APPDirect Road Show
Recently, our strategic technology partner, AppDirect, hosted an informative roadshow event in LA to dive into the future of the technology landscape and demonstrate how their intuitive marketplace can help accelerate and simplify business for customers. To learn more about the background of AppDirect, read our prior blog here. A simple way to look at how the AppDirect Marketplace operates, is to think about what Amazon has to offer for the consumer world. People use Amazon to buy all kinds of products, in a self service fashion, and receive those goods within days. In the same way, the marketplace is a subscription-based commerce platform built for merchants, providing an easier way to buy technology services/solutions. AppDirect solves the complexity of the tech commerce supply chain by simplifying the experience of finding, selling, and managing tech solutions for customers. Below I will highlight some of the easy ways customers can start leveraging the AppDirect marketplace today.
Almost all companies at this point are leveraging one of the three main hyperscale clouds (Microsoft Azure, Google, AWS) and have moved away from an on premise infrastructure model. Hyperscale Link Whether it is for hosted email, infrastructure, data, or file servers, every customer is utilizing one or more of these hyperscalers to some capacity. Depending on who you are partnered with and the way you are procuring these services, may affect your overall experience. Support may be minimal or next to nothing, you may have difficulties with cost management, and experience struggles to add or remove licenses, etc. AppDirect is both a Microsoft and Google partner, in addition to having a direct agreement with AWS.
Here are some key benefits for why you should consider transferring these services onto AppDirect:
Pay the same cost or less and instantly have access to the entire marketplace portfolio to start buying other SaaS Solutions.
Gain the engineering and technical support from one of the largest technology brokers in the nation, plus the personal relationship from Conectrix.
Given a portal and free cloud checker tool to better manage cloud expense, utilization, and reduce costs monthly.
In most cases, making this change is a simple billing transfer and the customer receives one MSA through AppDirect and then one invoice going forward.
To further bolster the argument for why partnering with AppDirect through Conectrix is a good idea, consider all the different various SaaS Solutions your company is using today. You may be thinking about Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, Okta, Cloudflare, Mimecast, Docusign, and the list goes on. Most customers purchase these services directly from the vendor, or via a 3rd party reseller such as CDW or SHI. With AppDirect, all this software can be purchased directly out of the marketplace in a self-service style. This means you add licenses to an existing service or purchase new software anytime you want, without needing to go through anyone else. As mentioned above, all these vendors and software are under the single MSA from AppDirect, with one invoice providing total vendor consolidation.
To learn more about AppDirect and how Conectrix partners with them, contact us below.