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Grafana Labs Achieves Major Milestone Signing More Than 80 Global Channel Partners to Bring Its Dashboard Technology to Market

Grafana Labs Achieves Major Milestone
Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous open and composable operational dashboards, today announced that its Partner Program has achieved major milestones, including growing the bookings generated via the channel partners by 230% year over year and signing more than 80 channel partners. Grafana’s Partner Program enables channel partners to bring Grafana Labs’ observability stack, including its leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization, to a broader market.

The majority of Grafana Labs’ 80 channel partners are located across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) and North America – with several new partners signed in APJ (Asia, Pacific, and Japan) and LATAM (Latin America).

“Grafana Labs is dedicated to the channels as a go-to-market strategy, and this is particularly evident in the last year, when we have seen an explosion in activity around the Grafana Partner Community and Program,” said Christina Gillman, Senior Global Channel Manager, Grafana Labs.

“Grafana Labs is dedicated to the channels as a go-to-market strategy, and this is particularly evident in the last year, when we have seen an explosion in activity around the Grafana Partner Community and Program,” said Christina Gillman, Senior Global Channel Manager, Grafana Labs.

During the recent GrafanaCONline community conference, Services and Processes Solutions in LATAM, OneT Solutions in APAC, Climb Channel Solutions in North America, and OpenAdvice in EMEA were named this year’s partner award winners. They were honored for helping customers transform their businesses by meeting the customers’ demand for modern, scalable, and high-performance dashboards for visualizing and understanding metrics, logs, and traces. With the help of these strategic partnerships, Grafana Labs has quickly become one of the most trusted solutions in the industry.

What Our Partners Have to Say

“Our priority is to partner with industry leaders, so we are always on the leading edge with our customers and offering the best options to help tackle their business problems,” said Dale Foster, CEO of Climb Channel Solutions. “Partnering with Grafana Labs enables us to accelerate the observability strategies for our customers around North America. The complete Grafana stack offers the flexibility to run fully managed in the cloud or self-managed, so customers can create the solutions that best serve their businesses.”

“At OpenAdvice, we are experts in business and service assurance,” said Jeanette Fürst, Sales Director at OpenAdvice. “Many of our customers have known and appreciated the open source version of Grafana for years, so it is a natural next step for them to use Grafana Enterprise to extend their options. All requirements for modern application performance management can be covered with the integrated solution provided by the full Grafana stack, including Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces. We’re proud to provide our customers in EMEA the complete Grafana stack, and we look forward to continuing to grow with our partnership with Grafana Labs.”

“We are a trusted solution provider of DevSecOps, CyberSecurity, AI, and IOT, and our customers count on us to bring cutting-edge technology at the forefront of the IT arena, to facilitate the enterprise-level digital transformations for the leading 500 enterprises in the Singapore and ASEAN regions,” said Frank Teh, Managing Director, OneT Solutions. “We are proud to partner with Grafana Labs, to bring their leading and transformative technology to support our customers’ business strategies.”

“It’s during times like these especially that organizations are seeking leading and transformative technologies, often cloud-based, to grow despite the demanding LATAM market,” said Rolando Carrasco, Chief Technology Officer, Services and Processes Solutions (SPS). “Grafana Labs has been an instrumental technology in our toolbox to help our customers scale to meet the demands of their evolving technology needs for distributed computing.”

The Grafana Partner Program connects reseller and service partners around the globe with the tools and knowledge needed to deliver best-in-class observability solutions to their customers. Grafana Labs works with resellers, distributors, consultants, managed service providers, and service integrators to share knowledge and provide training to help them best serve their customers and operate as an extension of the Grafana Labs sales team. Established partners have the opportunity to gain access to additional marketing resources, lead development campaigns, and increased incentives. To learn more about the Grafana Partner Program and to apply to become a partner, visit the Grafana Partner Program.

About Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 2,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 900,000 active installations of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security. Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital, GIC, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, and J.P. Morgan. Follow Grafana Labs on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit grafana.com.

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ServiceNow Unveils Next Wave of Partner Program Transformation with New Specializations

