Symantec Hosted Services offers a broad portfolio of training matched to your role and company business model. Training is designed to help you increase sales, and manage and support customers and is available in various formats to meet your needs, schedule and budget.
eLearning
Symantec Hosted Services offers free eLearning available online exclusively to Partner Program Members. The eLearning accreditation courses and assessments are organized by product and role for Sales, Technical Pre-Sales, Technical Support and Implementation (Ordering and Fulfillment). There are also eLearning introductory course modules designed to provide short comprehensive overview on services, objection handling, ClientNet and other topics.
Classroom Training
As a Symantec Hosted Services Partner you may be eligible for online learning via live webcasts and expert mentoring. Fees may apply. Symantec Hosted Services also offers fee-based Classroom Training courses at Symantec or Partner locations around the world. For charges and schedule availability contact your Partner Account Manager or email certifications@messagelabs.com.
Registrants will be emailed a user id and password to login to our Learning Management System and will be given access to all product courses based on their role as specified as well as access to introductory courses.
New Live Sales Training Webinars
Symantec Hosted Services provides a new training schedule designed to help you fully
capitalize on high-margin service opportunities and increase your services business through professionally
trained staff that can sell, implement and support the full range of MessageLabs Hosted Services.
The courses have been designed to kick start your partnership with us but would also prove useful as
refresher training for our services. All courses will run as audio and web conferences over the next
few months, the course duration is 1 hour.
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| Training Title | Description |   |
Symantec Hosted Services: Getting Started
| This session will provide you with a quick overview of Symantec Hosted Services and outline the partner
resources available for you to use to help sell, support, order and implement our services.
| Register Now
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Selling MessageLabs Hosted Web Services
| This session will allow individuals to initiate a conversation about Internet security and threats, outline the
features and benefits of our hosted Web services plus handle common objections.
| Register Now
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MessageLabs Hosted Web Services: Demonstrating, implementing and configuring
| This session will provide pre-sales candidates with an introduction to the underlying technologies for
MessageLabs Hosted Web Services. This session will also show how to demonstrate the customer portal,
address key technical queries and aid the design and implementation of the service for a customer.
| Register Now
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Selling MessageLabs Hosted Email Services
| This session will allow individuals to initiate a conversation about Internet security and threats, outline the
features and benefits of our hosted email services plus handle common objections.
| Register Now
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MessageLabs Hosted Email Services: Demonstrating, implementing and configuring
| This session will provide pre-sales candidates with an introduction to the underlying technologies for
MessageLabs Hosted Email Services. This session will also show how to demonstrate the customer portal,
address key technical queries and aid the design and implementation of the service for a customer.
| Register Now
|
New Live Sales Training Webinars
Symantec Hosted Services provides a new training schedule designed to help you fully
capitalize on high-margin service opportunities and increase your services business through professionally
trained staff that can sell, implement and support the full range of MessageLabs Hosted Services.
The courses have been designed to kick start your partnership with us but would also prove useful as
refresher training for our services. All courses will run as audio and web conferences over the next
few months, the course duration is 1 hour.
|   |   |   |
| Training Title | Description |   |
Symantec Hosted Services: Getting Started
| This session will provide you with a quick overview of Symantec Hosted Services and outline the partner
resources available for you to use to help sell, support, order and implement our services.
| Register Now
|
Selling MessageLabs Hosted Web Services
| This session will allow individuals to initiate a conversation about Internet security and threats, outline the
features and benefits of our hosted Web services plus handle common objections.
| Register Now
|
MessageLabs Hosted Web Services: Demonstrating, implementing and configuring
| This session will provide pre-sales candidates with an introduction to the underlying technologies for
MessageLabs Hosted Web Services. This session will also show how to demonstrate the customer portal,
address key technical queries and aid the design and implementation of the service for a customer.
| Register Now
|
Selling MessageLabs Hosted Email Services
| This session will allow individuals to initiate a conversation about Internet security and threats, outline the
features and benefits of our hosted email services plus handle common objections.
