In just a few clicks, you can locate HP Partners in your area that offer a range of buying convenience, advanced expertise and exceptional customer service. Several different search options are available to help you find the best match for your needs. Simply follow these steps:

Search Instructions

1: Select the Segment that represents you:

· Home and Home Office (Consumer)

· Small & Medium Business (1-500 employees)

· Large Enterprise Business (more than 500 employees)

· Federal Government

· State/Local Government

· Higher Education

· Education K - 12

2: Select the type of search (choice may depend on the selection you made above):

· Search by Product

· Search by Specialization

· Search by Partner Name

3: Select the appropriate geographic option:

· Local Area search identifies partners in your area. Enter your Street Address, Postal Code, City and Province information. (Some fields are optional and you will be prompted if more information is required)

· Proximity Search will locate partners within the distance you specify. Enter your location information as above.

Once you have entered all your search criteria, click on the [Find] button at the bottom of the page.

Search results

· The Search results will display a list of HP partners based on your search criteria that are displayed at the top of each results page.

· Additional details such as distance, specialization and more are available by clicking the various fields within each partner record.

· Up to ten partners are shown per page, navigation buttons are displayed to move between pages: Move Next, Last, Previous and First.

Specialization Descriptions

Each displayed partner record includes a summary of that partner’s participation in HP programs. These summaries will further help you find the right HP partner.

Agent - Partners who provide Value-Added Services to a customer in conjunction with HP Direct sales efforts, and successfully assist the customer to purchase HP products, services and solutions directly from HP.

Authorized Business Solutions Partner (ABSP) - Partner is enabled to provide HP authorized service delivery for HP-branded consulting and implementation services, in either the role of a prime contractor or a subcontractor to HP, including the delivery of HP-branded implementation services on HP enterprise storage systems and Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Authorized Service Delivery Partner (ASDP) - Partner is enabled to provide HP authorized service delivery for HP Care Pack services on HP hardware products, in accordance with the certifications of their technicians, to include first-call handling, remote resolution and final on-site remedial repair or replacement (as applicable or necessary). Customers purchasing HP Care Pack services from an ASDP will experience the combination of vendor-branded support services delivered by their trusted local reseller.

Authorized Warranty Delivery Partner (AWDP) - Partner is enabled to provide HP authorized warranty service delivery on HP hardware products, in accordance with the certifications of their technicians, to include first-call handling, remote resolution and final on-site remedial repair or replacement (as applicable or necessary). Partner is also assisted with the infrastructure necessary (HP parts/assemblies, servicing information) to offer post-warranty hardware support services under their own brand.

Blade System - PC and Workstation Elite - HP Blade System Elite PC & Workstation partner’s designation are experts in business infrastructure and PC and Workstation solutions, with superior industry qualifications and skills that have been validated by HP

Blade System Servers and Storage Elite - BladeSystem - Servers & Storage Elite partners are experts in business infrastructure and server solutions and help customers achieve business and IT objective through server consolidation, optimization, virtualization, and security solutions. The BladeSystem consulting practices offered by these partners include business critical, industry-standard servers, and storage blades. In addition, these professionals understand the infrastructure and storage environments in which BladeSystem resides.

Business Critical Systems Elite – Business Critical Systems Elite partner have invested in training necessary to distinguish themselves as experts in BCS solutions. They take the complexity out of server migration and are equipped with tools to help customers with a complete ROI analysis of their projects and understand requirements for applications and data availability.

Enterprise Storage Elite - Enterprise Storage Elite partners ensure customers achieve business and IT objectives through optimum IT and storage consolidation, data protection, business continuity and availability and information management solutions. They understand customer requirements for application & data availability, the need to manage data growth, and the competitive advantages of a well-designed IT environment.

Graphics Commercial Elite - Graphics Commercial Elite partners provide expert knowledge in HP printing technologies, as well as in other relevant elements for the very solutions expected by customers. Their expert knowledge include: work flows, software and applications compatibility, finishing and other equipment. Customers can rely on elite partners for advice on the selection, set-up and implementation of the solution.

