FY11 plans – how can you increase your SOA business?

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Thanks for a fantastic FY10 was great to work with all of you! Yes with the economic crises the fiscal year was hard. SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware do address this challenges and can help companies to save cost to integrate their systems, automate and change their processes. More when we publish our fiscal year results.

What is on the agenda for FY11?

  • Specialization: It is key that you become SOA & Application Grid Specialized. We will focus our activities and budgets on partners with Specialization!
  • Sales campaigns: To support you in our joint business we will continue to run joint sales campaigns. With OFM 11g there is a great opportunity to generate service revenue to migrate and to consolidate on the platform. It is key that you do register your opportunities within the Open Market Model (OMM) to ensure sales alignment.
  • Enablement. With the release of many new products and versions training is key. We will continue to offer training dedicated to your role: sales, pre-sales and implementation. Make sure that you check local partner training calendars and sign up for the next bootcamps

 

Thanks for your support! Jürgen Kress

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SOA & Application Grid Specialization step 3 of 6 – Education Competence Center

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

SOA & Application Grid Specialization step 3 of 6 – education competence center

Dear Team

In our fist step to become SOA Specialized & Application Grid Specialized we highlighted our OMM system to register your opportunities. In our second step we featured our marketing activities to create your reference cases and run joint marketing campaigns.

In the third step we will focus on the education criteria: SOA Sales assessment & SOA Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment.

Steps:

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· You can run the assessments as often as you like. After each try you will see your current score and correct answers to the questions.

· During your next team meeting reserve an hour to become specialized jointly.

· For the fist 5 partners who contact us we will order a pizza service to ensure the success of your team meeting!

· We want your feedback to improve the assessments. If you find an ambiguous question or one with wrong context or even wrong answers, send us your feedback. The first 5 partners who will send us feedback will get a free competence center coffee cup!

If you need to get an Oracle Partner Network Account please contact our Partner Business Centers.

For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

And become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa

Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

Thanks for your efforts to become Specialized!

SOA Specialized Application Grid Specialized
Proof 2 transactions with OMM Proof 2 transactions with OMM
Create your 2 references Create your 2 references
SOA Sales assessment 3, Application Grid Sales Specialist 3
SOA Pre-Sales assessment 3 Application Grid PreSales Specialist 3
Support assessment 1 Support assessment 2
SOA Implementation assessment 4 Application Grid Implementation assessment 4

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g next launch phase – what a week of product releases! Feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

  Product releases:

BPM Suite 11gR1 Released by Manoj Das

Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 became available for download from OTN and eDelivery. If you have been following our plans in this area, you know that this is the release unifying BEA ALBPM product, which became Oracle BPM10gR3, with the Oracle stack.

Some of the highlights of this release are:studio-process

  • BPMN 2.0 modeling and simulation
  • Web based Process Composer for BPMN and Rules authoring
  • Zero-code environment with full access to Oracle SOA Suite’s rich set of application and other adapters
  • Process Spaces – Out-of-box integration with Web Center Suite
  • Process Analytics – Native process cubes as well as integration with Oracle BAM

You can learn more about this release from the documentation.

Notes about downloading and installing

Please note that Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 is delivered and installed as part of SOA 11.1.1.3.0, which is a sparse release (only incremental patch). To install:

  • Download and install SOA 11.1.1.2.0, which is a full release (you can find the bits at the above location)
  • Download and install SOA 11.1.1.3.0
  • During configure step (using the Fusion Middleware configuration wizard), use the Oracle Business Process Management template supplied with the SOA Suite11g (11.1.1.3.0)
  • If you plan to use Process Spaces, also install Web Center 11.1.1.3.0, which also is delivered as a sparse release and needs to be installed on top of Web Center 11.1.1.2.0
SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2) released by Demed L’Her

We just released SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2)!

You can download it as usual from:

11gR1 PS2 is delivered as a sparse installer, that is to say that it is meant to be applied on the latest full install (11gR1 PS1). That’s great for existing PS1 users who simply need to apply the patch and run the patch assistant – but an extra step for new users who will first need to download SOA Suite 11gR1 PS1 (in addition to the PS2 patch).

