Join as a Certified Member

As a certified member of the MACH Alliance, you are part of a global collective working together to shape the future of enterprise technology. Our certified members are trusted companies that embrace MACH philosophies and offer MACH-certified services.

To become an Alliance member and carry the MACH Certified seal, a company must be in full compliance. We encourage all those interested in joining to first check that you meet the criteria below.

Have further questions? Please access our FAQ’s or contact info@machalliance.org to book an appointment with the team.

Application Process

Step 1
Once we receive your application we’ll check all the information is there and contact you with an NDA and any additional requests. You also have the option of booking a discovery call.
Step 2
Application passes to the Admissions Panel. We'll contact you to arrange a 1-hour Tech Check Call and provide you with information to enable you to prepare.
Step 3
Recommendations from the tech and initial reviews will be reviewed by the Admissions Panel within 10 business days. Successful applications will be sent to the Board for final review.
Step 4
The Board will review the Panel's recommendations and make a final assessment within 10 business days. You'll be notified of the final decision and rationale asap.

What type of member?

ISV

MACH Tech Vendors (ISV's) represent new, best-of-breed technology platforms. They work with a number of other vendors in the MACH space and their customers are both international and enterprise level.

Criteria

In addition we require:

Your entire company product(s) offering/portfolio to be 100% MACH compliant
At least three different microservices that each have their own domain
Live projects with at least 3 other MACH Vendor member companies
15 or more customers, each generating more than $100M in annual revenue must be using MACH compliant product(s)
A company annual revenue of $10million or more from product licenses AND/OR a headcount of 50 or over

Criteria for legacy companies

For additional criteria applied to those companies who have made a transition from legacy to MACH see here.

Annual fee: $28K* / $55K**

Open application form for ISVs

* ISV with less than $100million ARR: $28,000 per annum billed quarterly
** Large ISV with $100million ARR or more: $55,000 per annum billed quarterly

Start-up ISV

MACH Tech Start-up ISV's represent new, best-of-breed technology platforms at the beginning of their journey.

Criteria

Your entire company product(s) offering/portfolio must be 100% MACH compliant.
You must have between $2million and $10million annual revenue from product licenses AND/OR at least 30 employees.
Application sponsorship from a MACH Alliance board member. Required prior to application.

Application

If you already have an Executive Board Sponsor please contact info@machalliance.org to request an application form. If you do not yet have an Executive Board Sponsor but would like to be considered then please reach out to info@machalliance.org to request Startup consideration.

Annual fee: $10k*

* $10,000 per annum billed quarterly

Boutique SI

MACH System Integrators (SI's) have the experience and expertise to consult, architect, implement, integrate and manage a modern, composable tech environment. A Boutique SI is a smaller specialist SI, at least 90% dedicated to composable with a focus on innovative technology consulting and implementation.

Criteria

A Boutique SI must have:

A minimum headcount of 30
Three public enterprise MACH references* - with one customer willing to speak publicly about how you helped them move hosted solutions/on premise architectures to composable SaaS architecture or, build 'greenfield' MACH ecosystems for a new brand or operation
Executed partnership agreements with at least three MACH Vendor member companies
20 or more engineers and architects, certified by one or more of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) in engineering, architecture, and operations of cloud-native solutions
Executed partnership agreements with one of either AWS, GCP or Azure
At least three clients with annual revenue of $1billion or more
At least two recent thought leadership publications (company authored) about MACH technology

Annual fee: $10K**

Open application form for Boutique SIs

* References should have a minimum of two MACH technology components or two ISV MACH member solutions

** $10,000 per annum billed quarterly

MACH System Integrators (SI's) have the experience and expertise to consult, architect, implement, integrate and manage a modern, composable tech environment. A standard SI is a full-service digital agency/SI with a sizeable composable practice.

Criteria

An SI must have:

A minimum headcount of 250
Five public enterprise MACH references* - with three customers willing to speak publicly about how you helped them move hosted solutions/on premise architectures to composable SaaS architecture or, build 'greenfield' MACH ecosystems for a new brand or operation
Executed partnership agreements with at least four MACH Vendor member companies
100 or more engineers and architects, certified by one or more of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) in engineering, architecture, and operations of cloud-native solutions
Executed partnership agreements with one of either AWS, GCP or Azure
At least five clients with annual revenue of $1billion or more
At least three recent thought leadership publications about MACH technology

Annual fee: $28K**

Open application form for SIs

* References should have a minimum of two MACH technology components or two ISV MACH member solutions
** $28,000 per annum billed quarterly

GSI

MACH System Integrators (SI's) have the experience and expertise to consult, architect, implement, integrate and manage a modern, composable tech environment. A GSI has expertise in consulting, architecture, implementation and operations with a sizeable composable practice and clients in North America, Europe and one other continent.

Criteria

In a GSI we're looking for a strategy to scale/industrialize composable, with a focus on strategy, capacity and capability driven by leadership. In addition, a GSI must have:

A minimum headcount of 5000
Ten public enterprise MACH references* - with three customers willing to speak publicly about how you helped them move hosted solutions/on premise architectures to composable SaaS architecture or, build 'greenfield' MACH ecosystems for a new brand or operation
Executed partnership agreements with at least five MACH Vendor member companies
400 or more engineers and architects, certified by one or more of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) in engineering, architecture, and operations of cloud-native solutions
Executed partnership agreements with one of either AWS, GCP or Azure
At least five clients with annual revenue of $1billion or more
At least three recent thought leadership publications (company authored) about MACH technology

Annual fee: $100K**

Open application form for GSIs

* References should have more than two MACH technology components or two ISV MACH member solutions. A minimum of three references from North America and Europe each.
** $100,000 per annum billed quarterly

Enabler

MACH Enablers support functional areas of a MACH architecture, including monitoring, data storage, cluster/container mgt, tracing, and orchestration.

Criteria

An Enabler must:

Be able to clearly explain how your offering(s) enables MACH architecture
That you enable at least three enterprise-grade solutions or clients using MACH technology
A minimum of five ISV partners with at least $100million in ARR

Annual fee: $55K*

Open application form for Enablers

* $55,000 per annum billed quarterly