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About Accreditations

An accreditation is proof of a partner company's competence to deliver a service of acceptable quality. While certifications are for an individual, accreditations are for a company. A partner company is awarded an accreditation upon satisfying several requirements. Usually, one of the requirements is to have a pre-defined minimum number of employees with specific certifications on the payroll. Thus, in some ways, an accreditation can be thought of as a collection of certifications. It is the next step in the sequence of courses to exams to certifications.

Just as with the other three Training and Certification objects, accreditations can be associated with products, product categories, and solutions. Accreditations can also be related to each other. Oracle CRM On Demand also allows a user to request accreditation of the user's partner organization or of any partner company to which the user has visibility.