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Channel Strategy in the Era of the Vendor Marketplace

Vendors including AWS, Microsoft, Shopify, Zoom, Slack, Hubspot and many others have pioneered a dynamic new channel business model: The Platform Ecosystem.

These provide service marketplaces and plug-n-play app stores where partners can add their own products.

These new models have revolutionized and disrupted channel market strategy. They build upon and extend the traditional channel model to integrate partners directly into the vendors core product, intensifying and compounding the value of both.

It presents huge opportunity but also significant challenge for partners: How best to adapt their products to integrate into the marketplaces and the new engagement models required to drive demand and sales.

Our learning program helps channel executives identify and implement the optimum marketplace strategy for their sales organization.

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Industry analysis, case studies and best practices guide

Showcasing the channel industry pioneers and thought leaders

The power of the Platform Marketplace for partner ecosystems is evident through the variety of different models that are implemented across different industries. This spans Cloud, SaaS and industry verticals.

AWS, Microsoft and others operate Cloud marketplaces. ISVs and consultants can add listings to add value to the core hosting services, like migration and DevOps, and in turn these marketplaces are driving $billions in revenues for the partner ecosystem.

In software the app store is an extremely way to build out the core product through partners. Vendors like Atlassian have built $Billion revenue businesses through this approach.

Other approaches include Blockchain ecosystems and industry collaboration networks such as for Telcos. In our guide we examine each in turn to distil a repeatable blueprint for partners to consider and shape their platform strategy.

Industry Insights

Ongoing expert article series on business models and technologies
for building Partner Ecosystems.
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Case study of how Atlassian built a Channel Partner Platform Ecosystem to deliver $10 billion in sales.
Telco forum group offers an organizational and tooling blueprint for how industries can co-develop a shared Digital Ecosystem platform model.
DigitalOcean offers multiple partnership pathways, from a flexible solutions partner program, to startup-specific partnerships and Marketplace application partners.