Congratulations To Our Partnering Blog Contest Winners!

The wait is over! And today is the day to announce the names of our “Partnering Blog Contest” winners. Before announcing the winner's names a big “THANK YOU” and “SHOUT OUT'' to all our amazing participants for sending such wonderful blogs.  But as the rule of competition there has to be a winner.  

We would also like to thank our amazing community that encouraged our participants by reading and liking their blogs.

After a week of voting and internal jury assessment the winners are finally in!

“We loved reading all blogs  and it’s been tough to come to a decision on which blogs  to be crowned as winners!”, said one of the Blog Contest judges.

Hearty Congratulations to the top 3 winners. You did it!

1st Prize: Suresh Kumar Tulluri, VP & Global Head-Ecosystem Business Unit, HCL Technologies

Blog: The Emerging Art of Ecosystem Partnering

It was really nice to see how well Suresh used the natural ecosystem to kick off the blog to illustrate the point about dynamic business ecosystems. His insights into the market dynamics moving to cloud APIs, challenging the traditional disti/resell models were really thought provoking and engaging.

2nd Prize: Vikas Jain, Product Manager, Lokalise

Blog: Principles of Partner Ecosystem

Vikas has very nicely put together his thoughts on the importance of the partner ecosystem and how they act as an extension to the digital transformation business. The blog is focused on partners' experience, journey and having a personalized connection for serving the customers and building solid go-to-market strategy.  He believes that there are multiple factors that determine the success of Partner Ecosystem strategy but it's very important to provide them with relevant tools and personalized touch in order to have long term relationships and success stories.  

3rd Prize: Rahul Damya,  Manager Marketing & Growth, Axestrack

Blog: Best Practices for Building a Winning Partner Ecosystem

Rahul has very well explained the key practices which can help companies build a winning partner ecosystem. And why collaboration and innovation are of utmost importance to expand your partnerships. Businesses are orchestrating the partner ecosystem to provide innovative offerings and solutions to their customers. Therefore, nurturing your relationship for a successful partner ecosystem leads to meaningful outcomes and customer satisfaction.

We would like to add that all the blog entries that entered into a competition are worthy of a read too. Here is the link to the participants' blog that includes all amazing blog entries and talks about the competition.

It’s time to share what our winners will receive for their insightful  blogs.

Prize and Winner Name

1st: Amazon Gift Card $500 - Suresh Kumar Tulluri

2nd: Amazon Gift Card $200 - Vikas Jain

3rd: Amazon Gift Card $100 - Rahul Damya

Congratulations & Happy Winning!