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What’s in that release? Bug fixes of course but also several significant new features. Here is a short selection of the most significant ones:

  • Spring component (for native Java extensibility and integration)
  • SOA Partitions (to organize and manage your composites)
  • Direct Binding (for transactional invocations to and from Oracle Service Bus)
  • HTTP binding (for those of you trying to do away with SOAP and looking for simple GET and POST)
  • Resequencer (for ordering out-of-order messages)
  • WS Atomic Transactions (WS-AT) support (for propagation of transactions across heterogeneous environments)

Check out the complete list of new features in PS2 for more (including links to the documentation for the above)!

But maybe even more importantly we are also releasing Oracle Service Bus 11gR1 and BPM Suite 11gR1 at the same time – all on the same base platform (WebLogic Server 10.3.3)!

(NB: it might take a while for all pages and caches to be updated with the new content so if you don’t find what you need today, try again soon!)

Are you Systems Integrations and Independent Software Vendors ready to adopt and to deliver?

Make sure that you become trained:

Time to download the software and test the new features!
Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA
 

First feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners:

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Now, these are great times to start the journey into BPM!

Hajo Normann
 

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Reuse of components across the Oracle 11G Fusion Middleware stack, BPM just is one of the components plugging into the stack and reuses all other components.

Mr. Leon Smiers
 

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With BPM11g, Oracle offers a very competitive product which will have a big effect on the IT market.

Guido Schmutz
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Torsten Winterberg
 

image Oracle BPM Suite 11g brings Out-of-box integration with WebCenter Suite and Oracle ADF development framework.

Andrejus Baranovskis
 

image With the release of BPM Suite 11g, Oracle has defined new standards for Business Process platforms.

Geoffroy de Lamalle
 

image With User Messaging Service you can let Soa Suite 11g do all your Messaging Edwin Biemond

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What is your feedback?  Who installed the software? please feel free to share your experience at http://twitter.com/soacommunity

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SOA & Application Grid Specialization step 2 of 6 – References & Marketing Kits

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

 

In our fist step to become SOA Specialized & Application Grid Specialized we highlighted our OMM to register your opportunities. We continue our path to specialization with our marketing offerings to create your reference cases and run joint marketing campaigns.

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Oracle delivers a wide variety of services and solutions through our partners and we believe that those successes should be recognized and promoted. References are also required to become specialized.

We showcase our partners’ capabilities in Oracle products and industries through partner success stories that are published on Oracle.com. For significant implementations, we may invite partners to participate in a press release or be interviewed in a podcast.

To participate and take a further step to become specialized, please take a minute to complete the form and tell us about the successful project you have implemented. If your story is selected, we will contact you for an interview. Create your references

The partner reference program

  • Enables partners to be recognized by both Oracle and our customers
  • Provides an opportunity for partners to showcase successes with their customers on Oracle solutions
  • Helps raise awareness of our partners’ capabilities, elevating them above their competition

Time to submit a SOA and Application Grid reference request today

To learn more about partner references, check out the following resources:

Marketing Kits

We have created OFM 11g marketing kit http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required) The marketing kit includes all the ppts and demos from our launch event.

 

Oracle package includes:
• Event templates like invitation, agenda ,confirmation follow up templates
• OFM 11g presentations
• Free usage of the Oracle Customer Visit Center
• Condition: mandatory lead registration in the Oracle Open Market Model (OMM)

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To download the material, please make sure that you select the campaign “Enterprise: Fusion Middleware 11g”:

OFM 11g Oracle Marketing 4 Partners Package http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required)

For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

And become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa

Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

SOA Specialized Application Grid Specialized
Proof 2 transactions with OMM Proof 2 transactions with OMM
Create your 2 references Create your 2 references
SOA Sales assessment 3, Oracle Application Grid Sales Specialist
SOA Pre-Sales assessment 3 Oracle Application Grid PreSales Specialist
Support assessment 1 Support assessment 2
SOA Implementation assessment 4 Application Gridplementation assessment 4

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SOA & BPM Partner Community Forum XI – thanks for the great event!

