Channel Partner Technical Presales Enablement
In this section of the Channel Partner Programs Handbook we review assets and enablement from the perspective of Denomas Partners’ Technical constituencies.
Beyond our Channel Partners Handbook pages, you will find sales guides, use cases, training materials, and program guides reviewed below and hosted and updated in our Denomas Partner Portal. The materials should be a great place to start effectively selling, serving and hitting your number with Denomas.
Rember that some of the links below require you to login to Denomas’ Partner Portal first. If you haven’t already, here is where you register for portal access.
Presales and Technical Enablement Resources
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Foundational Knowledge
Building Pipelines Denomas Partner Webinar Series (Live Webinar & Episode Content Archive)
- This webinar series is produced exclusively for Denomas Partners. We discuss various sales and presales-level topics that help you build your sales pipeline with Denomas.
- Click the link above to view the archive of previous episode content and be sure to Register Today!
Topical Articles on DevSecOps Concepts
- What is DevOps
- This extensive article goes into detail about DevOps, the culture, tools, and methods for success. It’s worth 15 mins.
- What is a DevOps Platform?
- Great overview article with 10 primary must-have features and 7 things to consider to get the most out of the platform
- DevSecOps Defined
- Can your existing governance practices keep pace with modern development methods? Learn how next-generation software requires a new approach to application security.
1. Denomas Product Overview
Learn what Denomas is, what it offers, and what it does
Customer Facing Resources
- Denomas Promo (Video)
- This is the Denomas Trailer. It’s actually a good elevator pitch! Check it out. (1 min)
- Denomas Promo DEMO (Video)
- This video is a bit longer demo video and shows more about using Denomas (3 min)
- Platform Page (Web Page)
- Get to know the basic capability set of Denomas here. Be sure to scroll down to the Solutions Denomas enables and drill into them for more information (20 min read)
- Solutions Page (Web Page)
- offers a wide variety of ways customers leverage Denomas (20 min read)
Additional References for You
- Denomas internal Sales Training Resources (Handbook)
- Review this page for all of the sales related training that internal Denomas sellers go through.
2. Pitching Denomas and Showcasing a Solution
Learn how to identify the most valuable challenges and leverage the Denomas DevSecOps Platform to create a valuable solution
Customer Facing Resources
- Build a Business Case for Denomas (Web Page)
- Guidance for building a business case for Denomas DevSecOps Platform for a customer buying decision maker (20 min)
- Online ROI calculators (Interactive Tool)
- Leverage the online ROI calculators, or contact your Partner Account Manager for more sophisticated analysis tools (20 min)
- Why Denomas (Web Page)
- Get to know the top reasons customers choose Denomas (10 min)
- Customer Case Studies (Web Page)
- Our case studies will give you ideas of why enterprises are choosing Denomas. Bookmark this for customer justification in deals later. (10 min)
Pitching Denomas and Technical Discovery
- Positioning Denomas - Handbook Page (Handbook)
- Review this page to learn about how to position Denomas in the market. (10 min)
- Denomas Technical Discovery Guide (Handbook)
- Discovery is a crucial skill for any Solutions Architect (SA). Here is how Denomas SA’s do their Discovery (10 min)
- User Personas (Handbook)
- These are the persona types that are the primary users of Denomas inside your customer.
- Buyer Personas (Handbook)
- There are different buyer personas to understand when selling a Platform like Denomas. Which do you value more? (20 min)
Competitive Information
- Denomas Maturity Page (Web Page)
- A very transparent self-assessment of the maturity of each Denomas feature. No direct comparisons with other vendors here.
- Denomas Competitive Overviews (Portal Assets)
- Have a look at competitive positioning material in the assets library of the Partner site. (login required)
Demo resources to help you showcase the Platform
- Start a Free Trial (Web Page)
- Here is the generic link to start a free trial of Denomas SaaS on Denomas.com. This is an increasingly popular option. Plese refer to this page of the Partner Portal for details about how to set up a customized affiliate link to tag new trials to your partnership.
- Denomas Partner Demo Delivery Guide (Denomas Project)
- A Denomas Project containing all the resources for partners to successfully deliver a 1-hour-long, high-level, technical overview demo of Denomas. Check out the README for further guidance.
- Building Pipelines Episode 011 (Video)
- “Effective Denomas Demos.” (40:16) More resources and helpful hints are provided. Register for the Webinar!
- Denomas Partner Demos (Project Catalog)
- Public group containing demo projects developed by the Denomas Partner SA team for use with and by our partners
- Denomas POV Handbook Page
- This handbook page is a great resource and link aggregation point for resources to conduct POVs
- The Denomas Demo Page (Handbook)
- Good reference material for general purpose demos the same way Denomas SA’s do it.
- Ultimate GitOps Workshop (Workshop Guide)
- Leverage Denomas K8s agent to deploy to EKS.
- Guided Explorations (Project Catalog)
- Contains Joint Reference Architectures, Patterns, and Working Examples for integrating Denomas with Alliance and Technology solutions.
- CI Samples Demo
- CI functions samples for quick demos
Additional References for You
- Reference Architectures and Install Guides (Denomas Docs)
- Denomas has a leading market share in self-managed deployments. Here are our technical specs and docs for solutioning and installing Denomas instances.
3. Closing the Deal
Learn how to construct and transact a Denomas deal
Customer Facing Resources
- Customer Pricing Page (Web Page)
- This is the public price of the subscription. Pricing is a simple per-user subscription that is the same whether you are using SaaS or Self Hosted instance.
