Bookshelf v7.5: About Partner Registration and Enrollment

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About Partner Registration and Enrollment

Siebel PRM helps you to recruit new partners by allowing public users to view the Siebel Partner Portal Web site and to register as either individuals or companies. If a prospective partner registers as a company, Siebel PRM helps you decide whether to form a partnership with that company.

There are three levels of access to the Siebel Partner Portal:

Public Users (also called Anonymous Users). Any user can view the Siebel Partner Portal home page without registering or providing any information. Public users can read company news and find out about the partner programs that are available. They can also view product offers that are available to the general public (not just to partners), and view literature in the Info Center. The public user home page also includes a log-in area for registered partners and a link to the registration page for visitors who want to register as partners.

Individual Partners (also called Self-Registered Users). Users who register as individual partners may be consultants who want to get detailed information about your products to recommend them to clients. After providing information about themselves, users are automatically enrolled as individual partners. They can then use the Siebel Partner Portal to purchase products for themselves, participate in auctions, browse and sign up for training courses, view literature, view special offers, and view partner alerts. They cannot share opportunities, service requests, activities, or any other transactional or service data through the Siebel Partner Portal.

Company Partners (also called Registered Users). Companies who want to work in an active partnership with your company register in your company's partner program. They use the Siebel Partner Portal to provide detailed information about their companies. Your partner manager evaluates this information, decides how your company can work with their company, and decides whether to approve them as partners. Before they are approved as partners, they can view the same information as individual partners. After they are approved as partners, they can view and share opportunities, service requests, and other transactional data with your company.

You can also add companies as partners that you have recruited in other ways, in addition to those that have applied through the Web site.