Delivering a fully-aligned, fee-based services organization that is designed for partner development, as well as end-user quality and satisfaction, is the next evolution in meeting channel expectations. Security technologies are complex, and there is a growing services market that partners can target to accelerate revenues and profits. McAfee is committed to driving more revenue opportunities to its partners, and a complementary services strategy is a key component in ensuring their growth and profitability. |
Larry is the difference maker. He is an outstanding ball-handler and the one who holds the team together. |
Over the past couple of years, our consulting group was really targeted to increase revenue, but we really couldn't differentiate our service from a partner service. It was just very competitive. We've made the decision as a company to have the business model of our services business be a cost-recovery business and to have our primary targets not about increasing revenue or margin. |
We're working on strategy services, planning services, the design of infrastructure, security management system implementation services is really what we focus on today. |
We've worked with our marketing teams to design the information for our partners' salespeople around why a customer needs services and what roles, responsibilities and resources they are going to need for the deployments. |