Join the Openbravo Certified Professionals!

When your car breaks, you normally have a few options:

• repair it yourself
• take it to your cousin's friend who is a mechanic
• take it to the dealer's garage

All three options serve a purpose, however, if your car is mission critical for your daily work, which option will you take? In such a situation the third option is most often the prudent one to take because:

• you can get a substitute car for the day and still be able to go about your work
• you will get warranty on work done
• original replacement parts and tools will be used
• the mechanics are properly trained and know what they are doing

Analogous to the above situation, why take risks when it comes to implementation and maintenance of such a mission critical software such as an ERP? Numerous vendors base their channel business on certified partners. For example, this year's Red Hat Partner Summit in Valencia was a reassuring event in this aspect as several sessions emphasized the importance of official training and certification within their ecosystem. Here at Openbravo, we like to relate to Red Hat's successful strategy and strive to perfect our channel driven business as well.

Consequently, becoming an Openbravo Certified Consultant has never been easier:

• It's affordable, the Foundation level exams cost 150EUR (price is region dependant) and include 2 takes. Even better, the certification exam is now automatically included in our courses ( see http://www.openbravo.com/services/training/ )
• It's easy to learn the topics covered using our extensive wiki documentation and the official courses offered
• Enrollment only takes a few clicks
• The Foundation level exams take 80 minutes and 50 multiple questions

And, there are good reasons to become one:

1. Take the opportunity to improve your knowledge of Openbravo ERP
2. Upgrade your partnership level and receive better visibility on our website ( http://www.openbravo.com/partners/find-partners-support/ )
3. Improve your professional recognition with customers using the Openbravo Certified logo
4. ...and more goodies for the certified members are coming soon!

Join the team of certified Openbravo professionals today at http://www.openbravo.com/services/certification/ !

Basic Technical Training Now Online!

In a hurry to implement Openbravo? Join our new Basic Technical Training and get the job done. Here's the scoop.

The trend of moving trainings online continues throughout the whole industry. Two of our flagship courses have been available online for a while now, namely the Basic Functional and the Advanced Development Training. We've received very positive feedback about the convenience of these courses but also identified some room for improvement.

Instead of just publishing the missing link between the two online courses, we've taken the opportunity and completely revamped the former Basic Development course.
Here's what's new in the new Basic Technical Training, as it is called today:

• new content targeted at implementation consultants with no programming requirements
• less theory, more exercises and real examples
• more interactivity through live chat sessions with the instructor
• available in all time-zones through multiple scheduled live sessions, forums, logs and recordings
• shorter and more intense 2-week schedule
• available online or as a classroom course
• reduced online price of 999EUR (zone dependant)

We've listened to our partners and the students of the existing online courses and aimed at an even more attractive and convenient online format. We hope we will leave you with no reason or excuse to not learn how to implement Openbravo ERP :)

Take a look at the schedule of all the courses or read the specific course guide with more details on this new training.

We hope to see you in the chatroom!
Rok Lenardic
Openbravo Training Manager