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Strategy & Best Practices

Thrive 2026 Lifecycle Roadmap: Expand Customer Value Through One Platform

If your customers are drowning in vendors, invoices, tickets, and spreadsheets, lifecycle management is the fastest path from operational chaos to measurable control. This post previews four Thrive 2026 breakouts to reduce manual work, close visibility gaps, and eliminate operational debt across network, mobility, expense management, and hardware lifecycle.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / September 2, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

Thrive 2026 Advisor Growth Plays: How to Win New Business and Deliver More Value After the Sale

If your growth plan depends on sharper prospecting, stronger customer conversations, and more differentiated offers, this post previews Thrive 2026’s advisor-focused breakouts. Get takeaways on AI-led cloud selling, modern sales strategy, energy, 5G business continuity, and healthcare modernization.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / August 31, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

Thrive 2026 AI Playbook: Build Confidence With AI—From Basics to Hands-on Workshops

AI conversations have moved past "which tool should we try?" to bigger questions: how do we control it, build with it, and prove it's worth the investment? Thrive 2026's AI breakout sessions tackle all three—including hands-on workshops where attendees build real apps and agents.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / August 28, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

More Microsoft CSP Revenue, Less Operational Overhead: Get the Guide

There's more Microsoft opportunity than ever for CSP partners. But this isn't just about catching new SKUs and compliance rules. It's a chance to ask whether your Microsoft practice can scale on its own, or whether it's still held up by manual work and a few people who know the rules. The good news: that's a fixable problem.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / August 27, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

From Break-Fix to Strategic Partner: A Q&A on How MSPs are Winning Right Now

Customers already want broader support across telecom, cloud, and AI. We sat down with Jared Adamcik, Dave Wallace, and Mariane Louvet to talk about how the MSP role is changing, why AI is becoming the clearest growth opportunity, and how the best MSPs are expanding without adding operational drag.

By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / August 26, 2026

Industry Insights

Steven Bartlett, Creator of The Diary of a CEO, to Headline Thrive

Steven Bartlett—creator of Diary of a CEO and one of the most influential entrepreneurs of his generation—is headlining Thrive 2026. With 13M YouTube subscribers and over one billion streams, he knows how to captivate a room. Expect a masterclass on leadership, momentum, and building with conviction. Joining him: Zack Kass, former Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI.

By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / July 21, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

Grow Beyond Your Core Stack: 10 Reasons MSPs Choose AppDirect

MSPs face a real tension: customers want more coverage across telecom, cloud, energy, and AI, but complexity rises faster than capacity. Here are 10 operational reasons why top MSPs are choosing AppDirect to expand their offering without losing control of the customer relationship.

By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / July 20, 2026

Technology Insights

Agentic Software Development Created New Friction Points—Where to Find Them, How to Fix Them

As AI accelerates software development, the bottleneck doesn't disappear. It moves. Mathew Spolin, AppDirect's SVP of Engineering and Technology, maps the four friction points that emerge when coding gets fast — and the practical solutions engineering and business leaders can act on today.

By Mathew Spolin / AppDirect / June 3, 2026

News & Updates

The Three Reasons Enterprise AI Stalls, and How Devs.ai Clears All of Them

Your teams have been waiting for this. Devs.ai by AppDirect just expanded into a full enterprise AI platform, and what's now possible has genuinely shifted. Any team can build production-ready AI apps on their own data in days. A governed private AI store gives every employee something better than any public tool they were using before. And soon, Devs.AI will connect natively to the 2,000+ services your business already runs on. This is what enterprise AI looks like when it's built right.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / June 1, 2026

News & Updates

Microsoft 365 Prices Are Changing: Lock in Current Rates by June 30 and Help Customers Optimize their Microsoft Solutions.

Microsoft 365 prices are going up on July 1, 2026. But this moment is about more than a deadline. It's a chance to have a more strategic conversation: about whether customers are getting full value from Microsoft, where software waste is quietly eroding their budgets, and where AI fits into their plans.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 29, 2026

Strategy & Best Practices

AI Readiness: The DOs and DON'Ts That Determine Success

Most AI initiatives don't fail because of the technology. They fail because organizations skip the readiness work. The companies getting real value from AI do the prep work first: they establish the right use cases and metrics, clean up their data, and fix broken processes. Learn what to do and what to avoid to ensure successful AI deployments.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 26, 2026

Technology Insights

Cloud Forensics and the Digital Crime Scene: How Investigation, Prevention, and Resilience Have Evolved

The digital crime scene has moved to the cloud, where infrastructure is dynamic, data is distributed, identity often defines the perimeter, and AI is rapidly reshaping both breaches and defence. Here’s how cloud forensics has evolved, and why prevention, visibility, and forensic readiness now matter as much as investigation.

By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / May 21, 2026