Bengaluru: US-based Global networking company, Netgear has announced its ambitious growth plans in India by rolling out “Netgear Connect” Partner Training Program across the country.
Through this initiative Netgear seeks to connect with the growing fraternity of System Integrators across India and foster a community of tech savvy solution partners who in addition to promoting Netgear commercial business offerings would also work to integrate its disparate product lines into one cohesive end to end solution to satisfy every imaginable customer need, efficiently.
“Netgear has strong product lines across three verticals: Switching, Business Wireless & Storage Solutions. Netgear connect program will impart, train & educate partners to integrate and deploy better solutions at reduced cost. The training program is aimed at increasing Netgear’s penetration in Tier I & Tier II cities across India.” said Marthesh Nagendra, Country Manager, India and SAARC, Netgear Technologies.
In an interview with Channel Times this month, Nagendra mentioned about the 22 city training program to empower the channel to integrate and sell our product offerings.
The program will be conducted across 22 metro and non metro locations in India between April and Sep’17, the “invite only” partner training program is designed to empower over 300 Netgear authorized system integrators and channel business partners in India and bring them up to date on the company’s newest innovations, technologies and solutions for Indian markets.
The multi-city training program will be kicked off on April 18 at Chennai. This will be followed by programs at Cochin and Bangalore on 20th and 25th April, respectively. At the full day training events, partners will attend in-depth technical training sessions and participate in technology discussions around Netgear 10G, PoE, Cloud Deployments, and Mobile App Manageability solutions.
“At Netgear today we are looking beyond products, and offering end to end value added solutions across customer applications” said Manab Mallick, India Technical Head, Netgear Technologies. “The channel training program is designed to transition our partner capability towards this new direction and empower them with customer application insights, as well as Netgear innovations and technologies that serve those means.”