Progress Growth Stages – Turning Vision into Achievement

Tailoring the Partner Program to Meet Your Needs

How do we make an award-winning partner program even better? Progress has engaged with hundreds of partners around the world to gain a better understanding of your needs and goals. These discussions have taught us that each of you has a unique vision for your business and your relationship with Progress.

To help you turn that vision into achievement, the newly enhanced Partner Program delivers innovative offerings and resources tailored to meet specific growth stage needs rather than just basing our program on revenue contribution, as do many of our competitors.

Our growth stages are based on both the needs and contributions of all partners, as well as more than 20 years of partnering with companies all over the world. The growth stages include:

• Elite Partners
• Premier Partners
• Preferred Partners
• Member Partners

Depending on your growth stage, you'll have increasing access to a full range of powerful online resources, business and market planning programs, technical development resources, and customized one-to-one-programs. There are no limits to what you can accomplish by taking full advantage of the next generation of the Progress Partner Program.

While many partner programs are based solely on revenue contribution, the Progress Partner Program considers many important technology, industry, and business barometers to determine your initial placement in the program. These key indicators include a unique understanding and use of our technology, and experience and ability to execute in the business and market served. Many Progress partners will aspire to rise through the stages to the very highest echelon of the Progress Partner Program, and realize additional privileges and growth stage benefits. We welcome your interest and will work in close collaboration with you to help you achieve your goals.

• Elite Partners
  Elite Partners are among the top few who demonstrate superior understanding of Progress technology and their industry, while maintaining the right mix of resources and ability to achieve extraordinary growth.
  
  
• Premier Partners
  An exclusive group that are clearly industry leaders, Premier Partners have demonstrated both a clear vision for technology and business as well as the ability to execute sales and marketing strategies consistently and at a high level of performance.
  
  
• Preferred Partners
  A select group of partners among the leaders in their respective markets, Preferred Partners have demonstrated a clear vision for the use of Progress technology and a keen understanding of their customers and market.
  
  
• Member Partners
  Joining the Progress Partner Program provides partners with the resources they need to begin building and selling OpenEdge-based business applications. Once a partner has joined the program, they become eligible for access to a comprehensive set of business and technology resources supporting our market-leading portfolio of products and technologies.