Data streaming pioneer, Confluent, Inc., released Accelerate with Confluent, which prioritizes excellence in Confluent Professional Services for systems integrators (SIs), enabling partners to deliver comprehensive data streaming solutions.
The program redefines the dynamics of Confluent’s partnership model, helping organizations plough the power of data streaming.
It is designed to meet every evolving requirement of customers by building, expanding, and innovating through the support of SIs.
It opens a plethora of options for partners to choose for Partner engagement with Professional Services.
"Creating a real-time central nervous system has become an imperative for every organization in order to compete and offer differentiated experiences," said Paul Mac Farland, SVP of Partner and Innovation Ecosystem, Confluent.
“Accelerate with Confluent reimagines our SI partner program, enabling our mutual customers to get to their business outcomes faster".
"Now, partners can more easily expedite repeatability, profitability, go-to-market efforts, and new service offerings, meeting customer demands.”
These paths include:
Co-Delivery - Enables customers to harness the collective expertise of both Confluent and certified partners.
Strategic Staffing - Further enhances the customer experience by incorporating subject matter experts from Confluent partners into ongoing engagements.
Crafting Long-Term Data Strategies - Partner Led - Understanding a customer's overall data tech stack is crucial for devising long-term data strategies.
Accelerate with Confluent includes new capabilities to drive higher efficiency with Confluent’s SI ecosystem.
SI Service Offerings Embedded into Confluent’s GTM
SIs that join Accelerate with Confluent will get access to a wide variety of opportunities that will allow them to showcase their Confluent expertise.
Variety of New Tools to Form a Strong Partnership
The Confluent Partner Portal has also been updated to improve partner collaboration, drive sales, boost marketing efforts and optimize technical activities.
Build a Partnership to Engage Early in Sales Cycle
Confluent's vision extends to the creation of a robust partner ecosystem, emphasizing recruitment, onboarding, and continuous training based on established methodologies.