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Evolving Changes to IT Service Delivery Examined at 2024 Channel Partners Conference

Channel Insider

State of the market: Growth amid economic headwinds IT market research firm Canalys sized up the IT partner ecosystem’s opportunities and challenges. Canalys’ Chief Analyst for channels, partnerships, and ecosystems, Jay McBain, summed up the state of the market , noting that overall IT spending is growing at 6.2%.

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5 Tips to Leveraging Influencers in Technology Partner Programs

Mindmatrix

Technology influencers stand apart due to their unique audiences, goals, and expectations, often differing significantly from your partner ecosystem. Once influencers have been identified, companies should adopt a proactive approach to engagement.

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Top 9 SAP Contract Negotiation Consultants & Consulting Firms

Jake Jorgovan

Facilitation of fact-based system integrator (SI) decisions to mitigate risks. Leveraging digital transformations, like cloud migration, to negotiate credits for old licenses and shelfware. Post-contract support to ensure service providers deliver as per the program scope.

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SaaS Pricing Models for the Channel

Channel Incentive Best Practices

Small & Medium businesses (SMBs) are attracted to a pure SaaS model where they can pay monthly by credit card, or even quarterly. Some of the more lucrative longer-term SaaS contracts are handled by global consulting firms and global system integrators (GSIs). Economic Conditions.

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Partner-Friendly? or Partner-Phobic? What is Your Company Culture?

Phoenix Consulting Group

Make them successful and give the partner credit for their role. Someone mentioned this to a very large global system integrator in the account. Be sure you pour plenty of attention and resources over your first partner opportunities. Sound familiar? They were not getting much traction.

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Channel Partnerships Evolution: Navigating in the Tech Sector

Mindmatrix

Types of channel partnerships within tech sector Channel partnership forms vary in shape and acronyms: reseller, value-added reseller, system integrator, ISV channel partners, alliance channel partners, influencers, managed service providers, and referral agent partners.

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How Software Startups Go-To-Market in the Cloud Era

Tackle.io

I joined the company in the summer of this year, so July timeframe, and obviously now the task I have is to figure out the ecosystem vision and strategy and how we’re going to go to market and scale and leverage are the two words time and again. What kind of leverage can you create as the BD ecosystem leader?