Ingram Micro Earns Access to Cisco GSA Schedule
May 15 2013 - 9:00AM
Marketwired
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced it has expanded its
General Services Administration (GSA) schedule to include Cisco's
entire portfolio of channel-friendly technology products and
solutions. The GSA Schedules program establishes long-term,
government-wide contracts with commercial firms to provide federal
agencies with access to commercial supplies and services. Ingram
Micro became a GSA Schedule holder in 2012 as a result of its
strategic acquisition of Promark, a value added distributor (VAD)
with a core technology focus on data storage, data management and
electronic document imaging products and services.
Ingram Micro's Executive Director of U.S. Public Sector and
Vertical Markets Michael Humke announced news of the expanded Cisco
relationship during the 2013 Ingram Micro Federal Summit, which is
taking place this week in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by
Ingram Micro's Public Sector Elite (PSE) partner community and
vendors, the 2013 Ingram Micro Federal Summit welcomes more than
200 attendees and is one of the IT channel's only education,
networking and training events focused exclusively on the IT needs
and business challenges of the public sector with a deep focus
around the federal market.
In addition to Cisco, Ingram Micro's GSA Schedules program
includes offerings from hundreds of other leading hardware,
networking, security, software, systems and storage vendors. For
more than a decade, Ingram Micro has been enabling channel partners
to simplify success in the public sector by proactively identifying
and addressing the IT business needs of organizations and agencies
with the state, local, education (SLED) and federal markets.
To help its channel partners compete more effectively, win
bigger business deals and uncover new opportunities within the
public sector, Ingram Micro and Promark offer a team of
highly-trained, field-based sales, technical and credit support
personnel, as well as marketing specialists, who know the ins and
outs of the market landscape. Ingram Micro channel partners also
have access to the distributor's best-in-class Solution Centers,
the Experience Center and its PSE partner community.
"The public sector is a lucrative, yet challenging market for IT
channel partners, which is why Ingram Micro continues to invest in
areas of the business that will help simplify success and make it
easier for them to grow profitably," says Humke. "Acquiring Promark
and gaining entry to the GSA Schedules program has expanded the
playing field for Ingram Micro and our channel partners working
within the public sector. Earning access to Cisco's GSA Schedule is
a great testimony to the success of Ingram Micro's Promark
relationship and will allow us to deliver even more business value
to our Cisco channel partners."
As part of the distributor's Advanced Technology Division,
Ingram Micro's Cisco Business Unit offers dedicated business, sales
and technology support to Cisco channel partners serving the IT
needs of the public sector, as well as small to mid-size businesses
and enterprises. As a result of its outstanding performance and
expertise as a Cisco distribution partner, Ingram Micro earned
seven Cisco partner awards in 2012, including Global Distributor of
the Year and U.S. Distributor Partner of the Year.
"Ingram Micro is a valued partner within Cisco's channel
ecosystem. We're delighted that through the expansion of its
General Services Administration schedule, they will now offer
additional Cisco channel-focused technology solutions to Ingram
Micro's growing community of public sector channel partners," says
Diane Gongaware, Senior Director, U.S. Public Sector Partner
Organization at Cisco.
To learn more about the Ingram Micro Public Sector Elite
community, visit www.im-publicsector.com. For more information on
Ingram Micro visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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About Ingram Micro Inc. Ingram Micro is
the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global
leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and
logistics solutions. 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 and mobile solutions, technical support, financial
services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is
the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 160 countries
on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of
IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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