SolarWinds,
a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management
software, announces the launch of the SolarWinds Transform Partner
Program to support and drive growth for the company's valued global
channel partners. The new channel program is designed to transform the
way SolarWinds partners with industry-leading technology distributors,
value-added resellers (VARs), global system integrators (GSIs), managed
service providers (MSPs), and cloud partners around the world.
SolarWinds
Transform enables partners to accelerate digital transformation for
their customers through simple and AI-powered SolarWinds® observability
solutions designed for today's modern, distributed, hybrid, and
multi-cloud network environments. Transform offers SolarWinds partners
strong profit potential, significant growth opportunities, and
world-class tools and resources. The new program provides SolarWinds
partners with several benefits, including financial incentives,
performance rebates, enablement and training programs, an enhanced
Partner Portal, and new marketing and sales support.
"Our
purpose at SolarWinds is to enrich the lives of the people we serve.
For our customers, this means providing secure solutions that make the
job of managing multi-cloud environments simple and cost effective. And
for our partners, it means creating greater opportunities for shared
growth," said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, president, and chief executive
officer of SolarWinds. "We are building further on our monitoring
leadership and are now evolving our business to deliver the best
solutions in full-stack observability, service management and database
monitoring. Our exciting portfolio and value proposition enable us - and
our partners - to help accelerate our customers' business
transformation wherever they may in their cloud journey."
As
a vital component of the company's growth strategy, Transform provides a
new model for partners to offer their clients world-class SolarWinds
technology solutions through SaaS and cloud-connected, on-premises
deployments. This new partner program follows the launch of SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability as
a comprehensive, integrated, and cost-effective solution designed to
increase performance and reduce remediation time across on-premises and
multi-cloud environments.
As the first solution built on the new SolarWinds Platform and leveraging the company's Secure by Design principles,
Hybrid Cloud Observability helps organizations shift from reactive to
proactive IT postures as they meet the challenges of hybrid IT. And with
the Transform launch, SolarWinds adds a new partner category to support
MSP partners with an engagement mode for MSPs ranging from global scale
to regional providers. MSPs can now offer SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud
Observability to provide full-scale observability with flexible
licensing and pricing models designed to offer them and their customers
the flexibility and scale they value.
"We're
so thankful for our amazing partners and are excited to celebrate our
joint successes," said Jeff McCullough, vice president of worldwide
partner sales, SolarWinds. "Our partner relationships are critical as we
move forward with a bold plan to grow our business through
customer-centric technology innovations. Together with our partners, we
share a vision to completely transform the market for IT management
software."
The
new program represents the company's enhanced focus on channel growth
and development. While channel partners have been integral to the
company's success throughout its more than 20-year history, Transform is
the first formal SolarWinds channel program. Consistent with the
company's customer-first approach, Transform was developed in close
partnership with many of the more than 2,000 existing SolarWinds
partners.