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

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Thanks to our team in Portugal we are running a great SOA & BPM Partner Community Forum in Lisbon this week. Yes we made our way to Lisbon – thanks to Lufthansa!

Program Wednesday April 21st 2010

Time Plenary agenda
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome & Introduction

Paulo Folgado, Oracle
10:15 – 11:15 SOA & Cloud Computing

Alexandre Vieira, Oracle
11:15 – 12:30 SOA Reference Case

Filipe Carvalho, Wide Scope
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 BPMN 2.0

Torsten Winterberg, Opitz Consulting
14:15 – 15:00 SOA Partner Sales Campaign

Jürgen Kress, Oracle
15:00 – 15:15 Closing notes

Jürgen Kress, Oracle
15:15 – 16:00 Cocktail reception

You want to attend a SOA Partner Community event in the future? Make sure that you do register for the SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

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Program Thursday and Friday April 22nd & 23rd 2010

9:00 BPM hands-on workshop by Clemens Utschig-Utschig

18:30 End of part 1

8:30 BPM hands-on workshop part II

15:30 End of BPM 11g workshop

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Dear Lufthansa Team,

Special thanks for making the magic happen! We all arrived just in time in Lisbon. Here the picture from Munich airport Wednesday morning. cancelled, cancelled, cancelled – Lisbon is boarding!

 

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SOA & Application Grid Specialization – 6 steps to success – part 1 OMM

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

SOA Specialization – Oracle Open Market Model (OMM)

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Or goal is to SOA Specialize you, in the next weeks we will inform you in a series how you can achieve SOA Specialization. Specialization is key the be recognized by Oracle and to be preferred by our Customers.

The first step to become SOA Specialized is to proof 2 transactions. You can either resell, co-sell or referral – as a proof point we do use our Open Market Model (OMM).

 

To create your account go to our new Partner Portal: go to login of your OPN-Homepage:

 

http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com click on:

  • “Sales”
  • “Create a PRM User Account”
  • Enter your User ID:
  • Enter Company Identifier: ((please ask your OPN IC))
  • Finish
  • Wait for a Confirmation Email

If you need OMM support please contact out dedicated team:

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Nordics  please ask: anita.katakawa@oracle.com Portugal, Spain please ask: antonio.sanguinetti@oracle.com Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom please ask: klaus.lehmann@oracle.com

For more information about OMM watch our on-demand webcast “Recognising the Value of Partners: Register Oracle Deals through the Open Market Model (OMM)”.

Become SOA Specialized today SOA Specialized & Application Grid Specialized

Create your references, create your OMM Entry, take the SOA Sales assessment, take the SOA Pre-Sales assessment, take the Support assessment and register for the SOA Implementation assessment.

For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

To get support on Specialization please contact the Partner Business Centers.

SOA Specialized Application Grid Specialized
Proof 2 transactions with OMM Proof 2 transactions with OMM
Create your 2 references Create your 2 references
SOA Sales assessment 3, Oracle Application Grid Sales Specialist
SOA Pre-Sales assessment 3 Oracle Application Grid PreSales Specialist
Support assessment 1 Support assessment 2
SOA Implementation assessment 4 Application Grid Implementation assessment 4

For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

And become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa

Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

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Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum Lisbon, Portugal – April 21st 2010

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

We would like to invite you to attend our SOA Partner Community Forum that will be in held in Lisbon, April 21, 2010

The Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum is a wonderful opportunity to:

  • Meet with Oracle SOA and BPM Product management
  • Exchange thoughts and knowledge with SOA and BPM experts
  • Learn from successful SOA implementation
  • Network within the Oracle SOA Partner Community

During this highly informative event you can learn about partner success stories, participate in an array of breakout sessions, exchange information with other partners and enjoy a vibrant panel discussion.

Places are limited, so register today. Registration only takes a few minutes and it is free of charge. By registration you will confirm that you will attend to the event. Seminar is free. In the event that you cancel your registration after April 16th 2010 Oracle may request that you will pay late cancellation fee of € 150.

Please visit our website for further information. Alternatively, if you require assistance or have any queries please contact Jürgen Kress.

