NextWave 3.0 Program Enhancements

To help accelerate the development of the partner of tomorrow, Palo Alto Networks has unveiled the NextWave 3.0 Partner Program to: enable differentiation, expand opportunities, enhance profitability, and empower success. NextWave 3.0 is a comprehensive set of enhancements to their award-winning program that will help NextWave partners build more predictable and profitable businesses with them.

NextWave 3.0 is arguably the most comprehensive set of changes they have ever made to their award-winning NextWave program. It will:

• Enable partner differentiation with new NextWave specializations (Prisma SASE, Prisma Cloud, and Cortex XDR + XSOAR Specializations)
• Enable Sales with new specialization and NextWave sales learning paths (NGFW, VMs & CNs), a new AMPLIFY Sales Fundamentals sales training, and new AMPLIFY Sales Recruit and Sales Associate learning paths
• Enable technical staff with new Micro Credentials (Cortex, XDR, XSOAR, SASE, and Prisma Cloud) and a CYBERFORCE SASE Special Ops prescriptive enablement path
• Enhance partner profitability with 3 new specialization incentives allowing partners to earn additional discount, 3 new specialization rebates rewarding partners with rebates, and a new VM partner value incentive boost allowing partners to earn additional discounts.
• Expand partner opportunities with Prisma Cloud route-to-market expansion, NextWave deal referrals, a new Prisma Cloud specialized deal referral boost, the addition of NextWave incentives to partner-delivered support bundles, and growing partner-delivered Premium Support

Please contact your local Exclusive Networks Account Manager to learn more about the enhancements in the Palo Alto Networks NextWave 3.0 Partner Program.