Technology distributor Tech Data Corporation, Clearwater, Fla., has introduced its StreamOne Solutions Store, an end-to-end supply chain platform that the company says “revolutionizes how the channel sells and distributes software and cloud-based services.”
StreamOne Solutions Store is the second offering in Tech Data’s StreamOne platform, following the introduction of the company’s Software License Selector. The StreamOne Solutions Store will provide ISVs and cloud providers with a platform to present, market, and sell software as a service, electronic software distribution, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and other products to more than 60,000 VARs. StreamOne Solutions Store will officially launch in the fall of this year.
According to Joe Quaglia, Tech Data’s senior vice president of U.S. marketing, “StreamOne Solutions Store gives the ISV and cloud community a previously unavailable route to market in the channel, while providing VARs an easy way to profitably access, market, and sell software and cloud-based solutions to their customers.”
The StreamOne Solutions Store, available on www.techdata.com, will enable VARs to search and select software titles and cloud service offerings in a single platform while providing a way to resell, provision, and bill their end-user customers. The StreamOne Solutions Store will also be made available as a white-labeled offering, enabling VARs to establish a customized solutions store on their own Web site. The rebranded storefronts will launch in the spring of 2012.
“We have relationships with thousands of ISVs, and this provides us with a unique opportunity to help the ISVs in our community to launch their products and services into the reseller channel in a scalable way,” says Cindy Bates, vice president of U.S. SMB and distribution at Microsoft.
The StreamOne Solutions Store will support both license and cloud provisioning across many consumption models.† Tech Data will also offer electronic software download and license key delivery, designed to speed the fulfillment process for perpetual, on-premise licensing sales.
StreamOne powers Tech Data’s TDCloud program, a set of products, services, and tools designed to help VARs deliver solutions in private, public, or hybrid cloud architectures. ISVs and cloud providers may nominate themselves for distribution through the StreamOne platform at www.techdata.com/streamone and fill out the online application.