Graphics Design Elite – Graphics Design Elite partners provide technical, superior service & support which are the top reasons why customers with large format printing needs buy from these specialized partners. They deliver exceptional service to keep businesses humming.

High Performance Computing Elite - HP High Performance Computing Elite partners have the skills and capabilities to deliver affordable, yet powerful, scalable solutions for high performance computation, data management, and visualization to more research teams in more applications areas, to foster better and faster scientific discovery.

Information Management Solutions Elite - HP Information Management Solution Elite partners will help integrate their customers business challenges with the following business solutions: Mitigate business risk; Reduce cost of compliance; Protect individual rights; eliminate backup tax; Boost application performance; and Consolidate applications.

Microsoft SQL Solutions Elite - HP Microsoft SQL Elite partners deliver end to end solutions, from initial business benefit analysis to design, installation, configuration, data migration, training and post-installation services.

Office Printing Elite - Office Printing Elite partners are highly skilled in selling HP’s best-in-class IPG products and solutions, providing infrastructure assessments and device consolidation to help solve your business problems. In addition, these partners excel in basic forms of consultative selling, such as infrastructure assessment and device consolidation.

Office Printing Solutions Elite - Office Printing Solutions Elite partners are highly skilled in selling HP’s best-in-class IPG products and solutions and providing customers with business solutions focused on improving overall efficiencies in printing and imaging infrastructure optimization, and management and document workflow. These elite partners that have earned the HP Office Printing Solutions Elite designation demonstrate a consultative sales approach to solving your business problems and are experts in providing simple to complex printing and imaging solutions, with superior industry qualifications and skills that have been validated by HP.

Open Source Solutions Elite - HP Open Source Solution Elite partners have the knowledge and expertise with Open Source software, including the Linux Operating System and provide end-to-end design, installation, configuration, data migration, training, and post-installation services.

Oracle Solutions Elite - Oracle Solutions Elite Partners are validated by Oracle and HP as the best candidates to consistently provide superior service for Oracle applications running on HP platforms -- from the initial business-benefit analysis through design, installation, configuration, data migration, training and post-installation.

PartnerONE Business Partner - An HP partner with commercial HP sales (resell & Agent) of less than $500k annually.

PartnerONE Preferred Partner - An HP Partner with commercial HP sales (resell & Agent) of $500k annually, using specific look back periods as defined by the P1 Ts and Cs. A partner may also become Preferred if they achieve $150k in commercial sales (resell & Agent) and have a 50% increase (Y/Y) in HP revenue, as per the P1 Ts and Cs.

ProCurve Networking Elite - ProCurve Elite Partners, depending on their ProCurve level designation, provide customers with proven industry expertise whether in helping them choose the right network products or in designing, deploying, configuring, managing, supporting and servicing best-in-class ProCurve Networking solutions.

Public Sector B2Bi Partner - Partners with expertise in providing secured coordination of information among K12 schools, Higher Education institutions, State & Local and Federal Government entities and their information systems.

SAP Solutions Elite - HP SAP Solution Elite Partners are skilled in sizing and designing HP configurations for SAP installations for both upgrades and new licenses. Additionally partners have well-developed relationships with SAP software and service integrators, ensuring that customers get a complete solution.

Services Sales Elite - HP Services Sales Elite partners possess the skills, knowledge and capabilities to design services solutions including data center, mission critical, and storage services that support the industry's real-time business needs. In additional to their expertise in Mission Critical services they offer the broadest portfolio of end to end solutions including Business Recovery and Educational Services.

Thin Clients Elite - Thin Clients Elite partners have invested in training and certifications necessary to distinguish themselves as experts in thin client computing solutions. These Elite partners help customers solve business challenges that drive up costs such as loss of data due to hardware or software malfunction, virus and other malicious attacks, theft and natural disasters, hardware deployment and manageability to remote offices. HP’s Thin Client solutions enable centralized computing in which data and applications are deployed, managed, supported, and executed remotely.

Virtualization Solutions Elite - Virtualization Solution Elite Partners are capable of delivering HP’s unique Virtualization Solution, in conjunction with products from other industry-leading virtualization solutions providers, such as VMware and Citrix (Zen Server).