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The Partner Solution Progression framework is part of Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s next-generation partnering movement, which represents a new level of partner commitment – a promise from Â鶹ԭ´´ to help partners successfully navigate today’s market challenges by providing them with best-in-class experiences and empowering rapid innovation to fuel customer success.

Partner Solution Progression helps innovators quickly scale by collaborating with Â鶹ԭ´´ – from developing applications to identifying opportunities and showcasing these applications on , the company’s global marketplace. We collaborate with partners through this journey, and if we both see the potential for growth, there is a path that brings additional opportunity, backed by marketing and sales support from Â鶹ԭ´´. Because this progression is flexible, partners can find the spot that best fits their application, plan, and priorities.

Â鶹ԭ´´ is also  excited to announce Â鶹ԭ´´ Endorsed Apps, a new category of solutions from the Â鶹ԭ´´ ecosystem of partners. Launching this week at , the apps are designed to help customers become best-run intelligent enterprises. Â鶹ԭ´´ Endorsed Apps deliver proven value with desired outcomes – quickly, effectively, and with great confidence.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Endorsed Apps can round out a solution offering and deliver proven results to help solve customers’ business challenges. Through this designation, customers will be able to quickly find partner apps that they know they can trust on Â鶹ԭ´´ App Center. Â鶹ԭ´´ Endorsed Apps logos on the newly redesigned Â鶹ԭ´´ App Center highlight this category. This new initiative allows a business to take advantage of complete, proven solutions, with the most innovative technology brought by partner apps endorsed by Â鶹ԭ´´.

Â鶹ԭ´´ Endorsed Apps is an invitation-only program, part of Partner Software Progression, through which Â鶹ԭ´´ identifies the top-rated partners and apps that are verified to deliver outstanding value to customers. Once a partner has been invited to participate, its solution must undergo a series of stringent tests – beyond standard Â鶹ԭ´´ certification – to ensure it meets the requirements of . Premium certification is specifically designed to recognize Â鶹ԭ´´ Endorsed Apps, denoting a higher level of security, helping ensure less risk for customers. As more business moves online in this current climate, mitigating risk has never been more important. This level of certification is achieved through added technical quality checks conducted by Â鶹ԭ´´ Integration and Certification Center, during which code is analyzed and custom recommendations are provided for enhancing and optimizing the solution.

Partners in this initiative are offering customer experience (CX), human resources (HR), and platform and technology apps on Â鶹ԭ´´ App Center right now. .

Our goal is mutual success. The ecosystem of Â鶹ԭ´´ partners is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our customers and partners and the new enhancements available to partners benefit customers by providing the ideas and innovations they want. Â鶹ԭ´´ partners can tap into Â鶹ԭ´´ data, systems and brand to deliver new value to new audiences and expand offerings to existing customers.

Â鶹ԭ´´ and partners are working together to deliver the Intelligent Enterprise to customers, empowering all of our businesses to succeed and evolve.

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Darryl Gray is global vice president of Software Solution Partner Success in the Â鶹ԭ´´ Global Partner Organization at Â鶹ԭ´´.