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IBM PartnerWorld is incorporating a checks and balance system to ensure IBM Business Partners maintain accurate profile information in the PartnerWorld Profiling System (PPS) database. This database is key to you as it helps determine what benefits and resources you, as a Business Partner, are entitled to access in PartnerWorld. Your profile in PPS also helps to determine your company’s eligibility to receive leads from IBM and is used to accurately send you only articles that are geared to the products and services that interest you.

Beginning in May, if you have not updated your profile within the previous nine months, you will receive an e-mail from IBM PartnerWorld North America with instructions on how to update. A reminder e-mail will be sent to you on a monthly basis until your profile is updated. You will also receive a pop-up reminder when you log on to PartnerWorld until your profile is updated.

Questions about this process can be directed to PartnerWorld Contact Services and pwcs@us.ibm.com or 800.426.9990.

The Internet Lead Generator (ILG) tool is designed to help IBM Business Partners build a Web-based lead capture “back end” for their e-mail and direct mail campaigns. The tool can be an effective complement to the popular IBM Campaign Designer tool, which enables Business Partners to build marketing materials using IBM templates for their co-marketing campaigns. In addition to letting Business Partners build the Web landing page and registration form for the campaign, the ILG tool sends automatic “thank-you” fulfillment e-mails when prospects register for offers, and automatically notifies the Business Partner with prospect information.

Sign up for the tool, and learn more.

The IBM Software Group Lead-With Midmarket Portfolio includes the hottest products for IBM Business Partners to succeed in the midmarket. The presentation focuses on the following topics:

• Why the midmarket is important
• What Lead-With Midmarket Portfolio offering “readiness” provides to IBM Sellers
• What offerings are the Lead-With Portfolio and how these align to customer pain points
• What go-to-market assets are available for these offerings for leverage by Business Partners
• How Business Partners can capitalize on the Lead-With Portfolio to increase midmarket results

We’d like your feedback on what is working today and how IBM and Business Partners can deliver additional business value to the midmarket.

Date: May 28, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET

Register and receive details via e-mail.

Join this call to get additional details about sales strategy relating to pricing, migration, and positioning for the newly announced Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 release.

Improve your upsell commissions by getting a better understanding of the new, advanced features of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and how to sell them. Three important topics will be covered:

• Changes to pricing and packaging
• Migration strategy for “TPC for Fabric” customers
• Important selling comparisons between the new Storage Resource Agent and the traditional agent

Time will be allowed for Q&A, and replay will be available.

Date: May 11, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m. ET

Join us for the call on May 11th.

IBM Information On Demand solution portfolios provide an integrated approach to leveraging information assets involving skills, methodology, information, and technology.

After you complete this session you should be able to:

• Initiate meaningful conversations with your clients about how they can easily leverage information to better implement innovative business initiatives using IBM Information On Demand solutions.
• Differentiate the IBM Information On Demand approach from the competition.
• Know where to find the information and resources you’ll need to close business.

Date: May 14, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET

Register for this call.

Information On Demand 2009
October 25 – 29, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada

Access the latest information about Information On Demand (IOD) 2009 via the hottest social media outlets. Choose your favorite social media vehicle(s), and begin networking with IBMers and fellow IBM Business Partners. Find out how this conference can help you and your clients achieve key business objectives while building a smarter planet.

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

YouTube

Register for the conference.

Entice new customers to the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 platform with this exciting 2Q promotion. Customers get 25% off new licenses of Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes software. Let existing customers with lapsed Software Subscription and Maintenance know we want them back as they too qualify for a 25% discount on Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes reinstatement purchases. Now is the perfect window of opportunity, as Microsoft customers consider their limited and challenging options on the Microsoft Exchange roadmap during Microsoft’s fiscal Q4. Hurry — this offer ends August 5, 2009.

Learn more details.

Developed in partnership with the editorial staff of Wikipedia, a new encyclopedia article entitled “WebSphere Portal” is now available. Written to conform to Wikipedia’s stringent content guidelines, the new article can be found via Wikipedia search, or by clicking on the WebSphere Portal link within the WebSphere software article on Wikipedia.

Read the new article today.

The LotusLive suite of offerings, including LotusLive Meetings and LotusLive Engage, are now part of the IBM Software Value Incentive (SVI) program.

