"Users have had to deal with the stockpiling of a legacy of technology while also trying to keep up with changes to those technologies. With cloud computing, ownership of the technologies, products and services moves from the users to the providers of service from which users will buy the capabilities they require."Daryl C. Plummer,
Group VP and Fellow

Is Integration Holding You Back?

You can not afford to work on risky one-off integrations that require difficult to maintain custom code and offer little opportunity for re-use. Further, you don't want to build a large team of consultants that need to learn new tools and vendor end-points for every project. Also you want to reduce costs and maximize margin on every consulting engagement.

What do you do?

You seek a partner that provides trusted technology that supports the myriad of integration needs of your customers. This partner must also provide sales and marketing assistance to ensure you are fully equipped and prepared to go-to-market with an end-to-end approach that includes integration and finally, they must ensure success in implementing the solution by following proven methodologies, best practices and access to a community of specialists.

You need Powered By from Cast Iron Systems, the #1 SaaS Integration Company™.

What is Powered By?

Powered By Cast Iron™ is a pioneering program that empowers SaaS SIs by combining leading products, proven methodologies and customized marketing campaigns designed to meet the integration and data migration requirements. Powered By eliminates the need for SaaS SIs to develop and maintain one-off integration solutions.

Powered By Cast Iron is designed to:

• Enable SaaS SIs to rapidly deliver integration solutions across a wide range of end-points without the need to be experts on each
• Rapidly deliver integration projects and achieve competitive advantage
• Reduce the risk of integration projects by leveraging proven service methodologies
• Solve the entire lifecycle of integration needs: data quality and migration, real-time integration and, data extraction

Why Partner with Cast Iron?

With thousands of production integrations and the industries leading products Cast Iron, the #1 SaaS Integration Company™, is uniquely positioned to provide partners with unparalleled experience. Powered By Cast Iron™ is a comprehensive program that draws upon Cast Iron's experience in the following four competencies to allow SIs to meet their integration and data migration requirements.

Product

Cast Iron provides the most widely used solution designed to solve both on-premise and on-demand integration requirements. Unlike any other vendor, Cast Iron provides a choice of products including physical or virtual appliances and the Cast Iron Cloud™. SI partners are entitled to substantial savings and revenue share opportunities to help accelerate return on investment.

Services

Service engagements can often be high risk and non repeatable. SI partners will learn best practices and implementation strategies by leveraging Cast Iron's proven SaaS integration methodology and technical training.

Marketing

The Powered By Cast Iron program entitles SI partners to customized marketing collateral such as white papers, audience specific sales presentations, demo portals and more to ensure your sales and marketing teams are equipped with the assets they need to be successful.

Sales

The Powered By Cast Iron program enables our partner's sales teams with all of the information, strategies, tools and training, including a completely on-demand demo environment to successfully demonstrate their integration capabilities.

"Through the Powered By Cast Iron™ program we were able to turn integration into a true competitive advantage against our major competition. Regardless of whether we need to integrate with on-premise or SaaS applications, we have a flexible solution to on-board new customers quickly."Rob Juncker,
co-founder & CTO

Key Benefits of the Powered By Cast Iron™ Program

Competitive Advantage

• Ability to integrate with customer applications rapidly and offer Integration-as-a-Service
• Create new & profitable revenue streams from integration
• Access to proven technology with hundreds of production customers
• Customized marketing collateral tailored to your specific audience
• Always-on integration demo portal accelerates the sales cycle

Lowest Cost of Integration

• No need to invest in building teams of integration specialists
• Eliminate the need to produce one-off solutions and promote re-use
• Repeatable and scalable cloud infrastructure allowing management and monitoring from anywhere, anytime
• Reduces risk associated with integration and migration service engagements by leveraging Cast Iron's proven agile methodology

Leverage the Power of the Cloud

• Collaborative design and runtime experience leveraging a rich, rapid development environment that draws resources on-demand from the cloud without sacrificing the usability expected of a robust integration tool
• Manage and monitor from anywhere, anytime with peace of mind of a SAS-70 Type II and PCI DDS, compliant cloud hosting environment
• Future-proofing: Choice of integration options provides a seamless transition between cloud and on-premise environments as a company's application landscape changes
• You choose — You manage the cloud or let Cast Iron take care of it for you

Rapid Efficient Development Experience

• Out-of-the-box integration with optimized, pre-built connectivity to all major SaaS applications including Taleo, salesforce.com, NetSuite, RightNow, Eloqua, Big Machines, Right90, Xactly and more
• Pre-built connectors for all major enterprise applications including, ERP, CRM and financial applications
• Full connectivity to all major databases, flat-files, Web Services, and messaging systems
• Access to an extensive, on-demand community library containing Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Selecting the Right Level of Partnership

The Powered By Cast Iron™ program includes three levels of participation: Silver, Gold and Platinum.

Silver

Our entry level partnership enables smaller partners to realize the benefits of partnering with the #1 SaaS Integration Company™ with a minimal annual commitment.

Gold

Premium partnership for organizations intending to go-to-market offering integration-as-a-service to their customers and require customized marketing campaigns, training and sales tools to grow their business. The Gold level of partnership is especially designed to enable sales teams to be successful in developing a new and profitable revenue stream from integration.

Platinum

Executive partnership for organizations seeking to enable their sales and services teams and aggressively grow their business. Full program benefits include go-to-market campaigns, demo portal, audience specific collateral for empowering sales teams as well as creation of pre-packaged integration processes (PIPs), intelligent connectors and technical training covering Cast Iron's products and implementation methodology. The Platinum level partnership offers an extensive portfolio designed to make you successful quickly.

Benefit	Silver	Gold	Platinum
Website Branding
Community Membership
Installed Base Campaign
Sales Tools
Sales & Services Training
Customized Collateral
Demo Portal
Custom Prepackaged Integration Processes (PIPs)
Custom Intelligent Connectors

Where do you go from here?

No matter what your business goals are the Powered By Cast Iron™ program is ready to help you. Designed to leverage the leadership and experience of the Cast Iron, the #1 SaaS Integration Company™ provider, to empower organizations and their customers, the solution to eliminating the challenges associated with data migration and integration is only a click away.

Getting Started

To learn more about the Powered By Cast Iron partner program, arrange a personal demo or for any other immediate need please call 1-650-230-8430. Or, you can simply fill in the short form below and you will be contacted within 24 hours.