Business Wire | January 24, 2024

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making the world work better for everyone, today unveiled the next wave of partner program transformation with new Specializations. As part of the revamped ServiceNow partner program announced in January 2023, the recently developed Partner Specializations are the next step in the partner program evolution for partners to unlock new revenue opportunities and earn a range of benefits to further grow their practice. Announced today at ServiceNow Partner Kickoff in Las Vegas, partners can obtain three Specializations which include Service Operations, Serve the Customer, and Power the Employee. ServiceNow is on a path to significantly increase the percentage of net new revenue sourced by partners in the coming years by supporting partners who build the ServiceNow platform into the core of their business models. Partners can acquire the new Specializations by showcasing a combination of product and sales expertise through customer wins and a go-to-market strategy. The new Partner Specializations showcase partners’ unique strengths in the market and encourage innovative ways to continue to grow their ServiceNow practice. “Last year at this time, we made a massive commitment to our partner community by completely transforming our partner program to ensure that partners are front and center in everything we do as a company,” said Erica Volini, senior vice president, global partnerships at ServiceNow. “With the launch of Specializations, our customers can easily identify partners with the best experience and expertise they need to help solve some of their biggest digital transformation challenges.” Obtaining a Specialization will help partners in three critical areas: Differentiate among the ecosystem:Partners will receive badging that will appear across their ServiceNow profiles with increased visibility on the ServiceNow Partner Finder. Prospective customers will also be able to search partner experts in Partner Finder based on the current Specializations. Unlock new revenue opportunities:Each Specialization addresses a pressing customer need that presents a large, untapped market opportunity and high year-over-year growth. Earn benefits to grow ServiceNow practices:ServiceNow will offer additional benefits for partners to build and grow their business through invitation to the ServiceNow Partner Advisory Council to ensure their needs and counsel are being addressed across the broader ServiceNow ecosystem. Qualifying partners will also have access to ServiceNow co-marketing programs and the ServiceNow Partner Development Fund announced last January. The program is launching with three Specializations, Service Operations, Serve the Customer and Power the Employee, that present large market opportunities with high year-over-year growth and a large total addressable market (TAM). All Specializations can be obtained at the regional and global level as well as two levels of achievement for further differentiation. Additional Partner Specializations are expected to be launched in 2024. The three Partner Specializations are expected to be available for partners to obtain starting in ServiceNow’s second quarter of 2024. Many partners have already expressed their feedback on the importance of the ServiceNow Partner Specializations including: Jason Rosenfeld, Senior Vice President at Cask: “ServiceNow’s new Partner Specializations offer an opportunity for Cask to showcase our unique consulting expertise and change management solutions to drive digital transformation across enterprises. Program updates like subsequent badging and product line achievements provide greater reach and visibility with organizations looking for the best partner to meet their specific needs. We believe Specializations and the partner finder are a winning combo for connecting customers with the right support and implementations.” Michael Lombardo, Chief Executive Officer at GlideFast Consulting: “We’re thrilled about the new designations to ServiceNow’s Partner Program. With new Partner Specializations, we can continue expanding our technical consulting services and delivering deep ServiceNow expertise to new markets. We look forward to helping customers find value in the Now Platform.” Michael Vadini, Chief Executive Officer at Infocenter:“Today, organizations are looking for a collaborative partner for support with the adoption and scale of new technologies. ServiceNow’s new Partner Specializations will help Infocenter build industry-specific solutions and accelerate technology for customers and their businesses more quickly. We are excited about the enhanced benefits offered by ServiceNow and the continued focus on partners.” Jon Reynolds, Senior VP Global Alliances & Corp Development at Thirdera, a Cognizant Company:“As our company looks to further expand our work across different industries, we’re focused on differentiating our services and ServiceNow platform expertise. ServiceNow's comprehensive Partner Program provides valued guidance and incentives to improve how we advise, implement and optimize technology for businesses worldwide. ServiceNow sets a standard for what it means to be an innovative partner.” ServiceNow is also launching a brand-new partner channel on LinkedIn. Join the new social community for the latest ServiceNow partner news here. For more information on the ServiceNow Partner Specializations visit here. About ServiceNow ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow™. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.

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HiddenLayer Launches Channel Partner Program to Secure AI and MLOps Lifecycle

PR Newswire | January 25, 2024

HiddenLayer, the leading security provider for artificial intelligence (AI) models and assets, today announced a new partner program to empower enterprises with complete AI protection including rapid threat detection and security across the entire MLOps lifecycle. "Our Channel Partner Program is designed to drive innovation by allowing partners to introduce security for AI to their customers, helping to educate more businesses about a new threat landscape," said Rebecca Cahak, Head of Channel, HiddenLayer. "By leveraging this new offering, partners will ensure margin and deal protection, leverage incentives, access flexible and easy-to-use training tools, demo environments, and proof of value tools to drive success." The Channel Partner Program allows partners to seamlessly onboard while providing predictable, transparent pricing and flexible licensing models, and a first-of-its-kind unobtrusive, automated, scalable Artificial Intelligence Security (AISec) Platform. Partners will be able to educate customers on a new threat landscape and provide the solutions they need to protect their AI, and competitive edge, build stronger relationships, and establish their team as AI leaders for their customers. "The HiddenLayer line of products is an important component in our AI security service offerings," said Matt Keating, Head of AI Security at Booz Allen Hamilton. "We are excited to continue to strengthen our strategic partnership with the HiddenLayer team, furthering our ability for joint strategy and co-solutioning." HiddenLayer aims to optimize its current partner network, enhancing it through streamlined support and collaborative offerings. There will be three tiers for the program, Covert, Concealed, and Clandestine, so customers can work together with HiddenLayer to achieve the best-shared outcome. Each tier includes pricing discounts, free online training for sales, and technical enablement and security for AI marketing partnerships. Concealed includes free on-site training and performance incentive programs for extra financial success. Clandestine includes everything previously mentioned, with the addition of account mapping, executive security research briefings, and more. "By joining HiddenLayer's partner program, we're enabling customers to safeguard against constantly evolving cybersecurity risks," said Rick Echevarria, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Security Center of Excellence. "We are now able to provide a scalable security solution for AI and help more businesses foster the acceleration of safer AI adoption." Additionally, HiddenLayer recently announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named HiddenLayer to its 2023 Stellar Startups list. This annual list, previously known as CRN Emerging Vendors, recognizes fast-rising technology manufacturers committed to delivering leading-edge solutions that propel innovation and growth in the IT channel. Learn more about HiddenLayer's Channel Partner Program here. About HiddenLayer HiddenLayer, a Gartner-recognized AI Application Security company, helps enterprises safeguard the machine learning models behind their most important products with a comprehensive security platform. Only HiddenLayer offers turnkey security for AI that does not add unnecessary complexity to models and does not require access to raw data and algorithms. Founded in March of 2022 by experienced security and ML professionals, HiddenLayer is based in Austin, Texas. For additional information, including product updates and the latest research reports, visit www.hiddenlayer.com.

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