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Arrow´s IBM Partner Journey

Explore the content that matches your business needs today, whether you are building foundations, developing solutions or ready to grow your IBM business further.

Every partner is at a different stage of growth. 

That is why this page is designed to help you find the most relevant support quickly and easily. Use the three stages below to explore practical assets, targeted guidance and curated content designed to help you build an IBM practice that works for your business. 

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Build the right foundations for smarter growth.

 

Start here if you want to strengthen your understanding, uncover new opportunities and equip your teams with the knowledge they need to move forward effectively. 

In this stage, you will find foundational content designed to support early-stage discovery and practical learning, helping you connect IBM solutions to customer needs and business priorities. This includes discovery tools, product-focused content and sales assets that make it easier to identify where to play and how to start.  

New IBM Bob resources:

IBM Bob Overview

Get a quick overview of IBM Bob and discover how its AI-powered capabilities can help simplify development, accelerate modernization and improve developer productivity.

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IBM Bob Sales Foundation

Build your understanding of IBM Bob with foundational training covering its capabilities, value proposition and partner positioning.

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IBM Bob Sales Foundation Level 2

Expand your knowledge with intermediate learning designed to help you confidently position IBM Bob in customer conversations.

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IBM Bob Technical Level 3

Develop advanced product knowledge and strengthen your expertise through deeper technical training.

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Sign up for a free 30 Day Bob Trial

Experience the full power of IBM Bob.

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Bob Objection Handling Guide

Prepare for common customer questions with practical responses, messaging guidance and conversation starters.

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Further resources:

Select Territory Overview

Discover opportunity, market trends and who are select territory customers 

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End-customer insights and pain points

Better understand common challenges and how IBM solutions can help address them.

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Sales kit: IBM Observability

Equip your teams with concise messaging and practical conversation starters.

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Product video: IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration showcases how businesses can seamlessly connect cloud and on-premises applications, enabling agile and scalable digital transformation. 

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Product video: AI Agents

Discover how AI transforms IT operations for smarter, reliable systems.

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Product video: Identity fabric

Learn what the identity fabric is and how it can help you manage users, their identities and accounts across all the different systems and applications.

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Develop


Turn opportunity into a solution you can take to market

 

When you are ready to move from understanding to action, Develop helps you shape real offers around real customer needs. 

This stage is designed to help you develop use cases, structure conversations and bring together the technical and commercial elements needed to build a stronger IBM proposition. It gives channel partners the tools to validate opportunities, define solution approaches and build knowledge before going to market

New IBM Bob resources:

Getting Organized for Bob with Bob

See how IBM Bob helped plan and execute a complex digital workspace reorganization, GitHub migration and seven-program website rebuild—all in a single evening.

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Cash Logistics Legacy Modernization

See how IBM Bob turned a live proof-of-concept into Arrow's first IBM Bob services engagement.

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Live Incident Response via Instana MCP

Eight minutes from a full disk. See how IBM Bob caught a critical Instana alert, found the root cause and freed 35 GB without disrupting running workloads.

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Client Case Studies and User Quotes

See how organisations are using IBM Bob to modernise software delivery, improve productivity and achieve measurable business outcomes.

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IBM Bob Demo

Watch IBM Bob in action and discover how it supports enterprise software development across the software development lifecycle.

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Bob Demo YouTube Library

Browse additional demonstrations and use cases to deepen your understanding of IBM Bob across different customer scenarios.

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Further resources:

Business use case: Askari Bank

Learn how Askari Bank streamlines access management, enhances security and reduces help desk costs with IBM Verify

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Business use case: Toyota

See how Toyota is using IBM Maximo Health and Predict to create a smarter, more digital factory.

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Client Zero stories: Spendrups

Learn how Spendrups streamlines its brewing with IBM Maximo

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Demo: Instana

Instana's fully automated real-time observability platform puts performance data in context to deliver rapid identification to help prevent and fix issues fast. 

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Demo: Agentic AI Incident Insights

Overview of Instana’s Intelligent Incident Investigation feature. Learn how Instana helps accelerate response and recovery using agentic AI.

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Demo: IBM Verify Identity Protection

Gain full visibility into access activity for all identities—both human or machine—and all applications and deployment models.

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Scale

 

Build momentum and grow with strategy

 

For channel partners ready to expand reach and accelerate demand, this stage focuses on the programmes, tools and benefits that help turn progress into sustained growth. 

This section supports go-to-market execution and long-term development, helping you create stronger campaigns, access partner benefits and amplify your presence in the market. It is built for partners who want to sharpen execution, generate more opportunities and grow more strategically. 

New IBM Bob resources:

IBM My Digital Marketing

Access ready-to-use marketing resources designed to help you build awareness and generate demand for IBM Bob.

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IBM Bob + watsonx Orchestrate

Discover how IBM Bob and watsonx Orchestrate work together to turn AI concepts into enterprise-ready agents, workflows and automation experiences. 

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Further resources:

IBM GTM Playbook

Build your own campaigns with practical guidance for multichannel, nurture and organic social activity.

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IBM partner benefits

Explore available co-marketing funds, incentives and growth-focused support.

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Additional growth resources

Access tools and content designed to help you deepen engagement and expand your IBM business.

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Why channel partners build with Arrow

 

Arrow combines IBM expertise with enablement, engineering support, AI lab capabilities and local EMEA presence to help channel partners move from planning to execution more effectively. From pre-sales design and education to post-sales support and commercial acceleration, Arrow helps simplify the journey and strengthen outcomes.  

 

Not sure where to start?

 

Talk to Arrow about the best next step for your IBM business.

 

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