5 Ways Tech Data’s Cloud Practice Builder Can Help Your Cloud Business Thrive


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It’s become commonplace to see new research and findings pop up regularly around the exponential growth in cloud technologies. For example, according to a recent IDC Report public cloud spend is projected to grow over $500 billion by year 2023. For some resellers, getting started with capturing this opportunity is well overdue, but for others with an established practice, it might be time to take steps to revisit your cloud strategy and perhaps expand your portfolio with new vendors and solutions that will appeal more to your customer’s needs.

We introduced Digital Cloud Practice Builder, just over a year ago, as a way to help our partners grow and accelerate their cloud business easily online with our team’s support. From the beginning, we’ve taken an agile approach to enhancing this program, growing it iteratively to meet our partners challenges and changing needs to meet the demands of today’s landscape. Ready to get cloud fit, anyone?

Here’s 5 ways we are helping our partner’s seize the cloud opportunity through this program:

1. Make it Personal. Focus on you, starting with taking the pulse of your business with our 5-minute assessment. We will provide you with actionable recommendations to grow your business and provide suggestions on how you can enhance your practice. Once you complete your assessment, you are also able to access and connect with our cloud concierges who are here to help you unpack your assessment results, get started on your next steps and overcome any impediments on your cloud journey.

2. Onboard with Top Cloud Providers. Get started down one of our vendor-specific enablement paths designed to help you develop a differentiated portfolio and onboard, build and accelerate your vendor-based cloud practice with Tech Data. Today, we have a robust suite of programs available including, Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Veeam and a caravan of additional providers on the way. Our paths will help you partner successfully with Tech Data and these cloud providers and get to your first transaction in 90 days or less.

3. Accelerate with Solutions. Tech Data’s suite of aggregated solutions stacks, known as Click to Run Solutions are designed to help you easily deploy a complete business-outcome focused solution for your end customer, leveraging Tech Data’s ecosystem of ISVs. Our solutions cut deployment time drastically and is so easy that your non-technical staff can do it. Tech Data’s Solutions-Focused enablement paths will help you understand and adopt these solutions rapidly starting with the outcome in mind. Choose from solutions paths around Modern Workplace, Core Infrastructure and Data Protection. More paths focused on topics like Application Innovation and IoT & Analytics are on the way.

4. Build with Purpose. Throughout our enablement routes and program, we seek to offer a diverse set of transformation tools, training and services to help drive an impact in your business. Learn how you can strengthen your technical bench, go-to-market strategy, streamline operations, outsource technical and marketing needs to us, and more.

5. Thrive with Support. Our fleet of cloud concierges are here to assist you throughout your program journey. To get connected, just take our 5-minute Cloud Practice Assessment and submit a request from your personalized dashboard. Our team will also proactively reach out to you once you get started. Our concierges will help you get plugged into the appropriate supports you are looking for and help you reach your cloud goals and objectives. Also, coming soon in 2020, we are launching our Tech Data Coach community. We recognize all organizations – and roles – have important business to do and we want to connect you to the right subject matter experts in our ecosystem when you need it most. Need help finding your sales superpower? Growing your technical bench? Defining your value proposition? Lead generation? We’ve got a coach to guide you! Sign up to be the first when our program launches here.

We hope these 5 program qualities motivate you to spend just a few minutes to get started with our free assessment and check it out for yourself. We care about partnership, and this is just one of many ways Tech Data Cloud is looking to support our community.

Want to learn more about Cloud Practice Builder?

In the New Year, we are hosting an office hours session to help you get up to speed on the supports we have available to you. Click here for registration and details. (An on-demand webinar will be available after this event has occurred).

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