Ingram Micro Cloud to Resell Force.com, Salesforce.com's Social Enterprise Platform for Business Applications
June 05 2012 - 3:00PM
Marketwired
The North America Services Division of Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM)
announced today it has entered into an agreement with
salesforce.com to resell Force.com, the social enterprise cloud
platform for mobile and social business applications.
Under the new distribution agreement, Ingram Micro channel
partners in the U.S. can now purchase salesforce.com's
industry-leading Force.com platform directly from Ingram Micro and
begin creating and deploying custom applications for the social
enterprise immediately. Force.com is the first
platform-as-a-service offering available from the Ingram Micro
Cloud.
"Empowering our channel partners with the services, solutions
and platforms needed to gain a competitive edge in the market and
become a trusted advisor to both small and mid-size businesses is a
high priority for Ingram Micro's Services Division and our cloud
sales team," says Renee Bergeron, vice president of Managed
Services and Cloud Computing, Ingram Micro North America.
"Salesforce.com's leading platform for social and mobile
business applications will become a key differentiator for Ingram
Micro Cloud and our channel partners as we work together to
accelerate cloud adoption. As the IT industry's master aggregator
of cloud services, Ingram Micro is uniquely positioned to enable
innovative market leaders to expand their reach into the channel
and build upon their success, while enabling our channel partners
to grow their cloud services with in-demand offerings such as
platform-as-a-service," concludes Bergeron.
"Force.com is the proven social enterprise platform that
empowers companies of all sizes to create social and mobile apps to
manage any business process," said Ron Huddleston, senior vice
president, Global ISV & Channel Partners, salesforce.com.
"Together with Ingram Micro, we are extending the reach of
Force.com within the channel to provide the flexibility and scale
needed to build social enterprise applications."
Force.com is the trusted social enterprise cloud platform for
building custom business apps quickly and easily. With Force.com,
channel partners and companies can build custom social, mobile and
real-time apps that extend to every department and employee without
having to spend more on complex software or hardware
infrastructure. For maximum flexibility and choice, Force.com
offers both a declarative programming model for business users --
which provides visual tools for rapidly build apps without code --
and a programmatic interface for developers to write custom
business logic in the cloud.
News of the expanded Ingram Micro, salesforce.com alliance was
announced by Bergeron and Huddleston earlier today at the 2012
Ingram Micro Cloud Summit, which is taking place June 4 - 6 in
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Excerpts from Ingram Micro's annual Cloud Summit can be found on
Twitter via the hashtag #IMCloud2012 and seen on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/ingrammicroservices.
MSPs, solution providers and IT cloud integrators who are
interested in becoming an Ingram Micro partner and reselling
Force.com, please contact the Ingram Micro Services team at (800)
705-7057 or visit www.ingrammicrocloud.com.
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www.ingrammicro.com.
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About the Ingram Micro Cloud Ingram Micro
Cloud (www.ingrammicrocloud.com) provides channel partners access
to hundreds of business, strategy, marketing, technical and sales
resources including the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a
transactional, online marketplace where solution providers can
shop, procure, provision and obtain invoices for their cloud
services directly from Ingram Micro.
About Ingram Micro Inc. As a vital link in
the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and
profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and
financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product
aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global
broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 145 countries on six
continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT
products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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