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Read these Smart Stories and see how Ingram Micro associates, solution providers and manufacturers, just like you, have gone the extra mile and made the impossible look easy.

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Market segment:	Government/Education
Challenge:	A solution provider needed to increase its credit line in order to place a large equipment order for a job.
Solution:	Ingram Micro worked like a large bank to increase the solution provider's credit line from $400,000 to $2 million.

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Market segment:	Higher Education
Challenge:	A solution provider needed a smarter way to order, fullfill and finance its seasonally high volume of customer-configuered laptops.
Solution:	Ingram Micro's scalable infrastructure, credit flexibility and bundling services hepled this solution provider meet the just-in-time needs of local colleges and students.

88K, PDF

Market segment:	General Business
Challenge:	Achieve business growth that's independent of shopping exclusively for lowest price.
Solution:	Leverage Ingram Micro's vast programs and services to drive customer demand, larger product sales and continued success.

101K, PDF

Market segment:	General, Financial, Governement/Education
Challenge:	Train a solution provider's technical and sales teams on IP video surveillance while generating end-user demand for the technology.
Solution:	Use a two-fold training approach to create interest in the technology -- and the skills to generate new sales leads.

120K, PDF

Market segment:	Retail
Challenge:	Solve technical and logistics issues that inhibited the use of LongPen, a revolutionary long-distance pen-and-ink technology.
Solution:	Combine Cisco-based infrastructure with technical resources available through the Ingram Micro Services Network (IMSN).

132K, PDF

Market segment:	Government/Education
Challenge:	Turn a community school district's three-school campus into a state-of-the-art technology showpiece in order to attract students and earn funding and tax revenue.
Solution:	Leverage Ingram Micro's exhaustive product inventory and deep manufacturer relationships to choose the right product mix for the end user's needs.

73K, PDF

Market segment:	SMBs throughout central Nebraska
Challenge:	A small VAR often had to visit many manufactueres' web sites in order to aggregate information on current marketing programs and availability of funds.
Solution:	Ingram Micro's Agency Express provided a single web site that consolidates all this information -- and more -- all in one place.

117K, PDF

Market segment:	B2B, retail, music and corporate
Challenge:	Compete with local big-box Apple retailers while building market awareness.
Solution:	Team with Ingram Micro to create a competitive market advantage and stay abreast of trends and new technologies.

100K, PDF

Market segment:	Healthcare, Finance
Challenge:	In order to close a large sale, a solution provider needed to overcome a customer's previous bad experience with leasing.
Solution:	The Ingram Micro leasing team worked with the customer to gain a quick approval and change his mind about the process.

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Market segment:	Government/Education
Challenge:	Win an end user's business against a competitor by showing value over price.
Solution:	Partner with Ingram Micro to demonstrate the proposed solution in action.

WBM Office Systems | Saskatoon, Canada

Challenge:	After starting its IT Staffing Services in 2007, WBM quickly realized that keeping a flexible bench and finding the right technical talent in a pinch is never easy and can be extremely limiting for a solution provider.
Solution:	WBM teamed with Ingram Micro to formalize and grow its IT Staffing Services and deliver greater value and service to clients.

59K, PDF

Market segment:	Small, midsize and enterprise corporations
Challenge:	Maximize revenue on a large mobile handheld sale.
Solution:	Work with Ingram Micro's mobile wireless activations team to bundle the hardware sale with activation.