Seagate Wins 2009 Everything Channel Five-Star Award for Partner Program Excellence
30 March 2009 - 10:59PM
PR Newswire (US)
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate
(NASDAQ: STX) today announced that the Seagate Partner Program,
designed to help Seagate's channel partners leverage the company's
industry leadership, technology innovation and product reliability
to grow their businesses, has been recognized by Everything Channel
as one of North America's top information-technology (IT) partner
programs. Seagate was the only hard drive maker to win this
recognition. The Seagate Partner Program earned the Five-Star
certification in the highly competitive large-volume category -
companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue - in
Everything Channel's 15th Annual 2009 Partner Program Guide (PPG).
Partner programs were evaluated in six areas: sales support,
marketing support, partner profitability, channel operations,
communications and partner recruitment. Other Five-Star winners in
the large-volume category include Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Oracle and
AutoDesk. A list of PPG winners will appear in the March 30 issue
of CRN magazine, the channel industry's leading publication, and
online at http://www.channelweb.com/, the world's largest channel
industry portal. The Seagate Partner Program (SPP) is designed
specifically for resellers, system builders, system integrators and
solution providers that have aligned their solutions and customers
with the Seagate product portfolio. SPP members benefit from
support, training resources, marketing tools and incentives that
can help them improve service, solve business problems, lower
costs, increase profits, compete more effectively, and improve
their hardware and service delivery infrastructure. "The
prestigious Five-Star honor points to Seagate's steadfast
commitment to our channel partners' success," said John Vossoughi,
vice president of Americas Sales and Marketing at Seagate. "The
Seagate Partner Program, now in its tenth year, continues to evolve
to meet the needs of our channel community -- we continue to reach
out to our partners to make the Seagate Partner Program an
essential part of their businesses." Research for the 2009
Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the Everything Channel
Five-Star Program was conducted by Everything Channel's Institute
for Partner Education & Development (IPED). IPED analyzed 130
vendor programs rating vendors' responses to nearly 60 in-depth
questions about their partner programs. "Now more than ever, the
quality of a vendor's partner program determines how profitable its
partners will be," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president
and editorial director, Everything Channel. "So for their
commitment to their partners, and their efforts to build quality
programs, we congratulate this year's Five-Star Partner Program
Guide winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel."
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with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all
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Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm
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About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design,
manufacture and marketing of hard disk drives and storage
solutions, providing products for a wide-range of applications,
including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer
Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business model
leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to
deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global
customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all
markets in which it participates. The company is committed to
providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability
to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate
can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered
trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. All other trademarks or
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Seagate Technology CONTACT: Michael Hall of Seagate
Technology, +1-831-439-2731, Web Site: http://www.seagate.com/
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