Partner Community Networks
A partner community network is a virtual environment where you and your partners can collectively share content and communicate with one another across geographies and time zones.
As a marketing and networking vehicle, partner community networks offer a highly effective way for you and your partners to do business together.
With Ramius Professional Services and CommunityZero® sofware your organization can create a partner community to:
- Increase awareness among partners of each other's products and services
- Facilitate company-to-partner and partner-to-partner communications
- Help partners expand their market coverage and discover new routes-to-market
- Connect partners to improve customer alignment in vertical markets
- Facilitate the sharing of best practices, solutions and knowledge among partners
- Reduce data maintenance and data management costs through partner self-service tools
- Incorporate other business and marketing programs of value to your partners
The extra value generated by incorporating a dynamic, online collaborative network into your partner program includes:
- greater innovation and product quality
- reduced cost and time-to-market
- increased revenue and profitabilty for you and your partners
Build a Successful Partner Network
The most successful partner networks are closely aligned with corporate strategy to guide growth and partner usage. Infrastructure alone is not enough.
Active management and facilitation is essential to increase the value of participation and build adoption to a point where the network becomes self-sustaining.
Ramius's Professional Services team will help you build:
- A private, secure partner network you and your partners can use to bring new solutions to market
- Partner-managed microsites for partners to promote their products, services and knowledge to one another
- Global directories of partners, solutions and services searchable by partners and maintained by partners
- Rating systems for partners to evaluate solutions and services on the network
- Discussion forums to foster community interaction around topics of shared interest and value
- Management reporting mechanisms to measure and monitor the success of your Partner Community Network