Our ANS Partner Summit 2023 round-up
On Wednesday 6th December, we had the pleasure of welcoming our fantastic Partners to our Manchester HQ for our first ANS Partner Summit 2023!
The day was filled with informative and thought-provoking sessions including our strategy and vision, delving into our broad and innovative product portfolio, understanding the latest market insights, predications for 2024, and most importantly; the ANS Partner Programme and how we’re building long-lasting partnerships by pushing boundaries and shaping the future of technology with our Partners.
Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry! We’ve summed up some key highlights from the day.
1. Staying ahead of the curve with digital transformation
With PSTN switch-off, the Full Fibre roll-out, and persistent talk around A.I, that is driving customers to look deeper at what is available to them, we’ve seen real appetite for digital transformation services in the channel. At ANS, you can create your perfect portfolio and offer our broad range of products to your customers. We delved into various product areas:
Cloud
Understanding digital transformation; “Digital transformation is the integration of digital technologies and strategies across an organisation to fundamentally change how it operates and delivers value.”
Businesses within the channel are looking to make the move to cloud services, and are seeking a partner to help them with the transition.
ANS eCloud is the only Sovereign accredited cloud platform available in the channel. ANS eCloud utilises our enterprise-grade UK based data centres and infrastructure to deliver a true public cloud experience without the need for advanced expertise. Our platform offers end-to-end integration through a robust API and easy to understand, static pricing to provide a simplified experience for channel partners and your customers.
And, we’ve launched our comprehensive eCloud whitelabel toolkit so you have all the collateral, resources you need to support and help you grow.
Digital
Unlocking the power of dynamics; The Copilot advantage
For anyone using Outlook, Teams, and the productivity apps your customers use today, Dynamics is the logical next step. Our solutions connect people, data and processes, streamlining operations, enhancing collaboration and enabling data-driven decisions that drive growth. We’ve taken the complexity out of Dynamics to make it easy for our partners to sell and deliver. We can deploy the platform in days, giving you a cloud-based CRM tailored to your needs and goals whilst retaining the billing and customer relationship. By helping our partners take ownership of the Business Applications workload, we prevent your competitors from gaining an advantage.
Copilot will revolutionise the workplace, similar to how Microsoft Teams has saturated the market over the past few years. Copilot functionality will be utilised by users like second nature, just like how we utilise spell check on a daily basis today.
Copilots within Microsoft’s Business Apps allows resellers to deepen customer relationships and enhance performance in sales, marketing, and service through Dynamics.
Security
Modern cyber security skills gap “Cyber Security resources are still 3.5m short globally; Gartner recommend to partner and build capability”.
Security is more important than ever with a 400%+ increase in cyber-attacks last year alone. Attacks are getting more and more sophisticated every day.
Business alignment is one of the biggest bridges for translating how business assets are protected against the changing landscape risks, but turning this into a business opportunity through increased uptime, customer trust and improved productivity.
With some of the best experts in this field and the best security offering in the channel, ANS can help partners with our security offering, and drive customer knowledge and guidance through workshops, events and community alignment.
Data & AI
2023, the year of the ‘AI’ Boom; “87% of organisations believe AI will give them a competitive edge.”
AI is going to happen to you whether you like it or not. It won’t take your job, but the people that know how to maximise its utility will be the ones that benefit the most. AI will reinvent every industry. Our predictions for 2024 are unification of Apps, Partners, and Vendors. It’s absolutely crucial to work with vendors that have the tech, skill, and expertise in this.
The time is now to get involved or prepared to be left behind. We have the expertise to guide you, and help you understand the various copilots that are available and how they work with the products in your ecosystem. Want to understand where you are in your journey? Get in touch and our experts can help.
2. Getting the most with our partner enablement
At ANS, we’re proud to be supporting our partners and their end customers with all things digital transformation; cloud, digital, and security.
From a dedicated account manager that will act as one of your own, to our intuitive partner portal where you can manage and track everything you need, leveraging 25+ years’ of our own expertise from tech to support, and our sales and marketing resources – we’ve got you covered!
We’re continually building on our marketing resources and are happy to share our eCloud whitelabel toolkit for our partners to lift and shift as their own. All campaign assets are provided in a number of formats, so you can easily personalise with your own logo. This should be in your inboxes now, if not and you’d like to get involved, please email [email protected] and the team can help.
3. ANS is the leading digital transformation partner in the channel
Many within the channel are seeking to make the transition from fixed line connectivity and telephony to cloud-based services and are looking for a partner that can help them on that transition pathway. We’re building on 25 years’ experience of making cloud simple for our partners and their customers, and we’re committing to investing even further because this is an area where we can deliver significant value to our partners.
The channel as we know it, is at a critical juncture. With Full Fibre rolling out at pace, and price points being driven down with scale, Partners should seize the opportunity to immerse themselves in new markets such as cloud, security and digital to bring more value to their own business and their customers.
We’re committed to making sure you build the perfect proposition for your customers every time, supported by our knowledge and expertise, both in digital transformation and the channel.
Our reseller offering covers the full ANS product stack across, Cloud, Security & Digital. From our own eCloud & Security solutions to MSP opportunities with Dynamics 365, Azure & our 24x7x365 UK Based SOC.
If you’re interested, or would like to find out more about our Partner Programme, please see here or get in touch at [email protected].
We ended the evening with festive drinks, food and rockaoke – with some brilliant performances by our partners! It was an unforgettable event, and we can’t wait for ANS Summit 2024.