Uniphore’s First-Ever Channel Program Offers Partners ‘Replicable Playbook’ To Scale Their Business
‘The space we are in is transforming the contact center and customer experience industry using AI and automation, and there are a lot of players in this industry; there are system integrators, BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services), consulting firms and tech product companies like us,’ Uniphore Founder and CEO Umesh Sachdev tells CRNtv. ‘So, it just truly became important for us to take everyone along in this major disruption of a $500 billion industry opportunity.’
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CRNtv’s Jennifer Zarate talks with Uniphore Founder and CEO Umesh Sachdev to talk about how Uniphore Unite fits into the artificial intelligence software vendor’s overall business strategy and its mission to drive more channel sales so partners can capitalize on industry trends, like the growth of video calls and the changing role of call centers.
“I go by the old African proverb of, ‘If you’re going to go fast, go alone. And if you’re going to go far, go together,’ and at Uniphore we wanted to combine both speed and going far with the ecosystem,” Sachdev told CRNtv. “So, we put together Unite as a program which combines the maturity that comes from a large enterprise partner program with the agility of a startup company.”
Company At A Glance
Location: Palo Alto, California
Percentage of sales that go through the channel: “Today we do a third of our business with partners.”
Specialty product and services:
- Conversational Automation
“Uniphore enables businesses globally to deliver transformational customer service by providing an automation platform where digital agents take over transactional conversations from humans, coach agents during calls, and accurately predict language, emotion and intent,” said Sachdev. “All in real-time.”
Partner Program Details
Year channel program established: 2021
Uniphore Unite Program tiers:
UNITE Reseller/UNITE BPO
- Entry level tier that allows new partners to ramp up their business by building skills and revenue.
- Partners interested in the program must provide a business plan based on commitments and have at least $250,000 in opportunity.
UNITE Pro
- Partners who’ve invested in Uniphore and achieved the first threshold revenue target, as well as met the sales and technical training commitments for the Pro level.
UNITE Pro+
- Uniphore’s highest partner level with the highest revenue and skills attainments.
“The space we are in is transforming the contact center and customer experience industry using AI and automation, and there are a lot of players in this industry; there are system integrators, BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services), consulting firms and tech product companies like us,” Sachdev told CRNtv. “So, it just truly became important for us to take everyone along in this major disruption of a $500 billion industry opportunity.”
But as he’s learned in his life, he added, “’Hustle doesn’t scale, but replicable playbooks do,’ so this program is taking all of our learnings and making it into a replicable playbook so we can do a lot more for our partners.”
Tune in to CRNtv to learn more about partnering with Uniphore.