Benchmark analysis

Long-form software pricing analysis by vendor, category, and contract structure.

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Where this sits in a co-sell pursuit

Benchmark analysis sets the price expectation the customer brings into the room. Co-sell works the other side of the same table, so read this for the objection you will meet, not the discount you will offer.

Data and analytics. Benchmark analysis sits in the most direct co-sell adjacency there is. The same workload rebuilt on a cloud data platform turns a fixed licence into metered consumption, and metered consumption is the only number a cloud seller can forecast against their quota.

Microsoft Azure
Microsoft pricing on this page becomes MACC headroom in an Azure pursuit: the commitment the customer already signed is the budget a co-sold workload draws against, and the co-sell record that claims it lives in Partner Center.
Azure co-sell Partner Center co-sell
AWS
On AWS the same money shows up as EDP or PPA position. The pursuit is shared through ACE in Partner Central, and Marketplace private offers are the procurement route that lets committed spend absorb the deal.
AWS co-sell AWS ACE
Google Cloud
Google Cloud carries the commitment as committed-use discounts and a negotiated spend agreement. Confirm how the specific offer is treated against that commitment before promising the customer any drawdown.
Google Cloud co-sell Google Cloud Partner Advantage

Commercial vehicles named on this page

MACC.: A Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment the customer is already carrying. Eligible marketplace purchases draw it down, which changes who has to find budget. Track a consumption commitment
AWS EDP.: An AWS committed-spend agreement. Marketplace procurement is how a third-party purchase lands against it instead of against a new budget line. AWS Marketplace procurement
Committed use.: Google Cloud commitment mechanics. What counts toward the commitment is offer-specific, so verify the treatment for this customer and this offer. Committed use discounts
ELA / ETLA.: An enterprise agreement with its own renewal clock. The clock is the trigger: a pursuit timed to it meets a budget that is already open. Renewal timing in the pipeline lane

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