Innovate Faster, Reduce Costs, and Grow With Embedded Solutions

Enhance your solutions faster while reducing costs and maximizing profits with IBM technology.

Embedded Solutions Agreements

Embedded Solutions Agreements (ESA) allow innovators and solution builders the opportunity to combine their intellectual property with IBM technology to create a total solution for their clients.

  • ESAs are for IP Builders, ISV's, Sis, MSPs, and CSPs.
  • ESAs reduce costs and risks while accelerating development.
  • ESAs help create total solutions you can take to market faster.
  • ESAs help you create white label solutions made to promote your brand.

The Benefits

  • Enhance Your Overall Offering: Choose from a full portfolio of next-gen technologies to customize your offering and surpass the competition.
  • Improve Profitability and Client Value: Speed up time to market and reduce your development costs.
  • Accelerate Your Sales Cycle: Deliver software and/or software as a service (SaaS), bundled with your solution.
  • Bundle Software: Leverage flexible pricing models designed to meet the needs of the solution.
  • Leverage Industry Leading Technology and Expertise: As the single point-of-contact to your customers, reduce installation and support costs.
  • Upgrade Protection: Enhance your solution to operate on the most current release levels with upgrade protection.

The ESA Tech Broker of Choice

Tech Data is uniquely positioned to be the vital link in the IT ecosystem, enabling solution developers to bring to market the IT solutions the world needs to connect, learn and advance. As the world's largest IBM distributor, Tech Data is your ESA Tech Broker of choice.

Tech Data leverages its scope and scale to:

  • Optimize existing routes to market.
  • Take costs out of your business.
  • Deliver next-gen technology products and solutions.

With over 200 dedicated resources, you can leverage Tech Data's expertise to accelerate your growth with design, integration, manufacturing, and installation support. Partner with Tech Data and our experienced team will provide:

  • Program Management: Tech Data helps our channel partners navigate IBM's Embedded Program with a high level of knowledge, experience and responsiveness.
  • Enablement Opportunities: Tech Data provides a full range of training, education and enablement including discounted vouchers.
  • Financial Support: Tech Data manages the contract process and provides credit, financing, and vetting.
  • Expertise: Tech Data's resources can help design, build, expand your embedded solutions business with our technical, marketing and ESA operations/ process support.
  • Relationships: Tech Data's relationships with IBM and our channel partners can assist you in building solution, services and go-to-market partnerships.
  • Global Reach: Tech Data has extensive knowledge and expertise in navigating international opportunities (just ask about the Global Solutions Directory).

Build Your Solution and Accelerate Growth With Tech Data and IBM.


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Engage Tech Data

We have a dedicated team ready to provide you with exceptional white-glove service to help onboard you or answer any of your questions. Contact us at:

IBMEmbedded@techdata.com

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