The IdeaBlade Partner Program is designed to enable our service and delivery partners to gain maximum value from their knowledge and expertise in IdeaBlade DevForce. IdeaBlade Technology and VAR partners can:

Learn more about joining our Partner Program	•	Increase their professional services margins. By focusing on high-value business features, IdeaBlade partners can maximize their developer revenues while delivering enterprise application projects on time and on budget. Because developers can standardize on a single methodology and infrastructure platform, standard consulting services based on this approach can be developed and marketed more easily, and management can utilize talent across projects more readily.
	•	Differentiate their services from competitors. With DevForce, professional services organizations can generate feature-rich, high-value business applications more quickly. For example, since DevForce enables the development of both Windows and Web Forms with a single business model, it enables developers to deliver extremely flexible applications more rapidly than could be delivered through alternative approaches.
	•	Increase customer retention. For customers that have made the strategic decision to standardize on Microsoft technologies, DevForce ensures consistent delivery of .NET- and Windows-compliant applications, with complete forward- and backward compatibility of all .NET classes, libraries, foundation layers and practices from .NET 1.0 beta on. IdeaBlade’s close alignment with Microsoft also future-proofs developers who need to ensure they are on the leading edge of development trends and practices.

 

Strategic Alliance Partners
	IdeaBlade strategic alliance partners are multi-national, Fortune 2000 companies who have strong business synergies with IdeaBlade and have negotiated agreements with IdeaBlade to jointly develop and sell innovative .NET solutions.
Industry Solution Partners
	Industry Solutions Partners are companies who offer best-in-class .NET solutions and who receive preferred treatment in IdeaBlade’s product portfolio.
Technology Partners
	Technology Partners are professional service providers who enable solutions that support and enhance IdeaBlade’s ability to offer .NET business solutions.
Value-Added Resellers (VARs)
	Value Added Resellers (VARs) are partners who provide services and solutions to enterprises, governments, and ISV’s. They have established credibility within their market for their knowledge and expertise in a particular market segment or industry vertical.
Application Partners
	Application Partners are independent software vendors (ISV’s) who offer promising new data applications. Applications from these companies are built using DevForce as a key component of their development environment.
Registered Developers
	All interested parties may register for the IdeaBlade Developer Program to gain access to comprehensive technical documentation and support for their .NET application development.