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• Operate more profitably.
• Run your business more efficiently.
• Differentiate your offerings.

Operate More Efficiently and Profitably

Dell is fully committed to earning your trust. That’s why we have made such a significant investment in building a better and different channel partner model.

• Lower deployment costs to increase competitive advantage: The Dell business model (application services, end-to-end image management, and deployment services) can significantly lower deployment costs -- increasing your margins and allowing you to pass savings on to your customers.
• Move 30% of the cost to our factory: Dell's Deployment Services can move approximately 30% of your deployment work into our factory -- saving you substantial time and money. We're ready to help you with build-to-order capabilities, custom factory integration, drop-ship capability, and other manufacturing and logistics services that can cut costs and maximize your profits.
• Direct Online Capability: Through Dell.com and the PartnerDirect portal, you can access almost everything you need to sell products and to service your customers. Our goal is to make your interactions with Dell as simple, productive and helpful as possible.
• Direct Financing Solutions: Multiple credit offerings are now available to our partners. We'll do all we can to provide creative solutions to your financing needs. Just call us and your local team is ready to discuss options.
• 100% Dedicated Web-based Service and Support: Partners can access our dedicated Customer Care team for all order queries. Plus, selected partners have access to 24x7 technical support, certified Dell IT technicians, and an improved asset-tag transfer process.
• Up sell opportunities: With Dell, you can extend your sales beyond computers to services, warranties, peripherals, and custom configurations. Offering a complete portfolio provides you with more sales opportunities.

Differentiate Your Offerings

Dell offers more than just products. Services, solutions and peripherals offer even greater sales opportunities. At Dell, we’re providing you with benefits that other technology vendors can't match.

• Green: If your customers are going green or are worried about energy costs, Dell has the largest lineup of Energy Star products in the industry. Plus you can offer cost-effective recycling, special online tools, virtualization, and energy management services.
• Powerful: If price/performance is your customers' primary goal, Dell offers some of the leading products lead the industry. We offer servers that can provide a 95% price/performance advantage over competitors1, and client systems that consume 70% less power.
• Mobile: Mobility is a major concern in an increasingly mobile workforce. Our wireless architecture can provide the fastest Wi-Fi connections2 of any leading small business notebook provider. And, Dell notebooks can outlast competitor’s notebook batteries by up to one hour and recharge up to 33% faster3.
• Virtual: Reduce complexity, consolidate, and manage space, power and cooling. With Dell, you can provide a complete portfolio of products and services to help customers build greater efficiency for large and small customers alike.
• Easy to manage: Dell products and solutions are built to be easy for you and your customers to deploy and manage. That’s because Dell is driving standardization of components and platforms.
• Simplified: Dell is delivering greater simplification in all aspects of technology, from the desktop to the data center. This provides you with the products and services that can offer more value than the competition.

Whatever your customers need from their technology, Dell can help you get IT faster, run IT better, and grow IT smarter.

¹Source: “Advantages of Dell PowerEdge™ 2950 Two-Socket Servers over Hewlett-Packard ProliantDL 585 G2 Four-Socket Servers for Virtualization,” by Todd Muirhead and Dave Jaffe, Dell Scalable Enterprise Technology Center; and Terry Schroeder, Dell Advanced Systems Group.

²Source: Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in June 2007 on a Dell™ Vostro™ 1500 and Toshiba Satellite A205 both with Intel® 4965AGN Wireless cards and a Lenovo 3000 N100 with Broadcom Wireless-N card; Intel Wireless-N testing analyzed by Dell Labs on an HP Pavilion DV6358 and an Acer Aspire 5610, both with Intel 3945ABG wireless cards. Actual performance will vary based on usage, configuration and manufacturing variability.

³ Source: MobileMark 2005 Battery Life, 5-07, Latitude D630: Intel Core 2 Duo 7100 (1.8GHz), 14.1” WXGA LCD, 1GB DDR2 667MHz, 60GB HDD, Windows XP Pro SP2, Mobile Intel GMA.