Partner Benefits of working with 5i Unify

•  Generate new revenue streams
•  Increase margins
•  Reduce costs of delivering service contracts
•  Improve account control
•  Identify and close new sales opportunities

Generate new revenue streams

Build revenue without hiring staff or building a NOC by having customized and proactive managed services delivered on your behalf to end user clients. 5i’s UNIFY services provide a proven business model, processes and tools to accelerate your time-to-market and secure rapid returns.

Increase margins

Shifting from a hardware to a services business model can significantly increase margins. Recent research by Cisco Systems indicates that moving to a service-led solution selling business model can increase average partner margins from less than 10% to around 25%, with the significant majority of the improvement arising from the Professional and Technical services component of the deal.

Reduce costs of delivering service contracts

Best practices and automated monitoring focus on root cause of problems BEFORE they degrade service -- in contrast to simply detecting a problem as it occurs. However, defining and developing best practices and acquiring and managing the tools and infrastructure to sustain them represents a significant investment. UNIFY from 5i offers an effective, ready-made, low-risk platform for you to build on.

Improve account control

Assume the coveted position of trusted advisor playing a strategic role in growing a client's business rather than just selling equipment. The 5i UNIFY service allows you to improve the ongoing health, security, and availability of your customers’ networks, and to expand upon your role as a trusted advisor. Tools such as remote monitoring, diagnostics and repair provide ongoing customer value that can make you indispensable.

Identify and close new sales opportunities

With the additional insights monitoring gives you're able to use the reports to document the need for new equipment and upsell new projects. 5i UNIFY services can improve your customer’s satisfaction through proactive planning that reduces their total cost of ownership and delivers new capabilities to the business more quickly.  Unify gives you the resources and tools you need to succeed in becoming a profitable, highly effective Managed Service Provider for your customers when they deploy Cisco IP Telephony and Unified Communications.