Become a PartnerIntegrate your product with SIMS

We believe that Partners are key to our future success. Whether you are a service provider, systems integrator, independent education software vendor, reseller or other type of technology provider, we want you to provide solutions to enhance our customers' SIMS system.

Our Partner scheme has been designed specifically to accommodate smaller companies as well as providing benefits for larger ones. We provide you with the assistance to help your products integrate with SIMS easily.

The partner management document provides the information to help you evaluate the type of
Partner you may want to be, if you require data to read or be written to SIMS and what to do next. Click here to view.

There are different types of Partners, you may want to be a:

• Premier Partner
  For those partners who want to fully integrate their products and have a full commercial arrangement with us. A Premier Partner will want access to SIMS through our Business
  Objects and also have a commercial arrangement for the reselling or endorsement of
  their solution.
• Commercial Partner
  Partnering with SIMS offers a greater business value, including increasing your revenue opportunities; lowering your cost of doing business; speeding your time to market; and
  building your market recognition.
  
  A Commercial Partner has a contractual arrangement whereby Capita endorse their
  product, and Capita act as a Value Added Reseller or have a mutual marketing
  agreement. All
  Commercial Partners go through a rigorous evaluation process. 
  
• Technical Partner
  Whether you're a solution provider or a systems integrator, this level of partnership
  allows you to find out how to integrate your products with SIMS without having to enter
  any sales agreements.
  
  A Technical Partner will typically want access SIMS through our Business Objects or
  Learning Gateway Web Parts but without any commercial arrangement. This access will
  be through a standard licence agreement. We have now introduced a new category of
  Technical Partner – Enterprise. This is specifically for the small start-up companies or organisations who want a Technical Partnership but without a large investment at the
  outset.
  
• Third Party User
  For those organisations who want to read basic data from the SIMS database without
  becoming a SIMS SQL Technical or Enterprise Partner. A Third Party User will want
  access to SIMS through our standard, configurable data export – the Third Party
  Software Development Kit. Third Party Users will have neither Technical nor Commercial status.
  
  Interfacing guidance notes - We provide open interfaces to our software for third
  party developers. For further information, click here.
  

Partner benefits

Our primary objective in this programme is to deliver best value to our schools and local authority customers through our Partners. We focus on four key areas:

• Access to Capita Children’s Services SIMS products
  Not-for-resale SIMS software is delivered to Partners early in the product development
  cycle from product beta versions through to release software.
• Technical readiness
  Tools, training and consultancy, which enable Partners to build upon our Microsoft SQL technologies.
• Technical support
  Email and web based support, Partner zone.
• Business development
  Promote your business to schools based on your product’s SIMS accreditation. 

For more information about becoming a SIMS Partner download here the Partner Management document or alternatively please contact our Partner Manager, David Grashoff here