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Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel

Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel
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May 28, 2012
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Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel

Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel

From Post-it Notes that let you scan and archive in a single shot to BI and Mapping in one application, some VARs are making some cool solutions using standard technologies.


Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – Post-it Note Archiving

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KwikTag, a document management company, contracted with 3M to create Post-it Notes with unique bar codes that are recognized by its archiving software solution instantly. When stuck to a document, a user can scan and archive documents in one step, wheneve


Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – BI + Maps = Location Intelligence

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Combining its flagship BI software, Matrix, with Microsoft Virtual Earth, a mapping application, Data Jungle has added Location Intelligence to its dashboard that customers can use to view a geographic representation of business metrics, from best perform


Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – The Wireless Panic Button

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ISV IPcelerate marries its paging software to wireless devices, IP phones and even cell phones to send prewritten text and audio messages, turn on security cameras, and call police or security. A juvenile detention center in Pennsylvania is already using


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Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – Drag-and-Drop Conferencing

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Working with 3Com and IBM’s unified messaging system for small businesses, IMessaging Systems’ iNspire creates drag-and-drop conferencing right out of your contacts. The solution should enable quicker responses and fewer interruptions and glitches in dist


Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – No Medical Mumbo Jumbo

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Caretech, a medical VAR, combines search engine technology, relational databases and medical terminology to create easy-to-understand handouts for doctors to provide patients and prevent the after-my-doctor-appointment Google search.


Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – Web 2.0 for VAR-to-VAR networking

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XeequaNet, a VAR-to-VAR network, built CRM software that allows sales reps to take contact information outside the company without proprietary data in tow. It also allows lead sharing among users and one-click Skype calls.


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