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IBM Security Systems hosted an event on July 17th 2012 to discuss the changing security landscape with security leaders and IBM's vision and products for threat protection. The document outlines IBM's approach to holistic security through intelligence and outlines the business partner program to help partners identify, sell, and fulfill security opportunities. It provides an overview of IBM's security portfolio breadth and expertise in research, integration, and management to help organizations address a complex security environment.
There are three basic areas of contribution or value that you may be compensated for …and they map directly to the essential elements of the sales process: “ Identify” – that’s finding and validating new opportunities – especially opportunities in new customers “ Sell” – taking the opportunity and running with it to close the deal – applying your sales and technical expertise to convince the customer that you have the right solution to their business problem – based, of course, on IBM software technology… “ Fulfill” – managing the order and delivery logistics to get the right products to the right customer, on time It is relatively simple to compensate our partners for the fulfillment piece of this – this is what we have always done… We know which partners deliver what, and to whom, through Passport Advantage – our customer discount system However, appropriately compensating for these other activities – Identify & Sell – is more difficult. It requires that we know who performed them. Passport Advantage can’t help us there. That’s why a secure and easily accessible deal registration system becomes a critical element of this new incentive design Deal registration systems can capture the details of a Business Partner’s contribution (who has invested time, skills, etc…) – simply, quickly and accurately - from the outset of the opportunity. So… now we are able to track who is contributing what, …and where… … let’s see how this will work in earnest – with some real numbers…