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Intel comes up with partner programme

Staff Reporter

Targeted at independent software vendors
Technopark-based companies to get technical, strategic inputs

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Intel India will offer its Software Partner Programme to software companies at the Technopark here.

It is for the first time in India that this programme, primarily targeted at independent software vendors, was being offered to a cluster of companies in a technology park, director of Intel Software and Solutions group Asia Pacific Narendra Bhandari told a press conference at the Technopark on Thursday.

Under the programme, Intel would give the partner companies the tools and resources to enable, market and sell applications that run on Intel technologies ranging from multi-core computing to virtualisation. Intel would help integrate the software developer community of Technopark-based companies into the Intel Software Network Programme in order to bring about enhanced knowledge sharing.

No fee

The partner companies would also get technical and strategic inputs from Intel so that they could understand latest technologies in a better manner.

There would be regular visits to the Technopark by experts from Intel who would provide updates to the partner companies on latest developments in various fields. Seminars and discussions too would be organised as part of the programme. There was no fee for signing up for the programme, Mr. Bhandari said.

Technopark-based firms worked a lot on enterprise applications and there was also a growing focus on visual computing.

There were among the two areas where Intel could offer its technologies to the companies.

Mr. Bhandari said that as “software carries along hardware” Intel would obviously benefit from innovations that take place on its technologies/platforms.

A major advantage that partner companies would have was the information that Intel would put out on possible hardware developments for the next three years.

Using this information, software companies could know where the hardware industry was headed in the near future and could plan their business accordingly, he said. The coming of the partner programme to the Technopark would also create possible opportunities for Intel Capital, the company’s division that invests as equity in software companies.

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