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As we usher in the new quarter, I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every minefield. This Solution Theme helps partners involved in Digital Transformation with a series of
one of you for your partnership in driving strong performance in the first half of 2018. Let’s sales plays covering the important use cases of reinventing customer engagement, leveraging
continue to ride on this momentum to bring value to our clients and win marketshare from data better, re-imagining core processes and empowering employees with IBM technology.
our competitors.
3. Cognitive Security:
One area that I’ve always been passionate about are sales plays and how we leverage The future of security is AI and Orchestration. Customers are overwhelmed with data and
these as a door opener and reason of call to drive value for our clients. fatigued by false positives. Security incidents lose their urgency and become yet another
alert to deal with. With IBM’s Cognitive Security - we’ve embedded machine-learning and
For 2H 2018, for the first time ever, we are launching the sales plays under three key orchestration capabilities into our security technologies to help professionals find, analyze,
solution themes that resonate well with our clients across Asia Pacific. This, I believe, and understand massive amounts of security data creating an new outcome-driven
articulates more succinctly the unique value proposition IBM along with our partners can approach. This Solution Theme helps partners in the security market with sales plays that
bring to clients in their Journey to Cloud, Digital Transformation and build up of Cognitive address use cases for stopping threats, proving compliance and growing their customers’
Security especially in support of their mission critical applications and systems in this new business both on-premise and in their journey to cloud.
economy. These Thematic plays will run for a half year period providing a longer runway for
you and your teams to drive traction and build yield. Please work closely with your distributors and IBM partner managers for any additional
information and clarification. Most of all, we value your feedback so we are better able to
Partners can leverage these these Theme and engage clients in a solution discussion develop plays that meets your go to market needs.
covering the full portfolio of offerings across IBM Systems, Software and Services related to
the clients’ needs in these areas. Finally, we launched the really exciting IBM Storage “In It To Win It” incentive program for
business partner sellers last quarter. This is our largest incentive pay-out in recent times and
1. Journey to Cloud: provides you the opportunity to maximize our stportfolio leadership! For those of you who
Companies today recognize that cloud adoption is a journey that involves infrastructure, have not leveraged this incentive yet, I urge you to read more about this incentive in this 2H
platforms and data. Whether customers need to innovate, maximize their ROI or mitigate 2018 Sales Plays eBook and reach out to your IBM partner managers for more details.
risks - IBM’s cloud is secure, enterprise grade and built for data-intensive AI workloads.
We’re the only vendor in the market that can fully address on-prem, private cloud, public Wishing you another successful quarter in 3Q. Happy selling!!
cloud or a hybrid of all three in a customer’s journey to the cloud. This Solution Theme helps
partners to understand sales plays for the key use cases of Infrastructure Resiliency and Regards,
Workload Modernization. As we progress in 2H, we’ll add additional sales plays particularly
around Cognitive Services and Process Automation.
2. Digital Transformation:
Our partners understand that companies are rapidly digitizing all elements of their business;
from new business models to new ways of working, leveraging new talent in the process. Hui Li Lee
Recent surveys have shown 54% of executives believe their biggest future competition will Vice President
come from other industries and 72% believe they’ll be susceptible to digital disruption in the Global Business Partners
next 3 years. IBM technologies help customers navigate through the digital transformation IBM Asia Pacific
70%
C-Suite Strategic Imperatives Journey To Cloud Sales Plays
1. INNOVATE & COMPETE. Modernization allows for businesss
process agility and adaptability based on market conditions
of companies have 2. MITIGATE RISK by taking advantage of newer security and
INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY
Build a highly resilient environment to support
deployed a mix of public compliance standards available in modern app frameworks business continuity and disaster recovery
3. MAXIMIZE ROI by delivering functionality in line with business and
and private clouds customer demands
requirements through traditional and modern
application resiliency techniques.
implying an increase
JOURNEY TO THE CLOUD
in confidence in cloud Sales Plays:
1. IBM Cloud – IaaS & PaaS
adoption. 2. IBM Cloud – VMware on IBM Cloud
3. IBM Cloud – iCOS for Cloud
Cloud Ready Platform Cognitive 4. GTS Multi-vendor support (MVS)
Infrastructure Services Services Services 5. GTS Storage Support Services
$6.87B
is the market opportunity
A highly scalable, security
enabled infrastructure
On-prem
Hypervisor
Public
Virtualization
Build Cloud Native apps within the
Enterprise and the Cloud
On-prem
New
Public
APIs
Cognitive building
blocks for developers
AI
Services Applications Assistant
for app modernization Compute Baremetal Integration Natural Language WORKLOAD MODERNIZATION
Services Cloud Processing Leverage modern, open standard application
services in 2017 growing
Middleware
Native & Data
Network
Network Services Cloud Data development technologies coupled with
at 19.4% CAGR. Services & Runtimes Programming
Models
Insights infrastructure hardware purpose built to
Storage
Object Visual/Speech support demanding cloud native and AI centric
Storage Recognition
Developer &
Operations
Developer &
Operations
applications.
56.8% CAGR
Services Services Empathy
Analysis
Private Cloud Public Cloud
Sales Plays:
Platform Containers 1. Move to Power9 (Scale Out)
is the expected growth Containers &
VMs Common
& VMs
Common 2. SAP Hana on Power8
in AI enabled apps from Services Services 3. IT Modernisation with Flash
4. IBM ICP
$643M in 2016 to 36.8B Building INFRASTRUCTURE
RESILIENCY through Hybrid Cloud
WORKLOAD MODERNISATION
for App Portability
Cognitive Process
Automation 5. API Connect
in 2025*. Highly optimal Infrastructure
systems that can bridge
Develop cloud-native apps within the
Enterprise leveraging modern application
Create innovative,
cloud-native apps
6. GTS – TSS & Linux Open Source Support
7. GTS Cloud Open Source Support Services
on-prem workloads to cloud and development frameworks with full using industry leading
based infrastructure services portability to the Public cloud Watson AI services
Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud
Infrastructure Resiliency Infrastructure Resiliency Infrastructure Resiliency
(Software) (Software) (Software)
#
1
IBM Cloud
IaaS & PaaS (former Bluemix)
#
VMWare on Cloud
2
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iCOS for Cloud
3
More Info
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Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud
Infrastructure Resiliency Infrastructure Resiliency
(Services) (Services)
#
GTS Technology Support Services
Multi Vendor Services
4 #
GTS Storage Support Services
5
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Targets Targets
• Enterprise • Cross-industry
• Commercial • All Client sizes
• Mix of IBM and other vendor products
Client Pain • 80% of on-premises deployments of VMware suffer with long lead times on
Points spinning up environment, launching or killing VMs etc. IT cannot respond to Unique IBM Value Propositions Pricing/Average Deal size
business needs fast enough.
