Dell EMC Channel Chief: Partners Are Embracing Our Full Portfolio

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How much of that movement have you seen where partners who want to advance through the Dell EMC program are pivoting away from selling products from HPE or Cisco or Lenovo and bringing that business to Dell EMC? Is that a common occurrence?

Yes. It's happening, and it's happening fast. People can see it. This is a different pulse, a different beat. It's moving fast, but you can also realize where there's opportunity. When you speak to the partners, and you walk them through where we're going as a company, and our commitment to the channel — we're $35 billion in the channel — we're growing faster than the market, but I still only have double-digit share of wallet. Look at the portfolio we have, the true end-to-end portfolio that I don't think anyone else in the industry has. We're investing aggressively. We're engaging better. The partners can just feel it. The only thing that can stop us being successful is us. We're going to execute. We're always watching the competition. We're watching every move they're making so we're not resting on our laurels. Far from it. There are lot of partners doing the training, expanding their competencies. There's a number of partners looking to M&A. We've got a clock going that says in a year's time this is where we want you to be, and it's accelerating some of that focus.