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Plant Growth, Nurturing

How Jamf Continues to Grow and Nurture Its Channel Relationships

  • Written by Todd R. Weiss
  • November 18, 2019
A conversation with the company's North American channel sales manager reveals his strategies and goals.

When he first arrived as the channel sales account manager of Jamf in March of 2017, Gianpiero Policicchio had a mission — to use his 18 previous years of channel experience with technology provider Insight to help grow and nurture Jamf’s relationships with its channel partners and customers.

For Policicchio, who has since been named manager for North American channel sales with the Apple device management software vendor, that continuing channel development role appears to suit him well.

When he joined Jamf, the company did about 20% of its business through the channel. The company now does about 50% of its global sales through channel partners.

Jamf's Gianpiero Policicchio

Jamf’s Gianpiero Policicchio

“I had been on the reseller side of things for 18 years,” Policicchio told Channel Futures last week at the company’s annual Jamf JNUC user conference in Minneapolis. “I like building things up.”

Jamf had started down the channel road a few years before he arrived, but he was brought in to help grow and mature it while driving its strategy to make it an even bigger part of the company’s road map.

To do that, Policicchio says he has been focusing on a couple of key strategies that he’s followed in his career so far — to develop partnerships that go beyond just product fulfillment and working hand-in-hand with partners to drive the whole effort to serve their customers.

“That means I’m big on data analytics and sharing them with a given partner to develop strategy that you can agree on and execute,” he said.

One strategy that he’s brought in a comprehensive way is the idea of account mapping for customers and partners, so that all the data about prospects can be better used to fuel new and wider sales and services. Account mapping allows Jamf to learn more about what customers and partners need and use so the company can better offer what partners and customers already seek, he said.

That could mean looking at data that shows which partners are selling Apple hardware to customers so that Jamf representatives can work with them to develop a go-to-market plan using a list of shared data analytics that can make those sales more effective, said Policicchio.

“We can use that to identify accounts that have a propensity to buy Jamf products,” he explained. “The entanglement that you want is with three legs of the stool — Jamf, Apple and the reseller services. That means approaching customers with our partners, which increases stickiness.”

Another key process for customer engagement is identifying the largest partners that sell Apple hardware to home in on their success, he said.

“Maybe we want to train our attention on them rather than try to boil the ocean” for leads. “At the end of the day we are trying to help customers succeed with Apple. When we partner with the channel it is for scalability.”

All these concepts are helping to mature the company’s relationship with the channel.

“Jamf is on a journey, from a startup company that was originally on a direct sales model and that has now been moving over the last few years to more channel operations,” he said. “We’re moving away from selling particular products to selling and providing business outcomes.”

Jamf’s main products include Jamf Now and Jamf Pro, which help enterprises and other organizations to manage large numbers of Apple devices from a single console, and Jamf Connect, which helps users provide secure access for employees and other users to the programs and resources they need to do their work.

The company’s latest product, Jamf Protect, an Apple endpoint protection system that provides deeper macOS security, will be the latest offering to …

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