•H ardware refresh, version upgrade and over-provisioning of infra makes
on-premise deployment ~2x more expensive vs VMW on cloud IBM offers secure, single-tenanted VMWare software • Pricing: Bluemix Pricing
•7 0% VMWare customers in AP operate on premise VMware farms on 1 stack on IBM cloud at monthly billing which can integrate • Bluemix Garage Services modules and developerWorks
DC. Risk of dis-continuity in business due to natural disaster, major power with your on-premise VMWare without needing to Premium subscriptions may be resold by IBM SaaS
outage, or corruption is not complete without Disaster Recovery data to an re-architect your application and leveraging your investment Authorized BPs in addition to Bluemix Platform
offsite location (Cloud is ideal) in VMW on skills and license. Entire stack is supported by • Once developers have adopted Bluemix, extend using API
one party – IBM. Connect
Target • Existing VMware customers with more than 50VM’s • SaaS Financing – Enjoy best upfront price discounts yet
Market pay by 0% installments*
Prospecting • Customers who are running more than 50VM’s in there production IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
Profile environment
•C ustomers who have highlighted challenges in building disaster recovery Incentives
• IBM Cloud Infrastructure:
capabilities for there production VMware environments IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
•C ustomers who are looking for agility for there test and dev environments IBM Cloud Services Credits Partners can receive several
for VMware thousand dollars worth of free service credits annually for
•C ustomers looking to build a hybrid cloud strategy and burst to and from the Assets registering as an IBM business partner. In addition, partner
cloud when needed are eligible to receive generous SaaS incentives for selling
Differentiators • Dedicated environment per customer the VMware on Cloud offerings
•U nmatched flexibility – ability to provision multiple options that include Sales Plays:
backup, DR and load balancing technologies • VMware on IBM Cloud - Sales Play: IBM® Cloud for
•L everage existing investments through bring your own VMware licenses VMware can integrate, expand or migrate your on
and resources premises VMware workloads onto IBM Cloud
•S ingle support for entire stack from IBM Resources:
•D eploy the entire Vmware stack including Software Defined Data Centre • Bluemix Resource Centre
stack within 12 hours • Bluemix Quickstart for Partners
• Bluemix Quickstart Demos
IBM WW Jack Beech: WW Channel Sales • Bluemix Tutorials by Service
Channel Sales jack.beech@us.ibm.com • Bluemix Webcasts and Videos
Contact • Bluemix Webinars
Gajun Ganendran: AP W&CP Channel Ecosystem Leader • developerWorks Bluemix recipes
IBM AP
gajung@sg.ibm.com • Architecture Centre – Bluemix
Contact
• IBM Cloud for VMWare solutions
Action Identify any customer with greater than 50 VMware VM’s
Client Pain • Looking for inexpensive, simple storage that can be consumed on demand
Points for various application usecases such as for backup data, collaborative data Unique IBM Value Propositions Pricing/Average Deal size
or user driven data.
•L oss of productivity due to long backup and restore times and looking for
alternatives to on-premise storage • IBM Cloud Object Storage integrates with leading Archive • Pricing: ICOS Pricing
•P roliferation of inefficient islands of information than requires centralization solutions such as Moonwalk to seamlessly move inactive • Bluemix Garage Services modules and developerWorks
•H igh cost of piecemeal or distributed backup solutions data sitting in large file servers and unstructured data Premium subscriptions may be resold by IBM SaaS
•C hallenges achieving expected cost-savings from mergers, repositories. Authorized BPs in addition to Bluemix Platform
acquisitions,and consolidations • IBM Cloud Object Storage can be designed to offer a • Once developers have adopted Bluemix, extend using API
backup-less environment for customers. IBM Cloud Connect
Target • Customer looking for inexpensive unstructured data storage environments Object Storage offers better SLA’s at a cheaper price • SaaS Financing – Enjoy best upfront price discounts yet
Market that can be consumed on demand than AWS S3 pay by 0% installments*
• Customers with backup/archive requirements
•C ustomers wanting to build unstructured data driven applications on the
cloud IBM Marketing / Sales Activities Incentives
Prospecting • Unstructured data from NetApp, EMC or other Windows file server
Profile environments that can be archived to the cloud • IBM Cloud Object Storage: IBM Cloud Object Storage Free 30 Day Trial Build on IBM Cloud Object Storage for free
• Customers experiencing difficulties in meeting backup/restore windows with no time restrictions. Partners can also receive several
• Unhappy with cost or efficiency of current backup infrastructure thousand dollars worth of free service credits annually for
• Multiple and siloed backup and file infrastructure Assets registering as an IBM business partner. In addition, partner
•C ustomers looking for cost effective unstructured data repositories for cloud are eligible to receive generous SaaS incentives for selling
based applications the IBM Cloud Object Storage offerings
Differentiators • More cost effective than AWS S3 Sales Plays:
• Offer better and consistent SLA’s across all object storage services • Modernize Backup and Data Protection with ICOS:
compared to AWS Modernize your backup and data-protection
• No charge for network traffic between DC’s for resiliency environment by using Cloud Object Storage as a
highly durable, scalable and secure destination for
IBM WW Jack Beech: WW Channel Sales backing up and archiving your critical data.
