ArrowSphere Cloud Management SolutionArrow’s award-winning, multitier cloud delivery platform

Whether you are building a cloud practice, or want to expand or accelerate your existing cloud business, making it more profitable, Arrow and Citrix are ideally positioned to support you.

With an expansive line card and the right tools, support, and expertise, Arrow removes the complexity so you can focus on delivering a better cloud solution to your customers. Our ArrowSphere cloud management solution provides you with the ability to:

• Easily track and bill consumption across cloud suppliers.

• Simply combine multiple cloud suppliers to deliver your customers an integrated solution.

Customer organizations want to focus on growing their business, not their IT infrastructure. The Citrix Service Provider (CSP) program allows service providers to give their customers the cloud-enabled workspace services they demand without the cost and complexity normally associated with digital workspaces.

Arrow has invested significantly to support you and help you capitalize on the opportunity present in the cloud space. The latest enhancements to our award-winning cloud delivery platform—ArrowSphere—delivers a new, optimized experience for our partners and their customers.

Give your customers the cloud-enabled workspace services they demand. They’re easy to deploy, infinitely scalable with Citrix Cloud, and available with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Drive Your Business Transition and Acceleration to the Cloud with Arrow

ArrowSphere Ecosystem

ArrowSphere Cloud Management Solution

Every journey to the cloud is unique. That’s why we have developed flexible solutions adapted to each of our partner’s business needs, making it easy to build their workflow.

ArrowSphere has been designed to simplify the connection between cloud service providers, partners, and end customers. It offers a unique and comprehensive cloud provider catalog and allows partners to manage their customers’ cloud services from end to end.

With over 11,000 partners and more than 4 million end-user seats managed, both partners and customers benefit from state-of-the-art cloud management tools, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities. These invaluable insights allow partners to identify new revenue streams, hone services, and drive additional revenue.

Arrow’s Citrix CSP partners have the advantage of leveraging the ArrowSphere ecosystem to support business growth at every key step of the cloud lifecycle.

Arrow provides the solutions and services you need, empowering you to grow your cloud or SaaS business and remain highly competitive, including:

• Finance solutions to help customers to maximize their cloud spend with increased sales and profits, along with accelerated cash flow from new business opportunities.

• Expert design, engineering, and technical support to ensure the smooth migration from on-premises to the cloud.

• Education and authorized training that helps partners build competencies to meet and exceed customer expectations.

• Award-winning global supply chain services and customized logistics support.

• A highly skilled security practice to ensure that every cloud project is protected at every stage.

• Lead generation and marketing opportunities that reference strategic global programs to help partners identify and capitalize on new cloud business opportunities.

• Support to make successful business cases when needed.

Marketplaces and the Partner Experience

Established in 2013, ArrowSphere has established itself as a top-tier solution in the marketplace for both selling and buying engagements.

An industry survey of partners ranked ArrowSphere #1 preferred online marketplace they preferred to sell through, beating all other cloud distributors.

In a second survey ArrowSphere was in the top three marketplace sources their company purchased SaaS and PaaS from—further establishing Arrow as a market leader in cloud.

ArrowSphere, the Leading Microsoft CSP Management Solution

ArrowSphere is the most comprehensive and efficient platform to resell Microsoft CSP, receiving multiple awards from Microsoft, recognizing ArrowSphere’s market dominance and growth.

• 100% of the Microsoft CSP catalog supported in 10 currencies.

• Corporate, education, government.

• Management of trials, add-ons.

• Office 365, Dynamics, Azure, Azure Reserved Instances, Perpetual Software.

• Simplified and accurate billing.

• Everything accessible through a single platform/API (IaaS/PaaS, SaaS, PSW).

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ArrowSphere Cloud Management Solution

ArrowSphere is designed to simplify the connection between cloud service providers, partners, and end users. It offers a unique and comprehensive cloud provider catalog and allows partners to manage their customers’ cloud services from end to end.

Partners and customers both benefit from state-of-the-art cloud management tools, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities. With these insights, partners can identify new revenue streams, hone services, and drive additional revenue. View the following videos to learn more:

• Exploring cloud services is easier.

• Managing customer subscriptions is simpler.

• Ordering cloud services is faster.

Flexible, Multiphase Integration Options

From turnkey customer portals to deep API integration, the ArrowSphere platform makes it easy to adapt the end-customer journey to our customers’ business needs and their existing infrastructures. Arrow developed flexible solutions into ArrowSphere that are adapted to each of our partner’s business needs, making it easy to build their workflow.

Optimize Customer Experience

• Connected to the central ArrowSphere portal, our customers can access the catalog and its features to its fullest

• They can interact with their Arrow representatives

• A fully customizable state-of-the-art end-customer cloud management portal

• Source code delivered

• Powered by ArrowSphere APIs

• A white-label end-custsomer cloud management portal

• Hosted and managed by Arrow

• One single API to access the full catalog

• Replace many years of complex integration with vendors in just weeks

ArrowSphere Integration Options

ArrowSphere Cloud Management Solution

Customize and Deliver Industry-leading Cloud Services with your Own MyCloudPortal

MyCloudPortal is ArrowSphere’s customer-facing portal, which empowers end customers and makes it easier for them to self-serve their cloud services through their partner of choice. Partners can:

• Customize MyCloudPortal with their branding and preset partner pricing models, which can differ by the customer and include their custom SKUs.

• Provide self-service access to customers to obtain pricing, add new users, buy new services, and monitor usage while closely managing their experience through a partner-branded portal.

• Provide customers with a broad portfolio of cloud services, from CSPs and their custom services, with limited technical expertise and in a short time frame.

• Customize MyCloudPortal, which includes a multilingual platform that can be configured to align with your brand.

• Manage customers including inviting customers to register for an account, assign roles and manage their Cloud services quickly and easily.

• Manage your catalog by importing your cloud services, or choosing from the ArrowSphere portfolio, and defining your price per SKU and/or per customer.

• Increase your cloud services business – MyCloudPortal provides the visibility of your customer landscape and allows you to cross-sell by customer.

• End customers can access detailed cloud usage analytics via a dashboard that shows cost and consumption analytics, with machine learning-enabled consumption projections, notifying them if budget thresholds are approaching.

Become a Partner

As an Arrow cloud partner, you have access to premium sales resources, such as go-to-market solutions, programs, and ArrowSphere—our award-winning cloud delivery platform.

To learn more about Arrow Cloud Solutions and how we can help you accelerate your Citrix CSP and cloud business, contact us today at citrixsales@arrow.com.