs could alter the portfolios, M&A roadmaps and deal pipelines, Bain's report says. Bain notes that it is already seeing evidence that leading companies are not allowing tariffs – or the shift to a more multipolar world that they represent – to derail M&A plans. In one significant indicator of resilient M&A activity, the report notes that while deal volume and value dropped in April as the tariff era began, deal value rebounded in May: a signal that tariffs' impact may be more muted than that of other recent shocks. Overall, the strategic M&A market has grown 11% year-over-year through May. While the May bounce may partly reflect late-stage deals announced that month, Bain concludes that a bigger factor is that battle-hardened executives are becoming more strategic in exploiting disruptions to their advantage. These leaders are responding more nimbly to strategic challenges and keeping focused on a longer-term view of their M&A strategy, the report argues. 'In the present, challenging environment, it takes unique conviction and clarity to chart a multiyear strategy and proactively pursue M&A. Yet that's just what veteran executives are showing us they can do,' said Suzanne Kumar, executive vice president of Bain & Company's M&A and Divestitures practice. 'These executives are separating the signal from the noise and plowing ahead with transformations. Indeed, company leaders with a clear M&A roadmap grounded in a multiyear view will be best positioned to see past near-term volatility and identify unique opportunities for their businesses to make transformative moves.' M&A learnings from past shocks chart a course through ongoing challenges While taking an upbeat view of M&A prospects for the year, Bain acknowledges ongoing challenges for dealmakers. As they navigate swings in tariff policies and financial markets, executives also confront accelerating disruption from technology, especially AI, and intensified pressure to allocate capital to these and other newly critical capabilities, sometimes at the expense of M&A investments. The report notes that interest rates are likely to remain relatively high in the US amid ongoing inflationary pressures. Regulatory hurdles also remain elevated across markets, with the US administration maintaining antitrust scrutiny, even as it brings back merger remedies and streamlined processes, Bain observes. The report also notes that the impact from tariffs has also varied markedly across sectors, depending on factors such as supply chain dynamics and end markets. Industrial M&A has been hit harder, suffering a 15% drop in deal value, while tech M&A has rebounded as companies across industries snap up AI assets. Yet while executives navigate these disparate challenges, Bain's analysis identifies four key learnings from past crises that the most effective companies are applying to chart successful M&A strategies. First, companies that leverage their strength to continue to pursue M&A outperform those which stand still, Bain finds. Citing bold dealmaking during the global financial crisis of 2008, it reports that in the first half of 2025 some companies have now pursued opportunistic and strategically solid deals at lower valuations than were available at the same time last year. Secondly, Bain notes that forward-looking companies are continuing to recognise that disruptions generate demand for new capabilities, creating a strategic rationale for scope deals. The wide-ranging disruptions sparked by AI open up the pursuit of game-changing capabilities through M&A, it suggests. Thirdly, leading companies will continue to pursue consolidation deals as high interest rates and persistent cost pressures favor scale deals, the report concludes. Bain expects consolidation deals to continue to define the M&A market this year, especially in high-fixed-cost industries such as financial services, energy and telecommunications. Lastly, the report advises that the best businesses will continue to seek to expand their competitive advantage by examining how follow-on effects of tariffs will affect portfolios, M&A roadmaps and deal pipelines. Leading companies will screen potential assets to map their manufacturing footprint to the future shape of end markets, and update demand models to consider effects from slower global growth, supply chain realignments and shifting consumer behavior, it says. Alongside, the most effective companies will also strategically divest businesses which are no longer core, or where ownership advantages will not be the same in the future.
