AppDirect Blog
Your source for news and views on the trends, technology, and companies that are driving the digital economy worldwide.
Strategy & Best Practices
Optimize Digital Experiences: Harnessing Cloud Connectivity and Colocation
Explore AI-driven digital transformation with cloud connectivity and colocation strategies. Learn how infrastructure investments minimize latency, enhance security, and boost agility, positioning your business for explosive AI growth. Prepare for tomorrow, today.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / June 27, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
Winning at Scale: Practical Tactics to Grow and Differentiate Your Marketplace
Find out how leading marketplaces scale with purpose through smart catalog expansion. Learn why relevance and operational excellence matter most for growth, and get actionable tips from ACP Group to strengthen customer engagement and revenue. Perfect for today’s digital-first market.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / June 25, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
Scale & Optimize your Channel Sales: How a Streamlined Marketplace Strategy Fuels Growth
Learn why partner experience and omnichannel engagement are key to channel sales growth. Discover how a streamlined marketplace strategy and centralized operations help retain resellers, reduce friction, and drive scale—tips you can use now.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / June 18, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
Fast-Tracking AI Value: Strategies for Immediate Impact
Turn AI's potential into a profit-generating reality for your business. Discover how to pinpoint impactful AI opportunities, choose the right partners, and start generating immediate value.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / June 16, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
How to Build Purpose-Built AI Agents That Actually Solve Business Problems
Learn why purpose-built AI agents—not generic tools—solve real business challenges. Discover best practices for secure, effective AI agent development, and how to avoid shadow IT risks. Join the conversation at Thrive and see agentic AI in action.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / June 11, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
How White-Labeled Storefronts Can Become Your Most Powerful Customer Engagement Tool
Unlock deeper engagement and drive leads with a white-labeled storefront. Deliver seamless, brand-driven experiences and curated solutions—all under your own brand—while capturing rich customer insights to fuel growth. Discover why storefronts are essential for modern B2B success.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / June 10, 2025
News
AppDirect and Broker Online Exchange Unite, Fueling Advisor Growth
Energy sales are one of the most exciting growth opportunities for advisors, yet many haven’t fully tapped into this lucrative market. This blog explores how AppDirect’s acquisition of Broker Online Exchange (BOX) positions advisors at the forefront of one of the fastest-growing and most vital markets.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / June 3, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
Why Savvy Businesses are Centralizing Their SaaS Management
Discover how centralized SaaS management tackles the biggest challenges businesses face today—unused licenses, shadow IT, security risks, and wasted budget spend. Learn how advisors can help customers regain control, reduce costs, and simplify operations while driving growth through optimized SaaS portfolios.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / June 2, 2025
Strategy & Best Practices
2025 Insights: How to Sell B2B SaaS—10 Strategies for Success
B2B SaaS marketplaces are booming—Find out how to maximize your sales with proven strategies for leveraging partners, optimizing customer experience, and driving revenue.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / May 27, 2025
Events
Unlock Marketshare with the New Expanded Emerging Tech Sales Workshop (ETSW+)
Level up your tech advisor expertise at the Expanded Emerging Tech Sales Workshop (ETSW+)! Learn to cross-sell, capture new revenue using the Technology Wheel, and dive deep into AI and hyperscalers. Unlock your business's potential—read on!By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / May 12, 2025
Technology Insights
How AI Can Transform Education: Enhancing Learning with AI
Find out how Lakefield College School successfully integrated AI into education using Devs.ai. Learn how they are addressing key challenges like security and training, pioneering a dual assessment framework and enhancing learning in creative writing and math.By Rebecca Muhlenkort / AppDirect / April 21, 2025
Technology Insights
Microservices Guide: Detecting Data Mismatches
This blog explores how to proactively detect and reconcile data inconsistencies between decoupled systems, ensuring data integrity and reliable operations in microservices architectures.
Strategy & Best Practices
Conquer Inefficient and Costly Hardware Management
Company hardware is often poorly tracked and plagued by manual processes, leading to 30% of hardware assets being lost, missing, or unaccounted for. Firstbase solves these problems with a platform that automates device management from procurement and onboarding, to offboarding and retrieval.By Denise Sarazin / AppDirect / April 7, 2025