Visual Basic for Applications Partner Program

As an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), when you license VBA, you automatically become a member of the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Partner Program. The VBA Partner Program is designed to provide you with the technical and marketing support needed to easily integrate VBA into your products, and successfully promote your VBA-enabled applications. By licensing VBA, you will join Microsoft and other industry-leading software companies in providing customers with the world's premier technology for application customization and integration.

Benefits

The list below outlines many of the benefits available to VBA licensees. This list may change to keep pace with the industry and with your good ideas. We welcome your feedback for enriching our program benefits. Please email your suggestions to vbamktg@summsoft.com.

• Marketing and technical resources at your fingertips.
  On the VBA Partner Program Web site, you will find resources ranging from how to get a Microsoft spokesperson quote for your press release, to VBA messaging that is ready to use for your product materials. You will also find tips on how to reach developers in your reseller channel, and how to effectively target them with direct marketing and advertising.

• Microsoft contacts.
  We will let you know who's who in the Microsoft Developer Marketing and Authorized VBA Agent teams, plus how to work with other Microsoft organizations where feasible.

• International subsidiary visibility.
  Your complete international contact information and product information will be made available to Microsoft subsidiaries outside North America.

• The Logo Program.
  VBA licensees can use the "Featuring Visual Basic for Applications" logo after passing the VeriTest application requirements and following the Logo Guidelines. The VBA logo is available in color and grayscale versions for your product packaging, Web site, and marketing collateral. VeriTest, an independent organization that also manages other Microsoft logo programs, administers the VBA logo program. For complete information, including logo program guidelines, visit the VeriTest Web site.

Use of VBA logo for marketing materials.

Microsoft has made substantial investments to build equity in the VBA brand, which you can leverage in your own brand awareness campaigns. The "Featuring Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications" logo is available for use in your packaging, advertising, and marketing collateral. Use of this logo is the best way to inform your customers that you have included the world's premier technology for application customization within your product. Only VBA Program Partners are allowed to use the VBA logo in their marketing materials.