About Certification

Offerings in the EMC Solution Gallery span the following certification levels:

Offerings in the EMC Solution Gallery include those which have been Designed for EMC by EMC Velocity² Partners on EMC Documentum and EMC SMARTS platforms. Offerings have been accredited to ensure compliance with rigorous open design standards for the best architected, most upgradeable, and most maintainable business solutions possible.

Value for Customers

Partners with offerings that bear a certification logo have close development partnerships with EMC as a means of highlighting their investment in EMC products and technologies. The Designed for EMC accreditation process has been designed with you, our customers, in mind to ensure that you can find offerings that truly support your investment in the industry-leading EMC software. By looking for offerings that bear an EMC certification logo designation, you can identify applications that meet comprehensive technical and testing criteria.

Our partners differentiate their offerings by completing the Designed for EMC offering accreditation process, thus earning the certification logo designation, and being featured in the EMC Solution Gallery. By completing the offering accreditation process, our partners demonstrate their commitment to customer success. Moreover, they show customers their investment in EMC and establish the quality of their offerings which have been developed to meet or exceed EMC design standards for enterprise applications.

Partners work closely with EMC to ensure that their applications, solutions, and integrations comply with these standards so that our customers can have the best designed, most upgradeable, and maintainable business solutions possible. Customers who implement EMC solutions in their organizations have realized the quality and value behind the EMC offering certification, such as Designed for EMC.

By implementing EMC certified offerings across all departments of your organization, you can ensure consistency in all EMC applications throughout your enterprise. Some EMC customers utilize Designed for EMC offering certification specifications as a means of assuring that applications developed by their own IT teams employ the same best practices provided by EMC certified offerings.

Designed for EMC

Partners submitting offerings to the Designed for EMC process have access to early product roadmap information and specific product release information sharing. Through the accreditation process, our partners become closely aligned with EMC in a way that ensures that they are better able to provide quality products and solutions to customers. The accreditation process provides partners with unprecedented access to product roadmaps along with architectural and strategic direction, representing a true advantage that can be passed on to you, our customer. Customer Benefits include:

• Lower TCO
• Superior Architecture
• Faster Deployment
• Enhanced Compatibility
• Complete Documentation
• Simpler Migration
• Optimized Platform
• Rapid Discovery

Application design guidance is part of the process. Through the Designed for EMC process, our partners can take advantage EMC application design expertise, participating in design workshops and interacting with our dedicated staff of architects. This makes it possible for partners to competitively field offerings that fully leverage EMC products and technologies.

By submitting an offering to be considered for the Designed for EMC logo designation, our partners participate in a thorough evaluation of their offering against a comprehensive set of criteria. Once the evaluation process is complete, an offering that has demonstrated compliance with the required criteria in the Designed for EMC specifications receives the logo and is promoted to that designation in the EMC Solution Gallery.

To earn the Designed for EMC designation, an offering is assessed for the following:

• Offering Completeness
• Design
• Development
• Deployment
• Quality Assurance
• Documentation
• Services

and must meet over fifty criteria across:

• Data and configuration management
• Development and customization
• Documentation
• Installation upgrade and removal
• Performance and scalability
• Security
• Supportability and maintainability

If You Are a Partner

If you are an EMC partner and interested in submitting an offering, contact your EMC Partner Manager, learn more about the EMC Velocity² Technology and ISV Program, or e-mail us. Independent software vendor (ISV), value-added service provider (VSP), and systems integration Velocity2 Partners with commercially available offerings built on Documentum or SMARTS are eligible to have offerings considered for certification at this time.

Feedback

If you have questions or comments about offerings in the EMC Solution Gallery or Designed for EMC offering accreditation which are not addressed here, feel free to e-mail us. We appreciate your feedback and will respond promptly. Thank you for your interest.