The SDG services portfolio is extensive and has been designed with the needs of our Channel Partners in mind. No matter what your size, in-house capability or customer requirements, you have access to our skills, knowledge and resources, whenever and wherever you need it. From extra resources to meet capacity or skill shortages, through to managing stock holding and solving waste IT issues, we can ensure your business retains its competitive edge and help you to continue to exceed your customers’ expectations.
SDG services should be seen as an extension to your own businesses resources. SDG will always act on behalf of you and your business. Our technical, sales and customer services teams are well versed at liaising directly with end-user customers and will work to ensure a seamless integration between your specialists and ours.
It is easy to engage with SDG. From bespoke custom built solutions through to pre-packaged Quickstarts that can be easily re-sold, our services are an easy way to add value, and margin to your infrastructure, software and hardware sales.
Packaged Services: Quickstarts
As part of our value added services, SDG has created a range of pre-packaged consultancy services. Delivered as ‘Quickstarts’, these consultancy services are designed to act as a catalyst to enhance reseller capabilities, develop technical knowledge and provide you with marketing tools to profit from selling enterprise solutions.
Quickstarts are available for:
- Assessment
- Proof of Concept (PoC)
- Design
- Healthchecks
- Implementation
- Training
Consultancy
SDG offer a unique combination and expertise to help resellers meet the challenges and demand for technologies around virtualisation. SDG has a key role to play in enabling resellers to encompass the complexity, with an understanding of their customer’s needs, to deliver a best of breed solution.
Our reputation for providing high quality services that enable partners to adopt new technologies, engage with new solutions and win new customers has made us the ‘Go to’ distributor for both vendors and resellers.
It is easy to engage with SDG. From bespoke custom-built through to pre-packaged solutions, our services are an easy way to add value to your infrastructure, software and hardware sales.
Our consultancy services include:
- Application Delivery
- Business Continuity
- Desktop Virtualisation
- Network Optimisation
- Security Solutions
- Server Consolidation
- Storage Virtualisation
Commissioning and Deployment
SDG can provide access to an extensive range of Supply Chain services, which have been designed to assist resellers in managing their customer’s hardware supply and disposal requirements whilst minimising costs and disruption.
The simplicity of using just one distribution partner for your hardware fulfilment, configuration, bonding, delivery and recycling, makes managing and administering these services cost-effective and easy for you.
We have invested in state-of-the-art facilities, complex delivery processes and trained resources so you don’t have to. Designed to manage large projects, we have extensive capacity within all our facilities to ensure we can meet your customer requirements.
Implementation
SDG’s extensive consultancy team are certified to the highest level around virtual infrastructure. Our specialist implementation services act as an expansion of your solution integration services, and provide seamless integration between assessment, design, PoC and implementation.
SDG’s consultants work with the reseller to ensure high quality delivery, on time and to budget, to ensure you customer receives maximum return on investment. Our implementation services provide a flexible delivery method, blending best practice with expert guidance and advice throughout the process.
Environmental
We can help your customers to mitigate unnecessary costs, ensure sensitive data is protected while staying firmly and demonstrably within the law. Whether they want to refurbish, remarket or dispose of redundant IT, recycling is key to getting the most from their investment.
Our disposal facilities ensure all hardware is processed via the accredited Commissioning Centre to ensure customers meet the necessary regulations, and applying ‘best practice’ in the recycling processes ensures the safe, secure and compliant disposal of IT hardware.
Sales Acceleration Services
SDG’s Sales Acceleration Services have been developed to provide specialist services and resources to the reseller community and enable partners to augment their offerings by adding capacity and capability. SDG’s unique approach ensures that our customers can flex their capacity and resource requirements to suit their needs; and provides an essential foundation for resellers who are looking to grow their business and capability without incurring fixed costs. Our Business Acceleration services include:
- Channel Practice
- Channel Smart
- Channel Finance
- Channel Academy
- Channel Support
EMEA Business Solutions Centre
SDG have developed a network of Business Solution Centres. The Pan European facility provides a virtualisation demonstration capability offering partners and their end users access to leading edge technologies in a live environment.
The Business Solution Centre is a proven resource enabling partners to demonstrate, educate and evaluate the very latest infrastructure hardware and software solutions from the leading technology vendors.
SDG’s continued investment into the Business Solution Centres will allow partners to demonstrate real business challenges and solutions. Integrated into one Pan Europe facility, SDG will be able to demonstrate solutions across multiple countries.
The Business Solution Centres supports partners’ education, enabling partners to grow their solutions and service capabilities, accelerate sales cycles, benchmark new technologies and transfer knowledge.
