PARTNER PULSE The
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May 1999
Welcome to the 1999 Premier Partner Program! Dear Valued Premier Reseller: I am pleased to present you with the new Premier Partner Program offerings for 1999. At Ingram Micro, we are focused on continuing to provide our resellers with the service and support needed to help you grow your business. Here are some of the key benefits of this year’s program: Key Benefits of PPP: • • •
Increased vendor interactions Business resource and training Frequent / relevant communication
For more information on this new and excting PPP offerings and benefits, please visit our website at www.ingrammicro.ca or contact your sales representative today. Sincerely,
Premier Partner Program and CompTIA Canada
Carmen Martino Group marketing manager Premier Programs
Automatic Enrollment No Fuss … No paper work … You’re already a Premier Reseller! Ingram Micro has automatically enrolled those resellers for the 1999 calendar year whose credit is in good standing and with net purchases of $500,000 and greater from Ingram Micro during the 1998 calendar year. For more information please visit our website at www.ingrammicro.ca or contact your Ingram Micro Representative. Thanks for being our Value Reseller! Premier Partner Participation Vendors: APC, Computer Associates, Exabyte Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, NEC Technologies, Network Associates, OKI, Quantum, Samsung Electronics, Seagate Software, Tektronix Canada, Toshiba Program Information: ext. 55901 Co-op Information: ext. 55450
Premier Partner Program is pleased to announce, exclusive to its Premier members, this special limited offering from CompTIA Canada, a leader in A+ certification. CompTIA’s membership fee is now a flat rate of $150CDN from it’s regular fee of $225 - $7,250 (depending on the reseller’s’ annual revenue). Membership entitles the reseller to purchase A+ Certification vouchers at a saving of $100US per certification. In other words, your special price is recouped if you only have one of your service staff A+ certified in the next year! After that, your business saves $100US on every A+ certification. Offer Expires July 1, 1999 Ingram Micro Inc. 230 Barmac Drive Weston, ON M9L 2Z3 Tel: 416-740-9404/1-800-668-6100 Fax: 416-740-6100 www.ingrammicro.ca
PARTNER PULSE The
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of Ingram Micro’s Premier Partners
May 1999
APC Whether you are selling Workstations, Servers, Hubs, Routers or Switches, APC has a high margin product that will increase your sales revenue and add value to your customer solution. To help you, APC is now offering a unique bundle combining a preassembled rack enclosure with a preconfigured, pre-installed Smart UPS. Ideal for enhancing rack servers and internetworking equipment, each bundle sold means a US$100 rebate for the customer and US$100 for you! For more details visit http//www.reseller.apcc.com
Legends of our Time…Swing into Spring! Become a Legend with HewlettPackard and Ingram Micro… From April 19th through July earn loads of $’s in The Certificates when you selected Hewlett-Packard from Ingram Micro!
9th, 1999, Bay Gift purchase products*
*Restrictions and some exclusions may apply. For more details, please contact your Ingram Micro Representative or visit Ingram Micro’s website at: www.ingrammicro.ca
Exabyte Founded in 1985, Exabyte addresses data storage needs in the fastestgrowing segments of the computer industry — UNIX and PC application and database servers. .As a standalone drive or autoloader component, Exabyte technology meets market demand for higher reliability, improved performance and increased capacity. Call your Ingram Micro sales representative for 5 diverse Exabyte promotions offering fantastic reseller savings between May 3- July 31,1999. For more information on these exciting promotions please contact your Ingram Micro representative.
Premier Partner Participation Vendors: APC, Computer Associates, Exabyte Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, NEC Technologies, Network Associates, OKI, Quantum, Samsung Electronics, Seagate Software, Tektronix Canada, Toshiba Program Information: ext. 55901 Co-op Information: ext. 55450
Monthly Prize… “Mystery prize” drawn at the end of
EVERY Month. To enter, answer the following question and email it back to Jacquie Chan, Premier Partner Program Marketing Manager at:
[email protected] Question of the month: “What is one of the key benefits of this year’s Premier Partner Program?
Can’t win if you don’t play!
