LCloud Computing: Building your Cloud Service offerings

 

14:00

How Cloud is impacting the channel and the end-users that it serves - Rob Lovell,CEO of ThinkGrid -

 

 

14:15

Coffee/Tea Break

 

15:00

Platform Selection: Build or Buy

 

15:15

Delivery and Support Implications

 

15:30

How your business will change

 

15:45

What services to implement and how to productise

 

16:00

Things to think about, avoiding the gotchas

 

16:15

Coffee/Tea Break

 

16:30

Linking Services with Products and centralising your "cloud" supply chain - Jason Beal, Sr. Director of Ingram Micro -

 

17:15

Drinks Reception

 

 

LCloud Computing: Building your Cloud Service offerings

 

14:00

How Cloud is impacting the channel and the end-users that it serves - Rob Lovell,CEO of ThinkGrid -

 

 

14:15

Coffee/Tea Break

 

15:00

Platform Selection: Build or Buy

 

15:15

Delivery and Support Implications

 

15:30

How your business will change

 

15:45

What services to implement and how to productise

 

16:00

Things to think about, avoiding the gotchas

 

16:15

Coffee/Tea Break

 

16:30

Linking Services with Products and centralising your "cloud" supply chain - Jason Beal, Sr. Director of Ingram Micro -

 

17:15

Drinks Reception

 

 

IpsumRoadshow Location and Dates

 

Manchester (Central) - 5th December 2011

Venue: TheStudio,

Address: 51 Lever Street,

Manchester M1 1FN

 

Birmingham (Central) - 12th December 2011

Venue: TheStudio

Address: 7 Cannon Street,

Birmingham B2 5EP

 

ThinkGrid is a worldwide enabler of cloud services. We are a channel focused vendor providing turnkey worldwide infrastructure and a control panel platform that allows IT solution providers to become cloud service providers; able to create, bill and manage IT services from the cloud in real-time.

 

Rob Lovell, Chief Executive of ThinkGrid will be present at the event and will lead a Keynote Presentation that will give you a better understanding of of how the Cloud is impacting the channel.

 

He will explain what constitutes a high and sustainable competitive advantage on the market, give insight into how ThinkGrid have built a true Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD), the most advanced and secure on the Market. He will demonstrate the HVD's capabilities as well as the Management Suite ThinkGrid has built to enable fast and efficient provisioning and maintenance of services. umlor

Ingram Micro Inc., a Fortune 100 company, is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company for the IT industry worldwide.

 

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution.

 

Jason Beal, Sr. Director of Software/Services EMEA, Ingram Micro will lead a Keynote Presentation that will uncover the secrets behind integrating, positioning and successfully selling cloud services.

The key to being successful in providing any hosted services is automation, billing and customer management. The transition to becoming a Cloud service provider can impact on the current structure of your operations as billing becomes more granular. Acknowledging this aspect, ThinkGrid has built a back office module that is available to all partners, and with the help of which you can become a provider in days. Any questions or concerns you may have will be covered in the "How your business will change" webinar.

Provisioning, support and modification of services in real-time is a great market differentiator. ThinkGrid's platform provides backend management capabilities and a customer self-service interface ensure efficient automation and management of services.

 

As a cloud service provider you will be able to offer services on demand in a matter of hours.

