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01732 759725 20 NEWS : VENDORS With demand growing for professionals with robotic process automation (RPA) skills, UiPath has expanded its UiPath Academy training platform and RPA Certification programme and launched a four-week learning sprint for professionals who want to develop in- demand RPA skills. The Reboot Your Skills Program includes a tailored UiPath Academy learning plan with free, on-demand courses; a community of peers; and time with RPA experts in multiple time zones. Learn more at www.uipath.com/ rpa/academy/reboot-your-skills. Now featuring an enhanced user experience and new learning paths, UiPath Academy’s free online RPA training and certification curriculum enables workers to master the fundamentals of RPA and upskill or reskill for the ‘automation first’ era. Launched in 2017 and already taken by 550,000 individuals, the courses prepare professionals for the roles required to build an RPA Centre of Excellence (CoE), including RPA developers, solution architects, infrastructure engineers, implementation managers and business analysts. UiPath has also expanded its online RPA Certification program. This offers two levels of certification: RPA Associate, the foundational certification level for all RPA job roles; and RPA Advanced Developer, recommended for those in technical roles with more than six months of on-the-ground RPA experience. UiPath expands RPA training options Robert Steiner Sharp NEC joint venture Sharp Corporation has acquired 66% of the shares in NEC subsidiary NEC Display Solutions, Ltd (NDS), with NEC retaining 34% of the shares. The deal includes the NDS subsidiaries NEC Display Solutions of America, NEC Display Solutions Europe, NEC Viewtechnology Trading (Shenzhen), Ltd and S[quadrat] GmbH. NDS will be run as a Sharp subsidiary in a joint venture with NEC and will continue to provide NEC branded-products. NEC will continue to sell the joint venture’s products and solutions to customers globally. www.sharp.eu Cherwell marketplace Service management specialist Cherwell has launched a Marketplace, where customers can obtain 120+ free and paid for enterprise applications and integrations built on top of its Cherwell CORE platform. More than 100 have been created by technology alliance partners, solution providers, systems integrators, service providers and community developers. www.cherwell.com EDI as a service Data Interchange is encouraging the IT channel to provide enhanced EDI services and expertise to customers, with the launch of a partner-centric version of the DiNet EDI as a Service and a fast-track partner recruitment process. CEO Robert Steiner said: “EDI has been viewed as difficult and specialised in the past, but today it embraces new web and cloud-based technology that can bring any size business in the supply chain into the EDI fold. The latest version of DiNet means partners can quickly and easily integrate their services with our EDI solutions, connecting to thousands of trading partners worldwide. Partners can expand their own solution portfolio, creating additional revenue streams by capitalising on the industry trend toward cloud-based EDI managed services.” www.datainterchange.com Out of band not out of sight Datto is providing MSPs with improved access to endpoints for support and patching purposes through a new collaboration with Intel. The combination of the Datto RMM remote monitoring and management platform and Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (Intel EMA), as part of the Intel vPro platform, will enable MSPs remotely and securely to power, manage and control ‘out-of-band’ devices that are either powered off or unresponsive, via a unique, device- specific URL generated through Datto RMM. www.datto.com/integrations/intel Easier quoting Global channel services provider Agilitas IT Solutions has enhanced its AssureMeNow online quote and pricing tool for hardware maintenance and professional services. Giving channel partners working remotely or from home the ability to ‘self-serve’ quotes through an ecommerce-style interface, the AssureMeNow portal links directly into Agilitas systems, ensuring seamless integration when a customer order is placed. New features include UK & European pricing; professional services pricing; Cisco-backed services; the ability for partners to produce branded quotes in both PDF & Excel formats and to apply a percentage uplift when quoting end user customers directly; and a simple process for managing contract renewals. www.agilitas.co.uk Egress Protect integrated into NHSmail NHS Digital has integrated Egress Protect email security into NHSmail, the UK’s largest closed secure email network used by up to 1.5 million healthcare staff daily. Egress Protect will enable healthcare practitioners to use NHSmail to send encrypted emails to non-secure addresses, including those of patients and others in the health and care system. It also offers automatic decryption for inbound email, which enables recipients of NHSmail emails encrypted using Egress Protect to read and reply to messages free of charge via an easy-to-use online portal or Egress’s free Outlook integration app. Egress Protect’s integration with NHSmail will streamline communications between the NHS and local government organisations and private healthcare providers that already use the solution. Unified Poly partner programme Poly has brought together its previously separate Plantronics and Polycom partner programmes into a new Poly programme featuring a unified portal giving its 15,000 global partners access to assets, training, tools and content. At the same time, it has moved partner levels away from a narrow focus on revenue, rewarding partners for the investment they make in working with Poly rather than just the number of devices they sell. www.poly.com