Tech Data, an IT distributor, has launched its web-based StreamOne Solutions Store, first announced this summer, for its VAR channel. This new marketing, selling, provisioning, and billing platform gives resellers direct access to products from cloud providers and software vendors, and allows resellers to manage their customers’ purchase of these products.
“[StreamOne] gives our customers a central platform for marketing, selling, distributing, and managing hundreds of business solutions that they can sell to the end customers easily from a single platform,” says Joe Quaglia, Tech Data’s senior vice president of U.S. marketing. “Resellers are getting access to an app store that’s all business solutions.”
Combined with StreamOne’s Software License Selector, StreamOne Solution Store helps reseller select their products through an easily accessed web portal, receive one invoice for their end-users, and benefit from the reduced license purchase cycles with instant product or service delivery, speeding up distribution. Features include:
- Consolidated billing for customers and vendors
- Compare prices and margins easily
- Pull in white papers for customer to make business case
- Maintain database of info on each customer
- See reviews of products from resellers who have purchased them
With StreamOne, resellers can manage invoices, sales, and review software and cloud products at no extra charge. These resellers will have access to products that aren’t normally sold easily through distribution.
“We have a mission to revolutionize the way software and cloud-based services are distributed in the channel,” says Quaglia. “StreamOne provides that revolution. We wanted to provide a route to market for those thousands of ISVs and cloud providers who don’t have an efficient and cost effective way to get to the channel other than a direct model.”
For more information, visit http://www.techdata.com/.
