Partners

MindTouch Alliance Program | Partners

Join MindTouch's world-class partner network and help deliver the best collaborative solutions to customers.

New Revenue Opportunities

  • Build your business and
    increase profitability
  • Reduce costs and increase operational efficiency
  • Realize your full business potential

 

Committed to Partner Success

 

Mark Fidelman

Vice President of Sales
MindTouch, Inc.


As the MindTouch VP of Sales I am committed to Partner Success.
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The MindTouch Partner Program: Committed to Your Success

The MindTouch Alliance Program is designed to recognize your expertise, reward you for the total impact you have in the marketplace, and deliver value to help your business thrive.

Join the MindTouch Alliance Program and Open Your Business to New Revenue Opportunities

The MindTouch Alliance Program is a single, integrated, worldwide program designed to help you realize additional revenue opportunities.

Partnering with MindTouch helps you:

  • Build your business and increase profitability with benefits designed to help you build revenue, sales momentum and prominence—while increasing your market impact.
  • Reduce costs and increase operational efficiency throughout your business cycle by using valuable software, training, and support benefits.
  • Realize your full business potential—for you and your customers—through innovative MindTouch technologies, your relationship with MindTouch, and the partner community.

Once your organization is enrolled in the MindTouch Partner Program, you will have immediate access to benefits and resources tailored to your individual business needs.

Who Should Join the MindTouch Alliance Program?

The MindTouch Alliance Program is designed for all businesses whose primary function is to sell, service, support or build solutions on the MindTouch platform or provide solutions based on MindTouch products and technologies to independent third-party customers. Examples of qualifying businesses are:

  • Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
  • Support providers
  • System integrators
  • Consulting services providers
  • Independent software vendors (ISVs)
  • Independent hardware vendors
  • Large account resellers

Designed to Deliver Value to a Wide Rage of Partners

There are four categories of membership in the MindTouch Alliance Program:

  1. MAP Consultant, Receive fees for qualified referrals to MindTouch
  2. MindTouch Certified Vendors, MindTouch Certified Value Added Resellers
  3. MindTouch Development Partner, Developer partners that build applications on the Mindtouch platform
  4. MindTouch Sublicensee, Incorporating Mindtouch technology into Vendor's and allowing vendor to sublicense

Based on your membership level, you receive a set of program benefits that support all stages of your business cycle—from business planning to customer retention. Program benefits vary by membership level and include innovative marketing tools and services, MindTouch software licenses, technical and sales support resources, and sales and technical skills training.

  Consultant Certified Vendor Development Partner
Purpose Referral relationships Reselling relationship with MindTouch MindTouch Developer Partner
Benefits An opportunity to serve your customers with MindTouch technologies Premium benefits and technology discounts; access to MindTouch resources MindTouch developer support to build applications
Achieve MindTouch certifications Not required Employ or contract one MindTouch Certified individual Not required (covered in MindTouch Competency requirements)
Sign MindTouch Alliance Program agreement Required Required Required
Annual membership fee Standard annual fee contact for details Standard annual fee contact for details Custom annual fee contact for details


MindTouch Sublicensee
demonstrates the highest degree of expertise in developing with MindTouch technologies. This program allows you to have the opportunity to build the closest possible working relationship with MindTouch, and receive the developer program’s top benefits.

To enroll in the MindTouch Alliance Program, click here. Once you are an approved MAP partner, you will have access to the Partner Membership Center which is your main site for managing your relationship with MindTouch.

Take Advantage of Program Benefits to Help Your Business Succeed

The MindTouch Alliance Program provides a wealth of benefits, including tools, resources, software, training, and support services. These benefits are designed to help you extend your market reach, reduce costs, increase profitability, and deliver innovative solutions that allow you and your customers to realize your full business potential. The program benefits support all stages of your business cycle by helping you to:

  • Plan your business—The tools and resources you need to help you grow and develop your business.
  • Enable—Assistance in building and maintaining expertise in your particular areas of specialization through training resources and access to MindTouch software for development, support, sales, and/or internal use purposes.
  • Create demand—Marketing activities to help you create demand and build sales around MindTouch software launches and new marketing initiatives.
  • Sell—Accelerate sales and gain a competitive advantage. The MindTouch Alliance Program continues to enhance the value of your membership through benefits, tools, and resources designed to help you accelerate sales, gain a competitive edge, and win more deals.
  • Provide service and support—The tools and services you need to deliver customer satisfaction with MindTouch software.
  • Retain your customers—Tools to help you connect with and strengthen your customer relationships.

Benefits may be delivered online, by telephone, in e-mail, or in person. Partners at all membership levels also have access to the MindTouch Alliance Program website, which offers tools, resources, and news to support your organization's business.

MAP Partner License and Training Discounts

The table below lists the percentage discount by partner for the individual product or service. This discount is applied against the current retail price. For example, a Certified Vendor will have a 50% discount for all MindTouch conducted end-user product training sold to their customers.

  Consultant Certified Vendor Development Partner
Enterprise 15% 45% NA
Standard / (Hosted) 15% 45% NA
MindTouch End-User Product Training 25% 50% 50%
MindTouch End-User Support 25% 50% 50%

MAP Support Benefits

The MindTouch Alliance Program enhances the value of your membership through benefits, tools and resources designed to help you accelerate sales, gain a competitive edge, and win more deals, as well as through a broad offering of support options designed to help partners keep and grow their business in the post-sales environment.

Support benefits are usually distributed to the headquarters location of your organization. The following table provides a summary of the availability of support and service benefits by membership level. Descriptions of the benefits follow the table.

MAP Support Benefits by Membership Category

  Consultant Certified Vendor Development Partner
Telephone-based Pre-sales Support No Yes No
5-Pack of Support Incidents No Yes Yes
Business Critical Phone Support No Yes* No
In-person Sales Support No No/Yes For >$50k opportunities No
Developer Forum and community support No No Yes


Telephone-based Pre-Sales Technical Support
: MindTouch Certified Vendors and VAR’s are entitled to FREE and unlimited access to Telephone-based Pre-Sales Support. Staffed by a skilled team of MindTouch sales professionals

5-Pack of Professional Support Incidents: The 5-pack of professional support incidents provides access to MindTouch support professionals by telephone. In non-business-critical situations, professional support incidents provide assistance in problem resolution for specific symptoms encountered while using MindTouch technologies.

Business-Critical Phone Support: Business-Critical Phone Support provides support during critical “server down” customer situations. At no additional charge, this resource gives our partners direct access to technical support engineers who can help solve escalated technical issues with “business server down” situations affecting a customer’s MindTouch deployment.

MindTouch Developer Forums: MindTouch Forums provide the help partners need in break-fix situations that are not time-critical. These online forums are staffed by MindTouch open source experts and by MindTouch Support Professionals to answer questions on MindTouch technologies.