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Explore Innovation Opportunities with ePlus

Technology is rapidly evolving, and we understand it can be difficult to keep pace with market trends, industry disruptors, and the dynamic portfolio of technology solutions and services available. To guide you through technology transformation, ePlus established our Executive Briefing Center (EBC) Program.
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How can I get more out of my technology investments and partnership with ePlus?

Participating in an Executive Briefing Center (EBC) session offers a distinctive opportunity to engage with your technology partner beyond traditional sales or support interactions. The EBC Program is thoughtfully designed around your organization’s goals and strategic priorities. A dedicated EBC Coordinator will curate and facilitate a customized experience structured to provide clarity on emerging technologies, help you gain strategic insights aligned with your business goals, establish executive level connections with industry experts, and explore forward-looking technology strategies. The goal is to accelerate innovation, drive digital transformation, and unlock the power of your IT investments.

Flexible EBC Delivery Options

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My executives are not all in the same location. How can we execute an EBC with maximum participation?

Each ePlus EBC is customized to your organization’s goals and priorities, with flexible options for in-person, virtual, or hybrid experiences.

  • In-person executive briefings - We can host your briefing at our state-of-the-art ePlus Customer Innovation Center in Sterling, Virginia or at an ePlus office near you.
  • Virtual executive briefings - We are pleased to offer a virtual briefing experience if you are looking to reduce spending on travel and time away from family and business.
  • Hybrid executive briefings - We can mix it up to provide a personalized experience for both in-person and virtual guests, giving you the flexibility to expand participation.

Key Benefits

The ePlus EBC Program is designed with your “Why” in mind. A dedicated EBC Coordinator will plan, organize, and orchestrate a briefing that is engaging, thought-provoking, and informative—customized to your specific concerns and business outcomes. We will gather relevant ePlus subject matter experts for in-depth discussions on technology trends and strategies that mean the most to you.
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Access to Subject Matter Experts

Tap the IT acumen of our technologists and strategists to gain valuable perspectives into emerging market trends, industry challenges, and future opportunities—so you can make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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Personalized Solutions and Strategic Guidance

Our executive briefings provide a platform for you to discuss your specific needs with experts. This leads to tailored solutions and strategic advice that directly address your business objectives.

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Rapport with a Trusted Advisor

These briefings offer a unique opportunity for you to build stronger relationships with key executives and decision makers, leading to better collaboration, enhanced trust, and long-term partnerships to position your organization for ongoing success.

EBC Offerings

We offer an extensive menu of topics to explore during your EBC. You’ll work directly with your ePlus Account Executive to identify those most relevant to your organization, and we will build an agenda that directly maps to your needs.
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Security

Journey to Zero Trust:

The accelerated migration towards distributed users and applications across clouds and SaaS along with the explosion of on-network devices for IoT and OT use cases is causing many organizations to re-evaluate their network segmentation and access control architecture. Explore how to apply trust where authorized , monitor continuously, and work segment by segment, app by app to deliver on a zero trust journey.

SOC Modernization:

Cyber security continues to see a significant talent shortage along with increasing threats, incidents, and breaches. This session discusses the evolution of modern Security Operations (SecOps) and the shared responsibility model for organizations, platforms, and service providers along with an honest look at operational aptitude and identification of SecOps goals—helping to identify a clear path forward.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Security and Governance:

The introduction of AI use cases requires strong data and governance programs to ensure that AI applications align with your overall IT risk management goals. During this briefing we discuss the importance of evaluating your data governance processes and frameworks as well as mapping out the intended AI application use case, stakeholders, data sets, and auditing processes.

AI Journey Support:

Whether you are considering the possibilities of AI, have established data and AI strategies, or seek to transform your organization’s AI capabilities, this briefing discusses how ePlus can help you explore, adopt, and optimize AI technologies—to increase revenue, decrease costs, reduce risk, and maintain a competitive advantage. In this briefing, we will discuss the AI maturity model; productivity, IT efficiency, and industry-specific use cases; the path to a proof of concept; and AI optimized infrastructure solutions.

Streamline M365 Copilot Deployments:

Considering M365 Copilot and need to successfully prepare for deployment with a focus on keeping your data secure and empowering your workers? In this session, we will cover Copilot use cases; licensing and data considerations; governance, tagging, and enforcement; setting up a proof of concept; and scaling to production.

