The Skill Program is a collaboration program supporting third party developers who want to take advantage of the numerous possibilities of the Xentara platform. It offers co-marketing opportunities, passive revenue streams and an opportunity to shape the future of Smart Industries and create the future.
By making your Xentara-enabled Skills and tools available through Xentara directly, they are automatically presented and advertised to embedded ocean's customers and the ever growing installed base of Xentara users.
Once your Skill is part of our licensing program, embedded ocean handles sales and licensing so you can concentrate on your core business while receiving yearly revenue reports and payouts.
As part of the Xentara ecosystem, your Skills and tools are the first choice for system integrators and planners designing Smart Factories and Machines based on the Xentara platform.
A Skill is defined as any kind of software that interfaces with Xentara and expands or enhances its functionalities in terms of connectivity or data processing. Skills rely on being connected to Xentara, meaning they do not work as a standalone product (the Partner is free to commercialize the same functionality in standalone products outside of the Xentara ecosystem).
For example, a Skill can be
There are no limits to a skill’s complexity – even a full local machine learning instance can be a Skill.
The Xentara Marketplace will be an upcoming online shop front provided by embedded ocean for marketing and commercializing Skills. It is going to work similar to the app store on your phone. Customers will be able to browse existing Skills, read detailed information about them, and license and install Skills directly from the store.
Yes. There are, however, several conditions:
There is no limit to the possible topics of Skills; if it provides data to or uses data provided by Xentara and generates value, it is a valid Skill.
Even if a similar Skill already exists, you are free to develop your own (new and improved) Skill for the same functionality.
Of course, there is also no limit to the number of Skills a single Partner can develop and release.
Once a Skill has been submitted to embedded ocean, it is thoroughly tested by our software engineers to ensure stability and 100% compatibility with Xentara. That rigorous process typically takes no more than two weeks. After that, the Skill receives official certification and is ready to be commercialized.
No. Your Skill is and remains your IP. You do, however, grant embedded ocean an exclusive, worldwide distribution license for your Skill.
To ensure quality and compatibility, certified Skills are exclusively distributed and licensed through Xentara licensing and later through the Xentara Marketplace.
This does not limit your rights to develop and commercially release standalone software with the same functionality or similar Skills for other platforms (as long as these other products do not interact with Xentara).
Customers buy licenses for Skills directly through Xentara. License control and tracking are handled by embedded ocean.