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20 Collaborative Automation Partners (including: Acksys, AVG, Bentley Systems, Data-Linc, ECT International, Eplan, Hirschmann, HMS Industrial
Networks, Integrated Industrial Technologies , MDT Software, Niobrara Research & Development, OSIsoft, Phoenix Digital, Prosoft Technology, Spectrum Controls,
Vishay Nobel, Weed Instrument, and Westermo) arrived in Las Vegas for the chance to demonstrate their Collaborative Automation solutions to many Schneider
Electric customers from the USA, Canada and Mexico.
- Only the second time an Initi@tive event has been hosted in the USA, this show was labeled a “very productive show” by one of our more
experienced CAPP partner companies.
More than 1,400 Schneider Electric North American Operating Division customers and distributors packed the Mandalay Bay Resort and
Casino to see the multi-industry trade exposition, and to examine the solution content from Schneider Electric and from our CAPP automation partners.
The show was composed of more than 100 professional development seminars and 100,000 square feet of solutions displays and exhibits.
It was another great opportunity for many of our Collaborative Automation partners to present and demonstrate their products, services and solution capabilities to
customers coming from western USA, from Canada and from Mexico.
- The event was also a good chance for our partners to meet Schneider Electric sales and channel representatives from those countries, to get to know each
other better, to discuss new common business opportunities in the zone, and to brainstorm joint business development ideas for the future.
- A CAPP automation seminar was presented by one of ourpartners, ePLAN, a session delivered hand-in-hand with a Schneider management representative
from the Innovation Center in Raleigh. Together, ePLAN and Schneider examined the design automation subject, including the combined, collective capabilities of
both companies.
- The partner booths were frequently filled with customers during the two days. These customers arrived very much interested in the products and solutions
demonstrated by local partner representatives. One CAPP partner commented, “Judged by the contacts with customers and the contacts with the people of
Schneider Electric, this show was easily the best automation trade show I have ever attended!"
Partner comments
- "Initiative 2008 in Las Vegas made us happy by its professionalism, level of competence of visitors and hearty attitude of the organizers towards the CAPP
partners.”
- “We had lots of visitors at our stand.”
- “Events like this help us to find new customers and new distributors in countries abroad.”
- “For us, Initi@tive2008 in Las Vegas was a very productive show.”
- "Now, after the show, I have a tall stack of customers and business cards to follow up. The show created many interesting business possibilities to
develop.”
- The visitors at Initi@tive were the right people. They included customer representatives who were decision makers, and who were interested in future
automation projects.
- We consider it a compliment to have been invited to the Schneider Inti@tive customer show in Las Vegas. It gave us an opportunity to promote our
company, a member of the Collaborative Automation Partner Program, to Schneider Electric customers.
- Schneider Electric Initi@tive Las Vegas was a huge, dramatic customer event. It emphasized Schneider’s direction and commitment to the automation
industry.
- The attendees I met were enthusiastic about Schneider solutions, and the benefits these solutions provided to their projects and companies.
- The leads we received were high-quality leads.
- “For the intersections with customers and the contacts with key people from Schneider, this was one of the very best trade shows in all of my
experience.”
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