Partner Benefits
What makes the Ingres partner program different?
Firstly, it is an integral component of Ingres’s business strategy, not simply a co-marketing arrangement. Ingres’s focus on core product development creates significant related opportunities for Ingres partners in business consulting, project delivery, integration and complementary products. The Ingres partner program provides a structured way for Ingres partners to access these opportunities.
Secondly, the Ingres partner program builds directly on Ingres’s substantial experience of working with and supporting partners of all kinds. Ingres understands the needs and desires of partners, and this program aims to satisfy them.
Thirdly, Ingres’s market position and reputation for product quality and professionalism are powerful, valuable attributes to have on your side when developing long-term business.
The Ingres partner program makes them available to you as partners.
Accreditation
In addition to the business development support available to Gold partners, Gold partners can gain “preferred” status through Accreditation.
Accreditation provides an additional program of structured training and certification that enables Accredited partners to be promoted on the basis of their exceptionally strong Ingres expertise.
Accredited partners are in the best possible position to secure and deliver Ingres-related business. Full details on the Accreditation process are described in a separate brochure.
Marketing
Marketing activities are key to enabling partners to successfully execute customer education and acquisition programs.
Partners are given exclusive access to secured extranet resources that offer a wealth of information on Ingres products and services, including Ingres support services. Additionally, the marketing framework developed with each organisation focuses on creating maximum exposure with an emphasis on strategic and tactical joint marketing campaigns and PR activities.
Ingres’s Development Environment
Consulting and System Integrator organisations that are at Silver partner level or above are entitled to receive and use Ingres software and documentation for marketing, demonstration and testing purposes, as part of their partner fee.
The Development Licence grants the partner certain rights in respect of their use of the Ingres software; primarily to enable them to:
- Train their personnel.
- Demonstrate the Ingres software to potential customers.
- Develop solutions for customers.
Ingres Services
Ingres Services is the key to deriving strategic business value from Ingres partnership.
For Silver and Gold partners delivering Ingres projects, Ingres Services is the point for day-to-day engagement with Ingres.
The Ingres Services organisation is a worldwide group providing comprehensive project and technical support to ensure successful, repeatable Ingres-based projects.
Drawing on experience gained from over 150 individual projects, Ingres Services can advise and add value to a wide range of product, process and architectural issues from data migration strategies to process template definition.
Find out more about Ingres Services by visiting:
www.ingres.com/services