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Tech Data Names U.S. Sales, Marketing Leadership

Tech Data recently announced a new executive leadership team for its U.S. Sales and Marketing divisions. Pete Peterson was named Senior Vice President of U.S. Sales; Senior Vice President of U.S. Marketing Joe Quaglia assumed expanded responsibilities for all U.S. marketing operations and vendor partnerships; and Chuck Bartlett was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Tech Data’s Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division.


New techdata.com Home To Exclusive Tools

Tech Data has unveiled a stronger, more robust techdata.com, featuring a new design, enhanced navigation and customizable home page to help resellers more efficiently and easily conduct business every day. Additionally, the new techdata.com was built to support a new generation of exclusive e-business tools, including a special pricing and promotions search tool, and an intuitive software licensing SKU selector supporting all Tech Data software vendors. The new SKU selector and promo search tool will significantly surpass other contemporary tools in breadth and ease of use. To learn more, visit www.techdata.com.


Track Government Bids 24/7

MyGovBids—the first e-business tool designed for the new techdata.com—enables resellers to access their government bids online 24 hours a day. Resellers no longer have to spend time and resources to store, archive and track their active government bids. This online tool enables them to quickly search, access and review all government bids they created with Tech Data within the last 180 days. To learn more, visit www.techdata.com or contact Tech Data’s TechEDG Government Services team at 800-436-5353.


Complete, Unified Solutions

Resellers now have access to the full range of Avaya unified communications, contact center and data networking solutions through Tech Data’s Unified Communications Specialized Business Unit (SBU). Tech Data also continues to support the products and services added to the Avaya portfolio following the acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Avaya is a critical component of Tech Data’s unified communications strategy, and its Unified Communications SBU provides comprehensive, end-toend solutions from the world leaders in this space. To learn more, resellers can call Tech Data’s Avaya team at 800-228-7901, or visit www.techdata.com.


Diagnoses: Healthcare IT Success

Tech Data’s Healthcare Specialized Business Unit (SBU) continues to expand its solutions offering by partnering with gloStream, a leading developer of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management (PM) software applications. Tech Data will now distribute gloEMR and gloPM, gloStream’s flagship EMR and PM solutions, as stand-alone products or bundled, custom-configured solutions. gloStream is the latest addition to Tech Data’s EHR solutions portfolio, which already includes a partnership with Sage. To learn more, contact Tech Data’s Healthcare SBU by calling 800-753-4538, or by visiting the TechMed Web Resource Center at www.techdata.com.


Expertise On Display

Tech Data recently announced that 120 members of its Sales Division are Digital Signage Certified Experts (DSCE). That more than doubles the number of sales representatives and members of Tech Data’s Digital Signage and Projectors Specialized Business Unit (SBU) who have already earned this certification. No other distributor has as many DSCEs on staff to help IT resellers build and grow their digital signage practices. Tech Data also has partnered with the Digital Signage Certified Experts Group to help resellers obtain the skills they need to build strong, profitable digital signage businesses. The complete Digital Signage Experts training curriculum is available through TDEducation. To learn more about digital signage solutions at Tech Data, call the Digital Signage and Projectors SBU at 800-553-7935.


Honors And Awards

Tech Data recently received the following recognition:
Distributor of the Year, Product & Service, Fujitsu
Largest Revenue for a Distributor, Fujitsu
Distributor of the Year, Red Hat
Distributor of the Year, Samsung


TechSelect Gives Back

TechSelect continued its host-city charitable program during the TechSelect Spring Partner Conference in Miami Beach. The community made its largest donation yet to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami to help provide high school graduates entering college with complete computing solutions, including notebooks, software and wireless networking all valued at more than $12,000.