Agenda

10:00     Welcome & Introduction

10:15     SOA Cloud presentation

11:15     SOA Partner Sales Campaign

12:30     Lunch break

13:15     Partner Reference Case

14:15     BPMN 2.0

15:00     Cocktail reception

Location:

Lagoas Park Hotel

2740-245, Porto Salvo, Oeiras

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For partners with BPM 11g opportunities we will offer an advanced workshop on Thursday April 22nd and Friday April 23rd hosted by Clemens Utschig-Utschig. If you are interested please contact Jürgen Kress.

Quotes from previous SOA Partner Community Forums

“The SOA Partner Community Forum was a first-rate event that provided a balanced agenda of vendor-specific and vendor-neutral content pertaining to modern-day service-oriented computing technologies and practices. I enjoyed the opportunity to provide an objective voice on the topics I consider most important for today’s IT practitioners to fully leverage the many patterns, principles, and service technology innovations that comprise the next-generation SOA platform.” Thomas Erl, SOA Systems Inc., SOASchool.com

“The Community is an excellent forum for Partners to hear about each others success stories on SOA, especially BPEL and ODI” Jørn F. Schurink, Competence Expert Oracle Technologies Logica

“The Community is the best source for information around Oracle SOA a wonderful platform with many interesting contacts and discussions”. Torsten Winterberg, Opitz Consulting

“The regular meetings of the SOA Partner Community are a perfectly organized platform for learning the latest in Oracle SOA tooling by extraordinary speakers and for vivid discussions with practitioners about SOA challenges and design solutions. This is the best opportunity to build and deepen a network with the brightest and most passionate protagonists in Oracle SOA world in EMEA.” Hajo Normann, HP Services

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Web 2.0 for the SOA Partner Community – part 2: twitter & wiki & delicious

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Web 2.0 Twitter & Videos & Delicious

We launched some additional web 2.0 features – make sure you will use them to promote your services and offerings!

Twitter: http://twitter.com/soacommunity

Become a follower of our community! If you want us the re-tweet hashtag your tweets with #soacommunity or send them to us @soacommunity

Videos http://wiki.oracle.com/videos

You want to promote your Videos? Want so share how you install SOA Suite 11g our your SOA experience? At wiki.oracle.com we created a collections:

SOA & Oracle Partner Network… Make sure that you add your videos

Delicious: http://delicious.com/soacommunity tag your bookmarks with “soacommunity” and we will add this bookmark automatically to the soa community list!

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Enterprise Architecture, BPM & SOA – practical approach! Road-show March 3rd, 9th & 10th in Germany

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Our German partner Opitz Consulting runs together with Oracle a joint road-show in Germany:
• March 3rd 2010 in Munich
• March 9th in Frankfurt
• March 10th in Potsdam
Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Hajo Normann, Dirk Stähler, Danilo Schmiedel and Torsten Winterberg will present in a real live example the integration of enterprise architecture modeling to BPM and SOA. For details and registration please visit: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/ea_bpm_soa_praxis

You are interested to run a similar event with Oracle in your country? Therefore we do offer a complete OFM 11g Marketing kit for Partners http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required)
To learn more about our marketing services, you can become a member in the Oracle SOA Partner Community. For registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

 

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Americas Cup – ready to race – Let’s win this Cup!

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

In one of my first blog entries “What to do after Oracle Open World 2008?” I posted a picture from Larry’s new boat BOR 90. Now it is time to race!

Boat Type: Trimaran of carbon composite construction
Where Built: Core Builders, Anacortes, WA, USA
Overall Length: 100-feet / 30 meters
Wing Sail Height: 223 ft / 68 m (compared to 102 ft / 31 m length of a Boeing 747 wing and 143 ft / 43.5 m length of an Airbus 380 wing)

For details about Larry’s renamed boat “USA” please visit the BMW Oracle Website
You can watch the race live at the Americas Cup Website

Race schedule:
Monday February 8th 2010 10:00 am
Wednesday February 10th 2010 10:00 am
Friday February 12th 2010 10:00 am

The “USA” is ready to fly! Larry still locking forward to get a ride!

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