HPE Tech Pro Academy to enhance partner’s ability to deliver digital transformation solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that HPE Tech Pro Academy in Asia-Pacific and Japan will offer new ongoing engagement and training opportunities to help partners grow revenues by improving their ability to deliver innovative digital transformation solutions for customers.

The program will help the customers to maintain a competitive edge. Within these partner organizations, the presales teams that map out proposed systems for customers are under a great deal of pressure to maintain expertise in integrating established and new technologies into efficient solutions that will deliver results both immediately, and in the future. It will provide region-specific curricula and easy access to HPE technical expertise.

The HPE Tech Pro Academy program is designed to help members achieve career-advancing objectives in three categories:

· Connect – Through a single point of access, members will have access to exclusive online platforms and in-person networking opportunities that provide an unprecedented ability to participate in a focussed, global presales community that connects them with other presales professionals in their markets and region, as well as with HPE presales team members from across the globe.

· Learn – HPE will provide members with an ongoing stream of education opportunities that map back to a structured lesson plan that is:

– Designed to enable individuals to evolve and build their skills and knowledge

– Developed and delivered in collaboration with HPE original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and strategic alliances partners

– Localized on a country-by-country basis for maximum impact and value

– Aligned to HPE Partner Ready Competencies

· Grow – The program features an industry-first rewards program for partner presales professionals based on tracking sales generated by Tech Pro Academy members, providing them with the opportunity to benefit individually while increasing revenue for the partner organizations they work for through increased solutions sales.

HPE Tech Pro Academy builds on HPE's Partner Ready program, to create the premier partner presales brand and community in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. Partner Ready is the single HPE Global program for key partner business models that provides enablement resources, incentives and tools to drive revenue growth and partner investment.

HPE Tech Pro Academy was previewed at the HPE Technology and Solutions Summit in Bangkok, which was attended by 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.

“HPE Tech Pro Academy puts the spotlight on the presales community, giving them a level of emphasis that few vendors have done so far,” said Sharon Hiu, Research Analyst, Canalys. “By creating a single-point access for presales information, and encouraging engagement with gamification elements and rewards, this program can truly be a differentiator.”

“HPE Tech Pro Academy is an excellent way of bringing people together. Through this program, anyone, anywhere can come up with an issue, and the community will help them,” said Binu Varghese, Services Head, Shro Systems. “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. This is a great initiative.”

HPE Tech Pro Academy membership is open to existing HPE channel partners only.