Azul Expands PartnerConnect Program

Azul, a company that is 100 percent focused on Java, has expanded its global PartnerConnect program. Azul’s channel program offers significant growth and revenue opportunities with new tiered benefits, higher discounts, market development funds (MDF), and new enablement programs for partners helping customers achieve the most out of their Java application and Java security ecosystems.

Azul’s channel investments take place during an inflection point for third-party Java runtimes such as those based on OpenJDK. Oracle’s recent announcement to price and license Java SE based on all full-time, part-time, and temporary employees and contractors, regardless if they use Java will fuel the adoption of Oracle Java alternatives such as Azul Platform Core. Azul’s partners are well equipped to help companies avoid increased Oracle Java licensing costs, ranging from typically 2 times to as high as 10 times.

With the largest Java engineering team outside of Oracle and supporting more Java versions than Oracle, Azul enables customers to reduce their Oracle Java licensing costs by up to 70 percent while offering the security and trusted Java expertise they need. The growing market demand around this use case provides significant revenue opportunities for Azul partners.

The expanded Azul channel program establishes mutual benefits for partners, including opportunities for all partner types. The program, which already spans more than 100 partners globally, rewards partners with accelerated benefits as they grow with the program.

Azul offers a comprehensive portfolio of OpenJDK-based products for partners to bring to market. No other company matches Azul’s expertise in reducing Oracle Java licensing costs, with Azul Platform Core offering a stable, secure Java runtime for up to 70 percent less cost than Oracle. Additionally, many of the largest companies use Azul’s high-performance Java runtime, Azul Platform Prime, to reduce their cloud costs by up to 50 percent. Finally, Azul Vulnerability Detection provides core and prime solutions with capabilities for securing the software supply chain with no performance impact.

Companies interested in partnering with Azul can go to www.azul.com/partners to learn more about Azul PartnerConnect, schedule time to meet with a channel account manager, and join Azul on this journey by becoming a partner.