Just a few months past it’s third anniversary, the Agility Alliance continues to receive recognition as an innovative multi-sourcing delivery model for information technology (IT) and business process services.
In late February, the Agility Alliance received the 2008 Alliance Program Excellence Award, given by The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), the leading global professional association dedicated to alliance formation and practice. Winners of ASAP’s Alliance Excellence Awards exemplify alliance best practices, innovation and organizational impact, often developing novel approaches in achieving results through collaboration.
The award for Alliance Program Excellence acknowledged HP's systematic, world-class approach to forming and managing an integrated portfolio of major alliances, including Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox Corporation.
“We are honored to have the Agility Alliance recognized by ASAP,” said Greg Robins, director of global alliances for HP. “This honor further validates our commitment to providing best-in-class services to our clients. HP and our Agility Alliance partners have collaborated since its inception in October 2004 to offer the applications, business processes and IT solutions clients need to meet their business requirements,” Robins said.
HP is the only technology services company with a partnership portfolio centered around integrated execution, “changing the game” via multilateral partnering. The collaborations are more than just acknowledging business partners or vendors, they represent a commitment to jointly deliver solutions, with each partner having a stake in the process and the outcome. These relationships ensure tested technology alignment and an ability to deploy solutions rapidly.
The partnerships have achieved significant results in the past year:
Winning more business- Impacted more than $10 billion in TCV
- Contributed to 533 wins, including 68 new clients
- Contributed technology and services to more than 40% of HP's Playbook offerings
- Conducted more than 13,000 technology training days
- Embedded more than 200 partner employees in HP facilities
- Involvement from alliance partners in 83% of strategic deals
As the Agility Alliance continues it’s success as a unique coalition of market-leading technology and business services providers, clients and customers continue to benefit from this innovative effort to build and deliver seamlessly integrated enterprise-wide solutions. Moving forward, we hope to build on these achievements, combining market-leading technologies, thought leadership, and IT operational excellence to help enterprises work toward growth, productivity and innovation from a single business partner.