Associate Partners resell Windward System Five, and leave the training
and support to us. Associate Partners are paid a commission on Windward
System Five sales. Of course you will also generate revenue by providing
hardware and networking services. If a customer has a problem with the
hardware, Associate Partners must be available to offer 'warm body'
support by traveling to the customer’s site and getting the system
back online. Windward provides all the software support and customer
training.
Associate Partners are expected to ensure that the system is installed
in such a way so that Windward Support Staff can connect to the system
over the internet using PC Anywhere. In this way, we become a team –
you provide local 'warm body support' and we provide remote software
support.
Level 2 – The Full
Partner
Full Partners are certified by Windward Software Inc. to provide training
and support on behalf of Windward. Your income opportunities increase
due to an enhanced commission structure and the ability to charge for
training and support. Of course you still get all the other business
that is generated in this type of transaction.
We expect that Full Partners will already be experts at installing and
supporting networks based on Windows 2000 Server and/or Red Hat Linux
and/or Novell.
To become a certified Full Partner you must take a week-long Windward
Dealer Training course and pass the certification test.You will then
be expected to spend more time on your own learning the software intimately.
Full Partners are required to fully install, train and support their
clients, however Windward will back up the Full Partner with support
and additional training as required.
Terms of the Partnership are negotiable based on the vertical markets
and/or territories you wish to sell into. There is a fee involved to
become trained and certified.
Associate Partners with proven track records can
apply to become Full Partners.