Channel Sales jack.beech@us.ibm.com IBM Cloud Object Storage Solutions
Contact Resources:
IBM AP Gajun Ganendran: AP W&CP Channel Ecosystem Leader • IBM Cloud Object Storage Resources
Contact gajung@sg.ibm.com • ICOS Free Trial
• ESG Whitepaper
Action Identify any customer looking for backup to cloud. Get 25GB free • ICOS Pricing
• ICOS FAQ
• ICOS Resource Library
Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud
Workload Modernization Workload Modernization Workload Modernization Workload Modernization
(Systems) (Systems) (Systems) (Software)
#
Move to POWER9
(Scale Out)
1 #
SAP HANA
2
on Power8
#
3
IT Modernization
with Flash
#
IBM Cloud Private
4
More Info
More Info More Info More Info
Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud Journey To Cloud
Workload Modernization Workload Modernization Workload Modernization
(Software) (Services) (Services)
#
API Connect
5
More Info
#
6
GTS – TSS Linux and Open
Source Support (OSS)
#
GTS – Cloud Open Source
Support Services
7
More Info More Info
Solution
Description
POWER9
Scale Out Up to 1.5x Performance per Extends POWER’s HANA Performance per core
Servers deliver core vs. P8* advantage leadership*
better TCO • Better TCO for your infrastructure
Up to 4 TB in a two-socket • Save on software costs priced by the core
• Deploy more workloads
(HW and SW) • Performance per core leadership system, 33% more than x86.
with an Cloud ready
Industry standard DIMMs/ Seamlessly run Linux workloads in a
open, more Cloud ready pricing PowerVC Cloud
flexible data • Optimize your infrastructure
• Deploy more workloads quickly *Certification expected 2Q from SAP
infrastructure
Flexibility - x86 heavily restricted in
Technology leadership for a virtualized environments
future forward infrastructure.
• PCIe Gen4 Resiliency - Failures of x86 servers often
• 25 GB/s high speed links cited as reasons for delays in HANA ‘go-live’
projects. SAP Support loves Power for HANA
* Based on IBM internal testing & projections as of 2.5.18; Initial testing indicates relative performance ratios between 1.2 to 1.5X for POWER8 to POWER9.
Targeted • Enterprise
Market •C ommercial: High-End, Mid-Market Value Propositions IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
Segment
Targeted • Power Scale Out install base with older Power technology • Cloud and AI ready • IBM Partner Rep agree / execute plan with selected
Customer SAP / SAP HANA installed base on x86 servers - Rapidly deploy, optimize, and recover workloads with Partners
Profile PowerVM, which delivers virtualization capabilities of live • Strategic priority for IBM-led Marketing campaigns as key
Sales Cycle 4 – 6 months partition mobility, built into every POWER9 system portfolio offering
- Extend IBM i, and connect to cognitive capabilities of • Partner-led Co-Marketing campaigns
Client • TCA and TCO for CIOs IBM Cloud using secure APIs • Promoted via events, digital marketing, competitive white
Pain Points • Ongoing security threats • Designed for mission critical data & workloads papers, progression seminars and online advertisements
• Continuity, Reliability and Server Churn - Keep your business online 24/7 with industry leading
• How to leverage AI and Cognitive RAS and superior high availability features
• Maximize performance and usage of SAP HANA - POWER9 come with all critical security fixes delivered Assets
x86 server vendors including HPE, Dell, Lenovo etc. and turned on by default
Top
• Typically lower upfront Hardware Total Cost of Acquisition - For decades IBM has delivered continuously on its
Competitors • SmartSeller: POWER9 Scale Out Servers
• Lower end one socket / two socket servers product roadmaps and has a much longer product
and their • IBM Power Systems Facts and Features - POWER9
lifecycle than any other competitor
Strengths (PartnerWorld)
• Industry-leading Performance and Value
IBM Channel ANZ: Matthew Plint mplint@au1.ibm.com - Delivers up to 1.5X performance vs POWER8# • POWER9 - Memory considerations Scale Out
Contacts ASEAN: CK Goh ckgoh@sg.ibm.com - 4 TB in 2-sockets (PartnerWorld)
ISA: Navin Sabharwal sabharwal@in.ibm.com - First with PCIe Gen4; 25 GB/s links for acceleration • IBM Power Systems Performance Report (PartnerWorld)
KOR: Young Il Pae yipae@kor.ibm.com • Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) • POWER8 Competitive Claims (PartnerWorld)
- Deliver superior price-performance for mission critical
Lead POWER9 opportunities - select appropriate code from following in Level
applications, with room to scale in AIX, IBM i, and Linux
Registration 30 field in MySA / Sales Connect: PWRL922, PWRS914, PWRS914A,
environments
PWRS922, PWRS922A, PWRS924, PWRS924A
- Reduce hardware maintenance, software licensing, and
management overhead, freeing up valuable resources to
invest in business growth
• Improve Project ROI
- Affordable leasing and flexible payment plans to align costs
with benefits while differentiating against competition*
60% faster
from procurement to go-live Lower your TCO
(e.g. 2.5 months instead of 6)
Targeted • Enterprise
Market •C ommercial: High-End, Mid-Market Value Propositions IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
Segment
Targeted • SAP on Power installed base • Flexibility without compromise • IBM Partner Rep agree / execute plan with selected
Customer •S AP/ SAP HANA installed base on x86 servers - An efficient hypervisor allowing you to do more with your Partners
Profile system • Strategic priority for IBM-led Marketing campaigns as key
Sales Cycle 4 – 8 months - Ability to grow as you need with SAP Tailored Datacenter portfolio offering
Integration and Power Systems’ Elastic Capacity-on- • Partner-led Co-Marketing campaigns
Client • Require Resilience and Performance to deliver “real-time business” for Demand • Promoted via events, digital marketing, competitive white
Pain Points HANA as intended by SAP • Performance your business demands papers, progression seminars and online advertisements
•S truggle with system performance and throughput. Need to add more cores - Top of the line multithreading and memory to handle
on x86 servers performance spike
•L ack Flexibility and Economics – experience challenges running mixed • Reliability you can bet your business on Assets
workloads (e.g. OLTP, Analytics, Dev / Test) with complex / varying - Full implementation and migration support
workload needs and High Availability - Security built into every Power System
- Designed to deliver the reliability and fault-resilience • SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems
Top • Although HPE’s entry into the SAP HANA space is more recent than other can be accessed by Clients
providers, their manufacturing focus is more developed than the others required for mission critical environments
Competitors • SmartSeller: SAP HANA on Power Systems
•H PE faces two challenges: Their recent reorg into two companies and - Memory redundancy and resiliency built into every Power
and their • SAP HANA on Power Systems Essential Guide for
headcount reductions in Enterprise Services. HPE’s momentum is at a System
Strengths Business Partners (PartnerWorld)
disadvantage in responding to the HANA Suite market opportunity including • Trusted and differentiated infrastructure built for the
future • Power 9 H model Data Sheet (PartnerWorld)
the pool of trained resources - IBM Power System H922
- Tight alignment with SAP for 40+ years, always united on
IBM Channel ANZ: Matthew Plint mplint@au1.ibm.com releases and roadmap - IBM Power System H924
Contacts ASEAN: CK Goh ckgoh@sg.ibm.com - Roadmap for the future directly aligned with and
ISA: Navin Sabharwal sabharwal@in.ibm.com designed for big data and in-memory workloads
SAP HANA on Power8 opportunities to coded with “SAPHPWR” in • Improve Project ROI
Lead
Sales Connect “Opportunity Codes” field or Global Partner Portal (GPP) - Affordable leasing and flexible payment plans to
Registration
“Opportunity ISA” field align costs with benefits while differentiating against
competition*
Solution
Description
IBM Flash
Storage is IBM Storwize
engineered • Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software, the IBM Storwize family provides
all-flash solutions with common functionality and management.
