Starting on April 1 Openbravo created a new program to help partners grow together with Openbravo and share the knowledge within our Ecosystem. This program is coordinated by a new business unit called Collaborative Development Unit. My name is Pablo Sarobe and I’m in charge of leading it. Mainly these are the objectives:
- Coordinate development activities in our Ecosystem
- Visibility – Shared global road map
- Avoid effort duplication
- Guidance
- Increase Openbravo functional coverage
There are two approaches:
- Sponsored development:
- Development done by Openbravo development team
- Partner/customer finance the project
- Contribution:
- Development done by partners
- Functional and technical guidance by Openbravo experts
- Requires partner commitment to follow our guidance
- Requires partner better technical and functional understanding
The benefits of this program are:
- Lower TCO (total cost ownership) in the life cycle
- Guaranteed support and maintenance by Openbravo
- Guaranteed evolution in future version
- Enhanced design
- Supports customers requirements
- Generalized to support industry best practices
- Best value
- Developed by Openbravo experts
- Discounted price list and additional discounts depending on relevance
- Free guidance
At the moment this program is open to partners and affiliate only. If you are interested in collaborating with us through this initiative:
- Present your need to the following email address: partners at openbravo dot com
- When appropriate the Channel Operation representative will put you in contact with us
- Provide as much written documentation as possible
- In case of sponsored development you will get a proposal including functional scope, effort estimation, additional discount when appropriate, total cost of the project and timeline
- In case of contribution we will agree on a detailed action plan
We encourage you to participate in this program and stay tuned to this blog because in the following weeks we will start a set of posts explaining the contributions and sponsor developments done so far
