Middleware Oracle Excellence Awards 2012–HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks for the FY12 middleware business! Make sure you become our SOA & BPM partner of the year! The Oracle Excellence Awards 2012 are Open for Nominations

Middleware Specialized Partners: Submit your Nominations for the Middleware Specialized Partner of the Year by 29 June!

The Specialized Partner of the Year Award celebrates OPN Specialized partners in EMEA who have demonstrated success with specialization, delivering customer value, and outstanding solution or service innovation in categories that complement OPN Specialization investments.

Nominate now to receive the recognition you deserve!

Winners of the Specialized Partner of the Year – EMEA Awards will each receive:

• $5k MDF for market expansion and promotion of their winning solutions/services
• extensive visibility across the extended Oracle community through interviews, advertising and video
• prestige and recognition by being awarded in a ceremony at Oracle OpenWorld.

In addition, winners from all the Oracle Excellence Awards categories will receive a free registration to Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, California, as well as be showcased at the conference in October, be given an opportunity to mingle with Oracle executives and their peers, and be featured in Oracle Magazine.

Nomination tips:

· Build your nomination with Oracle

· Provide evidence of your success

· Send supporting documents here.

· Get a quote from Oracle product management or myself!

Closing date: 29 June

Full details of all Oracle Awards offered this year are available on the Oracle Excellence Awards Website.

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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SOA Community Newsletter May 2012

Dear SOA partner community member

Our product management team published whitepapers on BPM Industry Value Propositions, Fusion Applications: Design Patterns and Governance, and Application Integration: Pragmatic Reality. In addition to this we published the SOA & BPM Customer Story Deck and you can access it by login to the Community Workspace.

In 2012 we want to bring home the Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards and also want to publish your success in the Profit Magazine Specialized Issue: Opportunity for partners – therefore we encourage you to send us your submissions!

If you are working on large SOA & BPM implementations, please make sure you watch our advisor webcast archived recordings.

Our Oracle Demonstration Services has been updated with an SOA Management with Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c and Business Transaction Management 12c demo.

Till we meet again!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsMay2012 (OPN Account required)

To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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Fusion Middleware Awards 2012 –bring them home!

Is your organization using Oracle Fusion Middleware to deliver unique business value? If the answer is Yes, submit a nomination today for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards. These awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Winners are selected based on the uniqueness of their business cases, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of the organization, complexity and magnitude of implementation, and the originality of architecture. The awards will be presented during Oracle OpenWorld 2012 (September 30 – October 4) in San Francisco.

These awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Either a customer, their partner, or an Oracle representative can submit the nomination form on behalf of the customer.

To share your experience and use of Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions and how they help your organization drive business innovation, download the entry form below.

Customers may submit nominations for multiple categories. Service Integration (SOA) and BPM & Oracle Exalogic & Cloud Application Foundation & WebCenter & Identity Management & Data Integration & Application Development Framework and Fusion Development & Business Analytics (BI, EPM and Exalytics)

The winners will be selected by a panel of judges that score each entry across multiple different scoring categories. The entry with the highest aggregate score wins the award.

Nomination Criteria:

• Nomination deadline: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
• This solution should be in production or in active development

These awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware
Benefit to Award winners:

• Free registration pass for Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco
• An Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation trophy
• Placement in an Oracle press release
• Placement in Profit magazine and/or Oracle Magazine
• Oracle Excellence Award Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation logo for inclusion on your own Website and/or press release
• Oracle Fusion Middleware podcast opportunity

For additional information, email Innovation-Middleware_us@oracle.com.

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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SOA Community Newsletter February 2012

Dear SOA partner community member

Thanks for attending our Fusion Middleware Community Forum in Malaga. It was a great success! If you could not attend, please visit our follow-up website with most of the presentations. If you are Specialized make sure you get your recognition and benefits such as your Specialization Plaques and logos. We have published a result of last years Community Forum Oracle Service Bus Development Cookbook. We would like to congratulate all the authors Guido Schmutz, Edwin Biemond, Jan van Zoggel, Mischa Kölliker and Eric Elzinga!

Training continues to be the key, Demed L’Her just published a post In-person and online classes. For more information please see also below our training calendar and on-demand trainings.

We are very interested to run joint marketing events to build a joint pipeline! Therefore we created a BPM 11g Marketing kit for you (required access to SOA Partner Community Workspace).
Demos are key in the sales process, as a partner you can access the brand new DSS DEMO MEMO #269: Fusion Middleware 11g Starter Kit. For details please visit Deliver Demos for Oracle Technology Products.

Till we meet again!

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsFebruary2012  (OPN Account required)

To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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