iValue marks 5th anniversary with international partner conclave

iValue recently completed its 5th anniversary and celebrated this success with its key channel partners and OEMs, who contributed to the feat in a big way, through an international partner conclave, 'iRishtey 2013', at Srilanka.

The 3 day event saw iValue bringing in top 100+ partners and consultants and 12+ OEMs, who define and shape networking, security and storage industry, to jointly script the next big growth wave for all.

iValue, as of today, has relationships with 20+ premium technology partners and has done business with 400+ unique partners and 5500+ unique customers. The company is the fastest growing VAD growing at 5+ times market growth rates, consistently over the last 5 years states the company.

The key objective of iRishtey was to review the market, identify new growth opportunities for partners and arrive at 'collaborative Go to Market' approach required for ensuring profitable growth.

The event was inaugurated by partners from across North, West and South zones, lighting the lamp. There was large consensus amongst most partners to leverage on many of the niche and compelling offerings presented for effectively addressing customers business and IT challenges to ensure growth with profitably.

The highlight of the event was the panel discussion on the topic 'Next Profitable Growth Opportunities for Partners'. The topic invited healthy debate and discussion amongst panel members comprising OEMs and partners with the audience sharing their views and perspective.

The discussion ensured many take away such as focusing on customer, understanding customer business, ensuring balanced portfolio with niche and popular offerings along with services, leveraging cloud to address expanding market, focusing on service revenue, and more as new avenues for profitable growth.

Furthermore, iValue recognized and awarded Top national and regional partners who had contributed to its fast paced growth of 80% CAGR since inception. TCS and Secure Network Systems won the "Best partner award" at national level for National and Regional partner categories, respectively.

iValue also chose the momentous occasion to recognize and award M.Prabhakar Kini and Peter Theobald, for their outstanding contributions to the industry over the last several decades. Commenting on this, Ramanlal Panchal of TCS said "Thanks for everything. iRishey means increase and integrate relationship to grow."

As part of the celebrations, iValue also launched its maiden 'iRishtey Partner Program' for all its regional partners with rewards such as Renault Duster SUV, Renault Scala Car and Harley Davidson bikes. The program was a hit amongst participants and instantly captured their interest and imagination. The scheme has two variations - one for all categories of iValue offerings and another focused on select niche ones, with multiple rewards at various slabs starting as low as Rs. 50 lakh of annual business done with iValue, between Apr'13 and Mar'14. Many Partners were seeing zeroing on specific rewards as targets to be won during iRishtey 2014 summit through this compelling program.

Ashok Prabhu of ValuePoint Techsol said "Thank you hosting me at iRishtey 2013 which was an excellent show. The whole event will be memorable for me and I could not have asked for better." On similar lines, Peter Theobald of Softcell said "Congrats to you and your team for a wonderful event. Content wise I learnt a lot. I attended every and every session - despite having had very little sleep the previous night - because they were interesting indeed. Everything was crisp." Sharing similar sentiment were, Killol Virani of iBAHN and Binit Shah of TM Systems.

Ramanand, Management Consultant, concluded the event with an insightful presentation on success formula, business agility with a concluding remark, "You are only a decision away from success or greater success."