Re: Benefits of choosing a Cisco gold partner company.

Default discount is 42% for gold, 40% silver, 38% premier.
But cisco has rights to change these discount ratios due to the total GPL of
any project.
I have seen more than 70%

Aytac Karameseoglu
CCIE#18102
www.aytackarameseoglu.com

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Wildmomo <ccie_lab_at_inetiq.com> wrote:

> Dude - OIP is only going to get you in the 40's % discount range.
>
> Unless Cisco is going to go direct or there is a special case they are not
> dropping or authorizing partners to go into the 60's % - and like I said
> if/when they do they are one-off special cases.
>
> Even on 100% competitor forklifts they don't drop that low.
>
> As a Gold or otherwise, you can play with the service numbers etc... to
> make it look like what you want, but I have seen partners stripped of
> various advantages for undercutting HW.
>
> As for talent, Cisco will guide you towards better partners, and I have
> seen them steer clear of other less performing partners. I am sitting in a
> few accounts now because of poor performance on two other regionals, and
> stellar performance on our part. You can also rely somewhat on the Customer
> Satisfaction numbers - all fives for multiple years running is usually a
> good sign. Cisco will also provide you reference accounts in some cases.
> Take a look at the technologies you are integrating as well. For instance,
> you will typically be better served by a Master UC or Master Security
> partner in those specialized areas because of the additional uplift to
> obtain and maintain the credential. But with that being said, I know a ton
> of independents out there that specialize in a few things, and they partner
> with each other. They can keep the service pricing down, and often enough
> they go to a big box like CDW for the HW number.
>
> If you are in the gov't space you have an AM that at least serves your
> agency/organization - they can get you more details and steer you in the
> right direction. If you do not know who that is, call Cisco's gov't guys
> and they will surely get you to the right people.
>
> r/w
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Radioactive Frog wrote:
>
> It finally boils down to the $$$. Gold partner gets an average of 60%
> discount from Cisco and its depends on how much they want to pass onto it
> to
> end customer.
> obviously you can get a very good engineer without a CCIE with non gold
> partners.
>
> my 000002 cents
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Mahmoud Nossair <nossair_at_mcs.gov.sa
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear Experts
> >
> >
> >
> > I am a consultant at a government site ( I am a CCNP engineer), while
> > evaluating a network proposals, one of the government employee asked me
> > why should we choose a company with Cisco Gold partner????
> >
> > I explained him about the support and other benefits, but I think my
> > answer in not enough to him.
> >
> >
> >
> > So anybody have a document about the benefits of Cisco Gold Partner to
> > the customers???
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
> > Mahmoud Nossair, CCNP, CCDP
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