]> Find the latest Tivoli news and resources for Business Partners en-us Copyright 2006 IBM Corporation walkermi@us.ibm.com thlopes@br.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/rss/ http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/global/images/tiv-software.gif http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/index.jsp By selling both storage hardware and Tivoli storage software together, you may be eligible for discounts & rebates. Combine both IBM Systems Storage and Tivoli software to deliver even greater value to your customers than selling products alone. Learn how you can earn rewards with the Systems Storage and Tivoli Information Infrastructure Sales Incentive. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/public.jsp?tab=incentives&content=indexst Tivoli Deployment Accreditation is making big news. Many IBM Business Partners have become Tivoli accredited and customers, prospects, other IBM Business Partners, and IBM direct sellers can now find the list of accredited Business Partners with a new search tool on the Tivoli SMB website. Be sure to visit the Tivoli Knowledge Center for the latest information for Business Partners about the Tivoli Deployment Accreditation including instructions on how to get accredited. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=training&content=roadmaps-tda Thank you to all of our Business Partners who attended and took part in Pulse and the Business Partner Summit. Due to Business Partner participation, this year’s event was a huge success! If you were unable to attend you can still get all the presentation materials, along with event highlights. Get your copies now! http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/pulse2008/ Pulse may be over, but the help you need to get trained and certified on Tivoli products & solutions has not ended. For a limited time you can receive discounts on Testing & Training. Hurry and take advantage of these great offers! http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=incentives&content=pulse08 IBM Maximo Asset Management provides industry leading solutions for managing the critical assets and services that drive the business. IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.x delivers on the continued Maximo strategy of providing Asset and Service Management for all of an enterprise's critical assets. Everything is built on a single platform with seamless architecture, common code, and shared database across service request, asset, change and configuration management. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=playbook&content=maximo IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Microsoft Applications is is designed to provide highly effective automated systems monitoring and management to help your customers drive greater availability, higher performance and an improved end-user experience from their Microsoft applications. With the ability to collect performance metrics from monitored assets and synthesize the data in real time, IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Microsoft Applications provides the information your clients need to quickly detect, isolate, and resolve performance and availability issues. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=playbook&content=itmfms The follow Partner Playbooks now provide translated Customer Presentations & Sales Sheets in some or all of these languages: Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. IBM Tivoli Monitoring; IBM Tivoli Service Request & Asset Management; IBM Tivoli Workload Automation Family; and IBM TotoalStorage Productivity Center. Find a listing of all Partner Playbooks on the Tivoli Knowledge Center. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/public.jsp?tab=playbook&content=playbookhome Learn about the latest product/solution education modules needed to increase your productivity with your sales opportunities. The new Tivoli Virtual Sales Academy allows you to get the basics in key areas, at no cost, at your own pace, and "on demand" with content developed by subject matter experts from sales enablement, market management, development and the sales field. Visit the Tivoli Virtual Sales Academy. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=training&content=tvsa The Tivoli Top 10 Update is not a typical newsletter. It is a short monthly list of the top 10 Tivoli resources for IBM Business Partners selling Tivoli, which are meant to help you succeed. Please subscribe to the Top 10! http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=events&content=top-10-index This new Partner Playbook demonstrates IBM Tivoli enterprise-class backup and recovery which now supports growing VMWare environments. Tivoli Storage Manager V 5.5_s recent enhancements in supporting VMWare Consolidated Backup allows IBM to offer a more centralized solution to your customers. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=playbook&content=tsmvm Tivoli continues to stay "at Work in SMB" by offering you The Tivoli Survival Guide: When Infrastructure Attacks! This is a fun, interactive tool that provides the perfect solution for those not-so-perfect IT problems and addresses the key pain points your customer_s face everyday: Backup and Recovery to prevent a data emergency; Asset Security to assist in the battle against internal and external threats; and Systems Management to lend a hand in managing IT infrastructure problems. http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/public.jsp?tab=SMB&content=survivalguide These plays are designed to identify new opportunities in the channel and help progress and close deals faster and more effectively within a given time period. The new Channel Sales Plays page offers guidance and resources to enable your selling success! http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=index&content=quarterly An iBrochure is a new online web marketing tool that offers an innovative way to get the message out to your customers - AND is available to you at little or no charge! http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=comarket&content=ibrochure The Tivoli Top 10 Update is not a typical newsletter. It is a short monthly list of the top 10 Tivoli resources for IBM Business Partners selling Tivoli, which are meant to help you succeed. Please subscribe to the Top 10! http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/partners/secure.jsp?tab=events&content=top-10-index