Integrated ICT solutions and services provider, Datacentrix has been named as an HP platinum partner, one of only five in South Africa, highlighting the company’s ability to deliver smart and flexible HP strategies that will help customers well into the future.
Says David McMurdo, Indirect Sales country manager at HP South Africa: “From the beginning, HP has been a company driven by partnerships. Our founders understood the immense value of people working together towards a common goal, as well as the impact of collaboration on the world around us.
“It’s this belief in teamwork that has inspired us to continually improve and bring innovation to the industry’s longest running channel programme. For over 30 years, we have strived to deliver the solutions, support, motivation and rewards that enable our partners to inspire the world.
McMurdo explains that, with the evolution of the HP PartnerOne programme, several key changes have been made for HP’s 2014 financial year, including improved partner compensation, the simplification of the certification process, and improved predictability around partners’ expectations of the programme.
“The most important area of change was the rebranding of the PartnerOne Specialisations. These partner levels have been renamed to Business, Silver, Gold and Platinum, making it easy for customers to understand a partner’s capabilities and offerings. Through this process Datacentrix has attained the top partner level and is now an HP Platinum Partner.”
McMurdo believes that the relationship forged between Datacentrix and HP is an integral local partnership. “The results and benefits of the collaboration between Datacentrix and HP can be seen clearly in the number of satisfied customers serviced by the two organisations.”
As a Platinum Partner, Datacentrix has demonstrated that it has met all the highest criteria required by the HP PartnerOne programme, attaining customer loyalty by offering the broadest portfolio of end-to-end HP solutions. This includes building complex server, storage, networking, virtualisation and application infrastructures, all the way up to the cloud.
“As a Platinum Partner, our HP-focused approach and ongoing investment in the growth of our skills base across the entire HP portfolio is paying off,” says Tony de Sousa, Datacentrix enterprise business unit manager.
“Our new partner status is proof of Datacentrix’ mature and proven business relationship with HP as well as our ability to provide the highest level of consulting expertise across multiple HP solutions.”
