TrueNorth Channel Partner Programme

The Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Programme has been designed to provide you, our partners, with exceptional flexibility. The programme offers a wide selection of benefits you can choose to participate in, based on market focus, level of investment and desired level of growth.

	Platinum Partners	Gold Partners	Silver and Bronze Partners
Minimum Revenue Requirements	£3,500,000	£1,700,000	No Minimum
Minimum Qualification Requirements	3 or 50% of Sales	2 or 50% of sales	No Minimum
Minimum Certification Requirements	3 Pre sales	2 Pre sales	No Fixed requirements
Co-op	Available	Available	No
Marketing Development Funds	Available	Available	Available
Back End Rebates	Available	Available	No
Members of the Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Programme have access to a broad range of exclusive resources, designed to help them develop the knowledge, skills and experience they need to grow their business. PartnerXchange Hitachi Data Systems has created PartnerXchange, a secure partner portal that brings together all relevant resources and information you need for the best possible chance of success in selling Hitachi Data Systems solutions. PartnerXchange Features and Benefits Immediate, 24/7 access to the latest product information, marketing collateral, sales tools, technical support, methodologies and promotional opportunities to facilitate the sales process The latest developments in channel initiatives, programmes and training to help you stay up to date with the support available to you Interoperability guides to help you create highly integrated solutions for your customers A platform for quickly and easily registering new sales opportunities to enable fast progression of new leads Details on partner programmes and related offerings for ease of reference Access to quote and configuration tools that streamline the sales process and speed up conversion PartnerXchange is available only to Hitachi TrueNorth Channel Partner Programme members. For more information on how to register visit www.hds.com. Hitachi Data Systems Configurator Located on PartnerXchange, this online, automated tool helps you to decide which solutions are best for your customers’ unique applications and markets and will also assist in creating configurations and obtaining quotes. For more information visit hds configurator at the HDS partnerxchange Marketing Development Funds Marketing Development Funding (MDF) is designed as a discretionary funding benefit to help support you in building new, strategic marketing campaigns and identifying specific sales opportunities. MDF is allocated on a discretionary basis and subject to specific guidelines outlined in the programme guide. Co-op Funds Co-op Funding is designed to help you engage in a wide range of sales and marketing programmes that help to drive new business and increase revenues. Hitachi Data Systems will help to co-fund these activities, calculated and accrued based on your annual purchase volumes. Back End Rebates Hitachi Data Systems rewards you for achieving jointly agreed revenue goals by providing back end rebates on purchases of eligible Hitachi Data Systems products. For more Information Contact the Storage team Download the Avnet Linecard Visit our Vendors section