The technology purchases member companies already make can fund the Association's mission: the Association itself, every chapter, and the members themselves. The member company continues to negotiate the same or better pricing for their technology purchases. Participation is voluntary and adds resources to help members in the sourcing of technology. This operator view shows the full program waterfall on gross commission received.
The circuits themselves: dedicated internet access, broadband, private lines, wavelength services, and fixed wireless that connect offices, data centers, and clouds — the recurring carrier services under everything else a company runs.
Managed networking on top of the circuits: SD-WAN overlays that steer traffic across multiple connections, managed routers and edge devices, and the orchestration that keeps branch sites performing and failing over cleanly.
Infrastructure: public cloud compute and storage, private and hosted cloud, and colocation space, power, and interconnection. Often a company's largest single line of IT spend.
Cybersecurity delivered as a service: managed detection and response, firewalls and secure web gateways, zero-trust access, and SASE offerings that converge network security and remote access into a single cloud-delivered stack protecting users, sites, and data.
Cloud communications and customer experience platforms: unified communications (voice, video, meetings, messaging) and contact center / customer experience as a service, including the agent tooling, analytics, and integrations that run how a company talks to its customers and how its people talk to each other.
Services that make applications fast and reliable for the people using them: load balancing, content delivery, WAN and application performance optimization, and the observability tooling that shows where the slowdowns are.
Commercial software agreements and renewals: productivity and collaboration suites, SaaS subscriptions, and enterprise license agreements across the company's software portfolio.
Data platforms and analytics: warehousing and lakehouse platforms, data integration and pipeline services, and the BI tooling that turns operational data into the reporting and dashboards a leadership team actually runs on.
AI platforms and intelligent automation bought as services: conversational AI and virtual agents, machine-learning platforms, document and workflow automation, and RPA — the fastest-changing category of enterprise spend.
Supplier catalog sampling is served from the SpearPoint portal at rollout.