to meet • The Storwize family helps organizations optimize capital expenses and
modern high- operational expenses with cost-efficient flash deployment while maximizing
performance efficiency and flexibility for heterogeneous storage arrays.
• Available in a wide range of storage systems, the Storwize family delivers
storage sophisticated capabilities such as Real-time Compression that are easy to
requirements: deploy, and help control costs for growing businesses.
ultra-low
latency, cost- IBM Flash Storage
• Engineered to meet modern high-performance storage requirements
effectiveness, • Ultra-low latency
operational • Cost-effectiveness
efficiency, and • Operational efficiency
• Mission-critical reliability
mission-critical
reliability.
Targeted • Enterprise
Market •C ommercial Value Propositions Incentives
Segment •C ompetitive
Targeted Oracle, VMware, VDI workloads in the target segment On Oct 24th IBM announced a major refresh of its IBM All • Utility Offering
Customer Flash Array with 3D TLC technology. • Partners earn additional rebate. (To be announced)
Profile New 3DTLC NAND IBM MicroLatency®modules, • Enhanced Demonstration Program for IBM Power and
Sales Cycle 45 days aggressively push TCO levels down Storage Systems
• 67% lower cost per capacity
Client • Slow application response time • ROI in as little as 2 months
Pain Points Storage usage inefficiency • 3X more capacity with IBM enhanced 3D TLC in 2U IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
Increasing TCO • 220TB maximum effective capacity
• Inline data compression with no performance impact
Top • BP LiFT sessions with IBM Partners
• Next gen FlashCore
Competitors • In focus for IBM Digital Development Representative Team
• Consistent 95 microsecond response time for application
and their outbound prospecting calls
performance
Strengths • Strategic priority for IBM-led Marketing campaigns with
• Centralized encryption key management to secure critical
IBM Channel ANZ: Matthew Plint mplint@au1.ibm.com data Flash Storage as key portfolio offering
Contacts ASEAN: CK Goh ckgoh@sg.ibm.com • SKLM (AES 256); backwards compatible • Dedicated Partner-led Co-Marketing campaigns
KOR: Young Il Pae yipae@kor.ibm.com • 7-year flash wear guarantee for investment protection • Promoted via events, digital marketing, competitive white
ISA: Navin Sabharwal sabharwal@in.ibm.com papers, progression seminars, online ads
Lead Flash opportunities should be coded with the following in Sales Connect
Promotions
Registration Product Information (Level 30): Assets
V5000 Flash (B8S1J) – OR – V7000 Flash (B8S1K) – OR –
Flash Systems - A9000 (BA802) – OR – Flash Systems - Storage (BA801) • IBM Flash HyperGrowth Promotion
• IBM Storage Storwize Flash Drive Promotion • IBM Storwize Family – can be accessed by Clients
(1.92TB Flashdrive Option) • IBM Flash Family – can be accessed by Clients
• Complimentary 40 hours of Lab Services • FindIT – Storage – full suite of enablement assets labeled
• Automatic Workload Repository studies by category – BP only
• POC and online demos • IBM All Flash Solution overview video
• Toolkits for Healthcare, Finance and Telco • IBM Storwize: Start Small, Grow Big video
• Financing: 3 month deferral or 12 month 0% payment plan • https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/mem/
with IGF* ContentHandler/TSL03322USEN/lc=en_ALL_ZZ
• Earn 1% BP fee for Total Amount Financed (AP - including
IBM & non-IBM HW, SW & Services)
Client Pain • Are you looking at SaaS applications? How do you plan to get data from your current systems over to these?
Points • What are the digital transformation initiatives underway? How are you exposing existing assets as APIs for consumption by these digital Unique IBM Value Propositions
apps?
•A re Line of business professionals involved in IT purchase and deployment decisions? Are they using any light weight integration tools to
help them with their day to day needs? • API Connect offers Integration tooling for different user
• What type of on premise applications do you want to connect with these cloud apps? roles, providing a ‘simple integration experience’ for
• What type of Cloud apps do you have? Do you use cloud for building applications? business users and a ‘configuration-based integration
• What is the timeframe for doing the above integrations? methodology’ for shadow IT teams and Integration
•H ow are you managing these integration needs today? Developers
•D o you have a preference on where the integration will be built and executed? Do you prefer a managed SaaS platform or an on-premise • Unlimited pre-built connectivity to leading cloud
integration engine? applications and enterprise applications endpoints, at no
additional charge
Target • Companies adopting SaaS applications • Complete flexibility and reusability enabled by extensive
Market • Small, medium and large enterprises going for cloud deployments library of pre-built integration templates; flexible
•B usinesses with digital initiatives, looking to rapidly expose existing assets as APIs or oData interfaces deployment models like SaaS, on-premise and docker
•C ompanies looking to simplify IT infrastructures image; flexibly packaging and pricing matching varied
•B usinesses seeking differentiated tooling for different user roles customer requirements
•C ompanies who need Simple, configuration based integration
•C ompanies needing to start with specific scenarios, with a flexibility to expand functionality as the needs become more complex
Prospecting API Connect is an API (Application Program Interface) lifecycle management system, supporting the needs of create, run, manage, and
Profile secure. APIs have become a new business channel to expose various key assets, data, or services for consumption by mobile, web, internet
of things, and enterprise applications. Often APIs are provided on a fee basis outside the organization, producing new revenue streams.
