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NetApp transforms Unified Partner Program to differentiate and position partners for success and increased profitability NetApp announced updates to its Unified Partner Program for fiscal year 2022 (FY’22). The latest enhancements will provide partners with a more flexible, consistent, and simplified experience – preparing them for the planned transition to a new tiering structure next year. The program is expanding the partner ecosystem, offering new financial incentives, and accelerating profitability, and adding new solutions and Services Certified specializations. Ganesan Arumugam, Director, Channel Sales, NetApp, said, “It’s an exciting time to be a NetApp partner. The new updates to the Unified Partner Program will make it easier to do business with NetApp. Together, by offering a simpler experience, more flexibility and clear areas for our joint investment, these changes will enable us to further differentiate based on our expertise and contributions. More ....
NetApp on Tuesday unveiled significant changes to its channel partner program aimed at better rewarding partners who focus on digital transformation and helping their clients more quickly move to the cloud. The changes include making partner benefits available to new types of channel partners who were previously not addressed by the program as well as more traditional partners, and streamlining incentives to focus on key strategic initiatives, said Chris Lamborn, head of global partner go-to-market and programs for the storage vendor. It also involves shifting focus from product certifications to solution specialisations, Lamborn told CRN USA. The full program is slated to be in force starting in May of 2022, but partners can start now to get ready, he said. ....
NetApp Channel Program Redux: Focus On Cloud, A.I., Other Specializations ‘In 12 month‘s time we will be making the hard cut-over from a traditional structure where we differentiate our partner tiering based on product certifications and resell revenue to a model that both reduces the number of tiers from five to three and then measures our partners from their overall contribution,’ says Chris Lamborn, head of NetApp’s global partner go-to-market and programs. By Joseph F. Kovar May 11, 2021, 08:46 AM EDT NetApp on Tuesday unveiled significant changes to its channel partner program aimed at better rewarding partners who focus on digital transformation and helping their clients more quickly move to the cloud. ....