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solutions for value added distributors
enabling the software distribution channel to build new value and position itself as a key piece of the emerging cloud market place
With more and more IT spend now directed at the cloud and hosted services, this offers a wealth of opportunities for the Value Added Distribution market. The channel is an important part of the migration process from on-premise to cloud and with the channel's traditional products and services being aggregated and delivered by the VAD, its important that there is a role to play as the market changes from hardware and boxed software, to on demand delivery and that our VAD partners can utilise their reseller relationships.
"ThinkGrid helped us build out a cloud/managed solutions platform and self-service engine for our reseller base..."
Roy Pater, Infraserve
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Moving from a traditional distribution model to one which involves recurring services, flexibility of being to add and remove services on a daily or month basis, and self service, all of which need to be handled in a multi-tier fashion providing your resellers with tools to create and manage their own customers.
ThinkGrid can provide a Multi Tier private label solution which allows you as the distributor to provided branded cloud services to your reseller base and allow them to manage the services on behalf of their customers in real-time. ThinkGrid provides:
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Back office system to help you with billing, provisioning and management of resellers, deployment of new services and aggregating them together to make it easy to start selling and moving services bit by bit.
Readymade data centre network, offering high level SLA's and a suite of products from Hosted Virtual Desktop, right the way to Cloud based backup.
With both these elements it will enable you to start to offer cloud based services to compliment your existing business lines, and start to offer your partners options in the cloud rather than them going to vendors directly.
Services Available
ThinkGrid offers a number of services that can be implemented individually to compliment your existing product set, or bundled and marketing to fit in with your product scope. The full list of services can be provisioned on demand, and initiated and managed via our enterprise level interfaces or API.
Billing, Reseller and Customer Management
Create a single consolidated invoice aggregating many different services. Construct plans, set resource limits and upgrade limits. Allow customers and resellers to add resources to a base plan. Define your own resources and upgrade paths. Bill any type of product or service and set work flows to accept online orders and invoice services that are delivered manually (e.g. professional services). Receive automated payments and input manual payments. Apply payments to customer invoices automatically or manually or integrate with your own existing platform.
Build of Buy
ThinkGrid have focused on providing a competitive platform both in terms of cost, functionality and services. We firmly believe that the capital hardware cost, data centre cost, software, additional work force and time are more than matched by a platform that provides all of the services within weeks, as well as the back office and automation. Find out more about the solution stack and how it compares with on-premise alternatives.
Integration
Utilising the API or interfaces, providers have been able to deliver tactical services such as virtual server infrastructure, hosted Exchange and hosted desktops and have integrated them into their existing control panels and interfaces. This gives our partners a chance to test the market without the capital investment or disruptive process changes, whilst keeping the customer and their value.
Private Cloud
For larger entities looking to utilise the management and provisioning engines but who would like to deploy services in their own data centres, our private cloud option is perfect.
Benefits
No capital outlay
Fast and nimble turn around
Integration with Existing Systems
Start offering complimentary services to existing ones
Improve margin, reduce costs
Scalable infrastructure on tap
Billing and Customer management
Contact our Partner Team or give us a call if you'd like to talk or meet and discuss your requirements in detail. OR click here to learn more about our Partner Programme.
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