• CMO/CEO/ CPO: allows business users to build integration solutions without IT
•C IO / CEO: Integrate in Days; Reduce integration project duration by 40% - 60% using pre-built connectivity and configuration based tooling
•C OO: Reduction in the cost of resources and skills
Differentiators • Simplest pricing model, most cost-effective, and richest features vs anyone else in the market
•U nlimited endpoint connectors and full functionality at entry level pricing
•D ifferentiated, ‘fit-for-purpose’ tooling for Business user and IT teams
•A ll Connectors invested in and maintained by IBM rather than being community based as with several of our competitors
•2 4X7 enterprise grade support at no additional cost
•D eployment flexibility and portability (SaaS, on-premise, docker image)
• The most robust iPaaS solution in the market for Salesforce
IBM Channel Nicky PG Choo: AP Cloud Channel Sales nickyc@sg.ibm.com
Sales Contact
Action Sign up for, try and buy BM API Connect
GTS Cloud Open Source Support Services provides predictive and preventive maintenance
services to help optimize your IT availability across your cloud and hybrid cloud environments Value Proposition Benefits
and achieve measurable business continuity results. The offering supports IBM and non-IBM
hardware and software products, and virtualized and cloud infrastructure. Virtually all services
are delivered by an IT infrastructure library (ITIL) v3-certified client availability leader and a • Unlike many competitors, IBM has a virtually unparalleled • Unlike many competitors, IBM has a virtually unparalleled
dedicated technical support team. global support infrastructure of skills, parts and proprietary global support infrastructure of skills, parts and proprietary
tools across 209 countries, covering 127 different tools across 209 countries, covering 127 different
languages. IBM offers virtually unmatched knowledge of languages. IBM offers virtually unmatched knowledge of
Client Pain • Low IT availability that disrupts business operations—impacting a company’s IBM systems, and decades of experience supporting non- IBM systems, and decades of experience supporting non-
Points bottom line, reputation and business efficiency IBM systems. IBM systems.
• Inefficient or missing IT support processes that contribute to frequent and • Additionally, IBM has extensive experience with IT • Additionally, IBM has extensive experience with IT
extended downtime processes across industries, which helps us better processes across industries, which helps us better
• Increased costs due to outages, loss of business and suboptimal returns on understand IT process needs and translate them understand IT process needs and translate them
IT investments into more effective service management and support into more effective service management and support
implementation. Of course, IBM services are also implementation. Of course, IBM services are also
Target • Cross industry designed to deliver results that improve your business. designed to deliver results that improve your business.
Audience • 100 to more than 1,000 employees That’s why the performance metrics are defined in your That’s why the performance metrics are defined in your
Typical • Chief executive officer client support plan and tracked during the duration of the client support plan and tracked during the duration of the
Sponsor • Chief information officer contract. contract.
• IT director
• Chief financial officer
Seller • Contact clients with IBM and non-IBM hardware and software products, and
Action virtualized and cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Justify cost by emphasizing potential savings from preventing or reducing
an outage’s impact.
• Seek help from an IBM TSS service management architect to shape an
appropriate solution for the client.
TSS BP • Australia: Bhavik Vyas vbhavik@au1.ibm.com
Channel • Australia: Ryan Harris ryharris@au1.ibm.com
Contacts • ASEAN: Hyder Alaudeen hyder@sg.ibm.com
• Indonesia: Clarissa Tracy Priscilla clarissa@id.ibm.com
• Thailand: Somsak Uthaisinsak somsaku@th.ibm.com
• India: Ramesh Srinivasan rameshsr@in.ibm.com
• Korea: ByungSun Cho chobs@kr.ibm.com
• Asia Pacific: Theresa Lee leestt@sg.ibm.com
54%
C-Suite Strategic Imperatives Digital Transformation Sales Plays
1. Seek innovation and LEVERAGE DATA as a basis for new growth
2. RE-IMAGINE CORE PROCESSES enabling growth and LEVERAGE DATA by modernising legacy
of executives believe competitiveness, whilst lowering costs BI environments, and applying Planning
their biggest future 3. RE-INVENT CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT along multiple touch Analytics to Lines of Business.
points in a digital and social lifecycle
competition will be from 4. WIN THE TALENT WAR by digitally empowering employees to
Sales Plays:
1. PowerAI & HPC
other industries. access intelligence and innovation
2. Cognos Land & Expand
3. Beyond Spreadsheets (FOPM)
Cognitive
72%
&
Analytics
RE-IMAGINE CORE PROCESSES driving
Emerging the business with cognitive capabilities and
Cloud applied insights.
of business believe they Technologies
Sales Plays:
are susceptible to digital Restless 4. Collaboration Dual Entitlement
New
distruption in the next 3 New Talent Business
New 5. Box with Box Relay
Models
years, though only. Expertise Focus
14%
conversions in digital channels.
