Red Hat Launches Independent Sales Representative (ISR) Program in Canada
May 04 2016 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Keating Technologies and Tech Data Canada
Selected as ISR Partners to Support Channel Sales
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced an Independent Sales
Representative (ISR) program in Canada to offer its full suite of
open source solutions for cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and
virtualization technologies in collaboration with channel leaders.
At launch, Canadian channel leaders Keating Technologies and Tech
Data have joined the program to help bring open source solutions to
a broader range of enterprise customers in Canada.
Via its new ISR program in Canada, Red Hat is aligning
additional sales resources to collaborate with its partner
ecosystem to provide insight, engage other experts when needed, and
tailor sales approaches to meet customer needs.
Keating Technologies, a leader in integrated sales, marketing,
and technical support solutions, has been engaged to provide a
dedicated salesforce to focus on seeking new business opportunities
for Red Hat in the Canadian marketplace. They plan to work
collaboratively with Red Hat's strategic reseller partners to bring
Red Hat solutions to customers and prospects interested in the
agility, flexibility, increased security, and quality of enterprise
open source.
Tech Data Canada, one of the world's largest wholesale
distributors of technology products, services, and solutions, plans
to facilitate the fulfillment and execution of sales transactions
to meet customer expectations and to support Red Hat resellers.
The partner ecosystem is critical to Red Hat's success as the
world’s open source leader. Red Hat's partner program, Red Hat
Connect, is designed to meet the evolving needs of its partners,
providing access to new Red Hat technology, training, product
certification, technology adaption resources, and go-to-market
tools to differentiate a partner’s brand in the marketplace.
Supporting Quotes
Luc Villeneuve, country leader and general manager, Canada, Red
Hat
“Selling in Canada has its unique challenges due to our vast
size. Our ISR program is a creative way to provide coverage and use
the talents of our partners to benefit customers. Open source
technologies have become a default choice of IT departments around
the world, and Red Hat Canada is helping some of the top brands in
Canada use those technologies to compete. We are delighted to be
working with top channel leaders like Keating Technologies, Tech
Data Canada, and our resellers to bring Red Hat's solutions to more
customers across Canada."
Larry Keating, president and CEO, Keating Technologies
"Red Hat offers an essential suite of open source solutions that
enable Canadian businesses to drive their cloud and digital
transformation strategy in a high performance, cost-effective, and
quality-assured manner. This is a unique selling strategy to serve
the Canadian marketplace and we are excited to be chosen to
collaborate with Red Hat as one of its ISR partners for Canada. We
are confident we have the sales expertise and resources to help
make this program a success."
Rick Reid, president, Tech Data Canada
“We are pleased to work with Red Hat and Keating to facilitate
this initiative. We are always excited to collaborate with leaders
in the channel to create new opportunities and solutions for
solution providers to achieve mutual success.”
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