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 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 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 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 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 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

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