A hardware platform's true success and rapid deployment demands a comprehensive suite of OEM services. To maximize the potential of your solution, you should insist on partnering with a vendor that offers end-to-end support, starting from the initial stages of product development through the intricacies of the manufacturing process and extending well beyond the product launch. This holistic approach ensures that your solution is technically sound, optimized for the market, fully compliant with relevant regulations, and backed by robust post-launch support. By leveraging the expertise and resources of a dedicated OEM service provider, you can streamline your deployment process, mitigate potential risks, and position your solution for long-term success in an increasingly competitive landscape.
How Do End-to-End OEM Services Enable Faster Time to Market?
Strategically deployed OEM services speed your solution to market by:
- Specifying the latest hardware while accounting for scalability
- Using superior manufacturing methodologies with a high level of quality control
- Offering strategic branding services to enhance your product image
- Supporting your launch with worldwide logistics, the latest trade compliance knowledge, and a global stocking network
- Providing a variety of tech support options, including onsite 24/7/365 options when necessary
Solution Design
As you create your solution, it's essential to consider the platforms that will drive it. Ideally, upon deployment, the hardware it runs on will highlight the robust functionality you've built into your code. This result, however, requires that you choose an integration partner with the expertise and experience to understand what you want to accomplish and what technology is available.
To support superior product development, the best systems integration partners employ the best hardware experts and cultivate ongoing partnerships with top-tier hardware suppliers like DELL, Intel, and HP. As a result, your best integration partners know what processing, storage, security, and network resources are available today and what's on the horizon to enable further growth of your solution. This capability includes designing hardware to power the latest applications, including AI and other forms of high-performance computing.
However, given today's regulatory compliance and sustainability requirements, more than superior hardware knowledge is required. Your ideal systems integrator also knows the platforms to satisfy many global and industry standards from ISO and other groups. In addition, they can design hardware systems that can run in the most demanding customer locations, extending your solution to more places than ever.
System Integration
When building your hardware, the best integrators start with a solid manufacturing framework with enough quality checks to ensure quality, cost-effective, and consistent production. However, it's essential to look beyond a one-time build to scalability. One of the best ways to promote your solution's growth is to ensure it's possible. For a systems integrator, that means having the capability and partner relationships to ramp up production at a moment's notice to meet your growth needs.
Another way your integrator can ensure superior production is by building checkpoints into every process phase and deploying software to verify that every component meets the necessary build requirements. This way, hardware is constructed and configured to enhance and not hinder the rollout of your solution.
Server Branding
When some integrators consider their work done, the best will see your solution through and beyond launch. One way is by matching your hardware to your brand's image by displaying your logo and other design elements prominently not only on your hardware but also in your customer-facing manuals, references, guides, and more.
Once correctly branded, your solution is ready to ship. The ideal integrator offers a ready-made and streamlined system for filling orders globally. Expertise like this requires current knowledge of trade compliance to avoid fines or delays on international shipments. Moreover, if your integrator uses forward stocking locations, they can stand ready to ship almost anywhere.
Ongoing Support
As your solution evolves and grows, you should be able to rely on your integrator to address any support and warranty issues through the lifecycle of your hardware. In some cases, this can mean 24x7x365 support, onsite or remote. Ideally, as a strategic partner, you can tailor support levels to your needs to maximize your investment.
You should expect your integrator to provide and manage a dynamic pool of proof of concept and evaluation units to aid your sales and support processes. This level of support enables you to have all the inventory needed to grow your customer base while providing the required hardware for your existing customers.
End-to-End OEM Services Delivered Expertly from UNICOM Engineering
As mentioned, ensuring your solution's success requires an integration partner willing to do more. That means offering OEM services and support far beyond specifying and reselling servers—some of the many benefits of partnering with UNICOM Engineering.
As an Intel Technology Provider and Dell Technologies OEM Partner, they can supply, build, and support the best hardware to meet or exceed your application's needs and help you bring it to market faster.
Schedule a consultation today to learn how UNICOM Engineering can keep you moving forward.
SNIPPET: How do end-to-end OEM services enable faster time to market?
Strategically deployed OEM services speed your solution to market by:
- Specifying the latest hardware while accounting for scalability
- Using superior manufacturing methodologies with a high level of quality control
- Offering strategic branding services to enhance your product image
- Supporting your launch with worldwide logistics, the latest trade compliance knowledge, and a global stocking network
- Providing a variety of tech support options, including onsite 24/7/365 options when necessary