SUSE One Partner Program

The Power of Many. Together as One.

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Achieve open source success in an award-winning program full of interconnectivity, choice, incentives, and benefits.
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The Time is Now

The landscape of technology partnerships is evolving. Organizations are looking to deliver and consume solutions and services that support digital transformation, hybrid & cloud native environments, and the rapid adoption of containerization strategies leveraging Kubernetes.

The SUSE One Partner Program has also evolved, providing a flexible and modern structure built around targeted Specializations that allow you to focus your efforts on areas of the program that align to your business objectives.

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A Program Built for Partner Success

Imagine the possibilities. The combined force of SUSE and Rancher provides our partners with access to a trusted, reliable, and agnostic open source foundation + a best-in-class Kubernetes platform that vastly simplifies the management of containerized workloads.

SUSE One creates paths for organizations to come together in different ways to accelerate business opportunity. With an objective of fostering collaborative success, SUSE One is modernizing how our partners build, sell, distribute, and provide services to their customers and end-users.

Benefits of SUSE One

The technology challenges of tomorrow and beyond cannot be solved by a single vendor alone. Immerse your business in a partner-first program, ready to meet you where you need it most.

Partner Program Values
01
More Engagement, More Rewards

Your investment in a strong partnership deserves recognition. Expand your business practice with SUSE, advance in the Specializations, and unlock additive benefits to help expand your growth.

02
Expanded Open Source Knowledge

Solidify your position as a trusted open source vendor, advisor, and provider of services by leveraging free partner sales & technical training paths to sharpen your understanding of SUSE products and joint offerings.

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Capture New Business Opportunity

Leverage the products, solutions, heritage, and market position of SUSE and its ecosystem. Then help your customers simplify digital transformation, ease management of Kubernetes, or accelerate their position at the Edge.

SUSE One Specializations

Simplify your partnership, modernize your offerings, and accelerate your growth. Identify your place in SUSE One through objective-based alignment, then progress the tiers in any or all of the program specializations to expand your access to additional benefits, and incentives.

INNOVATE

Engagement with INNOVATE demonstrates your collaboration with SUSE engineering to ensure the compatibility of software and hardware built on or with SUSE offerings. Leverage the YES, Ready, and SolidDriver certifications to provide assurance to customers that your solutions have been validated for functionality, performance, and reliability.


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SOLUTION

For the creator and purveyors of market specific, industry agnostic, or use-case driven end-to-end solutions across SUSE offerings, the SOLUTION specialization provides partners with support and opportunity. Bring your certified solutions and work with us to identify routes to market, develop GTM plans, and broaden revenue opportunities.


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SELL

An improved partner experience creates an improved customer experience, and the SELL specialization is for organizations looking to improve on both in the channel. Leverage program resources and grow new revenue streams by reselling SUSE products, Partner Solution Stacks, and expert services that support digital transformation.


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CLOUD

The MSP program is for partners that build, deploy, or provide services in the cloud.

The Cloud Elevate Program is designed to empower SUSE One partners to expand and grow revenues through the cloud marketplace.


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SERVICE

The SERVICE specialization is by invitation only. Provide consulting, deployment, migration & integration services as a SUSE subcontractor partner. Build and expand your Services practice around SUSE products and offerings as an extension of SUSE Services/Consulting to support and accelerate your customers cloud and container strategies.


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TRAIN

The TRAIN specialization focuses on partners that will provide training and certification services to SUSE customers and partners. SUSE relies on these partners to help customers and partners go deep into SUSE products and solutions. Whether you focus only on training or offer learning as part of a suite of services, TRAIN provides the benefits to help you create a profitable business practice.


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Nicolas Christener, Chief Executive Officer, Adfinis AG
"We are confident because SUSE has a long history in delivering enterprise-ready open source solutions. As a partner, we get value from building and delivering services around these solutions."

Success Stories

Carhartt

Carhartt embarked on a digital transformation journey to replace legacy hardware with a cloud-first strategy.

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