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You are receiving this newsletter as a benefit of your organization’s partnership agreement with Microsoft.
“It helps tremendously to have Microsoft Financing,” says Doug Hafford of Afinety, “because it gives us a way to overcome the size of the deal and also demonstrates that we’ve thought of everything.” Microsoft Financing has become a major sales-objection handler. And in an anything-goes economy, that’s one of the most effective revenue-boosting tools we can think of. We know you agree, because our internal numbers show that loan applications have nearly doubled in the past year. So, in this week’s newsletter, we thought we’d give you a few plain facts about Microsoft Financing and how it can help your business.
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I received the following EOL announcement for CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 3.0:
Message Type : End-of-sales/ End-of-life announcement
Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution 3.0. The last day to order the affected product is November 21, 2009. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as listed in Table 1 in the EoL announcement.
For more details, refer to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6504/ps6528/ps2425/ps7196/end_of_life_notice_c51-541952.html
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In addition to providing you with unlimited help desk/remote support, we also monitor your servers and critical services such as Exchange, SQL Server, and other specific line of business applications installed on them; in addition we constantly monitor your internet connection, firewall, and routers.
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Support your entire organization with our comprehensive Flat-Rate IT Program. Your business will benefit by receiving support from our skilled helpdesk technicians and our certified network engineers. Eliminate the uncertainty of fluctuating IT support costs, realize one point of contact, manage vendors effortlessly and ultimately achieve increased reliability, productivity, and value from your technology investments.
Server Managed Services
On-going Proactive Server Maintenance
- Microsoft Windows Server Patch Management
- Microsoft SQL Server Patch Management
- Microsoft Exchange Server Patch Management
- Virus Definition Management
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I received the following EOS / EOL statement from Cisco for the MPLS Assurance Manager 1.0 product. I’ve actually never worked with this product but anything that provides insight into an MPLS networks qos performance I don’t know why it would have to go away.
Message Type : End-of-sales/ End-of-life announcement
Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco MPLS Assurance Manager 1.0. The last day to order the affected product is November 16, 2009. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as listed in Table 1 in the EoL announcement.For more details, refer to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6504/ps8203/ps6776/end_of_life_notice_c51-539676.html
I received the following EOS / EOL statement from Cisco in my alerts profile:
Message Type : End-of-sales/ End-of-life announcement
Cisco Systems announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 4.0. The last day to order the affected product is November 16, 2009. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as listed in Table 1 in the EoL announcement.For more details, refer to:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6504/ps8203/ps6776/end_of_life_notice_c51-540980.html
I’m posting this promotion notice I received as an IBM registered partner. The promotion is a discount on Notes and iNotes.
IBM announces a better way — Notes and iNotes at 25% off
LotusIn these challenging times, customers are monitoring their IT budgets very carefully. Through this promotion, organizations have the opportunity to install or expand Lotus Notes and Domino deployments at a reduced price. This promotion is especially timely for Microsoft Exchange customers who, in Microsoft’s fiscal Q4, are facing yet another large renewal bill for laggard products like Microsoft Office and Exchange, and are looking for a better way than yet another rip-and-replace migration. It is also the IBM way of encouraging IT organizations who run earlier versions of Lotus Notes to check out all the operational cost savings available by implementing Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 and Lotus Symphony, the IBM no-cost office productivity suite.
For IBM Business Partners, this promotion is a reason-to-call and a time-sensitive reason-for-action. Use this promotion to talk to your customers about the benefits of upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5, including cost-saving features around data compression, attachment storage, and configuration optimization.
The promotion is a 25% discount off the regular entitled price on Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes (formerly Domino Web Access) and Domino Express products — either new licenses or Software Subscription and Support reinstatements. The promotion is available from May 12, 2009 until August 5, 2009. The promotion is valid worldwide, except in Japan.
This is not a pre-approved special bid. It is an actual published change to the price for Notes and iNotes.
Announcement Letter:
Americas Group Announcement Letter Number 309-533
Visit the 2Q promotion: Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes software page on IBM PartnerWorld for more details, including the list of products included and frequently asked questions.
Resources to help you sell
Bookmark the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino sales kit.
Let your customers take a Lotus Notes and Domino test drive.
Go to youtube.com/collaboration4you and view short vignettes of our clients talking about how IBM Lotus collaboration solutions have enabled them to work smarter together.
Put the Reduce Costs by Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 and Adding Collaboration 2.0 sales play to work for you.
IBM Global Financing makes it easier for your customers to buy with 0% financing on IBM Software.
Act fast! This promotion ends August 5, 2009
