HP Accredited Sales Consultant

Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements and successfully position and sell HP enterprise products and services in an engagement with a customer.

• Ideal candidate : Technology or market-aligned sales specialist who sells solutions based on HP technologies for their customers
• Prerequisite : Accredited Sales Professional certification

  HP Accredited Sales Professional

Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, recognize the opportunities, and make recommendations from the HP solutions portfolio that would solve business needs.

• Ideal candidate : Account-aligned sales generalist who sells solutions based on HP technologies to their customers
• Prerequisite : None

  HP Accredited Presales Consultant

Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, then plan and design an enterprise solution within a specialty area (e.g. XP Storage, Superdome).

• Ideal candidate : Technology-aligned specialist who plans and designs solutions based on HP technologies for their customers
• Prerequisite : Accredited Presales Professional certification

  HP Accredited Presales Professional

Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, recognize opportunities and make recommendations for a solution (potentially including application, platform, operating system, storage, network and option components) that will solve business needs.

• Ideal candidate : Account-aligned technology generalist who plans and designs solutions based on HP technologies for their customers
• Prerequisite : None

  HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer

The flagship credential available from HP, the Master ASE requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, and design, integrate and support a full solution including application, middleware, platform, operating system, storage, network and option components.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who deploys complex solutions based on HP technologies
• Prerequisite : Accredited Systems Engineer certification and potentially a third party solution certification

  HP Accredited Systems Engineer

Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, support and integrate an enterprise level solution (potentially including platform, operating system, storage, network and option components) to solve business needs.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who deploys complex, enterprise solutions based on HP technologies
• Prerequisite : Accredited Integration Specialist certification AND potentially an HP Certified Systems Engineer certification or a third party Operating System certification

  HP Accredited Integration Specialist

Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, support and integrate a business class solution (potentially including platform, operating system, storage, network and option components) to solve business needs.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who deploys business class solutions based on HP technologies
• Prerequisite : Potentially an HP Certified Systems Administrator certification or a third party Operating System exam and/or certification

  HP Accredited Platform Specialist

This individual is required to provide basic hardware support for the purpose of restoring consumer and business class hardware to factory operational levels.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who provides hardware maintenance and support on HP products
• Prerequisite : Potentially a third party industry standard certification

  HP Certified Systems Engineer

This individual is required to provide hands-on installation, performance optimization, management and support of HP Solutions and/or Operating Systems in complex, enterprise environments.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who deploys or manages HP Solutions and/or HP Operating Systems in enterprise class environments
• Prerequisite : Certified System Administrator certification

  HP Certified Systems Administrator

This level of certification requires an individual to perform hands-on installation, configuration, administration and support of HP Solutions and/or HP Operating Systems in networked environments.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who deploys or manages HP Solutions or HP Operating Systems
• Prerequisite : None

  HP Certified Systems Developer

Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, implement, test, and maintain software which meet the business need.

• Ideal candidate : Anyone who codes software solutions based on HP technologies
• Prerequisite : None