Orchestrated Experience Market
Ecosystems Activation Sales Plays:
6. IBM Customer Experience Analytics
believe they can act 7. Watson Marketing Insights
quickly enough to New Ways
to Work
compete against it. Responsive
Operations
Actionable
Insights
Internet
Social
of Things
Security
Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Digital Transformation Digital Transformation
Leverage Data Leverage Data Leverage Data Re-Imagine Core Processes
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• Deploy deep learning (DL) without waiting for • Financing: 3 month deferral or • Sales Play 5.51 • Add “Work on the go” – 70% off on connections
experts on Best Server for Enterprise AI 12 month 0% payment plan with IGF* • Planning Analytics Enterprise Modeler (DI56ELL) cloud to expand collaboration tools on the cloud
• Planning Analytics Enterprise User (DIJT9LL) • SaaS Financing – Enjoy best upfront price
• SaaS offering Min ACV USD $7K (after discount) discounts yet pay by 0% installments*
• Maximum discount 65%
• SaaS Financing – Enjoy best upfront price
discounts yet pay by 0% installments*
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Solution
Description
Delivering Enterprise-Class AI
Cutting-edge AI innovation data scientists desire, with dependability IT requires
Targeted • Enterprise
Market •C ommercial: High-End Value Propositions IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
Segment
Targeted • Clients seeking business value & performance requirements increase from • PowerAI allows Easy, Fast time to deploy Enterprise • IBM Partner Rep agree / execute plan with selected
Customer descriptive to predictive to prescriptive analytics Deep Learning that is optimized for performance, Partners
Profile •C lients exploring AI / Deep Learning (DL) / Machine Learning (ML) or has coupled with Enterprise class support • Strategic priority for IBM-led Marketing campaigns as key
Data Scientists or working with DL tools / frameworks such as Caffe, Torch, - Tested, binary builds of latest common Deep Learning portfolio offering
Theano, TensorFlow and Chainer frameworks for ease of implementation • Partner-led Co-Marketing campaigns
•C lients planning to implement or expand or improve performance of their - Simple to install • Promoted via events, digital marketing, competitive white
High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure • Performance (AC922) papers, progression seminars and online advertisements
Sales Cycle 4 – 6 months - IBM Power9 with accelerated GPUs exhibit fastest
performance for applications especially for AI & ML
Client • Shortage of of deep learning IT experts - New interconnect protocols with NVLink’s higher Assets
Pain Points • Time required to address new markets with deep learning approaches bandwidth reduces data transfer bottlenecks between
• Personnel spend majority of time gathering data to analyze in support of CPU and GPU
business and operational decisions • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) • IBM Power Systems – High Performance Computing
• IT & Datacenters struggling with streaming media, web serving, compute, - Many industry Clients and Partners benefit from (HPC) Servers - can be assessed by clients
structured data management, analytics, security, business applications, IBM’s broad portfolio of HPC & analytics infrastructure • IBM PowerAI - can be assessed by clients
workgroup collaboration and application development solutions that boost performance utilization & efficiency; • SmartSeller: POWER9 Accelerated Computing Servers
• Portability is a critical concern: Porting to different architectures is time lowering total cost of acquisition & ownership (AC922)
consuming • OpenPower • SmartSeller: PowerAI
• Varying scientific domains & algorithmic methods and programming models - OpenPOWER Foundation is an open technical • SmartSeller: Data Science Experience (DSX)
community enabling collaborative development on top of • IBM Power Systems S822LC for HPC – Key Messages
Top NVIDIA DGX-1 - Client presentation (PartnerWorld)
Competitors • Specialized for applications spanning 8 GPUs and for where all the work is POWER architecture
- Represents over 200 global tech leaders & growing. • POWER8 S822LC HPC with NVIDIA Tesla Vs. HP
and their done on GPUs (Battlecard) (PartnerWorld)
Strengths •H ighly scaled, Preconfigured Deep Learning System Founded by NVIDIA, Mellanox, IBM, Google and Tyan
- IBM & NVIDIA has created global acceleration labs for • PowerAI Overview (for Sellers) (PartnerWorld)
•H owever comes at High Entry Cost (warranty not included) and is Inflexible - Guide to position PowerAI in an elevator pitch with right
i.e. not designed for broad suit of applications (non Deep Learning developers and ISVs to port applications on Power9 and
NVIDIA Volta NVLink-based platform context for your client’s industry and interests
applications)
• Improve Project ROI
IBM Channel ANZ: Matthew Plint mplint@au1.ibm.com - Affordable leasing and flexible payment plans to align costs
Contacts ASEAN: CK Goh ckgoh@sg.ibm.com with benefits while differentiating against competition*
KOR: Young Il Pae yipae@kor.ibm.com
ISA: Navin Sabharwal sabharwal@in.ibm.com
Lead PowerAI, HPC opportunities - select appropriate code from following in Programs, Tools, Incentives
Registration Level 30 field in MySA / Sales Connect: PWLC922, PWA922, PWESS922,
PWRS8LC, PWS822LC, S822LCP, PWR/TOR, PWNETWRK, PWRHPC, • Linux on IBM Power Systems Developer Portal
PWRESSL, PWRESSF - Nimbix Cloud Cognitive Test Drive – 24 hour / 7 day free trial
- Learn about cognitive computing on IBM Power System
S822LC for HPC (Minksy) with hands-on demos that
showcase machine learning with PowerAI
• Financing: 3 month deferral or 12 month 0% payment plan
with IGF*
• Earn 1% BP fee for Total Amount Financed (AP - including
IBM & non-IBM HW, SW & Services)
*Terms and conditions apply
Client Pain Business users require a tool that allows them to perform deep self-discovery
Points and enterprise reporting. Organizations requires a secure and governed Unique IBM Value Propositions Assets
platform.
Target Applicable to all sizes/revenue. New and Existing Cognos BI Clients. Business intelligence (BI) and advanced analytics have • Conversation Guides
Market Organizations looking to modernize legacy BI environments, de-risk critical entered a new era in extracting insights from data. This next
areas of the business by removing ungoverned BI Tools, Clients and generation of BI capabilities, using intent driven guidance,
Prospects moving their BI/Analytics platform to SaaS starts the shift toward cognitive computing that will change Promotions
Prospecting CIO/Chief Data Architect, Analytics Leader/Data Scientist how you work with data. Gain a deep understanding of
Profile your business and improve productivity in creating reports,
dashboards, and data visualizations. IBM’s managed • Financing: 3 month deferral or 12 month 0% payment plan
Strategy Quick land with small bundles (5, 10, 20 users) targeted at LOB/departmental platform approach for BI, on cloud (SaaS) or on premises, with IGF*
projects. Followed by aggressive expansion into additional BI, or predictive aligns your organization around trusted data and self-
(SPSS), prescriptive (ILOG), or Planning Analytics (FOPM) license(s). service capabilities
Differentiators • Complete BI and Analytics offering delivering strong overall product/
enterprise features supporting a range of deployment options from small to
very large enterprises. IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
• Satisfy the demands of business users for an easy to use product with
advanced analytics capabilities and IT’s need for governed data discovery. • Register Cognos Analytics free trial
• Greater flexibility and range of deployment options - Leverage IBM cloud
network and the availability of BI on Cloud.
