Lumen Technologies gave partners an opportunity to earn higher commissions. And Cisco opened up more partner advisory services opportunities in an update to its channel partner programs.

Prominent vendors and distributors announces several changes to their channel strategies heading in the holidays. For example, Samsung debuted a partner program that reflects its “mobile-first” nature, and HPE incentivized partners to serve SMB customers.

Changes to channel partner programs in November grew particularly plenteous on the IT side.

Data management provider Komprise expanded its partner program to include new training, MDF and cloud data migration modules. Web and application access solution provider Ericom Software announced new distribution partners. IT monitoring provider Centreon unveiled new training and enablement resources. And autonomous data flow provider Ascend.io signed new consultancy partners.

We also heard from some large carriers about how they and their partners have adjusted to a new sales cycle.

Check out updates to these channel partner programs and more in the images below.

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