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PARTNER PULSE The
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Seagate Software Business Intelligence products – Award winners – Seagate Crystal Reports & Seagate Info Instant Rebates on Seagate Crystal Reports Upgrade Skus. Offer available April 5th through May 28th. Seagate Crystal Reports, the market-leading (4 millions copies shipped), desktop query and report writer, is used by business professionals to produce presentation-quality reports, by IT professionals who create reports for their users, and by software developers who need powerful reporting in their database applications. Upgrade your customers today to the award winning, market-leading reporting and analysis tool! (IM sku#’s 109692, 109693, 109694, 109695, 109752 & 109753)
Kodak DC265 Zoom Digital Camera The Kodak DC265 Zoom Digital Camera offers you faster start up, processing and preview rate. Its 1.6 million (1536 x 1024) pixel Megapixel Plus resolution offers enough detail for photo-realistic 8" x 10" prints with spectacular color and sharpness. A 3X optical plus 2X digital zoom lets you get closer to your subject, which you can preview on the LCD. USB support gives you fast, easy picture downloads. Or choose serial, PC card or IrDA connections. For more information please visit our webiste at www.kodak.ca.
www.seagatesoftware.com. Computer Associates - Total Network Management NetworkIT Pro delivers a powerful centralized management solution for distributed networks. Through policy-based management, NetworkIT Pro aligns service levels with business objectives to provide ongoing availability, optimal performance, and management of networks in a business context. Please contact Ingram's Enterprise Solutions Group for more information on certification courses. Ingram distributes Computer Associates full line of Enterprise Management solutions: Workgroup, Advanced Edition, Enterprise Edition & Unicenter TNG. Premier Partner Participation Vendors: APC, Computer Associates, Exabyte Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, NEC Technologies, Network Associates, OKI, Quantum, Samsung Electronics, Seagate Software, Tektronix Canada, Toshiba Program Information: ext. 55901 Co-op Information: ext. 55450
Announcing Active Security. The Future of Security Integration today! Network Associates' integrated Active Security solution, announced and shipping today, addresses the growing complexity of enterprise networks. The Net Tools Secure suite combines best-of-breed security products like Gauntlet, CyberCop, PGP and VirusScan. All integrated communications between the component products occur through a secure, authenticated, standardsbased central event manager known as Event Orchestrator. This revolutionary "hub and spoke" integration method helps make the long sought-after goal of central security policy and event management a practical reality for corporations of all sizes. For more inform please visit our website at: www.nai.com Ingram Micro Inc. 230 Barmac Drive Weston, ON M9L 2Z3 Tel: 416-740-9404/1-800-668-6100 Fax: 416-740-6100 www.ingrammicro.ca
PARTNER PULSE The
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of Ingram Micro’s Premier Partners
May 1999
Quantum Founded in 1980, Quantum Corporation is a diversified mass storage company committed to achieving customer satisfaction through high quality and reliability. Quantum is the highest volume global supplier of hard disk drives for personal computers, a leading supplier of high capacity hard drives and the worldwide revenue leader among all classes of tape drives. Quantum sells a broad range of storage products to OEM and distribution customers worldwide. For more information on our array of products and services, please visit our website at: www.quantum.com
Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics, the world's largest monitor manufacturer, proudly announces its latest addition, the 900SL short length tube monitor offering a smaller foot print, wider viewing angle and a crisp .25 mm dot pitch. For details on this monitor and others including 17" and 19" DynaFlat models and the wide range of award winning TFT monitors, log onto www.samsungcanada.com.
Premier Partner Participation Vendors: APC, Computer Associates, Exabyte Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, NEC Technologies, Network Associates, OKI, Quantum, Samsung Electronics, Seagate Software, Tektronix Canada, Toshiba Program Information: ext. 55901 Co-op Information: ext. 55450
Tektronix "Sprint For Cash" SPIFF With the running season in full stride, and spring road races just getting underway, Tektronix announces a "Sprint for Cash" SPIFF for Tektronix reseller sales between April 1 and May 27, 1999: Phaser 740 $50 Phaser 840 $75 Phaser 780 $100 Claim forms will be available from your Tektronix reseller website: www.tektronix.com/resellers/ and must be submitted by June 30, 1999.
DON’T forget to submit your answer to win the Monthly Mystery Prize! E-mail your response to:
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Good luck!
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