| Register Now
|
MessageLabs Hosted Email Services: Demonstrating, implementing and configuring
| This session will provide pre-sales candidates with an introduction to the underlying technologies for
MessageLabs Hosted Email Services. This session will also show how to demonstrate the customer portal,
address key technical queries and aid the design and implementation of the service for a customer.
| Register Now
|
Previously Recorded Webcasts
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| Event Title | Description |   |
| Hosted Endpoint Protection | This session will include an overview of the product, key differentiators in the marketplace, as well as the target market. | Listen Now
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| Archiving and Email Continuity | Many archiving solutions address the problems of storage and knowledge management, Legal Discovery and Compliance. The MessageLabs solution also protects against business disruption caused by Hardware, Software, Network or Human error.
This presentation will look at the threats experienced, the vulnerabilities they exploit and the impacts they create before focusing on the benefits of the MessageLabs email continuity and archiving solution. | Listen Now
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| Partner Guide to Click and Go Campaigns | This session will walk you through the process of creating a click and go campaign from start to finish. By the end of this session you will be able to log on to the campaign section of your partner page and successfully build a whitepaper campaign or trial campaign that can be used for lead generation activities that same day.
| Listen Now
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| Web Services | Bandwidth, Offensive materials, Productivity, spyware and Trojans. Some of the challenges which the MessageLabs web security services can assist with. This session will examine these problems, look at how MessageLabs can help you solve them, look at competitive landscape and suggest methods for implementing the service. | Listen Now
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| Partner Update | This webinar will provide you with your regular update on the security landscape plus provide you with the latest information and news from MessageLabs. | Listen Now
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| Email Services | Malware, Spam, Images and Content. This session will introduce you to the challenges experienced by businesses and show you how MessageLabs can help solve them. It will cover the main features of the email security services, highlight key selling points, competitive landscape and give you advice on positioning them effectively. | Listen Now
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| ClientNet Walkthrough - Email Services | ClientNet walkthroughs are a powerful sales tool, highlighting to your prospect the features and ease of use of the MessageLabs services. In this session a MessageLabs trainer will show you how to make the most of a demonstration of the reporting and configuration areas of the email security services. | Listen Now
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| ClientNet Walkthrough - Web Services | ClientNet walkthroughs are a powerful sales tool, highlighting to your prospect the features and ease of use of the MessageLabs services. In this session a MessageLabs trainer will show you how to make the most of a demonstration of the reporting and configuration areas of the web security services. | Listen Now
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| Handling Sales Objections | We don’t outsource. What happens if MessageLabs breaks? You can read my email! My spam is different. You are a lot more expensive them my software. During this session we will look at some of the more commonly raised sales objections and how to handle them. | Listen Now
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| Why SaaS | This session provides an introduction to using hosted services as part of your security solution. During this presentation we will be discussing the benefits and drawbacks of software, appliance and hosted security solutions and looking at the total cost of ownership model. | Listen Now
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Keep up with the latest changes to ClientNet
Partner ordering and ticketing is now available in ClientNet Partner Order Forms and Support Ticketing Center. For credentials contact your account manager, MessageLabs support support@messagelabs.com or order_services@messagelabs.com.
- Review the recorded demo of ClientNet ordering for partners at
- In the Support Ticketing Center you can delegate access to users to raise tickets either on your behalf or on the behalf of your clients.
- Order Forms in the ClientNet Partners area should be used in place of the existing PartnerNet forms. PartnerNet will be retired at the end of January. The new versions of the Order Forms will:
• Give you visibility into the products held by your customers.
• Enable you to order all products you are contracted to sell.
• Improve the usability of the forms.
- You can also assign credentials to other members of your organization and manage who within your organization is able to access specific areas of functionality. In addition, you can control what contact and support information customers see.
| Service Demonstrations | Demonstrations on Email, Web, IM and Archiving services. | Click here |
| Ordering Demonstrations | Recorded demo of ClientNet ordering | Click here |