Alfresco Partner Network
Enterprise Content Management is growing at a forecasted compound annual growth rate of 19%, to be a $3.9bn market by 2008 (Source Forrester, 2005). Recent surveys show 56% of North American firms using open source today with 19% planning on using it. Hand in hand with this trend, open source is moving up the stack from the operating system - Linux, to the RDBMS - MySQL, to the Application Server - JBoss and now to Enterprise Content Management – Alfresco. This presents a tremendous opportunity both for the open source software community and the partner ecosystem around it.
The Alfresco Partner Network Program is designed to provide partner organizations with the expertise to market, configure, customize and implement Alfresco solutions for customers worldwide. Alfresco works with different categories of partners including:
- System Integrators
- Infrastructure Providers
- ISV/OEM Partners
- Distributor/Resellers
- Hosting Partners
- Training
By signing up to the Alfresco Partner Network Program you will be making a statement to the market that you are able to provide a trusted, supported solution. The program offers several different levels of membership to align with your company's size and business model.
“Alfresco takes ECM from the Client-Server World of the 90’s into the SOA, Web Services and Aspect Oriented World of Today”
Programme Benefits
The program levels and benefits are as follows:
| Bronze | Gold | Platinum |
Development Benefits |
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Alfresco Insider RSS Feed | Y | Y | Y |
Enterprise Edition for internal education, testing, demos. Number of supported deployments. | 1 | 3 | Unlimited |
Discussion and Alignment of Roadmap Plans | Y | Y | |
Discount on Alfresco Training % | 20 | 25 | |
Discount on Alfresco Certification % | 20 | Free | |
Partner Advisory Board | Y | Y | |
Partner Forums | Y | Y | Y |
Access to email Technical Support - Calls | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Access to phone Technical Support | Y | Y | |
Go-To-Market Benefits |
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Listing in Alfresco Website Catalog | Y | Y | Y |
Preferred Partner Listing | Y | Y | |
Use of Alfresco Logo | Y | Y | Y |
Access to Marketing Material | Y | Y | Y |
Press Release | Supported | Joint | Joint |
Sales Benefits |
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Access to Alfresco Sales teams | Y | Y | |
Joint Alfresco/Partner Sales Campaigns | Y | Y | |
Access to Hosted Alfresco Network for Demonstrations and Evaluations | Y | Y | |
Joint Collateral | Y | Y | |
Joint Webinar | Y | Y | |
Events - Co-Exhibiting & Sponsorship Opportunities | Y | Y | |
Partner Sales and Marketing Training | $ | Y | |
Resell royalty on 1st line support |
| 15% | 20% |
Resell royalty on 1st & 2nd line support |
| 30% | |
Requirements |
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Annual Program Fee | $2995 | $9995 | Revenue Commitment |
Abide by Alfresco Network Certification Procedures | Y | Y | Y |