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Boosting Your SharePoint, SharePoint Online and O365 Offering

AKUMINA INTERCHANGE

CONTENTS

• Section 1: About Akumina InterChange

• Section 2: Why Partner with Akumina?

• Section 3: About InterChange DevFramework

• Section 4: Akumina InterChange Personas

• Section 5: Getting Started

SECTION 1: ABOUT AKUMINA INTERCHANGE

WHAT IS AKUMINA INTERCHANGE?

• Akumina’s InterChange platform allows every one of your customers to immediately begin productively using SharePoint, SharePoint Online and Office 365 to deliver exceptional mobile-first experiences.

• Delivers an intuitive content management interface for non-technical business users, and offers a scalable development framework that can be deployed ‘Turn-Key’ or ’Customized’ across:

✓ Intranets✓ Extranets✓ Portals✓ Websites✓ And more!

SharePoint has a larger footprint than any other content management system combined with over 100,000 enterprises that use Microsoft SharePoint on a daily basis.

Organizationscurrentlymoving, orhavealreadymoved, toMicrosoftOffice365orAzureandaren’tleveragingSharePointonline.

AKUMINA INTERCHANGE IS A PERFECT FIT FOR…

1.

Organizationscurrentlymoving, orhavealreadymoved, toMicrosoftOffice365orAzureandaren’tleveragingSharePointonline.

AKUMINA INTERCHANGE IS A PERFECT FIT FOR…

1.OrganizationsusingSharePointonline (oron-premises)onlythrough thelensofbasic,out-of-the-boxteamsites(documentstorage).

2.

Organizationscurrentlymoving, orhavealreadymoved, toMicrosoftOffice365orAzureandaren’tleveragingSharePointonline.

AKUMINA INTERCHANGE IS A PERFECT FIT FOR…

1.OrganizationsusingSharePointonline (oron-premises)onlythrough thelensofbasic,out-of-the-boxteamsites(documentstorage).

2.OrganizationsusingSharePointon-premisesandlooking tomovetoOffice365orAzure.Akumina helpsdrivesusageofMicrosoft’sCloudofferings beyondjustSharePoint.

3.

Organizationscurrentlymoving, orhavealreadymoved, toMicrosoftOffice365orAzureandaren’tleveragingSharePointonline.

AKUMINA INTERCHANGE IS A PERFECT FIT FOR…

1.OrganizationsusingSharePointonline (oron-premises)onlythrough thelensofbasic,out-of-the-boxteamsites(documentstorage).

2.OrganizationsusingSharePointon-premisesandlooking tomovetoOffice365orAzure.Akumina helpsdrivesusageofMicrosoft’sCloudofferings beyondjustSharePoint.

3.

Organizationsthathavelimited-to-noSharePointknowledgeand,asaresult,arenottakingadvantageofit.4.

Organizationscurrentlymoving, orhavealreadymoved, toMicrosoftOffice365orAzureandaren’tleveragingSharePointonline.

AKUMINA INTERCHANGE IS A PERFECT FIT FOR…

1.OrganizationsusingSharePointonline (oron-premises)onlythrough thelensofbasic,out-of-the-boxteamsites(documentstorage).

2.OrganizationsusingSharePointon-premisesandlooking tomovetoOffice365orAzure.Akumina helpsdrivesusageofMicrosoft’sCloudofferings beyondjustSharePoint.

3.

Organizationsthathavelimited-to-noSharePointknowledgeand,asaresult,arenottakingadvantageofit.4.

Organizationslooking tobuildaturn-key,easy-to-useandadoptable(SharePoint, AzureorO365)intranetorcollaborationspacewithalmostnomaintenance.

5.

SECTION 2: WHY PARTNER WITH AKUMINA?

WHY PARTNER WITH AKUMINA: PROFITABILITY

• Build a new revenue stream by extending value of solutions that are offered to your clients; easy to sell, deploy and bundle with existing professional services and solutions.

• You can ensure the solution is easily adoptable, which in return, increases client satisfaction and drives repeat business and customer references.

• Decrease support calls and costs.

• Provides the best options on the market for upselling and cross-selling into your Microsoft SharePoint install base.

Increased Revenue and Profitability

WHY PARTNER WITH AKUMINA: CHANNEL-FIRST

• Nearly every Akumina license is purchased as part of a larger SharePoint project with services required.

