You spoke. We listened. Doing business with Pega will be easier than ever.
The future of partnership is here, and it's built for an AI-first world. At PegaWorld, we unveiled the enhanced 2026 Pega Partners Program: a bold evolution designed to streamline your experience, simplify your path to success, and automate program advancement like never before.
Exciting Changes for Pega Partners
The enhanced 2026 program addresses your feedback through three foundational principles:
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Streamline: Better alignment with partners to significantly make business with Pega easier.
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Simplify: More focus on outcomes rather than requirements. We're shifting from technical requirements to data-driven, measurable results that highlight your delivery impact.
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Automate: Leverage GenAI capabilities to reduce administrative overhead and unlock smarter, faster collaboration opportunities.
What's Coming in 2026
A Simplified Practice Health Check
Skills Currency becomes the single indicator of a healthy Pega practice. Just ensure 75% of active certified resources stay current on Pega Infinity '24.2 by January 1st, 2026. That's it.
Introduction of Total Partner Impact (TPI) in Distinctions
To more accurately reflect a partner’s contribution to Pega’s business growth, we are introducing Total Partner Impact (TPI) bookings into our Specialized and Elite distinctions. TPI accounts for revenue generated through all engagement models: sourced or co-originated opportunities, co-sell initiatives, and partner reselling activities.
Simplified Path to Authorization
Completed projects in your geography will automatically qualify you for Authorization. No more complex requirements, just proven delivery success.
Specializations Become Global
Specializations will transition from geography-based to global recognition, enabling you to leverage offshore resources and scale across regions. This change allows you to pool your achievements worldwide while focusing on what matters most: delivering exceptional client value.
Introducing the Pega Modernization Specialization
A new Specialization to recognize partners leading the charge in modernizing Pega implementations. By demonstrating expertise in Modern UX (Constellation), low-code development, and mature DevOps practices, you'll gain preferred access to modernization opportunities and competitive advantage in the evolving market.
Simplified Global Elite Path
Global Elite requirements will focus on scale and impact, creating a clearer path for partners ready to lead in the Pega ecosystem. The streamlined approach emphasizes the business impact and global reach while removing unnecessary complexity.
Automated Program Achievement
Meet distinction criteria, get automatically approved. We’re eliminating manual steps and business plan requirements. This evolution reflects our commitment to embracing the AI-driven future, building on our recent launch of Athena, our GenAI assistant integrated into the Partner Portal.
New Incentives and Benefits
- New Pega aaS Upgrade Incentive: When clients choose you for cloud migration, you'll be eligible for incentives that help accelerate adoption while rewarding your migration expertise.
- Enhanced Specialization Recognition: Earn Marketing Development Funds for each Specialization achieved, helping you activate your market recognition through co-branded demand generation activities.
- Partner-Powered Blueprint: Coming later in 2025, this intelligent platform enables to customize Pega Blueprint with your own best practices, solutions and branding. Rapidly generate reliable, tailored applications that reflect your methodologies while meeting industry standards.
- Partner Autonomous Enterprise: Improve your own operations with discounted access to Pega for internal use, based on your program status. Deepen your team's familiarity with Pega beyond delivery projects, building stronger alignment across your organization.
- Exclusive Expert Engagement: Specialized partners will receive privileged access to dedicated time with Pega Industry Market Leaders (IMLs), enabling deeper collaboration and strategic alignment with our go-to-market initiatives.
- Free Instructor-Led Training: Expand your capabilities with role-based training available to Elite and Specialized partners, ensuring your team stays ahead of platform evolution.
Your Success is Our Success
These enhancements represent our commitment to make partnering with Pega more rewarding, more straightforward and more aligned with how you drive client success. The 2026 program isn't just about meeting requirements –it's about recognizing and amplifying the incredible value you bring to the Pega ecosystem.
We're excited to embark on this journey together. The future program will be streamlined, simplified and automated. And it starts with you.
Ready to learn more? Download our comprehensive program resources and join us for the upcoming webinar series. Your 2026 success story begins today.
- Program Announcement Page
- Register for the Partner Webinar Series (begins July 17th)
- Download FAQs