Channelscaler vs. WorkSpan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Channelscaler
Score 9.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Channelscaler is the product resulting from the combing of Allbound and Channel Mechanics. It is a cloud-based channel sales and marketing platform that allows organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools and resources in one mobile-friendly place.N/A
WorkSpan
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
WorkSpan is an ecosystem business management platform. The solution aims to give CROs a digital platform to turbocharge indirect revenue with their partner teams at higher win rates and lower costs. It connects partners on a live network with cross-company business applications to build, market, and sell together. The vendor states the solution powers the top 10 business ecosystems in the technology and communications industry today, managing over $50 billion in joint pipeline.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChannelscalerWorkSpan
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
ChannelscalerWorkSpan
Considered Both Products
Channelscaler
Chose Channelscaler
Blitz Report™ and Acoustic Analytics
Chose Channelscaler
These platforms are more for affiliate marketing than partner marketing and although they are better for tracking and payouts, Allbound is a lot better for collateral management and that's why we chose them.
Chose Channelscaler
For our partner portal, we have chosen Allbound. We wanted one place where all of our partners could go to find the information they required, and where some of that information could be made available automatically. Allbound provides us all the necessary tools for facilitating …
Chose Channelscaler
Allbound offers everything we want in a PRM and portal experience for our partners at a fraction of the cost and with a much easier to use interface for both the administrator and the partner. Allbound is super responsive to our ideas and helps us implement without additional …
Chose Channelscaler
Impartner is really good but they were much more expensive and not as easy to use as Allbound.
Chose Channelscaler
They are different in the sense that Allbound allows you to loop in different parners to a degree that HubSpot doesn't outside smaller extensions and portals. More visbility into interactions with HubSpot, but it's truly built for marketing vs a sales forward/partnership …
WorkSpan

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User Ratings
ChannelscalerWorkSpan
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
10.0
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Support Rating
10.0
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
ChannelscalerWorkSpan
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well-suited for a rising startup like ours that is rapidly growing its customer and partner base. Very well-suited for needing to make rapid changes to your marketing mix and being able to quickly see it reflected in the portal.
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Pros
  • Lead registrations. One reason we chose Allbound was for its easy to use deal registration form.
  • Events. We promote every event that our company will be attending to all of our partners via Allbound.
  • Prospecting. Our team also creates unique prospecting pages for customers, prospects, and partners to help drive specific information that these companies should have access to across the organization.
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Cons
  • I worked on Cloud based Channel Mechanics product, not sure it could be a server setup model product
  • It's good for mid and big firms. But not sure this product can be economical for startup and micro business
  • Service level integration is difficult require easy way of doing it
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Likelihood to Renew
Allbound is so easy to use as an administrator and provides human support and a resource for its customers to learn about the features and tools available. Our partners consistently provide feedback to us about how much they absolutely love our partner portal, which Allbound provides the structure and functionality to allow us to over amazing things to thousands of partner globally. Almost every person who provides feedback says some iteration of "this is the best partner portal i've ever used."
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Usability
It is by far the easiest system to administrator that I have either had experience doing or demoed from other vendors. No coding skills needed. Simple interfaces for everything. And the Allbound University and live support are great!
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Support Rating
Allbound has a support team that is easy to contact right through the PRM interface. Additionally, we have a dedicated account manager and development team who are super responsive and helpful. Allbound has a ticketing system for support as well, which keeps you up to date on status of your support requests.
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Implementation Rating
Regular meetings, lots of UAT, quick responses, and adherence to our timeline made implementation a breeze -- even though we had some really complex processes we needed to support.
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Alternatives Considered
For our partner portal, we have chosen Allbound. We wanted one place where all of our partners could go to find the information they required, and where some of that information could be made available automatically. Allbound provides us all the necessary tools for facilitating content exchange with our partners, including legally binding contracts, transaction registrations, and everything else we may need. It also helps us empower our partners by providing them with instructional courses and turnkey marketing strategies.
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Return on Investment
  • Helped us recruit way more partners and scale the program
  • Helped us be way more organized with our partner collateral which was all over the place before
  • Has helped us drive more opportunities to the business thanks to the ability to scale and not have everything manual
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ScreenShots

WorkSpan Screenshots

Screenshot of WorkSpan home page for a fictional Microsoft user showing joint partner sales plans, recently updated objects, membership interactions, upcoming tasks, and the engagement work center at the top right.Screenshot of A fictional sales plan between Microsoft and Capgemini showing shared goals and current status against goals, plan details, plan stage, upcoming tasks, as well as tabs for joint leads, opportunities, and other shared objects connected with this sales plan.Screenshot of A fictional joint opportunity between Microsoft and Capgemini. This shows how the partners have invited SAP to join in co-selling this Supply Chain Management Transformation opportunity to McDonalds. This shows the opportunity stage, deal value for each partner, upcoming tasks, and allows partners to collaborate with notes and messages to align and close the deal together.