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Depuis plus de 3 ans, l’agence Dn’D construit des partenariats technologiques et commerciaux solides afin d’offrir à ses clients le meilleur service sur les meilleurs produits, en développant des synergies gagnantes. Aujourd’hui, l’agence Dn’D devient Partenaire Silver de Magento, la solution e-Commerce open source parmi les plus puissantes, évolutives et performantes du marché. Pour l’agence [...]
There was a webinar called “Updates to the Magento Solution Partner Program” two days ago (20 Apr 2011) that we attended. Those official Magento webinars usually come in a bad timing around 11am PDT which is 08pm Croatian time, so …
This creates a problem for three other parties though:
Because Magento is growing rapidly there are now many companies (and partners) implementing Magento, making the above a rapid growing problem. There needs to be a better way to differentiate the quality of Magento implementation companies.
Another (smaller) problem with the current partner program:
Now you’ve read (and hopefully understand ) what the issues are, you might be glad to hear that Magento Inc. has start roling out some solutions, starting with Training and Certifications as soon as next week!
There are currently 3 courses:
For more information about the courses, take a look at the Magento Training page.
Eventually, companies will be required to at least have a certain number of officially certified employees to be able to acquire a certain partner level. The exact details on the transition to the new partner requirements aren’t published yet, but with the Magento U Training program starting next week, it’s time for all partners to start proving their experience and for all end-users to start using this as a better way of selecting a Magento partner, solving the above three problems.
Of course it will take some time to turn training into certification and individual certification into certified partners and reforming the partner program might even take to the end of 2011 (I don’t know the official planning), but it’s good to see this finally set in motion. Although this is long overdue as you look at the size of the current Magento ecosystem and the rapid growth it’s going through, I’m also amazed by how Magento Inc. is keeping up with the growth, how it’s effecting the company and how they are working towards a better ecosystem. Kudos for that!
With the training and certification in place (and properly executed), this will empower end-user to make better choices and for Magento companies to fairly compete on their experiences. I haven’t heard anything about renaming the partner levels to anything else then Enterprise/ Professional/ Community, but I guess that will be the icing on the cake 
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In my opinion, one of the weakest points in the Magento ecosystem is in the way the partner program is build-up. At the beginning of this month I went to Los Angeles to attend the Magento Imagine conference, and I was eager to find out if, and how, Magento Inc. was going to improve the [...]
Since launching Magento in 2007, Magento’s solution partners have been and continue to be critical to our success. They work tirelessly building the Magento ecosystem and supporting enterprise customers on complex deployments.
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