For who?

Every role gets a clear read on its channel.

The PAD Solutions diagnostics address the full decision chain of indirect sales. Each role gets the view and priorities that match its remit.

By role

Specific value for each decision-maker.

Channel Manager

Channel Manager, Partner Manager, etc.

Key Challenges

You manage too many partners with too little time. You don't know which ones to invest your energy in. Onboarding takes too long, business plans are done once a year and forgotten straight away, and your dashboards are Excel files from last month.

With PAD Solutions

Industrialised processes: partner scoring to prioritise your actions, active and co-built business plans, onboarding milestone tracking. You save time on admin to invest in relationships.

Use case — Concrete scenario

A Channel Manager oversees around 30 active resellers. He completes the channelDiag diagnostic in 30 minutes and immediately sees where his practice falls short of best practices. He focuses on the two priority topics revealed by the score, instead of spreading himself thin.

Expected Outcomes
–25%
onboarding time for new partners
+20%
indirect revenue growth attributable to priority partners
–35%
time spent on administrative tasks

Sales Leadership

Sales Director, VP Sales, Head of Indirect Sales

Key Challenges

You manage a network but lack a structured framework. The ROI of your partner programmes is hard to measure. Your Channel Managers each work with their own method, their own files, their own priorities. Alignment is fragile.

With PAD Solutions

A consolidated view of commercial performance by partner, region and segment. Shared, measurable objectives. Results-driven management, not activity-driven. You demonstrate channel ROI to your CEO with credible numbers.

Use case — Concrete scenario

A Sales Director at a mid-market industrial company manages 25 distributors across 3 regions. She gathers her team around the channel360 diagnostic over half a day: each function scores and comments on the 11 topics. She walks away with a shared RACI action plan and objectives justified by the measured gaps.

Expected Outcomes
–40%
time spent preparing QBRs
+30%
of partners with an active business plan within 6 months
–30%
time-to-first-deal for new partners

Execs / C-Staff

CEO, Managing Director — Exec Committee

Key Challenges

You struggle to assess the true contribution of channel to your revenue. Your teams report numbers, but you have no consolidated, forward-looking view. Every QBR looks more like a negotiation than a management review.

With PAD Solutions

An executive dashboard with real-time channel financial KPIs. Indirect revenue predictability, drift alerts, M+3 view by partner. You make decisions based on facts, not impressions.

Use case — Concrete scenario

A CEO of a B2B software publisher with 40 active partners senses the channel is under-leveraged but doesn't know where to act. The channel360 diagnostic delivers, in half a day, a quantified map of maturity across 11 topics and the 5 priority gaps to address. He decides on facts, not impressions.

Expected Outcomes
+20–50%
predictability on indirect revenue
faster portfolio decision-making
10 min
to identify the partners driving 80% of revenue

Partners

Resellers, integrators, ESN, etc.

Key Challenges

You don't know exactly what your vendor expects from you. Targets shift, programmes evolve, and you struggle to position yourself clearly in their ecosystem. You spend time in meetings with no visibility on the deals you could be co-signing.

With PAD Solutions

A shared, readable business plan. You can see your objectives, your actions, your gaps. You anticipate your Channel Manager's expectations. You accelerate deals through structured co-selling. The relationship becomes a true partnership, not one-way reporting.

Use case — Concrete scenario

A SaaS publisher shares the results of a joint diagnostic with its integrators. Each partner clearly sees the topics where the relationship can improve and the shared priorities. The exchange becomes a real partnership dialogue, grounded in objective gaps rather than gut feeling.

Expected Outcomes
Alignment
Strategic and continuous, with your vendor
Less friction
Operational, in the channel relationship
Engagement
Stronger and more measurable partner commitment
By sector

Adapted to your sector's realities.

B2B software publishers

SMBs and mid-market companies selling through reseller, integrator or SI networks.

“Are you getting the most out of your partner ecosystem?”

Structure your partner programmes, align resellers and SIs with your product roadmap, measure the true ROI of each partner.

Expected Outcomes
-50%
inactive partners thanks to better partner management
–30%
time-to-first-deal with structured onboarding
more success in partner recruitment and onboarding
Digital Actors

SIs, ESNs, consulting companies and digital platform vendors with a specialist partner ecosystem.

“Is your ecosystem well managed to support your goals?”

Coordinate your ecosystem with a unified view of performance. Share objectives, track execution, spot imbalances before they cost you.

Expected Outcomes
+25%
productivity gain per Channel Manager
–35%
time spent on administrative tasks
100%
visibility on partner action plan progress
Manufacturers

Manufacturers, OEMs and industries with an indirect sales network.

“Some partners perform, others stagnate — and you're not sure why?”

Identify white spaces, adapt programmes by partner type, manage your network on data.

Expected Outcomes
+30%
field coverage identifiable through network mapping
–40%
time spent preparing quarterly business reviews
more partners with an active business plan within 6 months

Assess your indirect sales strategy

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