Choosing the correct Cloud Management Platform is one of the most important decisions you can make, and therefore should be carefully considered. The wrong Cloud Management Platform can make operations unwieldy and cumbersome, cutting margins and hindering company growth, while the correct Cloud Management platform can enable you to yield better operational efficiency; allow the organisation to scale, grow and drastically improve its profit per customer margin. ThinkGrid has developed a 'first of its kind' platform that allows partners and customers to design, build and launch business services to solve specific problems, whilst also handling the complex tasks of billing and managing in one interface. The "Platform Selection: Build or Buy" workshop will cover all these aspects and demonstrate how the right Cloud Platform will: - Allow self service for customers - Be the link between suppliers and customers - Be low touch, with low management overhead - Allow you to scale quickly and easily - Enable you to react to changing markets - Handle complex billing requirements - Business intelligence
Choosing the correct Cloud Management Platform is one of the most important decisions you can make, and therefore should be the carefully considered. The wrong Cloud Management can make operations unwieldy and cumbersome, cutting margins and hindering company growth, while the correct Cloud platform can enable you to yield better operational efficiency, allow the organisation to scale and grow, drastically improve its profit per customer margin. ThinkGrid has developed a 'first of its kind' platform that allows partners and customers to design, build and launch business services to solve specific problems, whilst also handling the complex tasks of billing and managing in one interface. The "Platform Selection: Build or Buy" workshop will cover all these aspects and demonstrate how the right Cloud Platform will: - Allow self service for customers - Be the link between suppliers and customers - Be low touch, with low management overhead - Allow you to scale quickly and easily - Enable you to react to changing markets - Handle complex billing requirements - Business intelligence
Cloud services that can integrate into an existing portfolio allow you to offer to the market Cloud services that compliment rather than replace traditional service offerings. This allows you to ease the disruption of change within the organisation and allows you to add on additional revenue streams rather than have replacement ones. ThinkGrid has built innovative offerings throughout the cloud portfolio, enabling partners to take to market highly differentiated solutions. ThinkGrid's latest innovation in terms of services is the True Hosted Virtual Desktop, by far the most advanced and secure solution on the market. The Workshop: " What services to implement and how to productise" will run you through how you can formulate a comprehensive yet personalised cloud offering to your customers.
Cloud services that can integrate into an existing portfolio allow you to offer to the market Cloud services that compliment rather than replace traditional service offerings. This allows you to ease the disruption of change within the organisation and allows you to add on additional revenue streams rather than have replacement ones. ThinkGrid has built innovative offerings throughout the cloud portfolio, enabling partners to take to market highly differentiated solutions. ThinkGrid's latest innovation in terms of services is the True Hosted Virtual Desktop, by far the most advanced and secure solution on the market. The Workshop: " What services to implement and how to productise" will run you through how you can formulate a comprehensive yet personalised cloud offering to your customers.

The transition to becoming a cloud service provider brings up the question of service and process integration.

 

Service and customer management APIs as well as  a successful partnership with Connectwise means easy integration with ThinkGrid.

 

Jason Beal, Sr. Director of Ingram Micro will cover both technical and commercial aspects of a successful integration.

Understanding how to integrate, position, and sustain  a cloud service offering is key.

 

To ease the transition to becoming a cloud service provider, ThinkGrid  helps  partners build, implement and execute a business plan. Partners have access to a number of interactive resources in the form of training platforms, go-to-market templates and  collateral.

Understanding how to integrate, position , sustain  a cloud service offering is key.

 

To ease the transition to becoming a cloud service provider, ThinkGrid  helps  partners build, implement and execute a business plan. Partners have access to a number of interactive resources in the form of training platforms, go-to-market templates and  collateral.

Becoming a cloud solution provider  without building your own platform will still mean you do business on your terms.

 

ThinkGrid's platform, via the back office funtionality enables partners to  control provisioning of products and services, define rules for either automatic or manual provisioning, and have real time management of services.

 

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Cloud Computing: Building a Cloud Business
Discussing the key commercial decisions in developing a cloud proposition
ThinkGrid, in partnership with Ingram Micro, will be hosting a series of roadshows aimed at the VAR and MSP community to discuss and present the steps involved in becoming a cloud services provider.

If your business is at the crossroads of determining whether to build or buy a platform, considering how to develop a business unit to tackle the growing demand; exploring how to enhance your competitive advantage using the power of service complements; join us and make an informed decision.

Dates Still Available
Manchester (Central), 5th December
Birmingham (Central), 12th December

Agenda

14:00 How Cloud is impacting the channel and the end-users that it serves
  Speaker: Rob Lovell, CEO of ThinkGrid

14:45
Coffee/Tea Break
   

15:00
Platform Selection: Build or Buy
  Workshop

15:15
How your business will change
  Workshop

15:30
What services to implement and how to productise
  Workshop

15:45
Delivery and Support Implications
  Workshop

16:00
Marketing and selling Cloud Services
  Speaker: Scott Holmes, Director of Sales EMEA, ThinkGrid

16:45
Coffee/Tea Break
   

16:30
Linking Services with Products and centralising your "cloud" supply chain
  Speaker: Jason Beal, Sr. Director of Ingram Micro

17:15
Drinks Reception
   

Meanwhile, should you be interested to find out more about ThinkGrid, the cloud platform, cloud services, partner programmes or even get a trial of our services, please visit www.thinkgrid.co.uk.