GenAI Proof of Concept:

With the potential to speed innovation, create new revenue streams, and boost productivity, GenAI is top of mind for many organizations. This briefing covers ePlus’ curated 30-day secure private GenAI Chatbot experience, including GenAI use cases, data and security considerations, an Envisioning Workshop, engagement support, usage and satisfaction metrics, and a cost benefit analysis for use cases.

Advanced Support Services for AI Infrastructure Solutions:

Ensure your AI infrastructure is modernized and ready for running AI workloads. From compute and storage to machine learning operations, our experienced team handles monitoring, incident resolution, and optimization—so you can focus on innovation while we ensure peak performance, security, and reliability.

Cloud & Data Center

Journey to Modernization:

Managing today’s disruption and complexity has accentuated the importance of agility and digital innovation—and directly impacts your journey to modernization. During this briefing, we will discuss your modernization challenges and discuss how to create a cloud-enabled enterprise architecture by modernizing your data center, extending capabilities to the cloud, accelerating cloud adoption, and optimizing cloud platforms.

Data Center-as-a-Service:

Leveraging flexible consumption of your data center infrastructure can help you achieve service delivery agility, scalability, and sustainability while accommodating growth regardless of where your workloads reside. This session explores delivering Data Center-as-a-Service within your own facilities or colocations and how you can speed time to market, improve governance, reduce risk, and lower monthly cloud spend.

Disaster Recovery as-a-Service:

Simply replicating workloads for disaster recovery purposes is only the first step for successful recovery. During this briefing, we will discuss how to ensure optimal recovery, safeguard your critical services and data assets, and reduce risk through continuous testing and validation along with failover and operational support.

Cloud Consulting Services:

The cloud journey is complex, from secure landing zone deployment to accelerated migrations, modernization, disaster recovery, data modernization, and cost optimization. This session explores how to align your business and cloud strategies, build your cloud foundation, speed cloud adoption, and optimize deployments.

Cloud Marketplaces:

During this briefing we will discuss how to leverage the power of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplaces to increase agility, modernize the procurement process, increase purchasing governance, and retire your EDP/EA quota. Topics include purchasing governance, discounted pricing, EDP/EA retirement optimization, custom terms and EULA, and financing options.

Networking

Wireless Evolution:

Wireless access is nearly more pervasive than dial tone. However, not all wireless is created equal, and today’s demand for ultra connectivity requires faster speeds, higher density, tighter security, and farther reach. This session unpacks the latest advancements in wireless technologies that go beyond WiFi to explore the application of private cellular in the modern enterprise.

Network Modernization:

Network modernization has become a critical imperative for businesses seeking to maintain their competitive edge and support their digital transformation initiatives. During this briefing we will discuss how advanced technologies (including AI, software-defined networking, cloud computing, virtualization, and network function virtualization) can work in concert to create a more agile, efficient, and secure networking environment.

Optical Networking for DCI and Access:

As AI-driven workloads continue to evolve, data center interconnects (DCI) and broadband access networks require unmatched scalability, reliability, and performance. This session explores how advanced routing and optical networking serve as the foundation of these next-generation infrastructures, delivering ultra-low latency, high-capacity connectivity, and intelligent automation.

Collaboration

Collaboration-as-a-Service:

Is moving from Capex to Opex a priority? Is offloading day-to-day support to an MSP part of your strategy? In this session, learn how you can reduce the total cost of ownership of your voice, meeting, and contact center platforms with a subscription-based, per-user or per-agent per month model. Consume fully-managed, cloud-delivered collaboration services, without the need for large upfront investments, all with 24/7/365 lifecycle support.

Your Cloud Collaboration Journey:

Are you looking to add or migrate to a Cloud Collaboration platform? In this session, we will focus on leading UCaaS/CCaaS providers and how ePlus can help you with a market evaluation to select the best provider(s) for your organization.

Delivering Amazing Customer Experiences:

Contact Center technology enables efficient and effective customer service to improve overall satisfaction. We'll define Contact Center, explore its benefits, and review AI-powered features such as chatbots, customer self-service solutions, automated quality management, sentiment analysis, and third-party integrations.

