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EMC Provides New Opportunities For Channel Partners To Accelerate Profitability
Published May 2, 2011
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EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced several enhancements to the EMC® Velocity™ Solution Provider Partner program that are designed to provide new opportunities for EMC Velocity Partners to accelerate their profitability. New incentives include: greater upfront discounts for selected products; the inclusion of EMC unified storage in the Velocity Incentive Program (VIP); new integrated demand-generation programs focused on next generation backup as well as unified storage for SMB, midmarket, and enterprise businesses; and a revised deal registration program.
EMC is committed to accelerating its partners’ profitability by giving them access to industry leading products with the most competitive pricing along with easy and efficient marketing and training resources to help them compete and earn business. Velocity program enhancements include:
- New Discount Structure: To help partners be more competitive EMC has extended its discount structure to include a broader range of EMC technology and solutions including its backup and recovery and unified storage offerings. Upfront discounts include stackable deal registration, incremental, and new accounts. With upfront discounts EMC is giving partners the opportunity to better plan their business and realize profits sooner.
- Expanded Velocity Incentive Program (VIP) Now Offers Unified Storage: VIP is a global program that offers partners stackable individual employee rewards for deals that align to EMC’s strategic information infrastructure solutions for unified storage, consolidation, backup and recovery, archive, security, as well as selected products from Cisco, Brocade and Emulex. Today EMC announced that the EMC VNX® family and EMC VNXe® series of unified storage systems have been added to the VIP program in order to reward partner representatives and sales engineers with back end incentives on sales of these products.
- New Marketing Campaign Assets: Partners now have access to new demand generation campaigns including next generation backup and unified storage for SMB, midmarket, and enterprise businesses. These campaign assets are accessible through the EMC Velocity Partner Marketing Guide, an online self-service portal to help partners customize marketing campaigns.
- Revised Deal Registration Program: To simplify deal registration, EMC has replaced its previous incremental only registration model with a new Base model that allows for more upfront, stackable registration discounts. The new model is flexible and supports incremental and non-incremental opportunities in addition to net-new accounts.
- Open Distribution for the EMC VNXe series: To accelerate time to market, EMC Velocity partners in EMEA can choose to procure VNXe products from any EMC Velocity distributor in their respective country and receive Velocity program benefits. To further enable partners, EMC has introduced new free and fast-paced VNXe sales and services training modules helping partners identify opportunities, position EMC products and close business.
- New Partner Relationship Management Tools: EMC Partner Central is a new partner relationship management tool designed to help partners track the various elements of their business transactions with EMC more efficiently and with greater speed and service. With EMC Partner Central, partners can also manage their EMC profile, review channel plans, and monitor their program compliance and eligibility for benefits.
EMC Partner Quotes:
“MTI and EMC go back a long time and over the last few years we have seen that EMC has become more and more channel friendly,” said Ian Parslow, VP Sales, MTI Technology Ltd. “The new enhancements to the Velocity Program and the introduction of the VNX Family are great examples of this change”
“The addition of the VNXe portfolio to the Velocity program along with the new discount structures, make an even more compelling offer for resellers,” commented Christian Magirus, executive vice-president and COO for Magirus. “This provides a direct path for resellers to help their customers realize the benefits of unified storage as they migrate to virtualized data centres and cloud computing.”
EMC Executive Quote:
“To help our partners take market share and grow their business with EMC, we are taking aggressive actions to provide more opportunities for them to increase profitability,” said Nicolas Leblanc, Vice President, EMC EMEA Channels and Midmarket. “Not only does EMC offer the industry-leading products, solution and competitive pricing, we’re also committed to providing our Velocity partners with the right tools and resources to allow them to focus on delivering the best possible service to their customers. We believe Velocity partners are well positioned to lead their customers on their journey to the cloud while growing their business and becoming more profitable.”
About EMC:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
For more information:
Cynthia Darwish
050-2163352
cdarwish@golinharris.com
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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