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In this episode of Partnerships Unraveled, we sit down with Evgenia Ostrovskaya, Director of Channel Sales for EMEA Digital at Johnson Controls. With more than 25 years across software development, product, customer success, marketing, and sales, Evgenia brings a full-lifecycle view of what makes channel programs work in the smart and intelligent buildings space.

Evgenia opens with a mindset she brings to every partner conversation: partners function as an extension of every process inside the vendor organization. Marketing, sales, support, delivery, training. If a team does not fully understand its own internal processes, it cannot help partners scale them either. That is why she puts so much emphasis on qualification and delivery readiness. Scaling the process means investing in quality before adding partners, and pacing yourself when the platform is still finding product-market fit. Empathy for friction, especially in the early days of any new offering, is what separates channel programs that scale from those that stall.

From there, the conversation moves into how the channel for smart and intelligent buildings has evolved. The shift from product install to full lifecycle service management changes everything about how partners deliver, from initial setup to ongoing customer value and recurring revenue. Siloed systems have given way to open, interoperable platforms and ecosystems, which means partners with integration capabilities are the ones pulling ahead. Cyber security has moved from a future concern to a gating function today. Evgenia frames the strongest partners as those investing in these capabilities alongside her, building the kind of value chain that keeps end customers coming back.

Evgenia closes on the formula she keeps coming back to. Companies exist to solve customer problems better than others. Channel teams exist to help partners do the same. When both sides invest in the outcomes their customers actually want, everyone wins.

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