New Products and Services: AT&T, NTT, MegaPath, Telarus

They are the products and services that can take a partner’s business to new heights.

In March, thanks in part to a flurry of announcements at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, a bunch of new offerings hit the market.

What follows is a sampling not only of brand-new services, but some existing services that are new to the channel; and others that aren’t for partners to sell, but can make their own businesses run better.

There are way too many to describe in a single slide show, so we’ve identified some of the most significant from some of the biggest players in the telecom and IT indirect sales channels.

Here you will find services from AT&T, ShoreTel, NTT America, Telarus and more.

Looking for more new products and services? Check out our recap from last month.

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MegaPath released a Managed IPsec VPN and Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, which is aimed at small and medium-size businesses. The managed IPsec VPN connects distributed work sites and remote workers with encryption and firewall. MegaPath said the solution will give users access to enterprise data and applications at branch locations.

Learn more about MegaPath’s new threat management service here.

ShoreTel announced a new plug-in that embeds telephony controls inside the Skype for Business client, thus providing Microsoft Skype for Business integration with its own phone and UC systems. ShoreTel Telephony for Microsoft enables end users to dial contacts directly from Skype for Business as well as launch conference calls, access voice mail, view and set presence information and control other ShoreTel preferences, such as call routing.

Click here to read more about ShoreTel’s new integration.

AT&T’s Alliance Channel gave its solution providers access to its Network on Demand platform and added Internet of Things (IoT) asset management products that include Asset Management for Equipment and Machinery, and Asset Management for Storage Tanks. AT&T’s Partner Exchange program added AT&T Control Center to its mobility platform. The cloud-based platform powered by Jasper will support the sale of IoT services to customers across different verticals.

Learn more about new opportunities at the Alliance Channel here and at Partner Exchange here.

Telarus launched a VoIP troubleshooting service, which is said to “eliminate finger pointing between cloud applications and their suppliers.” The technology services distributor said the solution will allow users to improve their experience and help suppliers to provide faster resolutions.

Want to know more about Telarus’ new service? It’s here.

The cloud-based communications provider launched Nextiva Analytics, a new reporting and analytics tool designed to integrate with its cloud phone service to provide activity data insight. Nextiva said the tool has ways to analyze real-time and historical data. Data can be displayed in graphs or traditional tables.

This is where to get the full scoop on this analytics tool.

NTT announced its Global Solutions Channel Partner Program, designed for the U.S. market. Additionally, the company said that subagents can add its Enterprise Cloud to their portfolios for the first time now that it has exceeded its goal with master agents.

Learn more about the wider availability of Enterprise Cloud here or our interview with NTT’s channel chief here.

The company’s clients will now be able to embed Salesforce’s Wave Analytics platform into their partner communities thanks to Wave for Community Cloud. Customers can now place a dashboard for the Wave platform, which includes various data and feedback about the state of business, into partner communities. Partners can log onto an online portal to see data on market and sales trends and compare their numbers with competitors.

Get more details on Wave Analytics here.

8×8 introduced Virtual Office Meetings, a cloud-based video conferencing and collaboration service, and next-generation capabilities for its Virtual Contact Center (VCC) platform. Virtual Office Meetings is built into 8×8’s Virtual Office (VO) desktop experience and allows users to schedule meetings, initiate instant collaboration and transition IM conversations into a meeting from one VO desktop app.

Click here to learn more about Virtual Office Meetings.

Jive Partnerplus lets partners build proposals and turn them into agreements upon approval. The web toolkit is said to “help partners create and convert leads, manage accounts, and access marketing and training resources — all from one unified interface and with paperless onboarding.”

Learn more about Partnerplus here.

BitTitan, the cloud-services enablement provider, delivered a new product that it says helps IT service providers create new migration revenue streams for Microsoft Office 365. The first workload available through BitTitan’s Migration as a Service is for legacy email archives, including Veritas Enterprise Vault and EMC SourceOne.

Get the full scoop on BitTitan’s new service here.