Red Hat
ISV Program
ISVs play an integral role in Red Hat’s technology development and go-to-market strategies. Red Hat offers this program to select ISVs in order to establish a strong business foundation in the marketplace.
PLAN, EXECUTE, GROW
The Red Hat ISV Program, as part of Red Hat Connect for Business Partners, is designed to engage and support our ISV partners in their Go-to-Market and commercial activities. Access to relevant resources and materials, opportunity to use our commercial embedding and reselling buying programs, and the ability to engage with Red Hat’s customer facing teams are all progressively made available to member ISVs through the program.
At each level (Ready, Advanced, Premier) our partnership will grow as our joint business scales
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Progressive sales, marketing, and financial benefits
- A variety of engagement models to suit our joint client’s needs
- Access to promotional channels, resources, and creative paths to expand customer reach
- Joint business development and solutions engineering for select partners, access to self service content/collateral and opportunistic joint sales for all partners.
Discover the benefits of the ISV program

Visibility
Showcase your software to Red Hat’s clients, partners, and users through listings in Red Hat software catalog, OpenShift Hub, and Red Hat partner locator listings.

Sales expansion
Improve sales with coordinated account management, joint customer calling, and presales technical support for qualified partners.

Margin improvement
Increase margins with reseller discounts, market development funds, no–cost software licenses for demonstrations and evaluations, training discounts, and more.

Accelerated time to market
Improve product quality and customer satisfaction with optional expert developer assistance and technical support. Develop on OpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), to build and deploy your enterprise and SaaS applications faster.
Get World Class Resources
Red Hat Connect For Business Partners portal
Your one-stop shop for the tools you need to build your go-to-market strategy with Red Hat. Access marketing materials, sales tools, online support resources, and sales and technical training resources. Advanced and Premier partners have the opportunity to engage in joint business planning and go-to-market activities with Red Hat.
Red Hat Partner Locator and Red Hat Software Catalog
Gain visibility with Red Hat's clients and partners through listings in both Red Hat's Software Catalog (Red Hat Connect for Technology Partners with certified applications) and Partner locator.
FICO gets platform for innovative cloud solution
I worry about the same things that others living in a cloud model worry about. I worry about resiliency, reliability, and the ability to deliver value to customers. Red Hat helps us with all of those.

Tony McGivern
CIO, FICO
JOIN OUR PROGRAM
Accelerate your success by joining the world’s largest ecosystem of open source solutions today. The Red Hat ISV Partner Program is open to all ISVs using Red Hat technology and aims to help you achieve your business goals through technical integration, joint marketing, sales training, and customer engagement. Register and apply online to become a Red Hat ISV Partner to get started.
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