BeAware Corporate Sales Training

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Ascentive Product Partner Program Tour
Keep Your Employees Productive. Secure.
Accountable.
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BeAware Corporate Edition, by Ascentive

• About Ascentive
• Founded in 1998.
• Over 300,000 customers in 55 countries
• Designated a Company To Watch for the
  Enterprise Awards by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
• Ascentive currently has 4 patents pending, one of
  which has been fast tracked by the U.S.
  government due to potential anti-terrorism
  applications.
• Designer and publisher of successful software
  products featured in Newsweek, Forbes, The Wall
  Street Journal, Tech TV, NBC, and a variety of
  other media.

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BeAware Corporate Edition Version 6.5.
BeAware Corporate Edition Employee monitoring
thats powerful and easy to use. (Designed for 1
to 10,000 users.)
BeAwares wide-ranging features include the
ability to view or record web activity, emails,
chats, programs used, and much more.
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Real-time Monitoring Screen Captures
Studies show that the average employee wastes 2
hours of company time every day. Real-time
monitoring recorded screen captures help
eliminate distractions and improper behavior.
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View All Employee Activity.

• Ensure that your employees are utilizing their
  time effectively.

Works with - and goes far beyond - the partial
protection of a firewall, to provide a complete
monitoring solution.
Get a transparent view of all PC activity,
including chat, email and much more....
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Protect your organization.
BeAware Corporate Edition lets you
discover illegal or inappropriate activity.

• With BeAware Corporate Edition its easy to
• confirm the web sites your employees visit on
  company time.
• view activity reports
• for an individual employee.

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Private Time Option

• Create a more engaged work environment.
• Provide managers with peace of mind.
• Optionally allow employees the
  benefit of approved Private Time.

Private Time is an allotted period of unmonitored
computer access for employees to use during
breaks or before/after business hours.
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Remarkably simple to use.
Many software packages make a managers job more
complicated.
BeAware Corporate Edition gives companies the
best of both worlds Top-notch features and
easy-to-use technology.
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No-hassles installation

• BeAware is designed for a fast, easy,
  company-wide installation.

To install BeAware, simply select the PCs or
Workgroups you would like to monitor and then
choose your preferred monitoring options.
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BeAware Corporate Edition Version 6.5
Unleash your companys full potential!
Ascentive in the news
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Questions?
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Ascentive Partner Program

• Three tiers
• Platinum Can purchase direct, highest support,
  highest margin
• Gold Med support, medium margin
• Authorized Self-serve support, low margin
• Determined by commitment level
• By sales volume
• By level of training/certification
• By ability to support customers

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Leads Sales Assistance

• Pre-qualified leads.
• Automatically receive qualified leads prioritized
  by your region, program level and certification
  level.
• Deal Registration.
• Register your major deals to obtain pre-sales
  volume discounts and special account exclusivity.
• Volume Discount.
• Back-end rebates available for achieving volume
  requirements.
• Reseller Locator.
• Zip-code or map-based reseller lookup,
  prioritized by program and certification level
  (higher qualified resellers listed first to
  reward commitment).
• Not For Resale Units.
• NFR units are available at a significant discount
  to Partners and their employees, allowing you to
  benefit from Ascentive products at work and home.
  
• Joint Promotions.
• Participate in joint regional promotions
  including promotional e-mails, ads, events, etc.

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Effective Communications

• Monthly newsletter and periodic e-mails
• This is not spam, but valuable information
  requested by our partners. Includes special
  announcements, applicable alliance deals, updated
  QA and sales tools.
• Dedicated Partner phone numbers
• You can talk to the Partner Program Manager if
  you need to know anything about the Partner
  Program, have any problems or suggestions.

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Partner Program Portal

• Competitive Analysis.
• Review the latest matrix that shows how Ascentive
  products compare to the competition. Great
  resource if youre in a competitive bid.
• PDF Product Spec sheets.
• Download and print or e-mail to your client.
• Sales tools.
• Download professional sample ad, postcard or
  e-mail templates to jump start your own regional
  promotional campaign.
• White papers case studies.
• Great when a client needs some technical
  convincing.
• Sales presentations.
• Download, personalize and presentwith
  professionally created PowerPoint presentations
  you are ready to sell.
• Brand leverage.
• Review branding guidelines, logo usage and
  leverage the Ascentive brand to enhance your
  image.
• Reseller forum.
• Have a question about configuration, sales
  strategies, or overcoming objections? Then head
  over to the reseller forum to post your questions
  and view responses from resellers around the
  country.
• Market information.
• Learn market trends to determine which verticals
  to target, what they prefer and more.
• Personalized portal.
• View all your rebates, leads, registered accounts
  and personal information within your own
  personalized portal.

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Support Training

• FREE Training
• Get up to speed on the product, sales approach
  and installation within the self-paced FREE
  training. Many of these may feature streaming
  video.
• Pre-release Evals/Betas
• Dont be the last one to try out the new
  products. Order an eval or Beta to check out and
  get up to speed with before it hits the street.
  
• Certification
• Register for our certification program to become
  expert at all aspects of network storage. This
  additional qualification entitles you to
  additional margins to reward you for your
  commitment.
• Priority Reseller Tech Support
• Call and go straight to the top of the queue for
  quick tech support.
• Annual Partner Conference
• Attend the live event/Webinar, or view the
  presentations online with recorded video feeds
  and downloadable presentations.

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Partner Program Requirements

• Qualify as a VAR. Must qualify as a VAR with
• A mature business (minimum 2 years)
• A valid business license
• Extensive knowledge of the Ascentive market
  segment
• Business web address
• Two business references
• Register at www.Ascentive.com/var/

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Checklist

• Reseller Checklist
• Review the Certified Reseller Program
• Decide your anticipated commitment level
• Authorized
• Gold
• Platinum
• Complete the application
• Platinum level must also submit credit app, etc.
• Receive notification of approval
• Complete the appropriate product training
  certification test
• Start selling and making money!

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