The document discusses how buying processes have become more difficult, with longer sales cycles and more stakeholders involved in purchasing decisions. It notes that cloud budgets are growing but capturing this spending requires deep knowledge of cloud ecosystems and marketplaces. While aligning with these platforms can help drive new bookings, it requires significant resources to operate successfully through them. The document promotes focusing on building great products for customers while also making software easy to purchase within cloud marketplaces in order to tap into committed cloud budgets. It introduces Tackle as a way for companies to develop and execute a digital selling strategy through major clouds.
The document discusses how buying processes have become more difficult, with longer sales cycles and more stakeholders involved in purchasing decisions. It notes that cloud budgets are growing but capturing this spending requires deep knowledge of cloud ecosystems and marketplaces. While aligning with these platforms can help drive new bookings, it requires significant resources to operate successfully through them. The document promotes focusing on building great products for customers while also making software easy to purchase within cloud marketplaces in order to tap into committed cloud budgets. It introduces Tackle as a way for companies to develop and execute a digital selling strategy through major clouds.
The document discusses how buying processes have become more difficult, with longer sales cycles and more stakeholders involved in purchasing decisions. It notes that cloud budgets are growing but capturing this spending requires deep knowledge of cloud ecosystems and marketplaces. While aligning with these platforms can help drive new bookings, it requires significant resources to operate successfully through them. The document promotes focusing on building great products for customers while also making software easy to purchase within cloud marketplaces in order to tap into committed cloud budgets. It introduces Tackle as a way for companies to develop and execute a digital selling strategy through major clouds.
Software is only getting more difficult to sell. 75% of buyers say their average buying cycle has increased over the past 24 months*
Forrester/Outreach Buyer & Seller
Dynamics, 2022 Buying committees are expanding Enterprise purchasing cycles are longer than ever Procurement processes are becoming more rigid And it’s only getting harder Companies are Your buyers are People are laser-focused tightening their worried about on their budgets their jobs bottom lines
As an economic recession looms,
efficiency is the name of the game. Your software might save companies - or Jobs
“If only we had the budget.”
Dollars are getting harder to come by – but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist The ability to find and attach to new/relevant budgets is critical. Your value prop must be strong AND aligned to your customers current state But…What is your customers’ current state? Cloud budgets are growing For the full year 2022, IDC is forecasting cloud spend to grow 22%*
That’s $90.2 BILLION
*Compared to 2021 spend
Cloud Ecosystems and Marketplaces are replacing traditional partnerships Resell is predicted to make up a smaller proportion of the technology industry’s revenue 76 % dropping from of business leaders agree
from
66% current business models
to will be unrecognizable in the next few years – 33% ecosystems will be the main change agent.
–Forrester –Accenture Those who speak Cloud and understand how to effectively sell Cloud will win.
$700M “It cuts the sales cycle Within 2 years
down by almost of the $1.2B 20% in new bookings 50% for Q4 was generated When we use the of Seeq’s total ARR was through co-selling with AWS Marketplace.” transacted through the hyperscalers. – George Kurtz, Marketplaces. CEO, Crowdstrike The dirty little secret: It’s wildly resource intensive to be successful You’ll need… Deep knowledge of the Clouds & Ecosystems New GTM motions & enablement Broad organizational commitment Not to mention… Technical expertise - Marketplace + Product Integration Operational scalability & efficiency across Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams But is that the best way to spend your valuable time? Great businesses focus on building great products that serve their customers Yet - those who fail to adapt will lose to lesser competitors at the hands of convenience Give your customers what they want: fewer vendors and fewer bills software that’s easy to purchase to meet and exceed their committed cloud spend with AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Let’s be honest: Being easy to procure IS a KILLER feature Attaching to a growing budget IS a KILLER feature Landing on your buyers’ cloud bill IS a KILLER feature Embedding into trusted ecosystems IS a KILLER feature Cloud rules everything around us
Budget | Resources | Strategy
What is YOUR strategy for capturing Cloud dollars? Frankly, that’s why we built Tackle You: Focus on YOUR business
Tackle: Helps you build, execute, and
operationalize your digital selling strategy thru the Clouds Decode Cloud Selling Decode Cloud Selling Derisk revenue streams Decode Cloud Selling Derisk revenue streams Delight your buyers Decode Cloud Selling Derisk revenue streams Delight your buyers Sell where they buy Tackle is THE way to go to market with the clouds.