Top • Microsoft Power BI: IBM Strength is a far more robust set of capabilities
Competitors delivered on prem and cloud. Weakness is the higher price point should
and their clients want to ignore collaboration and governance needs and start with
strengths ‘bare-bones’ features .
• Qlik: IBM Strength is robust portfolio of capabilities, cloud ownership,
platform scalability. Weakness is losing to LOB -led projects, single user
and small license needs (<20 users).
• Tableau: IBM Strength is robust portfolio, cloud ownership, platform
scalability. Weakness is easy download of single user and small LOB –lead
projects (<20 users).
IBM Channel Ser Yean Tan seryean.tan@sg.ibm.com
Sales Contact
IBM Technical
Pre-sales
Contact
Action • PAB approvals required
• GTM plan with distributors in each market
• Enablement of key partners required
Client Pain Existing repositories contain valuable content, but many organizations
Points also want to provide newer collaboration and content tools. Increasingly, Unique IBM Value Propositions Assets
they need to collaborate on content with people outside the organisation.
They want support for their chosen platforms for business content. These
new requirements can be problematic if there is no centralised or ’common’ • Securely store manage share and collaborate on rich • Box free trial
access points that can be effectively secured by both IT and individual users. digital assets in a unified workspace • Box Relay : A workflow software
• Equip teams with the latest information while monitoring • Customer Proposals, Value Selling Assets, Presentations,
Target Enterprise, Commercial, Installed-base, Upsell, Cross Sell most valuable content Customer Letter, FAQ and more
Market • Easily and securely collaborate without the hassle of email
Prospecting Any organisation of any size. Box can be seeded with any deal as a bottom attachments or firewall restrictions
Profile line bid. Box then grows exponentially when in use • Tight integration with Connections Cloud, Salesforce, Promotions
Docusign and many other applications
Strategy With Box as a leader in EFSS and IBM as a leader in enterprise workflow • HR, Operations, Legal and Finance: Fast and secure
tools, the co-developed Box Relay is raising the bar for workflow in the cloud. file sharing: Stop sending insecure, large attachments • With additional Box Relay (no min order quantity limitation)
No one in this space has created a tool that is so intuitive to use, so easy to via email. Instead, use customized Box shared links with • SaaS Financing – Enjoy best upfront price discounts yet
invite external participants, and in a way that offers all the integrated benefits passwords, expiration dates and restricted download pay by 0% installments*
of a content management platform. Future integrations with Watson Work access.
provides enterprise with a pathway to cognitive. • Sales, Marketing: Secure enterprise file synchronization:
Differentiators • Multiple collaboration applications in use Always Have the Right Content. With Sync, you have the
• Multiple disparate content repositories latest information instantly, no matter how the file was
• Corporate information Security concerns, including staff utilizing personal updated.
consumer-grade (or “free”) cloud storage • Directors and VPs of IT: Digital asset management: Work
• Content is out-of-date as soon as emailed or shared – multiple repositories seamlessly with your external agencies, vendors, partners
and attachments with no version control. Or lost due to staff/expert attrition and clients on large, rich media files. Box lets internal
if no active content repository. users easily upload large presentations and videos,
organize them into folders, share links to files and manage
Top • Dropbox: Free with good UI and customer experience, but it is not a secure file and folder permissions.
Competitors tool for external collaboration. Box provides an intuitive experiene and
and their include content access stats for users, easy access to file versions and
strengths natively integrates across more solutions end users work. Box’s platform IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
comes with prebuilt integrations (Salesforce, Docusign, Splunk, O365).
• Google Drive: Broad awareness. Perceived low cost
• Microsoft OneDrive: Heavy integration into MS Stack comes at the • Target every deal
expense of a large variety of partner integrations. One Drive for business • Box use in IBM grew from 0 – 60,000 users in 6 months
lacks native on premise storage capabilities, outside those connectors for with only word of mouth
access on premise Sharepoint repositories. • VAD & BP Awareness and Enablement Sessions
regarding Box Relay
IBM Channel Chris Haylock (AP) chaylock@au1.ibm.com
Sales Contact
IBM Technical Perry Rosenboom (AP) perry_resenboom@au1.ibm.com
Pre-sales
Contact
Action PAB underway with t-shirt sizing configuration for Box Enterprise, Box
Business plus, with Box Relay (no user limitation).
Client Pain Acquire new customers, retain existing customers and improve loyalty/
Points satisfaction and increase customer lifetime value. Unique IBM Value Propositions Assets
Target Fortune 1000 and Mid-market with typically greater than $1B in revenue
Market Position the building blocks for digital marketing—insight, • Watson Marketing Insights 30 days trial
Prospecting CMO (Decision maker/change influencer), VP Marketing (decision maker, content management, personalization and campaign • Watson Marketing Insights -materials to download
Profile Direct marketing manager (decision makers/influencers, depending on automation—in one solution.
organizations). Campaign analysts (influencers; often end users) • Grow SaaS annual contract value (ACV) by broadening
the conversation beyond individual capabilities. Promotions
Strategy With IBM Real-Time Personalization, marketers can personalize in real time • Differentiate with Watson as a trusted advisor for the
the experience of customers interacting with web sites, call centers, mobile marketing organization and cognitive capabilities
devices, email, and other inbound marketing channels. IBM Real-Time attainable for organizations of all sizes. • Special bid submissions meantime
Personalization uses powerful, behavioral targeting analytics and marketer- • Increase “stickiness” among clients and cross-sell in • SaaS Financing – Enjoy best upfront price discounts yet
defined business logic to deliver the optimal marketing message in each existing WCA accounts with a solution that cuts across pay by 0% installments*
case. While most customer’s use cases follow traditional customer lifecycle marketing organization silos.
management, acquisition, onboarding, activation, deepening, retention and • Take advantage of a simplified pricing model for you and
loyalty, other activities include advanced social and mobile marketing. your clients.
