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VAR 2.0 Strikes a Balance Between Purchasing Accessibility and Control

McLean Report: Research Note

Published: February 12, 2008


Today’s Value Added Resellers (VARs) are ramping up the degree of services offered to their SME clients through interactive account personalization with extended options to enable and control employee-driven purchasing. While resellers seek to gain new clients for whom these additional services represent a tipping point in the VAR versus vendor decision, enterprises that have already made the decision to use a VAR can increase the mileage they get from a reseller by taking advantage of these new services.
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