Build Your Industry-Leading Application on Progress® OpenEdge®

More than 1,500 Application Partners use the OpenEdge platform to develop, deploy, manage their business applications and increase their operational responsiveness. Here are some key benefits of partnership:

• OpenEdge is the most productive and efficient application development platform
• Progress-based applications are easier and more cost effective to maintain
• Industry-leading Progress technologies including keep you ahead of your competition
• The Progress "shared-success" model for SaaS allows partners to have a true partner in their business success
• Our award-winning Partner Program and empowerment initiatives provide access to key business, technical and marketing resources

See why Progress and its Application Partners add 250,000 new users each year.

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Enjoy Access to Our World Class Technology

Progress OEM Partners have played a vital role in the Progress community for more than two decades, extending the reach of the Progress community into new industries, markets, countries, and customers.

Being a Progress OEM Partner means your business would have access to world class, award-winning technology for application infrastructure. Here are just some of the benefits of being an OEM Partner:

• Developing and deploying service-oriented business applications with our application platform products
• Integrating and connecting business services with our service infrastructure products
• Managing and distributing data in an SOA environment with our data infrastructure products

In addition to the best application technology infrastructure, Progress offers special programs for OEM partners including product training, tools and resources to help them deliver complete solutions to our mutual customers.

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Delivering Customer Success

Progress Software has longstanding relationships with many leading Consultancies and System Integrators (SIs).  These partners are vital to the success of our customers, and one of our key strategies is to build and maintain an ecosystem of partners that can fulfill solution, industry, and geographic specific requirements.  Our primary objective is to deliver value to our customers while creating mutually beneficial relationships between Progress Software and our partners.

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The Right Combination of People, Programs and Resources

The Progress Technology Partners can help Progress Partners and their customers achieve sales growth and market leadership. The success of the program comes from its commitment to understand, support, and leverage the unique business value and vision of all Progress Technology Partners. Our program offerings and initiatives are designed to not only meet specific business and technical needs but also provide for opportunities to collaborate and share best practices with Progress and other Progress Partners.

Progress Technology Partners offer benefits that include:

• The ability for the partner and customer to offer a Progress-based application on a variety of platforms
• An integrated approach to hardware or software technology supported by both Progress and the technology provider
• Progress tailors each technology partnership and the related activities to maximize the value of the partnership to the customer
• Tools and Utilities Partners develop, market, and/or support a Software Interface between the partner's tools/product(s) and Progress product(s)

These benefits and more help Progress, its partners and customers achieve the most cost-effective operating environment and competitive applications in their respective industries.

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Become a Vital Part of the Progress Partner Community

Progress Resellers are a vital part of the Progress community and have had more than two decades of success. Resellers extend the reach of the Progress community into new industries, markets, countries, and customers.

Typically, Progress Resellers are independent resellers of Progress Software Corporation (PSC) products to ISVs/ Application Partners or direct customers where an existing relationship exists in selected territories. Resellers have access to world class, award-winning technology for application infrastructure providing products for:

• Adding additional value to existing customers leveraging selected Progress products and technology
• Extending the Reseller’s business by offering new products to new customers, locations and markets
• Helping customers solve business challenges such as internal and external integration, reporting or business continuity

Progress offers special programs for Resellers including product training, tools and resources to help them deliver complete solutions to our mutual customers.

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Join an Industry-Leader in Cloud-Based Solutions

Progress offers one of the leading development and deployment platforms for building Cloud/SaaS business applications. Given the growth and resiliency of this market, all types of IT vendors are seeking to seize the opportunity, including many "specialized" ISVs, whose vertical domain expertise equip them to readily transition to the SaaS model. Progress is focusing on the technologies that facilitate the development of a new generation of highly specialized applications by creating a SaaS framework, specifically designed to expose defined business processes for integration within and between applications/organizations. SaaS Partners offer Partners and customers with services such as SaaS Business Model Consulting, Technical Consulting, SaaS Application Hosting and support and more.

Benefits for Progress Application Partners working with a SaaS Partner from Progress Software include:

• Reliable consulting from a proven industry leader
• Collaboration between you and Progress for optimum results
• Worldwide presence and experience
• Technical understanding of the Progress technology
• Formalized training and understanding of the Progress application to improve deployment and support
• Working relationship with Progress technical experts to accelerate deployment and future support request

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