Kolkata: Zyme, a channel data management (CDM) company with offices in the US, UK and India, announced the addition of several new partners to the Zyme Connect Partner Program. One of its partners Steelwedge Software, a cloud-based sales and operations planner, caters to the India market.
Global enterprises, ISVs and SIs can now leverage Zyme’s decision-grade channel data via zymeConnect(SM) APIs to seamlessly power best-in-class business applications for sales commissioning, partner incentives, demand planning, partner relationship management (PRM) and more, the company said in a statement.
Customers can now extend the zyme cloud platform 3.0 to other applications from Zyme Connect Partners, so that high-quality channel data can be accessed in a secure, on-demand and hassle-free manner, with lower integration costs. Zyme Connect Partners can offer their customers faster time-to-value, and minimize implementation costs and data integration effort. Importantly, enterprises can begin to realize the vision of a “single source of truth” for channel data across various mission-critical business processes.
“Data is the currency in cloud-based enterprise software, and the Zyme Connect Partner Program is an important step in making channel data available to various business applications in the enterprise,” said Zyme Vice President of Strategic Sales Mukund Ramaratnam. “Customers can now get more value from their investments in the zyme cloud platform 3.0.”
For example, incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solutions can now include channel sales to calculate commissions accurately at a partner or sales-rep level. Also, loyalty rewards solutions can now attribute rewards points accurately based on actual sales transaction data
Partner portals can serve up validated rebate statements to partners, and map partner registration processes more accurately using Zyme’s Global Channel Directory Supply chain and demand planning teams can make decisions based on real-time, fully informed perspectives of demand and the inventory positions to serve it.
Zyme covers distributors and resellers in more than 150 countries and 15 languages, and is on track to process more than $175 billion in channel revenues and more than 1 billion transactions annually in 2016 for leading global manufacturers. Pre-built integrations offered with Zyme Connect Partners allow access to high-quality Zyme data through secure Zyme Connect APIs based on industry-leading standards for customer confidentiality and data security.
“By joining the Partner Program, we look forward to helping customers build more effective channel incentive programs by leveraging Zyme’s CDM capabilities. With Zyme Connect and Perks’ Enterprise Engagement Engine, manufacturers can easily create and manage channel incentive and loyalty programs powered by timely and accurate point-of-sales data, to deliver a superior partner experience,” said Claudio Ayub, Chief Channel Strategist at Perks, a US-based loyalty reward program software and services firm.
Dhruv Bansal, VP Product Management, Steelwedge commented, “Connecting Zyme data with Steelwedge’s PlanStreaming empowers companies to take a data-driven approach to sales and supply chain issues, such as pinpointing market opportunities by channel and product line at a granular level and reacting quickly and confidently to correct imbalances between inventory and demand.”