Certified Advantage Partner

Transform your Capabilities and Benefits into Results

Drive superior return on your investments, increase accountability, support continuous performance improvements and move beyond your customer expectations by using the OPN benefits, exclusively offered to Certified Advantage Partners (CAP):

• Grant your company an OPN membership dedicated account management
• More education for your team. Earn more free certifications vouchers and get your team updated with the latest technologies available
• Apply for marketing funds and discounts and increase your profitability
• Advance in your support. Receive Service Support Requests and exceed your customer expectations
• Receive special and exclusive invitations to Oracle events
• And many other advantages and benefits

Get ready for new heights of achievements and exceed your customers' and your own expectations with the CAP membership. Check the complete list of benefits that Oracle offers to its partners.

• Education and Enablement

  • Obtaining even more professional and expert accreditation. Your technical team will receive two times more free Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) exam vouchers than Certified Partners level
  • Increasing your Oracle sales expertise. Keep your team updated in how to position and sell Oracle technology products with Oracle handbooks, Oracle boot-camps, seminars, and Oracle PartnerNetwork Days
  • Accessing privileged information with the dashboards by Focus Areas (FA). Empower your company with critical information regarding Oracle products and solutions that will best fit your company profile and development plans
  • Receiving educational road maps by accessing OPN Competency Center, the primary resource for a variety of training that will provide your company with a well designed-training plan based on your role
  • Saving money with training credits purchase in advance. Get special Partner discounts on Learning Credits if purchased within the first 30 days of OPN membership
  • Continuing always up to date with Oracle training initiatives. Receive free access to partner's exclusive online seminars, selected training events and workshops

• Development

  • Deploying faster and better Oracle applications by accessing methodologies for implementing Oracle applications that will widen your opportunities to create and generate enhanced solutions
  • Increasing opportunities with unlimited development licenses for Oracle technology programs. Your company will be able to develop solutions on Oracle latest technologies
  • Receiving validations for your integrated solutions with Oracle applications. Receive technical and sales endorsement from Oracle technical team
  • Widening your solutions portfolio with Linux. Develop in affordable platforms like Linux and obtain discount on Enterprise Linux support for development
  • Expanding solutions and sales opportunities with migration resources. Support your business deals by migrating solutions with Oracle's migration tool kits, workbench, & third-party migration providers
  • Accessing privileged information. Collaborate and receive support with developers through Oracle Technology Network and AppsNet communities

• Sales and Marketing

  • Receiving special treatment with your OPN account management. Get the latest updates on local offerings, opportunities, and resources regarding your OPN membership from a local Oracle representative, dedicated to assist your company to drive your business with Oracle (check regional availability)
  • Receiving high priority placement in the OPN Solutions Catalog. Increase your visibility to Oracle Customers by heading the list of partners' showcases in the OPN Solutions Catalog
  • Keeping your profitability always elevated. Access the Marketing Development Funds to improve your demand generation strategies, lowering the costs associated with them
  • Offering better business deals with Oracle Financing. Provide flexible payment options for your customers, displacing credit risk and upselling by removing financial obstacles
  • Leveraging your solutions visibility with Oracle solutions demonstrations. Use predefined environments using Oracle Technology or Application Demo System (ADS/TDS) or with the Unlimited Demonstration Licenses offered in OPN to deploy powerful demonstrations to your customers, and increase your chances to close deals
  • Expanding your business opportunities by engaging with Oracle in jointed demand generation activities through regional/local Go-to-Market Initiatives (GTMi)

• Support

  • Keeping fast response time by accessing Oracle Metalink, a critical phone support access granted to CAP Partners to support all Oracle Solutions and solve critical technical problems.  As a Certified Partner you will receive 200 Support Service Requests for Oracle technical programs, 50 Support Service Requests for Oracle applications programs or 200 Support Service Requests for Enterprise Linux Basic Support for Development
  • Improving your technical skills by accessing official documents and manuals and get the support you need like product support and troubleshooting guides. Documentation includes user, admin, reference and error manuals. Have all the answers at your service through Oracle MetaLink Library
  • Keeping you always up to date with OPN software updates. Have unlimited access to the most recent versions of products, solutions, and OPN software updates
  • Increasing your services range with partner discounts. Take advantage of special partners' discounts for Advanced Product Support offerings, and offer your customers the complete solution for their needs

To see the complete list of benefits your company can obtain click here

Now is the Time! Together We Will Make it Happen

Learn more about the requirements, legal obligations and responsibilities related to Certified Advantage Partners (CAPs). Meeting the criteria and staff competency requirements annually are prerequisites for joining or renewing your membership in the OPN

Please select your Partner Category type:

• Application ISVs

  By Oracle's definition, the App ISVs are companies that develop and own proprietary applications that integrate with Oracle's Applications to create comprehensive industry solutions. These applications may or may not run on Oracle technology and are distributed and supported directly or through other channels.

  If your company fits this definition, please click here to view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Content Providers

  By Oracle's definition, Content Providers are companies that create, buy, adopt, and deliver data and information services or other intellectual content that is integrated with Oracle products to deliver to their customers a more complete horizontal or industry specific solution.

  If your company fits this definition, please click here to view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Hardware and Infrastructure Providers

  By Oracle's definition, the Hardware and Infrastructure Providers are companies that provide a wide range of products, technologies, and services upon which Oracle products run.

  If your company fits this definition, please click here to view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Hosting Providers

  By Oracle's definition, the Hosting Service Providers include managed and utility services providers, including Telecommunication Service Providers, for business and consumers, and deliver services over a network for an externally managed facility in a one-to-many, service fee-based model running on Oracle's products

  If your company fits this definition, please click hereto view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Management Consultants

  By Oracle's definition, Management Consultants are companies that provide professional consulting and/or marketing services to customers, resulting in a recommendation of Oracle products and solutions.

  If your company fits this definition, please click hereto view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Service Partners

  By Oracle's definition, the Service Partners are companies that provide support, professional consulting and/or marketing services, to customers who already work with Oracle products. These companies may or may not recommend Oracle products.

  If your company fits this definition, please click here to view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• System Integrators

  By Oracle's definition, the System Integrators are companies that provide consulting, integration, and/or implementation services with Oracle products and solutions.

  If your company fits this definition, please click here to view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Technology ISVs

  By Oracle's definition, the Tech ISVs are companies that develop and market packaged applications based on Oracle Technologies. These solutions can be distributed directly by the ISV or through other channels

  If your company fits this definition, please click here to view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

• Value Added Resellers

  By Oracle's definition, the VARs are companies that offer complete, Oracle-led, business solutions and value-added services to their customers.

  If your company fits this definition, please click hereto view the requirements to become a Certified Advantage Partner. Additionally to check the staff competency table requirements click here

Renew your Membership with Oracle.

A world of opportunity awaits you. Renew your membership with Oracle and keep your business reaching higher and moving faster by accessing the OPN Portal, exclusive benefits for Partners:

• Keep receiving discounts and incentives with several Oracles' financing initiatives
• Keep your priority on the Solutions Catalog
• Keep technically updated accessing PodCasts and WebCasts regularly
• Review news and marketing updates to improve your business
• And many other benefits. See complete list of Benefits.