More than two-thirds of senior leaders responsible for revenue management and channel strategy believe that solution based incentive management, automated channel data management (CDM), and automated MDF management would be very valuable when optimizing channel revenue processes. Unfortunately, automating channel revenue processes across systems remain a significant challenge due to a reliance on manual tools […]
By Tracy Diziere, President & CEO, TDZ Creative Partners By now, the value and necessity of Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and Through-Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA) systems is well established. Forrester sized the PRM market at $400 million in 2019 and expects it to grow to nearly $890 million by 2025. And in 2018, it predicted that TCMA […]
By Alan Feldman, Director of Business Development, and Michael Auer, Growth Marketing Director, Winn Technology Group With the ever-changing landscape of sales for products or services, the need to optimize and grow your channel ecosystem continues to be more critical. From many years of working in this arena in the technology sector, and seeing some […]
The channel software stack continued to grow in 2020. According to an annual review by Jay McBain, Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Channel Partnerships & Alliances, 183 companies offer channel program supporting solutions. McBain’s survey listed 159 companies at the end of 2019. As 2018 came to a close, 106 solution providers were identified. Last year, companies […]
Model N, a cloud revenue management solution provider, is offering new revenue management and channel performance capabilities as part of its Fall 2020 high tech product release. Included in the release are expanded artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities for deal optimization and channel intelligence. The capabilities aim to support high-tech client strategies […]
Magentrix, a partner relationship management solution provider, has announced the launch of a Zapier app integration, allowing users to instantly connect their portal with any of the 2000+ apps available through Zapier without coding. Users can move data and automate tasks between apps, increasing productivity. Zapier allows clients to create automated tasks, known as Zaps, […]
By Lincoln Smith, Chief Strategy Officer, HMI Performance Incentives Designing channel incentive programs is a genuine passion of mine. I have been fortunate to work with leading manufacturers and wholesalers to help drive customer loyalty and share-of-wallet spend initiatives. Unfortunately, there can be a dark side to these programs that any good program operator must […]
Red Hat, an open-source solutions company, is providing its distributors and resellers with a digital platform to deliver daily-updated data on renewal performance and exclusive Red Hat sales insights. A component Red Hat’s Partner Renewals Engagement Program (PREP), the Renewals Intelligence platform features a suite of interactive dashboards that allows channel partners to gain a […]
Spark Your Channel, a demand generation company, has released of a new feature that will automatically attach partner-created intros and outros to vendor supplied videos. When launched earlier this year, the platform enabled partners to easily amend individual multimedia assets with introductions and closing messages to ensure that the marketing assets are always associated with […]
Forrester is predicting that the market for partner relationship management software will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 14.2 percent to $889 million by 2025. In a recent post, Jay McBain, Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Channel Partnerships & Alliances, noted that channel leaders are looking for PRM to be the foundational layer on a channel […]