HP & Microsoft EMEA Alliance Partner Newsletter
November 2012

In this Newsletter

The NEW FLP Partner Portal 

HP & Microsoft Private Cloud Portal

HP Helps SMBs Modernize IT Infrastructure

Case Study: Netrisk Deploys Unified Communications

UC&C Solutions with Microsoft Lync

Windows Server 2012 Serves up Great Features, Customer Savings, and Partner Opportunities

HP Publishes Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services RA

FLP Sales and Technical Web Seminar - Best of Bootcamp

HP Discover 2012

Introducing the HP Partner Concierge

Alliance Updates

HP & Microsoft are Excited to Introduce the NEW FLP Partner Portal  

HP and Microsoft are excited to introduce to you the new FLP Partner Portal with the new look and feel of the latest changes to the HP and Microsoft brands. The new portal also features

• Worldwide source for channel partners of HP/Microsoft solutions resources
• Easy navigation to solution, training and marketing materials

·       Latest HP and Microsoft solution news

·       Provides ability for channel partners to customize their profile and get notifications about the latest HP and Microsoft solution information most relevant to their business

Check out the new partner portal today: http://emea.hpmspartners.com/

HP & Microsoft Private Cloud Portal

Have you checked out the new HP & Microsoft Private Cloud Portal? This is a great resource for additional information on the joint private cloud solutions, services to help organizations transform their infrastructures to the private cloud, private cloud tools and a way to find and register for local events.

Featured Articles:

Learn more! Visit the Private Cloud Portal: http://hpmicrosoftprivatecloud.com/

HP Helps SMBs Modernize IT Infrastructure

Netrisk sees Revenue Multiplied in Direct Sales by Deploying Unified Communications Solution

Objective
Implement a unified communications and collaboration platform to integrate all customer care and internal communications, increase efficiency, open new sales channels and boost cross-selling.

Approach
Conducted a strategic review of Hungarian operations and approached several vendors specifying various solution criteria

Single Unified Platform
The HP/Microsoft Unified Communications solution comprises an HP ProLiant DL180 rack mounted server, an Audiocodes Mediant 1000 VoIP media gateway, 70 HP Networking 4000 series Lync phones and the Microsoft Lync telephony platform with Geomant Contact Expert for Lync contact centre and customer care software.

With all features unified on a single platform, compared to traditional telephony vendor solutions, the system is ideally suited for inbound and outbound operations, self-service, voice and multimedia while CTI capabilities are located in one compact system. Unlike conventional IP telephony-based solutions which require special gateways, cards and call manager hardware, the HP/Microsoft solution needs no special hardware and implementation only takes a couple of days. The platform offers industry standard reporting and conventional financial services industry processes.

“By selecting the HP solution with Microsoft Lync for telephony, PBX and contact centre operations, we gained valuable time and managed to consolidate all system components on one HP industry standard server,” comments Pál. “Throughout the project, Geomant helped to design and customise the solution, delivered invaluable training and go-live support with minimal business disruption. We experienced a smooth transition in time for our main end-of-year campaigns.”

Read the full Case Study here and to learn more about HP Unified Communications with Microsoft Lync, go to hp.com/go/UCC.

UC&C Solutions with Microsoft Lync

Go to Why Microsoft for competitive comparisons, case studies, and white papers.

Windows Server 2012 Serves up Great Features, Customer Savings, and Partner Opportunities

Windows Server 2012 offers your customers—big and small—the same server features that power some of the world's largest data centers. Windows Server 2012 delivers hundreds of new features and enhancements spanning virtualization, networking, storage, user experience, cloud computing, automation, and more.

• Visit our Ready To Go portal and leverage our Partner Launch-in-a-Box toolkit
• Leverage our new one-stop deployment website with updated scenarios for Windows Server 2012 and Azure
• Visit the Windows Server portal on the MPN to learn more
• See updated pricing and licensing information in the Private Cloud whitepaper, and Private Cloud Economics and Server Virtualization calculators

HP Publishes Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services RA

Review the latest reference architecture from HP featuring Windows Server 2012 VDI capabilities. Targeting small and medium business (SMB) customers, the reference architecture describes the components needed to assemble a high-performing, cost-effective solution.

Are your customers thinking about deploying VDI on Microsoft Remote Desktop Services? Read "HP Client Virtualization SMB Reference Architecture for Windows Server 2012."

FLP Sales and Technical Web Seminar - Best of Bootcamp: Overview of the recent HP for Microsoft Bootcamp (ENG-MEA) - FLP008 (Previously Recorded)

Information

Title:                     HP & Microsoft – Best of Bootcamp

Level:                   100

Delivery time:       60 minutes (45 min. presentation, 15 min. Q&A)

Language:            English

Target Audience:  FLP Partners - Pre-Sales/Technical Consultants

HP Discover 2012 – The time is now!

Only a few short weeks away, Discover Frankfurt promises to be unforgettable. The countdown continues and soon we'll hear the sounds of hammering at the Messe as we ready the technologies and exhibits you'll get to explore at the show. Now is the time to secure your registration, select your sessions, and finalize your travel arrangements.

Grab some inspiration from industry leaders and get the inside scoop on what’s coming from HP.

Dive deep into technology and get your hands on how to bring HP solutions to your environment.

Make connections with peers, meet the experts, and share your best practices face to face.

Register today!

Introducing the HP Partner Concierge

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Upcoming Events

HP Discover 2012
    December 4^th – 6^th – Frankfurt,  
    Germany

Partner Hybrid Cloud Solution Selling Event
    December 11^th - Switzerland
    January 16^th - Vienna, Austria

IT Camp: Windows Server 2012 & Hybrid Cloud Onsite Events
    Microsoft Deutschland GmbH -   
    Germany
    December 7^th, 13^th, 19^th

Windows 8 Bootcamp
    December 20^th – Van der Valk –    Houten, Netherlands

Resource Links

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HP MSFT Private Cloud Portal

HP/Microsoft Frontline Resource Guide

HP/Microsoft Frontline Partner Plaque

HP/Microsoft Frontline Training and Readiness

FLP Store

Call for Customer Wins

The Frontline Partnership is seeking from you, our partners, customer wins highlighting Virtualization/Private Cloud or Microsoft Lync.

If you have a win to share, please feel free to contact the FLP Management Team. If your win is accepted by HP and Microsoft, we will pay to write it up as a published case study.

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