Transforming and Empowering the Hybrid Workplace:

The future of the workplace is hybrid. Returning to the office mandates modern workplace technology and design in order to support hybrid business. Learn how ePlus can help you design for flexibility to support the office, home, or anywhere; increase employee engagement and productivity; and make the office a magnet, not a mandate.

Enabling the Multi-Platform Meeting Room:

How do you architect and configure your meeting and collaboration spaces to support Cisco, Zoom, Microsoft, and Google, all while delivering a simple user experience? In this session, we will review the latest in collaboration device technology, including the ePlus approach to managing the experience and effective operations of video conferencing solutions.

Maximize your Modern Workplace with Microsoft Teams:

The way people work continues to evolve. Learn how Microsoft's Modern Workplace portfolio can help transform your workforce to adapt and thrive along with maximizing your Microsoft investment and increasing employee productivity by consolidating communication and collaboration to a single platform.

Zooming in on Your Collaboration and Workplace Strategy:

Zoom provides one platform to connect and collaborate to improve team effectiveness. Learn how Zoom solutions help modernize communication workflows including phone, video meetings, messaging, webinars, contact center, and spaces.

Telecom & Colo

Telecom & Colo Services:

Need help sourcing, deploying, managing, and negotiating connectivity, voice, contact center, and colocation services? This briefing covers the importance of market evaluations to help you find the best solution to fit your business needs along with lifecycle support for delivery and implementation.

Consulting

Consulting Services:

We understand you need to transform IT. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) along with IT modernization and GenAI are creating opportunity and complexity. While supporting the daily demands of your users, you also need to simplify operations, implement technology that will drive real business outcomes, and position your organization for growth. This briefing covers how ePlus can help you streamline and modernize your approach to delivering and managing IT services.

Managed Services

Offload IT Management:

As IT leaders expand their focus from data center ROI, cost savings, and performance to driving innovation and elevating the customer experience, Managed Services have never been more important. In this briefing, we will explore flexible subscription models to proactively monitor, manage, and maximize the critical technologies that run your business—so you can consolidate service providers to reduce complexity and realize a seamless technology experience.

Continuous Excellence with Enhanced Maintenance Support:

When it comes to managing your IT infrastructure, a full architecture view is required—one that extends beyond a single manufacturer or component and spans both hardware and software. This briefing explores the synergistic benefits you can expect from multi-vendor architecture support.

Customer Experience

Customer Experience (CX) Services:

Looking for ways to enable delivery of an elevated human experience, get the most out of your technology, reduce time to value, improve efficiency, and/or speed innovation? This session discusses how ePlus can help you manage assets, adopt software, and recognize value at a quicker pace.

Assessments & Training

Security Advisory Services:

Looking for an extra set of eyes to review your most critical security issues and opportunities? This session focuses on governance, risk management and compliance, privacy, cyber security strategy, security operations, security and technology road maps, digital transformation, and mergers and acquisitions—helping you address your current business needs while positioning your business for growth.

Actionable Insight to Take Your Business to the Next Level:

Assessments help you understand what’s really going on within your IT environment, providing valuable insight you can use to adapt to shifting demands and deliver better business outcomes. This briefing explains how you can make your IT environment more reliable, scalable, high performing, and secure.

Training to Sharpen Your Team's Skills:

This session covers ways you can educate your team on various technologies, solutions, and concepts—and learn how to design, deploy, and scale cutting-edge cloud and security technologies to support the next phase of your business. Our courses, which can be deployed virtually through online collaboration, include hands-on technical training, course materials, interactive labs, and troubleshooting exercises.

Resourcing & Support

Task-Oriented Engineering Support:

Learn how ePlus can support project deployments, facilitate ongoing lifecycle efforts, and enable shift-left tactical activities off overworked IT teams along with ad hoc professional dispatch services.

Extend Your Talent Bench:

Are your current IT goals stretching your budgets and resources? This session takes a closer look at ePlus’ Strategic Technology Resourcing solutions, including short-term, long-term, temporary-to-hire, and direct-hire IT professionals, to help you place those hard-to-find candidates with the unique technology skillsets in demand today.