mNOW! Partner Program

Blue Dot Solutions supports two types of mNOW! partners. The first is the mNOW! Referral Partner, which constitutes a simple brokering agreement in which Blue Dot works directly with the end customer according to stipulated guidelines. In this scenario, a referral compensation fee is made to the partner by Blue Dot Solutions.

The second and most rewarding arrangement is the mNOW! Certified Partner, which requires a greater level of commitment and enjoys the maximum business, technical, marketing and sales support offered by Blue Dot Solutions. mNOW! Certified Partners are some of the most well respected, knowledgeable organizations in their fields. They come from a variety of different industries and specialize in a wide range of areas. If your company matches Blue Dot’s own strategic vision, you will profit from one of the most mutually beneficial reseller programs in the industry.

Compensation/How You Make Money

Mobility Software
Blue Dot Solutions’ mNOW! Mobile Framework^®, and specifically mNOW! Mobile Edition and mNOW! Middleware are the most essential elements in delivering intuitive mobile solutions to your end user customer. Blue Dot’s Partner Program provides a strategic opportunity for your company to become a certified reseller of this proven mobility software. As a Certified Partner you will enjoy preferred rights to resell the mNOW! Mobile Framework, earning significant profit margins.    

Professional Services
This is one of the key potential growth areas for mNOW! Certified Partners. Professional Services are a crucial element of design and implementation, often overlooked within the mobile industry. Clients accustomed to receiving services that total up to two times the cost of their software packages, are receiving only a fraction of that total when implementing mobile computing solutions.  This disconnect within the industry signifies a huge upside growth potential for mNOW! partners over the next few years. mNOW! Certified Partners can expect to provide significant professional support to fully leverage the efficiencies of the mNOW! Mobile Framework.

• Business Process Definition – Blue Dot helps you provide your client with extensive mobile “business process” definition for areas such as asset inventories, work  management and inventory management  to name a few. We also help in identifying weaknesses within current business processes and defining how these can be streamlined. The business process definition will demonstrate how to derive financial and operational efficiencies by providing remote workforce professionals with work, asset and geographical information optimization.
  
  
• mNOW! Configuration (solution development) – Sell end users a mobile solution that is completely designed to their workflow and business practice needs. Within your organization both developers and non-developers may configure and grow the mNOW! Mobile Framework  via a set of GUI tools with drag and drop functionality, to complement customers’ business processes, reducing response time and operational cost, while improving productivity of their remote workforce operations.   
  
  
• Pilot Definition and Delivery – Establish a pilot implementation to ensure the benefits and ROI of a comprehensive mobile solution are fully gained and realized. Streamline the process, making sure that all elements of the pilot will be reusable for the go-live, i.e. successfully demonstrate areas of the solution such as its ability to; 
  • Interact effectively in actual system conditions.
  • Transfer data from a virtual office repository database to a mobile device via various media.
  • Transfer updated information from a mobile device to the virtual repository database.
  • Operate seamlessly with upgraded mobile devices.
  • Provide flawless roaming and session persistence service.
    
    
• Implementation Services – mNOW! Certified Partners plan, schedule and complete a full rollout of the mobile operation process, providing mobile workforce professionals with a step by step implementation process. This process significantly increases the mobile solution’s effectiveness and the expected capital gains for your end customer.
  
  
• End User Training – Every certified mNOW! Partner attends the exact training course offered to end users. In addition, partners will be provided with reseller-only work sessions. Upon completion of the Partner-Enhanced mNOW! Mobile Framework Certification, you will have the capacity to offer clients a crucial employee training course. Training is critical to user acceptance and the eventual effectiveness of implementation. This intensive course will equip your client’s employees with all of the tools necessary to become proficient with their mNOW! Mobile solution. Promoting user buy-in throughout the company will ensure a rapid, smooth transition to the mobile solution.
  
  
• Support and Maintenance Services – Blue Dot emphasizes first rate technical support services, providing excellent follow- through in order to assure a smooth sales process.  Both dial-in phone support and automated on-line web access support is provided for all mNOW! Certified Partners.  Comprehensive end-to-end maintenance packages are available for both hardware and software based solutions.

Hardware
If applicable, Blue Dot will provide ruggedized or non-ruggedized handheld devices, tablet PC’s, ruggedized PC’s and wireless networking equipment for any type of mobile solution implementation.

mNOW! Certified Resellers can:

• Act as a vendor of all implemented hardware and peripherals.
  
• Provide staging, loading and kitting, a value added service for end customers, delivering fully prepared hardware devices – charged batteries, preloaded mNOW! mobile software and all necessary components together in one simple package. This process allows quicker deployment and a more accurate receipt and support process.  
  
• Provide customers with mNOW! based Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID). This technology allows users to track inventory, specifically high value assets, and improve operational efficiencies through the use of mobile devices. RFID cards can be embedded within new devices or retrofitted to a customer’s current devices.

Other
Blue Dot Solutions provides mNOW! Certified Partners with every reseller opportunity related to the implementation of mobile computing solutions. Our core product offerings, as well as those of our network of established vendors, will provide any relevant software, hardware or peripheral equipment including wireless data service plans (WAN) and wireless data networking equipment (LAN).