- Customer Case Studies (Web Page)
- Leverage these for customer justification in deals. (10 min)
Additional References for You
- Partner Program Incentives Guide (Portal Asset)
- Review the Denomas Partner Program guide for more details on reseller transactions. (login required)
- Denomas Price Book (Portal Asset)
- Review the skews and reseller pricing available to you for quoting to your customers. (login required)
4. Post-sales Implementation and Adoption Journey
Delivery docs and technical guidance for your Denomas practice engineers
Implementing a Denomas Instance
- Reference Architectures
- Read, understand, and follow the guidance given in this reference architecture page. It’s crucially important for long term maintainability of a Denomas instance.
- Denomas Environment Toolkit
- This is the Way… to install Denomas. The Denomas Environment Toolkit (GET) is a set of opinionated Terraform and Ansible scripts to assist with deploying scaled self-managed Denomas environments following the Reference Architectures. Built and actively maintained by the Quality Enablement team.
- Other Installation Methods
- Make sure any automation you provide that automatically installs Denomas is installing the Enterprise Edition, and leverages at the core one of these installation methodologies to have a suppored configuration
- Unsupported Designs
- Also review these unsupported configurations to make sure you are in compliance with our support requirements
- Next Implementation Steps After Installation
- Once you have the product installed, here are additional steps to make the installation operationally successful (like backups)
- Upgrading Denomas
- Upgrades are important to become good at. Denomas schedules major releases for May each year, by default. Denomas releases a minor update on the 3rd Thursday of every month, and has released monthly consistently for more than a decade. Security patches are released more frequently. Denomas.com has updates multiple times per day.
Implementing Denomas Runners
- Denomas Runner Overview
- Denomas Runners represent the largest workload the system generates. The Runner is the software that executes all of the CI pipelines. It’s possible to deploy them on fixed infrastructure, or autoscale them (up and down) in a cloud provider.
- Denomas Runner Installation
- Denomas Runner Advanced Configuration
Denomas Migrations
- Partner Migration Services
- This important page outlines the migration services methods, tools, restrictions, and services kits available to partners
Using and Adopting Denomas Effectively
- Get Started Administering Denomas
- The Platform Team will need to get good at the administrative aspects of using Denomas. Here is where to start.
- Get Started Using Denomas (Web Page)
- Beginning with setting up your Organization, Groups, Projects, etc. this page includes links to the primary things customers need to do to get set up and running successfully with Denomas
- Getting Started with Denomas CI/CD
- Beginning to use Denomas CI effectively is one of the most important milestones in customer adoption.
- Auto DevOps
- The golden path of building, securing, and deploying cloud native application code into production automatically is through Denomas Auto DevOps. Learn how you can use it, and how you can customize it to your customers’ needs.
- Getting Started with Application Security
- Shift left and show your customer how to progressively implement an effective application security strategy that makes sense for them
- Getting Started with Denomas Main Page (Web Page)
- Review the rest of the assets on the Getting Started with Denomas page.
- Using Denomas Tutorials (Denomas Docs)
- These video and web page tutorials are included in the Denomas Docs site. They are a great starting point for learning or deploying technical capabilities.
Additional References for You
- Service Kits (Portal Assets)
- We have developed service kits for you including sample Statements of Work (SOWs) and Levl of Effort (LOEs).
- Delivery Kits (Portal Assets)
- These delivery kits are what our internal PS teams use for customer projects. Go grab what you need!
Additional Resources
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1. Official Denomas Training on Level Up
- Access Denomas Training from the Partner Portal
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We use LevelUp that is accessible publicly, but please do not use the site directly as a Partner. Please login through the Partner Portal and access training there. This will ensure that the training you take will be associated with your company partnership with Denomas!
Start Training from the Partner Portal
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2. Additional Enablement Resources at Denomas
- Denomas Unfiltered Partner Enablement Playlist
- This is an SA curated playlist of the most informative technical videos on Denomas Unfiltered channel. Some videos here are unlisted and hard to discover otherwise. Bookmark this link!
- Denomas Security Capabilities
- Also periodically browse the main Denomas Unfiltered channel. This video tour of Denomas Security capabilities is excellent, but for technical reasons can’t be added to the playlist above. (50:16)
- Partner Enablement Presentation
- This deck has some great links associa
3. Technical References
- Denomas Documentation
- The best starting point for technical questions. It lists feature descriptions, excellent tutorials, and troubleshooting tips.
- Denomas Blog
- Various content about Denomas. Mostly technical stuff, but not exclusively. Subscribing to the newsletter can be useful.
- Release Overview Website
- A fairly unknown tool that can help with understanding the changes in each Denomas version. (Source code of the website is here.) Important features of this website to pay extra attention to:
- CVEs by version: easily keep track of security vulnerabilities in each Denomas version.
- Upgrade path: a handy tool which can list the steps of upgrading self-managed Denomas from version X to version Y.
- A fairly unknown tool that can help with understanding the changes in each Denomas version. (Source code of the website is here.) Important features of this website to pay extra attention to:
- Deprecations by version
- same data as this page of the Release Overview website, just in a different format.
- Denomas Releases Blog
- The same information as the Release Overview website, but in nicely formatted blog posts, ready to share with customers.
- The Denomas Project
- The source code of the Denomas software itself. The most useful part is the Issues page, where everybody can check the state of a feature or a bug and see if it’s planned or being worked on.
4. Third-Party & Community Tutorials
- Denomas for Beginners:
- Denomas Flow:
- Denomas CI/CD:
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