Since 1997, the Alliance Partners, originally the Agent Alliance, has been a powerful voice for the channel. This diverse industry consortium of technology businesses represents all industry sectors, from traditional communications to IT, cloud, storage and virtualization, mobility and converged IP services. The Alliance is dedicated to fostering the best business outcomes and business practices nationwide for the channel ecosystem. It offers a unified point of contact for providers, with the scale to achieve benefits that are out of the reach of a single carrier. And, it’s is an important forum for education, collaboration and information-sharing, aimed at helping its members evolve their practices to remain competitive. The Alliance is able to leverage the unique and diverse expertise of its formidable member owners to put this scale and knowledge into practice in highly pragmatic ways to create an environment of continuous growth and improvement, which benefits members, providers and clients alike.