Agility Recovery Solutions Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Five-Star Partner Rating
March 29, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Chris Goodnight, Agility Recovery Solutions
704-927-7931, chris.goodnight@agilityrecovery.com
Maureen Park, Everything Channel
516-562-5942, maureen.park@ec.ubm.com
Agility Recovery Solutions Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Five-Star Partner Rating
Agility’s Partner Alliance Recognized as Exceptional by Leading Channel Authority
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – March 29, 2010 – Agility Recovery Solutions, a premier business continuity and disaster recovery company, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America’s top information technology (IT) vendors for its Partner Alliance program. Additionally, the Partner Alliance was recognized with a five-star rating representative of an exceptional program.
Agility Recovery Solutions’ Partner Alliance program was awarded a Five-Star recognition in Everything Channel’s 16th annual 2010 Partner Program Guide (PPG), acknowledging its commitment and strength of its programs for reseller partners, which include IT integrators, technology solution providers and consultants.
Agility Recovery developed the Partner Alliance program to offer a channel reseller program that enables its partners to develop a consistent and profitable income stream. The channel reseller program not only helps Agility partners provide a full portfolio of disaster recovery and business continuity offerings to their clients, but also helps strengthen relationships through rich and diverse value-added solutions.
“We are honored to receive the award and distinction bestowed upon us by Everything Channel,” said Bob Boyd, CEO Agility Recovery Solutions. “It is our core belief that every business should have access to affordable and comprehensive recovery solutions, and our Partner Alliance program provides a network of quality resellers to reach these businesses. Together, we can ensure businesses will be up and running quickly and efficiently to provide peace of mind to customers during hectic times.”
Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channel’s research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors’ responses to in-depth questions about their partner programs in the five elements of sales support, partner profitability, partner ecosystem development/management, partner communication/marketing, and demand generation.
To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four categories based on company size (Enterprise, Midsize, Small and Emerging). Questions from each section were scored individually and weighted appropriately. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. The 5-Star rating is bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on company size.
“We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies, program opportunities, and information on the hottest new program offerings,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “The quality of a technology vendor’s partner program determines how profitable its partners will be. For their commitment to their business partners and their efforts to build quality programs, we congratulate those recognized as this year’s Five-Star Partner Program winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel.”
The PPG list and those companies recognized as five-star will appear in the March 29 issue of CRN magazine and online at www.Channelweb.com.
About Agility Recovery Solutions
Agility Recovery Solutions, a former division of GE, has over 20 years of disaster recovery and business continuity experience. Since 1989, Agility has provided comprehensive, packaged recovery solutions, consulting services and testing options to businesses across North America. Agility revolutionized the disaster recovery and business continuity industries by developing a simple, cost-effective and easy-to-use recovery solution called ReadySuite. Over the past two years, Agility has responded to 560 disaster events and performed over 700 member tests.
About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company. Through its “Complete Technology Channel Solution,” Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth
About United Business Media Limited
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. UBM’s 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.
