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Netformx Announces Partner Incentive Tool to Optimize Profits and Cost Structures During the Presales Process

Grows deal profitability by increasing upfront vendor discounts
Optimizes CCW Estimates and Bills of Materials early in the sales process
Delivers analytical insights to increase gross margins

ORLANDO, Fla—June 11, 2018—Today at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Netformx®, a provider of sales enablement and profit acceleration platforms for IT solution providers, announced availability of the Netformx Partner Incentive Tool that enables solution providers to grow deal profitability by increasing upfront vendor discounts during the presales process. The newest addition to the Netformx Suite of Applications, the Partner Incentive Tool automatically analyzes the users’ Cisco Estimates and exposes all relevant incentives and their impact on discount percentage.

The new tool drives better partner alignment to Cisco’s strategic direction, vendor promotional programs and incentives. To maintain alignment, such programs are numerous, constantly changing, and can be complex, making it challenging for partners to stay current and to optimize their profit potential without hours of research. Strategic alignment is incentivized both on the front end by applying discounts and on the back end by claiming rebates.

The Partner Incentive Tool influences seller and deal behavior early and adheres to the Expose, Educate and Guide (“EEG”) concept that Netformx introduced to the market. This selling motion exposes the appropriate programs at the relevant time, provides links to program education, and then helps guide the conversation with customers to increase value and profit.

New additions to the tool allows partners to automatically analyze the users’ Cisco Estimates and exposes all relevant incentives and their impact on discount percentage, based on the SKUs in the Estimate and to leverage the optimal cost structures available. The partner can then quickly choose the preferred discount stack that is most applicable to the customer opportunity and that will enhance their competitive position and overall profitability. Promotions include Cisco Value Incentive Program (VIP), Migration Incentive Program (MIP), Opportunity Incentive Program (OIP), Account Breakaway, and others. The Partner Incentive Tool also provides insight into suggested product replacements to guide conversations with customers and increase profitability.

In addition, the Netformx Partner Incentive Tool enables managers to maintain a 360-degree consolidated overview of seller and deal desk activity. Analytics provide real-time feedback to ensure the sales team works together to attain the best possible cost structures at the start of the sales cycle. The Partner manager can review sales team activity on a per-estimate and aggregated partner basis. Managers now have a tool to influence the Account Team for further end-customer conversations or downstream to maximize deal registration profit potential.

Cisco Channel Partners in the US can get started on the Netformx Partner Incentive Tool free of charge for up to 30 days.

Key Facts

Netformx streamlines IT sales operations and enables efficient business management.
Netformx enables solution providers to reduce time-to-quote 80% and reduce implementation error rates by 99%.
Channel partners leveraging Netformx solutions report profitability increases of over 1% and in some cases over 5%.
Using Netformx award-winning solutions, over 2,000 customers in more than 120 countries design and sell winning multi-vendor solutions with reduced errors, resulting in satisfied customers and more profits.

Supporting Quotes

“We are excited about the additions to the new Netformx Partner Incentive Tool to help partners increase their profitability. The Netformx Partner Incentive Tool is easy to use and allows partner sellers and leaders to stay on top of the Cisco programs and incentives, so they can grow their deal profitability and stay ahead of the competition.”
— Rick Snyder, Senior Vice President, Americas Partner Sales at Cisco

“The Netformx Partner Incentive Tool provided immediate value by uncovering deeper discounts from an overlooked promotion. It quickly identified modifications that we could make during the presales process that would impact our bottom line. We no longer need to research promotions or depend on the memory of a few experts. The options are automatically presented on every proposal, and it’s trivial to select and incorporate the best one for our customer.”
— Jason Eatmon, VP & Principal at Development Group Inc.

“While Netformx ChannelXpert already automates the process of capturing more reward dollars at the back end of the sales process, the Netformx Partner Incentive Tool provides powerful incentive and promotion analyses while deals are being formulated. This simple, straightforward, and valuable tool saves time and identifies promotions that may have otherwise been overlooked.”
— Ittai Bareket, CEO at Netformx

Resources

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About Netformx

Netformx is a leader in sales enablement and profit acceleration platforms for solution providers. Netformx delivers a suite of applications that enable IT solution providers to design, analyze, and sell winning and implementable multi-vendor solutions for Enterprise customers, while operating their businesses profitably. Netformx accelerates solution provider profits by providing powerful business intelligence, actionable insights, collaboration, and automation that connect people, information, and processes. The result is increased competitiveness and productivity across the sales lifecycle.

Netformx has over 2,000 service provider, systems integrator, and technology vendor customers in more than 120 countries including ALE, AT&T, Bell Canada, British Telecom, CDW, Cisco, Dimension Data, Insight, Juniper, Optus, Orange Business Services, Sprint, and Telstra. Our comprehensive KnowledgeBase™ contains client and vendor products, services, and program compliance data from vendors such as ALE, Cisco, Brocade, Check Point, EMC, Juniper, Avaya, APC, Belden, Jabra, and Riverbed. The wide-ranging, up-to-date data enable our customers to quickly create accurate designs and proposals and to maximize profitability. www.Netformx.com, Twitter and LinkedIn