Key Metrics • Marketing-driven revenue: includes by channel (channel effectiveness) &
by campaign (campaign response rate)
•R eturn on marketing investment: on marketing technology and campaign
IBM Marketing / Sales Activities
investment
•M arketing & operations costs: incl. personnel, time & technology. • Recruitment of new partners through VADs
Top • SAS: Analytics leadership, loyal customer base, MRM advantages, ability to • IBM OI through Digital Sales
Competitors demo new UI and visualization.
and their •A dobe: positive reputation with data analysts and digital agencies, depth of
strengths customer references and simplified packaging and pricing.
• Teradata: MRM, reputation and usability
• Oracle: incumbency (for existing enterprise license agreements),
relationships and cloud based (majority of Oracle marketing tech is cloud
based).
• Salesforce: CRM leadership, Cloud delivery and Social Channels
IBM Channel Jennifer Wei Bao (ASEAN-SG/MY/PH) weibao@sg.ibm.com
Sales Contact Alex PH Liu (ASEAN-TH/ID/VN) alexliu@sg.ibm.com
Vinay Tr (ISA) trvinay@in.ibm.com
Carl Bellamy (ANZ) carlbel@au1.ibm.com
Irence WY Wee (AP) irencewee@sg.ibm.com
IBM Technical Ritesh Amin (AP) ritesham@sg.ibm.com
Pre-sales
Contact
Action Each VAD to recruit at least 1 BP selling to digital marketing agency
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IBM Business Partner sellers will be able to access these incentives via our Know Your IBM (KYI) program and they will be in effect until the
end of 2018.
Start and End Dates: How can you win larger deals?…with IBM Global Financing
1 July 2018 –
31 Dec 2018 Win larger deals by offering clients financing solutions…
and you get paid in return!
Countries:
• Malaysia IBM Global Financing 2H18 Business Partner Fee Program Framework
• Philippines
• Singapore 1. Get rewarded for Winning Larger Deals
• Thailand
IGF Business Partner Transaction Fee Program
• Korea IGF Business Partner earns a transaction fee
when they successfully sign a financing agreement
• India between IGF and end-user clients
Eligibility
• Minimum 2 new qualifying transactions within each half year to qualify for tier bonus
Announcement Overview
Number: • The IBM Z and LinuxONE New Client
ZVWW8111C Incentive rewards Business Partners who sell
to new or inactive clients by giving Business
Start and End Dates: Partners the opportunity to earn a rebate of
1 Mar 2018 – 10% of the eligible net billed revenue of the
31 Dec 2018 qualifying transaction. Net Billed revenue
is defined as the transactional revenue net
Countries: of transactional adjustments, but excludes
• Australia credits for performance bonus incentives etc.
• New Zealand This excludes all IBM z Software Subscription
products (recurring IBM z Software License
• Brunei Charges). The total rebate value is capped at
• Cambodia a maximum of $50K.
• Laos • A New End User is eligible when the IBM
• Indonesia shipped order records for an End User
• Malaysia Enterprise show that no IBM Z hardware
• Myanmar product (Server, model conversion or
• Philippines hardware MES) has ever been sold to the
• Singapore enterprise in the country.
• Thailand • An inactive End User is eligible when the
• Vietnam IBM shipped order records for an End User
Enterprise show that the most recent IBM Z
• Korea Systems hardware product (Server, model
conversion or hardware MES) sold to the
• India enterprise was a z10 class of mainframe or
older technology.
• Refer to PW Announcement letter for
complete T&Cs.
PW Link
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• T2
Qualification
• All Flash Array (V7F, V9K, A9K/R & DS8F) minimum 57TB Deal
• Customer does not own IBM Spectrum Storage Suite license already
• BP is qualified to order through AAS( for All Flash Array) and Passport
Advantage ( for Suite)
• Customer is ready to engage in consultative workshop and sandbox
implementation
PW Link
http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_com_
sto-all-flash-seed-promotion-sales-play/lc=en_ALL_ZZ
T2 Channel Pre-requisite
Spectrum Storage Software CVR Authorization
• Korea
Criteria New Terms and Conditions
• India Eligible partners • BPs with HW BPA authorised for Power and/or Storage
• BPs with PW Agreement - Any BP with PW CEID (but no BPA) also qualify
Eligible products • All Storage S1, S2, S3
• All Power P1, P2, P3
Discounts • Competitively priced Demo Offering aligned with Market based pricing -
delivered via Value Seller in 3 simple Tiers – QP +0%, QP +25%, and 100%
for associated eligible software
Minimum retention • 90 Days for authorised resellers
period • 180 Days for BPs with PW Agreement
• After the retention period, the Business Partner may remarket the hardware to
an End User
Quantity restriction • BPs authorised for Power and/or Storage – 10 units of Power and 10 units of
Storage per annum
• BPs with PW Agreement – 1 unit of Power and 1 unit of Storage per annum
Offering Period • Ongoing until withdrawn
RTM Strategy • All Demo products to be fulfilled via VAD’s
Incentives • Demo counts towards all Performance Based Incentives for both VADs and
eligibility T2s
PW Link
www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/mem/ContentHandler/demonstration-development-systems
• Korea Get access to the latest versions of IBM software products for
demonstration, evaluation, education, commercial application development
• India and testing, and limited internal day-to-day Business Partner operations in
accordance with the terms of the PartnerWorld Software Usage Attachment
(sign-in required).
À la carte use of the Software Access Catalog is available for USD $995 per
annum.
Note that benefit offerings may not currently be available in all countries, on
all platforms or may be delivered differently. Additional terms and conditions
may apply to any specific benefit or geography. Benefits are subject to
change without notice at the discretion of the IBM Corporation. Fees are
quoted in US dollars or local currency and are subject to change. Fees may
vary in some countries due to differences in comparative costs of living
and fluctuations in local exchange rates. Fees are displayed in the online
ordering system at the time of ordering. Purchase provides access to the
benefit for a 12-month period and purchase can be made at any time. If any
authority imposes a duty, tax, levy, or fee (excluding those based on IBM’s
net income) upon any transaction, then you agree to pay that amount.
Highlights include
Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Protect Plus and Spectrum NAS are now
available.
PW Link
www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/software-access-
catalog