SVI is an innovative incentive program, applicable to multiple Business Partner types. Its design is based on the feedback from hundreds of Business Partners worldwide.

Eligible Products are those products ordered under the Passport Advantage program, either Passport Advantage or Passport Advantage Express, and that IBM has designated as ‘New License’ part numbers.

More information regarding SVI and other eligible products.

During this session, you will be introduced to a Lotus Collaboration 2.0 sales approach, designed to help your prospects get a sense of how they can cut costs and improve productivity through the use of collaborative solutions. Hear about three specific areas that you and your clients can explore. Through demonstrations, see how Lotus solutions can specifically be used to address these needs.

Additionally, you will be given assets in the form of presentations, speaker’s notes, and self-running videos to use with your customers to identify collaboration opportunities.

Date: May 21, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. ET

Register and receive Web conference information.

We want your stories. We want to feature your successes. The process is very simple.

Begin by completing the customer reference submission form on PartnerWorld. Once submitted, it becomes part of the reference process. The program manager sends the reference profile to you for review and approval before publishing. There is a place in the form for you to indicate the type of reference the customer is willing to be (speak to media or analyst, do a case study, etc.). If it is tagged that they are willing to do a case study, the program manager captures it and reviews to determine if it merits a case study.

However, if you have a customer that is willing to do a case study and has a great story, you can directly contact Debora Cole at debora_cole@us.ibm.com to move your case study forward.

Complete the form on PartnerWorld.

Stay informed about the latest IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Partner news, events, benefits, and resources available from PartnerWorld. Subscribe to our Lotus for IBM Business Partners RSS news feeds for a quick and easy way to learn about our newly added and significantly updated Web content.

Subscribe now.

IBM Lotus Foundations Branch Office is an on-premise business appliance and a complete solution that enables businesses to leverage Lotus Domino skills and data already available at the head office. It helps companies deploy a complete IT infrastructure in under 30 minutes, with robust collaboration capabilities for branch offices of up to 500 employees.

In this workshop, you can gain hands-on experience with Lotus Foundations Branch Office. Domino administrators can learn how to manage Lotus Foundations Branch Office deployments remotely from the head office. Lotus Domino administrative experience is required. There is no charge to attend.

To enroll, select the desired date and location.

In these challenging times, you know that success is dependent on helping customers — including midmarket companies — reduce costs and improve efficiency. Our collaboration solutions have immediate bottom line impact. We would like you, our Lotus Business Partners, to join our 2Q Forum webcast. We will outline the joint actions we can take to drive successful selling in today’s environment that will have immediate impact on 2Q.

The agenda includes:

• Selling strategy in today’s environment – a quick review of Lotus cost-busting plays and value propositions
• Extreme qualification – what it is and how it works
• Resources we’re dedicating to help you and how you engage them
• Tools you can use today – presentations, ROI / TCO calculators
• Preview – Lotus Value Selling Workshops
• Expert panel – Q&A / suggestions

Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET
Dial: 888.324.3614
Passcode: Business Partner Forum

Join the LotusLive eMeeting.

IBM Rational Software Conference
May 31 – June 4, 2009
Orlando, Florida

Help your clients achieve desired business outcomes in these challenging economic times. The IBM Rational Software Conference provides real answers to some of the biggest business challenges. This event is a tremendous opportunity for you and your customers to discover real ways to drive measurable business differentiation while lowering the cost of software and systems delivery.

Additional benefits:

• Work with your clients to expand current initiatives and identify new ones.
• Build your skills and get certifications. Select from more than 400 sessions and 20+ hands-on technical workshops.
• Leverage industry best practices and demos.
• Increase your visibility through sponsorship.
• Unlimited networking opportunities.

Learn more and register today.

IBM Business Partners who have 10 or more of their customers register for the Rational Software Conference are eligible to receive one complimentary registration to attend the event. In addition, your customer can receive US$100 off their registration fee.

• Business Partners who have 10 or more customers register with code BHDD – by Friday, May 15, 2009 – will receive one complimentary registration to attend the conference.
• Customers must reference Business Partner company as a referral when registering.
• Business Partner customers who register with the promo code BHDD will save US$100 on their registration fee.
• To receive the free pass after 10 registrations have been completed, contact the registration manager, mailto:rsdc@experient-inc.com

Register today.