Program Benefits

Delivering Real Business Value and Competitive Advantage

The Progress Partner Program reinforces the mutual commitment between our companies. With clearly defined benefits and rewards, the program helps us meet each other's expectations. Together, our mission is to deliver real business value and competitive edge to you and your customers. Depending on your growth stage, you have access to a range of benefits tailored to your business. You receive at minimum:

Access to the Online Progress Resource Center
Participation in the Powered by Progress Program.
Membership to the Progress Software Developers Network (PSDN).
Access to the Online Progress Campaign Center to create direct mail campaigns
Consideration for the Global Solutions Directory

The following chart illustrates additional program benefits that are tailored to your growth stage:


Offerings	Description	Preferred	Premier	Elite
Progress Resource Center Access	Successfully position and sell Progress-based products to your customers and prospects with the comprehensive materials available in this Web-based repository.
Powered by Progress Program	Use the Powered by Progress logo to brand your business applications as technically robust, reliable and cost-effective. Put the power of Progress to work in your software and marketing collateral with the symbol that identifies Progress as the technological foundation for the world's best business applications. This mark of excellence is recognized around the world.
PSDN Online Access	More than a software and information delivery mechanism, PSDN provides a forum in which developers can access collective Progress technical expertise through a variety of channels.
Progress Campaign Center Access	Create targeted marketing campaigns with the help of this new online system that includes customizable direct marketing templates, as well as lead and list management.
Global Solutions Directory	Showcase your applications among the most competitive Progress-based business applications globally in this online catalog.
PSDN Membership	Access in-depth technical content on PSDN Online – including white papers, articles, downloads, live Web seminars with Progress experts, and code samples – on all Progress products and technologies.
PSDN Subscriptions	PSDN Subscriptions is a comprehensive software service for developers providing priority access to a complete, continuously updated set of Progress development and deployment products. By subscribing to PSDN, you can be sure that you are developing and testing your applications more efficiently with the latest Progress tools, platform, and server technologies.
Business Empowerment Programs	Eligibility for participation in Business Empowerment Programs including the workshops for business planning, sales training and more.
Technical Empowerment Programs	Eligibility for participation in Technical Empowerment programs including Web casts and workshops for application transformation, OpenEdge Reference Architecture (OERA), and more.
Operational Empowerment workshops	Eligibility for participation in workshops for Operational Empowerment including best practices and on the effective use of the Campaign Center, and other offerings.
Expanded participation in PSDN	Gain priority access to in-depth technical content on PSDN Online – including white papers, articles, downloads, live Web seminars with Progress experts, and code samples – on all Progress products and technologies.
Progress Directions	Progress Directions, enables you to collaborate with Progress and other participants regarding OpenEdge® product requirements, definition, and design to meet your market needs. By participating, you can obtain early insight into OpenEdge product direction to align your strategic planning with that of Progress Software, directly communicate strategic and product enhancement requests to Product Management, and directly impact the success and improvements of the OpenEdge® Business Platform.
Customized Campaign Center programs	For select partners, Progress provides campaign design assistance to help you develop targeted marketing campaigns.
ASP Primer	Increase your overall business value to customers through a business model that delivers competitive pricing and licensing strategies.
One-to-one reference case development	Increase your market awareness through high profile customers for effective reference selling.
One-to-one Application Transformation Mentoring	One-to-one Application Transformation Mentoring.
Access to Progress executive speakers	Strengthen your business partnerships and drive new business sales through access to Progress executive speakers at your events
Progress Business Forum at Exchange	Participation in the Progress Business Forum at Exchange
Executive customer visits	Executive customer visits using Progress facilities across the globe
Individual briefings with Progress executives	Individual briefings with Progress executives, and more programs designed to meet your unique growth stage requirements
One-to-one on-site sales skills	Increase your effectiveness in closing more customer deals and increasing overall deal size
One-to-one on-site demo skills	Increase your prospect-to-customer closure ratio by decreasing overall sales cycle
Extended one-on-one Strategic Business Planning	Develop a formalized strategic business plan to properly plan for and manage growth within your marketplace today as well as maximize your growth opportunities through Strategic Business Planning.
Extended one-to-one Market Planning	Enhance your overall market intelligence and ability to reach your target audiences with a compelling message through extended Market Planning.
Extended one-to-one Globalization Planning	Develop a strategic business plan to successfully penetrate international markets with your industry solutions through extended, one-to-one Globalization Planning.
Customized Sales and Demo Skills workshop	Learn to increase your overall deal size and prospect-to-customer closure ratio by decreasing overall sales cycle through Customized Sales and Demo Skills workshops
Joint Public Relations and Analyst programs and initiatives	Increase your overall market awareness and exposure within key influencer groups through joint Public Relations and Analyst programs and initiatives.

Resources

Progress Resource Center

Analyst Papers

Case Studies

Global Solutions Locator

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Progress Software Corporation supplies business application platform, soa infrastructure and data infrastructure software that simplifies and accelerates the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our superior business application platforms include Progress OpenEdge for high performance SOA integration and software as a service (SaaS), and Progress Apama for complex event processing. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress DataXtend semantic data integration, Progress Actional SOA management and SOA governance, and DataDirect data connectivity for mainframe SOA and web services. Our data infrastructure products include DataDirect Connect for database driver and data provider connections to relational databases and XML data integration, EasyAsk for enterprise search and e-commerce, and ObjectStore object data management.

Progress OpenEdge® is a business application platform for the rapid development, deployment and management of business applications that are standards-based and service-oriented. Our state of art business applications provides maximum architectural flexibility, easiest development of SOA enabled applications and SaaS optimized applications. With OpenEdge there is platform independence and future proof and backward compatibility. OpenEdge partners with vertical application partners for the best logistics, retail, ERP, manufacturing and healthcare business applications. Develop quickly with OpenEdge Reference Architecture. Deploy empowering and high performance transactional applications. The all in one development environment makes OpenEdge the platform of choice. Select OpenEdge for large scale data management of critical business applications. OpenEdge is the leading embedded database.