![]() Xvantage will be the platform for provisioning licenses and it will communicate with vendor platforms such as Microsoft’s new commerce experience (NCE). ![]() Xvantage promises to allow the sales teams of solution providers, vendors and Ingram itself will all interact with the same data set in real time, he said. So that’s the opportunity that Xvantage opens up for us.” “So our job on Xvantage is going to be to kind of curate that, bring that as an Xvantage offer, or sometimes create our own, list it on the hyperscale marketplace, but bring the transaction back to Xvantage. “If you look at it now, there’s half a million listings in some of these marketplaces – nobody knows why they’re there, what they do, what they don’t do,” Baez said. ![]() Victor Baez, Ingram Micro’s senior vice president of global cloud sales, told CRN in an interview that Xvantage seeks to address “marketplace sprawl” for solution providers. What we want to give to our partners is the entire experience.” “It’s not just transactions, where you can transact, look at prices, catalog. “We are truly shifting away from a marketplace to becoming a platform,” Sanjib Sahoo, Ingram Micro’s chief digital officer and executive vice president, told CRN in an interview. The Irvine, Calif.-based distributor also announced a host of updates to the Xvantage platform, including a new homepage, an improved path to purchase and a unified product catalog across hardware, software cloud and subscriptions. ![]() Ingram Micro will sunset its Cloud Marketplace and move those capabilities to its Xvantage platform, a step forward in making Xvantage the digital twin of Ingram Micro’s services, the IT distributor unveiled during its Global Cloud & Innovation Summit event. ![]()
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