Case Study

Customer Description:
• Multi-billion dollar publicly traded company
 
Industry:
• Software
 
Business Need:
• Strategic work around worldwide partner segmentation and management
• Define methodology and criteria to prioritize partners
• Generate analysis to define what resource to (re)deploy against top partners
• Test methodology against 1/3rd of the product line in 4 countries
• Identify net new partner candidates in these 4 countries, who are already tracked
 
Key Challenges:
• Huge amount of partner data in disparate databases
• Different add-hoc approaches for various countries
• Lack of clear measurement consistent across countries, granular at a product family level
 
Strategies/Solution:
• Devise methodology
• Developed and tested tools to automate the process for all worldwide partners
• Conduct very deep data analysis using custom built data filters and data engine.
• Built deep analytical tools to automatically prioritize partners (including net new partners) based on variable parameters
• Measure business impact on new partner management approach