This directory exists to answer one question well: of the
thousands of companies claiming expertise in your platform,
which ones deserve a place on your shortlist? Every vendor runs
its own partner finder, and every finder tells you who is
enrolled. None tell you how a partner compares against rivals,
what customers actually experienced, or whether the firm that
excels at one product is competent at the one you are buying.
CX Partners records partners across every major ecosystem on one
comparable basis: verified partnership tiers, company scale,
geography, industries served and moderated customer reviews —
with the sources behind every claim documented on the profile.
One Directory, Every Major CX Ecosystem
| Platform | Partner program & tiers | What partners deliver |
| Adobe | Solution Partner Program: Community → Certified → Gold → Platinum | AEM, Analytics, Target, Campaign, Commerce, Marketo, RT-CDP and Workfront implementations, migrations and managed services |
| Salesforce | Base → Ridge → Crest → Summit, scored on certs, delivery and CSAT | Sales/Service/Marketing/Commerce/Data Cloud, MuleSoft and Tableau — practice depth varies sharply by cloud |
| Google | GMP Certified Companies per product; Cloud Partner/Premier with Specializations | GA4, DV360, CM360, SA360 measurement and media; BigQuery, Looker and Vertex AI data work |
| Microsoft | Solutions Partner designations (Business Applications, Data & AI) + specializations | Dynamics 365 CRM/service/field/commerce and the Azure data stack through Fabric |
| HubSpot | Provider → Gold → Platinum → Diamond → Elite, on delivered revenue + accreditations | CRM implementations, marketing operations, RevOps and migrations from Marketo/Salesforce |
| Databricks | Registered → Validated → Select → Elite with validated capabilities | Lakehouse builds, warehouse/Hadoop migrations, Unity Catalog governance and MLOps |
| Snowflake | Select → Premier → Elite on SnowPro-certified staff and delivery | Warehouse migrations, cost governance, data engineering and Cortex-era AI enablement |
| Tealium | Select → Advanced → Strategic → Global Premier | AudienceStream CDP builds, iQ tag governance and EventStream server-side collection |
| Mixpanel / Amplitude | Small certified solutions-partner pools, vetted on delivery | Product-analytics implementations: tracking plans, identity, migrations and enablement |
| 15+ more | Sitecore, Optimizely and SAP (Silver→Gold→Platinum), Oracle OPN, Bloomreach, VWO, OneTrust, AWS tiers + competencies | DXP, commerce, experimentation, privacy and contact-center delivery — each documented on its platform page |
Reading Partner Tiers Across Vendors
Every vendor gamifies its ecosystem differently, but the ladders
rhyme: registration tiers that mean little beyond enrollment,
certification tiers that prove invested headcount, and the top
tiers — the Platinums, Summits and Elites — that signal
sustained delivery volume and the deepest vendor relationships.
Three rules travel across every ecosystem:
- Tier is a credibility floor, not a verdict — a mid-tier specialist that puts senior consultants on your account routinely outperforms a top-tier giant that staffs juniors.
- Certifications belong to individuals — ask for the credentials of the named delivery team, not the company logo wall.
- Tier rarely transfers across products — a partner elite in one cloud can be a beginner in its neighbor, which is why this directory records partnership data per product, not per brand.
How to Choose a Partner — On Any Platform
- Filter on verifiable facts first — product, verified tier, geography, company size and industry experience cut thousands of candidates to a dozen in minutes.
- Read profiles for evidence, not adjectives — certified staff, documented specializations and reviews with sample sizes.
- Shortlist three — enough for genuine comparison, few enough for real evaluation.
- Run a shared, scenario-based RFP — identical priced scenarios expose how each partner thinks and what work honestly costs.
- Interview the delivery team, not the sales team — the bait-and-switch bench is the most common failure mode in every ecosystem.
- Check references like an auditor — same industry, product and scale; ask about the last missed deadline and what the partner did about it.
