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IBSurgeon partnership program for Firebird and InterBase developers

About program

IBSurgeon, the leader vendor of recovery and optimization tools for  Firebird and InterBase, presents partnership program for  developers of Firebird and InterBase based applications.

Purpose of this partnership program is to help companies and individual developer of Firebird and InterBase based solutions to increase quality of their products, help to market and promote Firebird-based solutions and, consequently, raise their revenue in close collaboration with IBSurgeon.

Partnership levels

There are 4 levels of partnership:
  • Developer, intended for single developer/workplace
  • Silver, intended for small companies
  • Gold, for mid-size and large vendors of Firebird- and Interbase-based solutions
  • Premium, for strategic partners

Partnership agreement is 1-year contract (with ability to extend).

How it works

There are 3 main advantages in the partnership program:
  1.  Partners have licenses of all IBSurgeon tools, access to knowledgebase and distinguished level of support in order to speed up, facilitate and increase quality and robustness of their application development.
  2. Partners have ability to embed IBSurgeon tools and technologies to their applications to increase quality of end-user applications: maintain, protect and monitor databases. Partners have access to recovery and optimizing services with high priority and significant discount. And, partners have ability just to resell IBSurgeon deployment tools and end-users services (for Silver and higher levels).
  3. Partners have marketing support from IBSurgeon, including advertising, marketing actions and events (seminars, PRs, conferences and so on), logos and certificates for partners products (depends on partnership level).

What you have as IBSurgeon Partner?

IBSurgeon partners have access to proved solutions for Firebird- and InterBase-applications:
  • Optimize and scale performance of your database applications
  • Proactive database protection against corruptions
  • Actions and events to promote Firebird- and InterBase-based solutions

Features

Level
Developer & SilverGoldPremium
Knowledgebase, training and certification
  • Free seminars and webinars regarding Firebird and InterBase-related optimization, database recovery and protection (according to schedule of such events)
xxx
  • Seminars and webinars at customer' location
 xx
  • Individual seminars and webinars
  x
  • Master-classes
 xx
  • Access to IBSurgeon knowledgebase
xxx
Technical support
  • 10 incidents pack during 1 year (email, response time is 24 hours) 
Only for Silver x x
  • Access to private forum with prioritised access
x x x
  • Licensing consulting for IBSurgeon and other vendors software
x x x
  • Database recovery services with priority mode and discounts
  x x
  • Consulting for safe maintenance of Firebird and InterBase databases
x x x
  • Creating strategy for safe maintenance: backup/restore approach, nbackup usage, protection against corruption, etc
  x x
  • Optimizing database performance for specific cases (hardware + software)
   x
Licenses for IBSurgeon and other vendors software (free and discounted) 
  All IBSurgeon  software for using during development, includes:
  • database protection and recovery software (IBDataGuard/FBDataGuard, IBFirstAID, etc)
  • monitoring and optimization software (FBScanner, IBTM, IBAnalyst)
  • All updates during the partnership agreement  
1 work place for Dev, up to 4 for Silver 5 work places Up to 150 work places
  • From 15% to 30% discounts for deploying all IBSurgeon application: as embedded versions or for reselling at recommended price+-5%, it's valid during partnership agreement 
x x x
  •  50% discounts for deploying all IBSurgeon application: as embedded versions or for reselling at recommended price +-5%,  it's valid during partnership agreement
  x  x
  •  Free deploying of selected IBSurgeon application: as embedded versions or for reselling during partnership agreement, or reselling with 70% discount  at recommended price +-5%
     x
  • Creating special builds for embedding/reselling
 x  x  x
Marketing and promotion actions and events
  • Public seminars/webinars with partners as speakers
     x
  • Work with media (PRs, articles, advertsing)
     x
  • Using logos IBSurgeon Certified and Protected by IBSurgeon for applications , logo IBSurgeon Partner Program at web-site, docs, etc
 x  x  x
  • News publishing at www.ibsurgeon.com (www.ib-aid.com) and local partners' sites
   x  x
 

Prices

Developer

Developer partnership costs 199 USD per year. It includes IBSurgeon software for using at 1 workplace and server during this year, all updates and new versions of IBSurgeon software, and also allows from 15% to 30% discount (individual negotiation) for embedding software. Reselling is possible only at recommended price+-5%.

Silver

Silver partnership costs 599 USD per year. It includes IBSurgeon software for using at up to 4 workplaces and server during this year, all updates and new versions of IBSurgeon software, and also allows from 30% to 50% discount for buying and reselling. Reselling is possible only at recommended price+-5%.

Gold

Gold partnership costs 3000 USD per year. It includes IBSurgeon software for using at up to 20 workpalces and servers during this year, all updates and new versions of IBSurgeon software, and allows 50% discount for buying and reselling. Reselling is possible only at recommended price+-5%.

Premium

Gold partnership costs 20000 USD per year. It includes IBSurgeon software for using at up to 150 workplaces and servers during this year, all updates and new versions of IBSurgeon software, and allows free embedding of IBSurgeon tools into 5 types applications (i.e., company produces CRM, ERP, Warehouse and Stock Managing application, all of them can be equipped with DataGuard for free at unlimited number of copies),
Also it gives 70% discount for reselling. Reselling is possible only at recommended price+-5%.

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