Partner Program

As a solution innovator in Business Analytics and Decision Support Systems since 1995, Vanguard Software Corporation offers you the unique opportunity to Partner and sell the first and only Enterprise Modeling and Simulation platform. Adding Vanguard solutions to your repertoire will help you provide your customers with the best in Optimized Business Performance.

Teaming with Vanguard will enable you to offer your customers high-value solutions to automate processes from production scheduling to customer support. With Vanguard at your side, your customers will benefit from powerful strategic capabilities that will help them more effectively handle project costing, risk management, and resource allocation. You and your customers’ businesses will grow faster and stronger using solutions that bring significant quality, reliability, and speed even to routine business decisions.

Why you should Partner with Vanguard Software

Vanguard Software Corporation’s Partner Program is designed to fit a wide range of relationships, such as:

• Consultants who provide their clients with solutions;
• Individuals or organizations who conduct training courses and seminars;
• Technology partners who integrate solutions with current offerings; and
• Software wholesalers and distributors who offer complete software solutions.

At Vanguard, we understand the value of having Partners. Our Partners play a critical role in our continued success by helping us meet the diverse needs of customers worldwide.

But it’s not just about us. The Vanguard Partner Program is designed to enable you to grow your business while you help us grow ours. We will provide you with innovative tools and the ability to offer your customers unmatched management solutions. In addition, we will give you the training and support necessary to carry you through to successful sales. Our support will continue as you court new business relationships and add new customers - all with varying challenges and solution requirements.

Vanguard’s Value Proposal

Working together, Vanguard and its Partners compliment each other. We jointly meld customers with solutions that satisfy their business needs from simple models to very complex systems. And, as we strive toward the same goal, Vanguard offers these valuable features:

Win-Win Partnership: The Vanguard Partner Program is committed to a mutually beneficial relationship. It is designed to provide Partners with a predictable stream of revenue, while helping build the Vanguard brand.

Visibility: For qualified Partners, there is exposure to potential customers, Vanguard marketing communications, industry-specific conferences, and inclusion in white paper articles. In addition, Partners are able to realize repeat sales as various departments throughout companies see the power, value, and competitive potential of Vanguard’s solutions.

Sales Support: Your success is our success. The top performers within the Vanguard Partner Program are given preferential exposure to the Vanguard sales organization. We will provide input and guidance into your business plan, as well as sales training in specific target market segments. We will assist you in your efforts to secure clients by helping to develop sample models and guiding you through software demonstration techniques and methods for presenting solutions.

Flexibility: The Vanguard Partner Program meets varying levels of Partner needs such as technical support, sales, marketing, training, and education. Vanguard’s program offers tailored benefits aligned with the type of partnership and commitment level you desire. Vanguard will qualify and close referrals or you can control every aspect of a sale and service.

Build Your Value with each Customer

Through consultative services and custom development and/or direct software sales, you can provide your customers with these key business benefits:

• Improved Profitability: Show your customers how they can simulate operation functions, demand forecasts, cash flow balances, and numerous financial impacts across their companies.

• Risk Management: Help your clients mitigate risk before an event occurs. They can roll up risks and uncertainties across projects or the entire company.

• Dynamic Strategic Planning: Give customers the ability to simulate business situations in a virtual world so that they can improve decisions in the real world. Apply business models, project models, portfolio models, etc.

• Forecast in Real-Time (w/ forward-looking technology): Give your customers the capacity to collaborate across an enterprise and see forecast changes in real-time using the most accurate forecast engine on the market.

• Knowledge Capture: Get customers to use their most valuable resource – their employee’s knowledge. Vanguard allows expert knowledge to be collected and documented in the form of living models. Model libraries represent the collective expertise across an entire organization. With this kind of power, your customers will be able to make difficult strategic decisions more quickly and easily, and apply any of these models in new, beneficial ways.

• Collaborative Modeling: You or your customers can build complex models more quickly and accurately through model-building collaboration and networked libraries. Each department is responsible for building its own facet of a more complex model. Not only does this save time and money, but each component model can be reused in future models.

• Easy Integration (with existing systems and spreadsheets): Be assured that your customers will have no trouble integrating Vanguard’s products into their systems. This software has open integration, allowing users to link to existing databases with ease. What’s more, customer spreadsheets can be used as components, if desired; so, no work goes to waste or has to be rebuilt.

• Communicate Results Clearly: Easily demonstrate a model’s meaning, analysis, or results with Vanguard’s unique hierarchical tree layout. All models are transparent and assumptions are clearly documented. Plus, you can drill down to any level to get a full understanding of each component, branch, or node’s purpose and conclusion.