AT&T Adds Features to Partner Exchange

Investment development funds for functions that go beyond marketing such as sales and operational consulting, and API development and systems enhancement. Funding is available through a portal where partners choose from a list of third-party vendors.

Certification Achievement Program, whose tracks include network, cloud/hosting and mobility. The program already features the Core level and, later this year, will contain the Professional and Master tiers.

Ecosystem additions, including billing-as-a-service from suppliers such as BluLogix, Omniware, OneBill and Profitec. The idea is to ease the billing process for partners and encourage AT&T Partner Exchange solution providers to use the company’s API platform to create unique ways to do service availability, quoting and ordering. MasterStream, FPX and ChikPea all are new to the ecosystem, too.

Simplified tier structure, meaning that the two-tier setup will include the Platinum and Elite levels. Solution provides will have access to better pricing and more benefits, such as the additional MDFs, the higher they go. Plus, AT&T Partner Exchange recently combined with AT&T Wholesale and ACC Business to create one organization, AT&T Partner Solutions. This will help agents, solution providers and wholesaler users choose how they want to work with AT&T, the company said.

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