What Is an Accreditation (Partner Program)?
An accreditation is a vendor's formal recognition that a partner organization or individual meets a defined standard of training, capability or compliance. Often a prerequisite for sales, technical or pre-sales roles within a program, accreditations sit alongside certifications as the credentials that qualify a partner for a tier and the rebates and pricing attached to it.
Why it matters to IT channel partners. Accreditations are gate-keepers: a program may require a set number of accredited people before a partner can register deals, hold a tier or claim an incentive. Letting one lapse can quietly remove eligibility for money the partner is otherwise earning. Tracking who holds which accreditation, and when each expires, is how a partner keeps its standing intact. See it all in Rebates-On.
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In practice they overlap; many programs use "accreditation" for sales or partner-level recognition and "certification" for technical exams. Both are credentials a tier can require.
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