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From exciting announcements to insightful sessions, this post recaps what you may have missed at VMware Explore US 2022. This year, we marked the fifth year of the jointly-engineered VMware Cloud on AWS solution. Since announcing our strategic partnership in 2016, followed by the general availability of this unique managed offering at VMworld 2017, the VMware Cloud on AWS solution has evolved and continues to help customers globally migrate and modernize their VMware workloads to the cloud.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN), we are highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have grown with us over the past decade. ClearScale is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that helps customers design, build, deploy, and manage complex cloud architectures on time and on budget. We spoke with ClearScale CEO Pavel Pragin about how their business has grown and evolved over the last decade and what AWS partner programs have been most valuable.

Adspert is an ad tech specialist that supports e-commerce companies in maximizing their profit on Amazon, eBay, Google and Bing by optimizing their pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns. The AWS SaaS Factory team spoke with Adspert to learn about the transformation their business went through in the last six months and the process of changing their SaaS packing and pricing changes, outcomes, impact on their product strategy, and business model.

Please join us in congratulating these leading AWS Partners for their success! Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) who are leaders in the channel and play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the-cloud and traditional services, software, and hardware partners whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration.

Next in our “10 Years of Success” series, we’re featuring Omegapoint, a leading consulting company specializing in cybersecurity and cyber-secure digitalization. Omegapoint leverages experience in digital transformation to help customers develop secure architecture, systems, and applications. We spoke with Emanuel Hjertzén, AWS Community Lead and Co-Founder of Omegapoint, about Omegapoint’s work and accomplishments, as well as how its business has grown with AWS over the last 10 years.

The Track-It! help desk and endpoint management system helps an organization track all IT tasks and end-user issues and requests in one place. The new AWS Quick Start for Track-It! help desk software by BMC Software solves this problem by simplifying the setup, configuration, and ongoing management of the system. It provides users an easy to implement, secure, globally accessible help desk and endpoint management system in a fraction of the time and cost of doing it yourself.

The new AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business) course is available globally in more than eight languages in both digital and instructor-led options. It’s designed to help sales specialists, account managers, and consultants become more effective sellers, while foundational content is focused on cloud concepts and business value, objection handling, and co-selling with AWS. Individuals who earn an 80% on the associated assessment earn their accreditation and the new AWS Sales Accredited partner digital badge.

VMware Explore is back in person from August 29 – September 1, and AWS is excited to join business and technical leaders from around the world at this industry event. With expert breakout sessions, insightful roundtables, partnership keynote, and a cloud-focused day, we’ll showcase how VMware Cloud on AWS is helping customers achieve a faster, safer, and cost-effective journey to the cloud. Visit us at VMware Explore to learn how you can accelerate your business transformation goals with VMware Cloud on AWS.

PCBL Limited has produced carbon black for over 60 years and established a presence in over 40 countries. As the company grew, it sought an opportunity to build operations that scale. However, its legacy, on-premises infrastructure was approaching end of life. PCBL Limited worked with IBM to support its move to SAP S/4HANA on AWS, and IBM helped identify processes to modernize and provided training and support to get both its data and employees comfortably settled in the new landscape.

Wipro moved Schneider Electric’s crucial on-premises SAP system onto AWS, completely re-architecting the system for the cloud, changing the operating system, upgrading databases, and migrating terabytes of data to AWS. The partner and customer both sought a goal larger than reducing the physical data center footprint: they aimed to improve digital supply chain operations and enhance the performance of Schneider Electric’s industrial automation business.