Digital business transformation is the biggest business disruptor of our age. Consider that the world’s top accommodations provider owns no real estate, and the world’s biggest taxi company launched without owning a single car.

This week, CRN published its annual Women of the Channel list, and I’m proud to say that six of the honorees are from the IBM Global Business Partners organization. Two of our leaders were also named to the Power 100 list, an elite subset of the prestigious annual Women of the Channel list.

Over the past year, IBM has initiated a series of programs to help you, our IBM Business Partners, develop greater expertise and higher-value solutions to help our mutual clients redefine markets and lead their industries. With the launch of our new PartnerWorld program in January, IBM has moved vigorously from a product-centric model to one focused on competencies, customer satisfaction and revenue, all to empower you to excel in the Cognitive Era.

Converged infrastructure deployments have become a critical foundation of cloud and traditional data centers. Market surveys conducted by leading industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) show 56 percent of enterprises plan to deploy converged infrastructure, while 32 percent already have.1

On January 1, we launched our newly redesigned PartnerWorld program to help you, our IBM Business Partners, develop expertise and higher-value solutions that will help our joint clients disrupt their markets and lead in their industries.