• World-class partner training to empower partners to sell, develop, deploy and support all aspects of an InterChange project.

Channel-First Approach

WHY PARTNER WITH AKUMINA: COMPETITIVE

• There’s no comparable competitive offering to InterChange. Partners can increase strategic value to clients.

• As a partner, you can garner more attention for Microsoft SharePoint directly and drive its use, adoption and consumption.

• Deal registration process ensures partners receive the best price available.

Beat Competitors

More Routinely

WHY PARTNER WITH AKUMINA: PARTNER PROGRAM

• Partner program offers business planning, demo support and demo site access, technical enablement, selling and support.

• Low entry costs and minimal training required to make it easy for you to join the program, start selling and attain even higher levels.

• Online product demonstrations, pre-sales support and technical training, lead generation campaigns, pricing programs and promotions.

Access to Engaging

Partner Program

THE AKUMINA PARTNER PROGRAM BENEFITS:The Akumina Partner Program is flexible to accommodate different types of partners designed to make it easier to do business. Partners are recognized for the total value they contribute and receive solid benefits with the change to advance quickly in the program. Partners can:

THE AKUMINA PARTNER PROGRAM BENEFITS:The Akumina Partner Program is flexible to accommodate different types of partners designed to make it easier to do business. Partners are recognized for the total value they contribute and receive solid benefits with the change to advance quickly in the program. Partners can:

1.

Innovate offerings with Akumina InterChange

that expands the usability of SharePoint

unlike anyone else.

THE AKUMINA PARTNER PROGRAM BENEFITS:

1.

Innovate offerings with Akumina InterChange

that expands the usability of SharePoint

unlike anyone else.

The Akumina Partner Program is flexible to accommodate different types of partners designed to make it easier to do business. Partners are recognized for the total value they contribute and receive solid benefits with the change to advance quickly in the program. Partners can:

2.

Deliver complete solutions integrating the

Akumina InterChangeplatform with creative

and professional services.

THE AKUMINA PARTNER PROGRAM BENEFITS:

1.

Innovate offerings with Akumina InterChange

that expands the usability of SharePoint

unlike anyone else.

The Akumina Partner Program is flexible to accommodate different types of partners designed to make it easier to do business. Partners are recognized for the total value they contribute and receive solid benefits with the change to advance quickly in the program. Partners can:

2.

Deliver complete solutions integrating the

Akumina InterChangeplatform with creative

and professional services.

3.

Grow and differentiate their business with

premium offerings that stay a step ahead.

✓ Priority technical support✓ Joint marketing✓ Sales Engagement

THE AKUMINA PARTNER PROGRAM BENEFITS:

✓ Dedicated channel salesresource

✓ Sales engineering support✓ Access to roadmap

presentations

✓ Product integration resources

✓ Skills development✓ Professional services

support

✓ Demonstration support✓ Deal registration✓ Promotional support ✓ Training

SECTION 3: ABOUT INTERCHANGE DEVFRAMEWORK

ABOUT INTERCHANGE DEVFRAMEWORK

Flexible and scalable way of developing

applications on top of Microsoft’s cloud

services stack

Developers can create apps in any code format

they desire, ensuring client success

Developers and designers can build

business apps that are personalized, adaptive

and targeted

Designed to support any application

architecture that consumes cloud-

services content and data sitting in the cloud

Develop apps that can be deployed to any delivery channel for

any purpose

Ensures ease of management. Supports

modern day requirement of security and scale

combined with ease of use and mobility.

SECTION 4: AKUMINA INTERCHANGE PERSONAS

THE INTERCHANGE PERSONA ROLES

CONTENT AUTHORS AND SITE

MANAGERS

Create and manage content, sites and actionable marketing campaigns using personalized, task-specific content and control applications.

SITE ADMINISTRATORS

DESIGNER AND DEVELOPER

Interchange is built as a provider hosted add-in using Microsoft best practices. It does not replace processes a SharePoint administrator already knows and understands. Allows them to maintain full control of SharePoint security, user management and workflows.

Backend of SharePoint makes it a great platform to build enterprise-class solutions. Quicker to build apps using Akumina’s reference architecture site and pre-build controls that demonstrate the great functionality possible with InterChange and SharePoint.

SECTION 5: GET STARTED TODAY

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team.