Building a Partnering Powerhouse

Building a Partnering Powerhouse

Suresh Ramani, President India West

Introduction to IAMCP

International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP)

What is the IAMCP?• Business network for Microsoft Partners ( Registered, Certified, Gold

Certified) as members

• A worldwide community for partnering– Established 1994– Close to 4,000 members– 40 countries– Almost 80 chapters– EUR 5 Billion last year in deals together (according to IDC)

• Specialized companies working together fulfilling customer needs– Specialists working together across competencies– Competitors helping each other with manpower


Our chapters in Europe today Bulgaria Estonia Finland France Germany Greece (starting up) Italy Lithuania Netherlands Norway Portugal Poland (starting up) Russia

Starting up more chapters in districts outside Moscow South Africa Slovakia (starting up) Sweden

Regional events in Gothenburg, Malmö, Sundsvall and Stockholm Switzerland United Kingdom

Regional events in Thames Valley (London), Southeast, Wales & Midlands Sub-chapter in Scotland


Our chapters in USA today Arkansas Atlanta Austin Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Columbus Dallas/Ft. Worth Detroit Deep South (Mississippi & Alabama) Florida-South Houston Iowa Jacksonville Kansas City Kentucky Las Vegas

Louisiana Minneapolis/St.Paul New Jersey New York City Northern California Oklahoma Orlando Philadelphia Portland Puget Sound San Antonio Southern California Southwest St. Louis Tampa Tennessee Utah Washington DC Western Michigan Wisconsin

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APAC Philippines India

LATAM Brazil Mexico Puerto Rico Colombia Argentina Ecuador

CANADA


IAMCP Mission

• To maximize the business potential of our members

– Partnering– Advocacy– Community– Education & Growth


IAMCP India Vision

• The Operating System of Partnering & Learning for Microsoft partners


IAMCP Value - GIVES

• Annual Membership Fee of Rs. 5000=00

• 3 hours every month for Member meetings


IAMCP Value - GETS• Largest Association of Microsoft Partners • Work with partners across

– Competencies– Geographies

• Increase Visibility– IAMCP International Website– IAMCP India Website– Facebook Page– Linkedin Group– Hooks into Microsoft websites (soon)


IAMCP Value - GETS

• Monthly learning sessions – Business– Technology

• Leverage relation with Microsoft– LIVE meetings exclusively for IAMCP– IAMCP works closely with Microsoft Worldwide– 70% of Gold Certified Partners are IAMCP members


Money Hai toh Honey Hai a.k.a. P2P Success stories


IAMCP Success Stories

• AD, Exchange Project in Delhi– Lead partner in West with limited MOSS expertise– Execution by partner in Delhi– Project completed

• Exchange Support in West India– Lead Partner had manpower crunch– Took temp help and resolved issue


IAMCP Success Stories

• BPOS implementation – Lead partner is Groove specialist– Implementation by partner who is SI

• Cisco implementation for SBSC in Mumbai – Lead partner is SBSC– Executed by Cisco certified partner– SQL Database work done by SQL focused partner

and the story gets better and better


Increase Visibility


IAMCP Home Page


Member Features


IAMCP IndiaWebsite

IAMCP on linkedin

IAMCP on Facebook


Increase Learning


IAMCP Keynotes

• Windows Azure• MS CRM Deep Dive• Groove• Tally• MS Exchange 2010• Magic of Productivity• Cyber laws & Cyber crime– on June 11 , 2010

Magic of Productivity…a superhit session


IAMCP India West Board

• Mr. Suresh Ramani, TECHGYAN

• Mr. Sanjay Mehta , MAIA Intelligence

• Mr. Chetan Shah , Xpress Computers

• Mr. Kartik Shah , Bitscape


Come & be a part of India’s Most Dynamic Partnering Ecosystem

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Contact Information

• Email: [email protected]

• Website : India www.iamcpindia.org

• Website : International www.iamcp.org

• Facebook : Search for IAMCP India West

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