IBM strives to provide support for your sales opportunities that involve IBM Business Partners that are independent software vendors (ISVs). If you have an opportunity that involves an ISV application or solution and require additional assistance, the resources on this page are available to help you.
If you still cannot locate the support you need, contact us directly about your sales opportunity involving an ISV product.
Look up information about an ISV
Locate and learn about ISVs that you need to work with
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Search the Global Solutions Directory
Find products, solutions and information about IBM Business Partners worldwide.
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IBM Business Partner Locator
Find a service providers with a particular set of skills, a technology reseller or a consultant with industry expertise.
Research an ISV's solution
Find and learn about ISV applications for your solutions:
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Search the Business Partner Application Showcase
Find solutions from IBM Business Partners that have demonstrated their expertise in your industry.
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IBM System Storage solutions
Find high-quality solutions from IBM Business Partner ISVs for leading IBM storage platforms.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Catalog
Search or browse for applications certified on SUSE Linux® Enterprise.
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Red Hat applications
Find Red Hat Linux partners and their applications.
Find sales resources available to support you
If you cannot locate what you need on this page, IBM offers a number of options for assistance:
Get sales assistance for your sales opportunity
Find various offerings to help you with the selling process.
- Sales plays and kits
Hottest products, services and solutions for you to sell right now, along with resources, incentives and promotions to help make the sale.
- Sizing Guides
Point-and-click access to software solution specific hardware requirements to meet customer immediate and growth requirements on IBM Systems.
- IBM Innovation Centers
Worldwide centers to help your company succeed by building technical skills, developing innovative solutions, delivering client presentations, and more.
- IBM Software Products
Find IBM Software Products by business need, product category, or alphabetically.
Get technical assistance for your sales opportunity
- IBM Rapid Port Services
Assistance for porting and enabling commercially available applications and products for IBM Systems and IBM System Storage® platforms for sales opportunities.
- Leverage IBM Systems ISV resources to win
No-cost resources to help you access solution-development resources, decrease time to generate revenue and simplify solution-development life cycles.
- IBM Systems ISV Toolkit
Find the programs, information and education resources needed for every phase of the IBM Systems solution selling process help you optimize your solution and stay current to win with IBM.
- Chiphopper - Linux porting
Help with porting, testing, and supporting your existing Linux x86 applications on other IBM Systems and middleware platforms.
- AIX support and services
Find out about the ISV benefits for IBM AIX®, the premier UNIX® operating system from IBM that runs IBM POWER™ processor-based servers.
Find hardware for development, testing, or production
- Virtual Loaner Program (VLP)
The VLP offers no-charge remote access to IBM hardware, including IBM POWER7™, IBM POWER6™ and IBM POWER5™ processor-based servers on IBM AIX®, IBM i and Linux® operating systems.
- IBM Hardware Mall
As a member of IBM PartnerWorld®, you may qualify to lease or purchase equipment at very attractive terms to support your development needs.
Locate education and collateral
Locate many of the various educational resources offered to IBM Business Partners.
- Systems, servers, and storage
IBM Systems, servers, and storage information positioned for IBM Business Partners.
- Find training
Search for and filter sales and technical training especially for Business Partners.
- IBM Systems Lab Services and Training
Experienced education and assistance available for IBM Business Partners.
- IBM Industry Alliances Virtual University
Education programs to learn about ISV industry solutions.
- Oracle Virtual University
Education programs to learn about IBM and Oracle solutions.
- Linux on Power
Find out about the ISV benefits for Linux, the premier open source operating system for IBM Systems.
- developerWorks
An online collection of tutorials, sample code, standards, and other resources provided by experts at IBM.