Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced HPE Tech Pro Academy, a presales community in Asia Pacific and Japan, for offering training to partners in order to grow digital transformation revenues.
HPE Tech Pro Academy will offer tech oriented training to presales teams of HPE channel partners for maintaining technology expertise in integrating established and new technologies into efficient solutions.
HPE is offering membership for Tech Pro Academy to existing HPE channel partners only. Prospective partners can register here.
“By creating a single-point access for presales information, and encouraging engagement with gamification elements and rewards, this program can truly be a differentiator,” said Sharon Hiu, research analyst at Canalys.
HPE previewed the HPE Tech Pro Academy at the HPE Technology and Solutions Summit in Bangkok, in front of more than 400 leading Asia Pacific and Japan channel presales professionals. Program highlights for the rest of the year include a series of product demos, proof-of-concepts, technical showcases, as well as ongoing Partner Ready certification programs.
“In our organization, we have customers from all over the world. Geographically, it can be difficult to support them. With HPE Tech Pro Academy’s extensions to worldwide teams and support, it will enable us to provide quicker support to our customers,” said Binu Varghese, services head, Shro Systems.
“HPE Tech Pro Academy provides a very good platform for us communicate with each other and other presales professionals. Beyond solutions, when we learn more, have best practices or solved certain problems, we will be able to share them with each other and the entire community,” said Saikat Chakraborty, regional manager of Sales, Smart Planet IT Solutions
“HPE Tech Pro Academy gives you the opportunity to get certified, gain more knowledge to use with existing customers and reach out to new customers, and pass learnings to colleagues,” said Anant Dhawan, business head of Solution and Services, MM9.
“There are many things that are part of HPE Tech Pro Academy but they are structured well. I was speechless at the activities planned for the tech pros,” said Alston Noronha, Presales Technical Consultant, Redington.
HPE is focusing on channel partners because more than 80 percent of HPE’s business in Asia Pacific and Japan goes via channel partners.
“For the organizations, having a presales team that can deliver technologically advanced solutions designed to deliver maximum business value is critical to maintaining competitive edge,” said Joybrata Mukherjee, India Leader – Channels, SMB and Service Provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise India.
