Partners
links to partner sites
Microsoft
http://partner.microsoft.com
The Microsoft Partner Programme recognises your expertise, rewards you for your impact in the technology marketplace and delivers tools and resources to help your business become profitable regardless of its size or focus. Three levels of membership - with increasing benefits at each successive level - mean you can join at a level that aligns with your business strategies. Leverage your membership to help expand your skills, increase your opportunities, close more sales and support your customers.
OPC Foundation
http://www.opcfoundation.org
The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. Production devices include sensors, instruments, PLCs, RTUs, DCSs, HMIs, historians, trending subsystems, alarm subsystems, and more as used in the process industry, manufacturing, and in acquiring and transporting oil, gas, and minerals. The vision of OPC is to be the foundation for INTEROPERABILITY for moving information vertically from the factory floor through the enterprise of multi-vendor systems as well as providing INTEROPERABILITY between devices on different industrial networks from different vendors.
OPC Training Institute
http://www.opcti.com
OPCTI is a global OPC training company with workshops in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. OPCTI offers hands-on training both in-person and online. Unlike other companies that offer vendor-biased information, OPCTI focuses strictly on training and does not sell its own products. OPCTI is the only company endorsed by OPC Foundation member companies to award the Certified OPC Professional (COP) designation. Holders of the COP designation have demonstrated proficiency with OPC technology, design architecture, and installations. For more information about the OPC Training Institute, visit http://www.opcti.com.
