End User – The Customer

What are the Levels of Oracle Partner Membership?

Oracle PartnerNetwork incorporates three membership levels. As a company progresses to higher levels within the program, Oracle’s commitment to the company increases by providing additional marketing and sales engagement opportunities and enhanced benefits and resources.

Partner - Partner is the "discovery" level. The Partner level enables companies to introduce their unique solutions or services to the Oracle economy while building their Oracle competency. Partners have access to software within selected Product Focus areas as well as many other web-based resources designed to enhance their value proposition, broaden their opportunity and extend their reach in the marketplace.

Certified Partner - As the partners business grows with Oracle and the company proves their skills in delivering Oracle solutions, they may apply for an upgrade to Certified Partner level. Companies at this level receive increased personal interaction, information, promotion and benefits from Oracle.

Certified Advantage Partner - Certified Advantage Partner is Oracle’s highest membership level. Certified Advantage Partners consistently demonstrate their commitment to Oracle. Companies will receive the highest level of recognition, engagement and dedicated account management when they reach this level.

What does working with an Oracle Partner mean to you as a customer?

Partners help create rich solutions for broader markets, and bring even greater value to customers through solutions that address business needs. Together, Oracle and its partners provide customers around the world with industry-leading solutions and services. When a customer chooses an Oracle-based partner solution or service, they are deploying the reliability, security, availability, and scalability of Oracle, plus the extended power of a partner that works hand-in-hand with Oracle, and provides for specific functional area, market, or industry needs. 

A benefit for customers in using Oracle’s recognised Partners is a matter of knowing that they are keeping their skills, knowledge and therefore competency current with Oracle's products. Partners are able to advise and implement the most up-to-date solutions for the customer, something that other less informed implementers and system integrators would not be able to do. End-users should judge potential partners on the experience of the company and its individuals and most importantly they should take up references and ensure partners have completed similar projects to the satisfaction of its past clients

Oracle actively engages with partners that are on Accelerator Programmes (wishing to obtain Certified Partners (CP) or Certified Advantage Partners (CAP) status. CPs and CAPs ensure that they keep their skills current via a several methods, this includes partner forums, awareness events, OPN Competence Centre Training, regular review meetings, and assessment. CP partners are required to have less qualified personnel than CAP partners, thus in theory the higher the level the more resource capability they have. CPs and CAP Partners are assessed annually and must pass strict criteria to continue to operate as CAPs, this criteria includes staff passing certification exams and the ability to show project implementation success during the year.

The interaction centre works with Partners to nurture them and assist with moving up the partner levels

So how do you find an Oracle Partner to work with?

The Oracle PartnerNetwork's Solutions Catalogue, is a gateway to Oracle Partner products and services worldwide. Use it to find hardware, software, system integration, and services vendors, which are Oracle Partners.

The Solutions Catalogue is an ever-increasing collection of information on Oracle Partner joint products and services. We suggest coming back often to view the newest Partner offerings and catalogue additions.

How do I use the Solutions Catalogue?

Simple Search will provide a maximum of 200 solutions. To refine your search criteria, please use Advanced Search.

Note: If a user enters UK in the Solution availability search - they will receive a list of all solutions available in the UK - e.g. you could have a partner in Germany who has a solution for the UK and the German Partner will show in the search. Not ideal - but apparently this "country search" is on a list of system enhancements to be resolved shortly

Due to the length of these lists and number of non-UK partners, which are listed because their solutions are available in the UK, we have compiled a list of partners in the UK.

We suggest looking at all the available partners in the UK and then looking them up in the solutions catalogue for full details on their offerings.

For a full list of Oracle Partners in the UK and Ireland

How to Choose an Oracle Partner

There are a number of factors to consider when choosing an Oracle Partner.

For example:

n Do they have the right product and experience for your industry sector?

n Do they have a track record with the solution you need?

n Do they have the Oracle experience relevant to the solution you need?

n What level of certification do they have with Oracle?

n Are they the right cultural fit for your organisation?

JDE and PS Partners

"PSFT and JDE partners were transitioned into the Oracle partner scheme based on previous levels held at the PSFT program – each year this crtieria will be  reviewed by Oracle to ensure that skills, knowledge and competency are current with Oracle's products"

For a full list of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards Partners in the UK and Ireland