What Do Partners Charge?
| Engagement | Typical range | What drives the price |
| Senior consultant rates | $150–300/hour (NA/EU); blended offshore 30–50% lower | Seniority mix, delivery location, platform scarcity |
| Focused implementation | Tens of thousands (GA4 rebuild, HubSpot onboarding, single-product setup) | Integration count, data readiness |
| Enterprise program | Six to seven figures (AEM estate, multi-cloud Salesforce, Databricks migration) | Scope, migration volume, custom build surface |
| Support retainer | A few thousand to five figures monthly | Hours, SLA strength, named-team continuity |
| Managed services | Five figures monthly at full coverage | Platform complexity, coverage hours, AI/optimization scope |
Two cost truths travel everywhere: integration count and data
quality drive budgets more than the platform license does, and
the cheapest bid is usually re-priced later through change
requests. Each product page carries platform-specific ranges;
make candidates price identical scenarios so quotes compare.
Engagement Models: Project, Retainer or Managed Service
| Model | Best for | Watch the fine print |
| Fixed-scope project | Implementations and migrations with definable end states | Scenario-priced proposals, staged payments on acceptance, explicit change-request rates |
| Monthly retainer | Ongoing optimization, campaign operations, support | Rollover policy, what counts against hours, named-team continuity |
| Managed service | Teams without an internal platform owner | Severity-based SLAs in the contract, documentation in your systems, exit knowledge-transfer clause |
Whichever shape you buy, the universal contract rules hold: you
own every asset, credential and account; substitution of named
team members needs your approval; and a first engagement
deserves a quarterly exit window rather than an annual lock-in.
A partner confident in its delivery accepts all three without
flinching — hesitation is information.
When Do You Need a Partner at All?
- A new implementation or re-platform — architecture decisions made in month one compound for years; pattern recognition from dozens of prior builds is the thing you cannot hire quickly.
- A migration — between vendors, versions or clouds, where redirect maps, data reconciliation and parallel-run discipline protect revenue.
- A rescue — when an instance implemented cheaply two years ago now costs more in workarounds than a repair would.
- Day-two operations — below roughly 20–30 hours a month of genuine need, a retainer beats a hire on cost and coverage; sustained full-time need argues for in-house plus a partner for depth.
Red Flags That Travel Across Every Ecosystem
- The bait-and-switch bench — seniors sell, juniors deliver. Ask by name who will do the work; interview those individuals.
- Quotes without questions — pricing your project without asking about data volumes or integrations is quoting a template, not your reality.
- Certification theater — company badge walls offered instead of the named team’s individual credentials.
- Dependency economics — resistance to documentation, knowledge transfer or admin access that keeps you hostage.
- Vanity measurement — reporting built on opens and impressions rather than the revenue metrics leadership tracks.
- Opinion-free delivery — a competent partner politely tells you what is wrong with your setup within a month; a partner with no opinions is not looking.
Specialist, Multi-Platform Partner or Global SI?
Single-platform specialists offer the deepest product craft and
senior attention when one platform carries the project.
Multi-platform partners — many firms here hold verified status
across Adobe, Salesforce, Google and the data platforms
simultaneously — earn their premium when your stack genuinely
spans ecosystems: one accountable team wiring Adobe experiences
to Snowflake data beats two vendors blaming each other across an
integration. Global systems integrators bring program management
for multi-country rollouts, with the standing caveat that the
team you meet in the sales cycle must be the team that delivers.
The platform-tier badges on every profile show which shape a
firm actually is — count them, then verify depth per product.
How to Use This Directory
- Filter by the product in scope, your country or region, and the industries that matter — the listings above update as you go.
- Open profiles to compare verified partnership data, company scale and customer reviews, or use the compare tool for a structured view.
- Read the product page for your platform — every one carries a buyer’s guide covering the partner-program ladder, services, costs and questions worth asking.
- Build an RFP from the product-specific templates, or let the advisor generate a shortlist matched to your requirements.
- Verify certifications and references before any commercial conversation.
Why an Independent Directory Matters
Most “best partners” lists online are pay-to-play
rankings or agency blog posts ranking themselves first. This
directory takes a different position: no sponsored placement, no
imported review scores, and a published methodology for how data
is gathered and corrected. Partnership tiers are recorded from
public vendor programs with sources and last-checked dates;
reviews pass human moderation before publication; and when
information could not be publicly verified, profiles say so
rather than papering over the gap. That restraint costs polish
but buys trust — and for a decision that typically commits six
or seven figures over multiple years, trust in the underlying
data is the entire point of using a directory at all.