Participation Levels
The Itanium® Solutions Alliance offers the following participation levels and benefits to companies interested in delivering more comprehensive customer solutions faster and presenting them more effectively in the marketplace. Available participation levels include Members, Sponsors and Associate Sponsors.
Who should join:
Members (Free)
Independent software vendors, system integrators, and hardware vendors will all benefit from the Alliance’s overarching value proposition:
- Opportunities to increase customer awareness of available products through promotional activities – including a Success Story Program.
- Targeted Global Press and Analyst activities to counter misinformation and foster positive/neutral coverage of Itanium solutions
- Program to develop market preference for Itanium-based solutions in Mission-Critical Computing, Data Center Modernization and Computationally Intensive Applications
- Innovation Awards Program
- An active and evolving eCommunity Presence: Website, Blog, Newsletter, and Social Media Forums
- “One-voice” support for ISV retention and development
Sponsors
OEMs who offer or plan to offer systems that run on Intel Itanium architecture. In addition to general membership benefits, sponsors receive:
- The right to Participate and Vote as part of the Alliance Steering and Global Committees
- The right to join and participate in topic specific working group activities
- Access to Sponsor-only information and offerings designated for Sponsors in the Participation Agreement
- Opportunities to participate in online enabling programs
- Opportunities to participate in marketing and PR activities including media/analyst relations activities and possibly a focused marketing campaign for key solutions (advertising, articles, collateral, events, Web Casts, whitepapers)
