Building a partner ecosystem requires a substantial investment in your channel team and your partners. How do you know if you’re making progress? How can you measure the performance of your partner ecosystem with so many different partner roles and types?

Knowing what to measure and setting goals on those key performance indicators (KPIs) drives internal alignment on what’s most important, helps keep your executive team informed of progress, and highlights challenge areas that need to be addressed. 

Here are 10 KPIs that you can track to measure your partner ecosystem performance. They fall into 4 main categories:

Partner Growth
• Overall partner revenue
• Partner originated revenue
• Focus partner revenue

Partner Contribution
• GSI revenue influence
• TAP influenced
• % opps partner delivered

Partner Satisfaction
• Partner Margin
• Partner NPS

Partner Success
• # Certifications
• Partner Delivery NPS

These are 10 ways to measure the performance of your partner ecosystem, as well as the effectiveness of your partner program. There’s one more measure, the most important of all…and that’s the overall growth of your company.