109x Filetype PPTX File size 2.25 MB Source: www.vmware.com
2021 Award Categories Category Description Partner Digital Transformation Award Recognizes partners who are delivering digital transformation Applications close: solutions that help customers move to modern, cloud-centric March 3, 2021 architectures and/or advance the customer’s digital transformation journey. Award winners will be announced at EMPOWER in Partner Lifecycle Services Award Recognizes the partner’s success in moving customers to an spring 2021. ongoing partner-customer relationship from a project-based intermittent relationship. Partners can apply to more Partner Social Impact Award Recognizes partners who are positively impacting the world through than one award. A separate the use of VMware technologies. This does not have to be donation application is required for each category to the left. based. Partner Innovation Award Recognizes partners who are innovators and pioneers with the use of VMware products in combination with next-gen technologies, including 5G, edge, blockchain, cloud native and AI/machine Questions? Contact us: learning (ML)/cognitive/ advanced analytics, to lead the partnerawards@vmware.com market. Partner Value Award Recognizes partners for the growth of their business and/or their customer’s business through the use of VMware solutions. ©2021 VMware, Inc. 2 Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. Application Instructions Overview Award overview The 2021 VMware Partner Achievement Awards honor select VMware partners globally Additional award opportunities who By filling out this application, you may also be considered for additional have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation with the use of VMware products award opportunities, if applicable. Winner will be selected from all applications and solutions. submitted that best demonstrate the following: These awards are an acknowledgment of exceptional partner success and innovations. Award • Partner Collaboration Award – Winner will be recognized for recognition may help increase your company’s new business opportunities, lead to an working collaboratively with other solution providers, ISVs and vendors in enhanced the partner ecosystem to develop innovative/tailored/high reputation in the industry and/or drive revenue growth. customer value solutions for its customers. Submit your nominations for a variety of categories, all related to partner competencies, • Partner Industry Award – Winner will be recognized for technologies, entrepreneurial spirit, and global impact. Demonstrate how you are helping demonstrating deep domain expertise in a customer customers realize what's possible. story in one industry throughout its customer engagements. Winner will have an in-depth customer story with KPI-proven In partnership with IDC, award submissions will be reviewed and selected against the criteria for each award category. vertical, industry or functional (HR, manufacturing, marketing…) use case knowledge. All nominations must be submitted by 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST), March 3, 2021. • Partner of the Year Award – One overall winner will be recognized for delivering the most end-customer value and/or impact to a customer’s Why apply business. Examples of success include demonstrating a shift from on- • Differentiate your achievements and increase visibility with customers and prospects premises • Position your company for future business opportunities and growth to cloud and as a service, or impact to business processes (not just IT). Award recipients will be offered a variety of marketing and promotional opportunities, including: • Customized promotional materials for your use • Social media promotion highlighting your win and unique capabilities • Recognition at select VMware events 3 ©2021 VMware, Inc. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. Application Instructions Submission guidelines 1. Partners may nominate themselves for one or more award categories as they deem Finding your Partner ID relevant. It’s important to have your Partner ID on the award 2. The application must be written in English. submission to ensure eligibility requirements are met. 3. The entry submission deadline is Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at 11:59 PM PST. Follow these simple steps to find your Partner ID: No exceptions. • Log in to Partner Connect 4. Complete this award application with team members who can provide the details to meet • Find your Partner ID in the top-right side the award criteria. Contact your primary VMware Partner Representative/Contact for advice. 5. Submit your completed application and any supplementary materials to partnerawards@vmware.com and copy (CC) your primary VMware Partner Representative/Contact. Include a company logo (in color and black and white) in a vector file (.ai, .eps, .svg only). 6. The application will be approved by your primary VMware Partner Representative/Contact. 7. Awards cover products, services and solutions implemented during calendar year 2020 (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020). 8. All questions in the application must be complete and include current contact information for the partner contact. 9. Entrant must be an approved partner in good standing with VMware. 10.Submit a separate application for each of the five main award categories in which you wish to compete. Separate applications are not needed/accepted for the Partner of the Year, Collaboration, and Industry awards, as these winners will be selected based on the 5 primary award applications. 11.We recommend partners use as much content as possible to deliver a complete, comprehensive picture of their relevant customer success. KPI proof of success is essential to win. 12.Please do not create additional slides. If slides are added they will be deleted 4 ©2021 VMware, Inc. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. and not read. Partner Digital Transformation Award Detailed overview and instructions Overview Award criteria and scoring The Partner Digital Transformation Award recognizes partners who are delivering • Customer outcome stories with KPI proof points– Up to 55 points digital transformation solutions that help customers move to modern, cloud- • The number of digital transformation projects and new recurring revenue centric architectures and/or advance their digital transformation journey. contracts completed in 2020, or the percent of revenue tied to digital For example, a project could be a move to VMware Cloud Foundation™, the transformation projects completed in 2020 – Up to 15 points addition • Growth in digital transformation project revenue in 2020 compared to 2019 – of a new digital technology (such as AI/ML), or the implementation of an agile Up to 5 points development environment for a customer. The winning partner will deliver superior value to the customer by providing • List Master Services Competencies – Up to 10 points complete solutions that generate the outcome the customer is looking to achieve. • References – Up to 15 points The winner must describe how they integrated their own technology and capabilities with VMware and any third-party technology to deliver the solution(s). Describe how you advanced the customer’s digital transformation journey—where they were before and after the project. Provide details of the technologies, skills and expertise used to deliver the outcome, and describe the business value delivered by mentioning specific numeric KPIs. Please highlight any third-party participant, such as another partner or another vendor who were part of the solution highlighted in the customer story to make it complete (Partner Collaboration Award qualification). Discuss why this project stood out from all of your projects. Also, please highlight if this is an industry focused solution and identify the industry for qualification for the Partner Industry Award. ©2021 VMware, Inc. 5 Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. Partner Digital Transformation Award Application questions Insert Customer Logo here Important note: See the detailed award overview and instructions on slide 5 before you complete these sections. Please do not overrun the gray textbox or change the font size or style (around 400 words or less total). Insert Partner Customer overview Logo here Summarize the challenge the customer is facing that the partner was hired to resolve. Use this section to provide overview of solution. Type Response Here Challenge Detail the challenge the customer is facing that the partner was hired to resolve. Use this section to set up each element of the solution. Customer Company Profile Type Response Here Location City, State, Country Solution Detail each key area of work. Employees Numeric entry Type Response Here Region Americas, Results Please provide specific results the solution provided the customer. (highlight EMEA, APJ, Type Response Here applicable Worldwide region(s)) Solution/project Month Year go-live date Would you If yes, specify like to be industry and eligible to win industry use the case ______ Partner Indus try Award? ©2021 VMware, Inc. 6 Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc.
no reviews yet
Please Login to review.