Gamma's self-serve marketing portal launched in January this year has notched up almost 500 users and continues to evolve according to partner feedback.

ScanSource has expanded its video collaboration portfolio with the addition of Lifesize to its line card through ScanSource Communications in the US and Canada and ScanSource Imago in Europe.

Cisco has manoeuvred its Spark platform and Business Edition 4000 cloud voice solution as springboards for a determined push into the SMB sector. The move broadens out Cisco's erstwhile focus on the enterprise space as it rallies SMB resellers around collaboration and team messaging tools designed for smaller firms.

Audio visual and document solutions distributor Midwich has promoted Jenny Hicks to the role of Head of Technology.

She has been with the firm since 2012, joining the technical division as an IP Video Specialist.

Mark Proops (pictured) has joined Pragma as Head of Technical Operations, moving from Civica Cloud and Managed Services where he worked for nine years.

His experience includes heading up a mix of technical support teams including network operations, data centre management and infrastructure support.

Sana Commerce has been named Microsoft's Independent Software Vendor of 2017 for Western Europe.

The award is in recognition for Sana's level of skills and expertise in Microsoft Dynamics products, along with strong sales performance and high levels of customer satisfaction.

Pragma has lifted the lid on UP Campaign, an upgrade to the Ericsson-LG iPECS marketing toolkit.

"The UP Campaign strategy delivers a fresh thinking approach and covers marketing platforms that Pragma partners favour from social media posts and videos, to white papers, infographics and web banners," explained Will Morey, Head of Sales and Marketing at Pragma.

Troubled managed service provider Redcentric has announced the resignation of chief executive officer Fraser Fisher who is leaving to 'pursue other business interests'.

Redcentric says it has commenced the search for a successor while Fisher will continue in his CEO role until 31st December 2017.

Distributor Westcon-Comstor has been appointed as a supplier of the Microsoft Surface Hub, which is available with a 55-inch or 84-inch screen and enables multiple people to work on the device at the same time in a range of Windows 10 applications.

With digital inking capabilities, each Surface Hub comes with two Surface Pens that enable users to write directly onto the screen.

KCOM has expanded its enterprise sales team with the addition of 12 new staff focused on delivering IT solutions to large organisations. 

The move follows the expansion of the enterprise segment of KCOM's business with overall revenue growth of 5% and its top five customer contracts growing by 16% over the previous financial year.