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Scaling an ISV business from start-up to sustained market share can be a long journey. Our latest eBook “Set your SaaS business for Scale” can help you navigate common roadblocks on the way to success.
It’s full of practical advice on ways to fuel your growth engines, avoid unhelpful shortcuts and set your environment up for global scale, based on our experience working with thousands of ISVs around the world.
We’ve packaged up key learnings from the teams that run the Crayon ISV Innovation Hub program and ISV Managed Services. They work with partners to develop strategies and deliver services that help ISVs to commercialise and scale their IP, build their customer base and drive increased value into their businesses.
The ISV Innovation Hub program brings together a range of value-add engagements and commercial services that help founders and their team overcome the common barriers to growth and profitability. Partners are taken through a structured set of value-add engagements that identify their growth and profitability objectives, and ways to overcome barriers to achieving their business goals, including:
- IT and Cloud cost optimisation
- Vendor funding and incentives
- Vendor marketplace readiness staging
- Cloud platform partner selection
- Crayon co-selling opportunities
Hyperscale Platform Experts with an Agnostic Perspective
Crayon has strong strategic relationships and accreditations with the majority of hyperscale cloud platform providers including Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud. Our understanding of such providers assures our partners of an agnostic perspective on the best-fit options for their operating and development environments.
Our partners can access this expertise via the ISV Innovation Hub program, which offers the additional benefit of access to:
Dedicated Business Development Managers
Support with setting plans for territory expansion, shifting to SaaS models and connecting you across our business to the right experts and service leads to support your business objectives.
Customer Success Managers
Our world-class CSMs work with you from onboarding through to steady-state support. They understand your business, your customers and your end-users, and are dedicated to helping you maximize value from our services and your public cloud of choice.
Technical Advisors
Staying across the latest technology updates and releases from Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud can be time intensive. Our Technical Advisors help keep partners appraised of release schedules, provide support on complex project scenarios and assist partners with ways to control IT and cloud costs for on-premises, hybrid and public cloud environments.
Solution Architects
Our internal resources have hands-on experience in software development and complex application architecture, and engage with partners on ways to streamline DevOps, build, test and release faster and with better outcomes for your customers and your business.
DevOps Engineers
We support our partners to build and optimize automated infrastructure-as-code deployments to cloud platforms, to increase efficiency and speed with build and release pipelines
Cloud Engineers
The first port of call for service requests and ChatOps support, our Cloud engineers run all BAU-level tasks managed for our ISV partners including daily checks, monitoring and on-call support rostering.
Leverage Our Proven Track Record for Success
When partnering with Crayon, we’ll develop a long-term winning cloud strategy to speed up time to market, drive development agility and competitive differentiation.
Crayon has 5,000+ ISV partners in our ecosystem and is a leader in partnering with ISVs that deliver value-added services and solutions to organisations across all industry sectors.
Benefit from our established relationships with leading technology partners and our integrated knowledge of relevant vendor programs. Our experience reflects our services, IP development, and processes.
Get ready to scale, with Crayon
Learn more about how to avoid the things that can get in the way of your goals for growth. Download “Set your SaaS business for Scale” today!
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