Automation
Infrastructure
Partner Plus Benefits
Data & AI
Partner Plus Progression
100

These three products make up the IBM AI Automation portfolio.

What are Apptio, Instana and Turbonmic?

100

This hardware product allows organizations to move and manage workloads across cloud and on-premise environments.

What is Power VS?

100

This is the name of IBM's new channel program announced in 2023.

What is Partner Plus?

100

These three platforms make up watsonx.

What is watsonx.ai, watsonx.data and watsonx.governance?

100

This Partner Plus Tier does not require any revenue or proficiency commitment.

What is register?

200

This IBM tool proactively provides actionable insights on how to prevent and remedy IT issues that impact systems performance.

What is Instana?

200

This is a fully integrated operating system, meaning the database, middleware, security, runtime, and hypervisor are all integrated into the stack and licensed as one; and it runs on IBM's Power Servers.

What is IBM i operating system?

200

This  program provides individual BPs' sales efforts and engagements on opportunities with favorable pricing and incentives.

What is deal registration?

200

This percent of organizations lack the tools or platforms to develop AI models.

What is 25%?

200

The requirement for this Partner Plus tier is to have 3 individuals with proficiency badges.

What is silver?

300

This tool optimizes cloud usage on all major platforms (AWS, Azure etc.); as well as on-premise environments.

What is Turbonomic?

300

This storage product has integrated cyber resilience.

What is IBM Flash Systems?

300

These tiers receive up to (5) free passes for Tech Exchange.

What are Gold and Platinum?

300

This platform allows organization to scale their AI workloads for all data needs, regardless of where it resides.

What is watsonx.data?

300

This is the name for having a  matching sales and technical badge.

What is a proficiency?

400

This IBM tool enables organizations to make better data-driven decisions about their technology investments by driving clarity through accurate and comprehensive views of technology spend.

What is Apptio?

400

This is IBM's mainframe platform.

What is IBM Z?

400

This is the name for IBM's Sales Enablement platform.

What is Seismic?

400
This platform enables responsible, transparent and explainable data and AI workflows.

What is watsonx.governance?

400

This Partner Plus tier has a revenue requirement of >$10M and 14 individuals with proficiencies.

What is Platinum?
500

This IT lifecycle has three phases: inform, optimize and operate.

What is FinOps?

500

This storage offering allows organization to store video and images.

What is IBM Object Storage?

500

These tiers have no charge access to the IBM's SW Access Catalog, a platform that allows clients and resellers to browse and request access to various IBM software products and components.

What is Silver, Gold and Platinum?

500

These are the most popular horizontal use cases for watsonx.

What are customer care, HR transformation and code?

500

This Partner Plus Tier requires that a reseller has 7 individuals with proficiency badges and revenue of > $1M.

What is gold?