ADALEC (Association Nationale des Directeurs des Partenariats) is a French association of and for Channel and Alliance Managers. Its goal is to develop and promote all partner-supporting functions and to help educate senior management teams about the benefits of partnerships. Through various forums and seminars, the ADALEC enables its members to share and develop best practices and resources involving partnerships..
	The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, Inc. (A.S.A.P.), is the leading global professional association dedicated to alliance formation and practice and is headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. With a membership of some 1,500+ mid to senior level alliance professionals, it provides a forum to exchange alliance best practices, resources, and opportunities and to offer products that enable its members to harness alliances as growth engines to drive corporate performance.
	Channel Enablers was founded to assist technology companies achieve their partnering, alliance and channel objectives within Asia Pacific. They have developed channels-based training material that is used by companies (BMC, IBM, Compuware and Cisco among many others) to develop the skills and competencies of their channel sales teams. Channel Enablers decided to expand in Europe and signed significant partnerships with A2Partner Consulting in French-speaking countries and MTI for Germany.
	compuBase is the leading provider of information on partners in the ICT (Information Communication Technology), Telecoms and Networking sectors, in other words the entire indirect channel for IT products: 100,000 companies with 230,000 contacts. A2Partner Consulting and Compubase decided to work together and distribute complementary offers for IT customers.