Symantec Announces Several New Partner Programs and Promotions

Programs aimed at enabling, empowering and helping drive partner revenue growth

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NEW DELHI, India - Dec 10, 2008: Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced a series of new programs and promotions for its partners – The new Aspire Rebate Program, Symantec Real Deal Promotion, and Symantec University for Partners. These programs will offer partners special training, tools and financial incentives to help partners capitalize on the market opportunity for Symantec's industry-leading security, data protection and availability solutions.

"Because partners are vital to our success at Symantec, we aim to educate and enable our partners, so they may add greater value for our joint customers," said Ajay Verma, director, Channels and Alliances, Symantec "Symantec is dedicated to providing partners with increased opportunities for selling a broad portfolio of market-leading security and availability products to their customers. The new programs are designed to provide additional profitability for Symantec partners and reward them for creating complete solutions."

New Aspire Rebate Program

Following the positive feedback of the first phase of the Aspire Rebate Program, Symantec has introduced new enhancements to the program. Available to partners in India, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, members will now benefit from 10 percent rebates on all eligible product sales made over and above their revenue target. The program runs from 1 December, 2008 through until 31 May, 2009 and is targeted for registered members of Symantec Partner Program.
For more information visit - www.symantec.com/aspire/apac

Symantec Real Deal Promotion

The Real Deal Promotion provides monetary rewards to partners who drive incremental and new license sales for Symantec Backup Exec 12, Symantec Backup Exec Agents and Options, Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery 8.0, Symantec™ Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec™ Multi-tier Protection 11.0. The Real Deal program runs from 1 December, 2008 through until 31 March, 2009 and is open exclusively to resellers who are a part of the Symantec Partner Program. For more information visit www.symantecrealdeal.com

Symantec University for Partners

Created for all Symantec partners as a center of learning and excellence, Symantec University for Partners provides resources to increase knowledge on Symantec's broad range of products & solutions to reduce the sales cycle and help partners more effectively build solutions for their customers. The program is available to all members of the Symantec Partner Program. Symantec partners will benefit from expanded training and broadened enablement solutions, which include more intelligence focused tools, resources and collaborative platforms.

Symantec's training includes product and role-based curriculum designed to improve partners' knowledge of Symantec products, and their ability to sell, service and support them, directly benefiting their customers. Partners will also be able to collaborate in live peer-to-peer discussions with fellow sales engineers, solutions architects and professional service consultants using the Symantec Partner Technical Forum. Finally, access to Symantec technical tools and documentation provide partners with the intelligence to help them more effectively design and deploy Symantec solutions, provide customer support and generally increase their value to customers with improved service offerings.

Partners will have access to live classroom training, hands-on labs, on-demand eLearning and expert mentoring. Other resources available via Symantec University for Partners include Symantec's enablement toolkit, a comprehensive collection of product tools, materials and other resources available for download. Also available is SymBrain, an interactive mapping tool to help partners quickly and easily determine the best Symantec solution to address their customers' IT needs, as well as identify cross-sell opportunities to maximize the value of every deal.
For more information visit : https://partnernet.symantec.com/Partnercontent/Login.jsp

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