Record breaking HP iQuote Weekly Stats. Approaching 1200 unique users per week fast – double the number in Jan 2012. HP iQuote also broke through the 6000 New Quotes in a week barrier as well (over 50% up on Jan 2012). Saved and Exported quotes are also at an all time high.
Thank you all for using HP iQuote.
A reminder that we’ve got a Private Group on LinkedIn. If you are interested in getting proactive notification of our Blog articles or getting pre-release information please visit:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2081850&trk=anet_ug_hm
Private Group means that members have to be approved. This allows us to maintain a community of people interested in the HP iQuote service. Currently just under 150 people are members of this group.
We also have a Twitter Account:
@hpiquote
and a Blog:
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Selling combinations of products that attract a discount is no problem for HP iQuote.
One of the most challenging areas for the Channel is to handle Bundles (or Conditional Rebates). Bundles defined as a discount applied to an approved combination of 2 or more items. HP iQuote can manage these on your behalf from a Sales Tool perspective.
If the discount is simply a reduction to standard price with no conditions then we expect our Hosts to lower the price to us in the feed for that part number.
The way HP iQuote works with Bundles:
If you have HP iQuote and need to enable Bundles please contact us via the Feedback Form within the HP iQuote application.
Are you going to HP’s Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas February 19-21? If yes that’s great news. You’ll be able to come and see Greg Starks (WW HP iQuote Program Manager) and myself: Tim Moyle from channelcentral.net.
If you would like to arrange a 121 session with either or both of us please email interested@channelcentral.net or if you are from HP contact Greg directly.
How does the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 get on when equipped with new Low Power Intel Processors? Very well here’s the verdict from IT Pro:
“It’s been a long wait but HP’s first E5-4600 Xeon server delivers a well designed platform for running business critical apps and heavy duty virtualisations. Internal storage capacity is low but its design leaves plenty of room for expansion, it represents good value and it’s a lot easier on the power supply than a Xeon E7 system.”
Read the full review:
http://www.itpro.co.uk/645142/hp-proliant-dl560-gen8-review
A new Export option is now available in HP iQuote. This should be really popular with our Reseller users who apply for Bid Pricing from HP. Simply choose XML – HP SmartQuote and you can download a zipped XML file. Unzip to upload as part of your HP SmartQuote request. Huge timesaver. As always any “red” configuration errors result in Export functions disabled.
If you would like to get advanced notification of new HP iQuote features we publish them on the LinkedIn iQuote User Group.
Happy New Year. A good opportunity to remind HP Authorized Distributors of some of the benefits of deploying HP iQuote:
If you are interested in HP iQuote please visit http://www.hpiquote.net.
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