Wednesday Jul 02, 2014

Power 100: The Most Powerful Women Of The Channel 2014

Penny Philpot, Group VP for WW Alliances & Channels Partner Services was placed on CRN’s “Power 100: The Most Powerful Women of the Channel” ! Philpot helped grow Oracle’s base of partners while retaining and developing the existing base. She also helped increase the number of specialized partners by 64 percent. Read more here!

Oracle Database Performance and Tuning Essentials 2015 is now available in production!

Didn't have time for beta testing? Don't worry - you can now register for Database Performance and Tuning Essentials 2015 exam! As of June 27th - this exam is available as a regular production exam and can be taken at any time. Registration details here!

Get Recognized by Oracle and Remembered by Your Customers

Have you considered submitting a Customer Success story yet? Learn about the Partner/Customer Reference Process and how to submit your nomination here. We are looking forward to promoting you! 

Partners Grow Your Business Using Oracle VM Templates

Looking to boost your revenue and sustain growth for your business. View this screencast to see how you can gain an unfair advantage over your competition using Oracle VM Templates for distribution of Oracle Linux, Oracle applications or your own applications.

Specializations Catalog Updates - Week Ending July 4

The Specializations Catalog offers a good overview of all qualifying specializations launched and planned as part of the Specialization Program. Highlights: Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management 2 - Implementation exam is available Oracle Sales: Oracle Fusion CRM Solutions - New criteria available Oracle Sales Cloud: Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud Service Solutions – New criteria available!

Monday Jun 30, 2014

New Video: Specialized OPN Members Value to Oracle Customers

Watch and share this new 2 minute video and learn more about specialized partners and the value they bring to Oracle customers!

Partner Enablement Update: Latest News For July

Our July issue covers a broad range of resources and updates designed for the partner ecosystem. Headlines include Buying Into the Cloud, and Apply to Resell Eloqua and Oracle Content Marketing Cloud Service. Read more here!

Webcast Replay: Announcing the Next-Generation of Virtual Compute Appliance

Watch the webcast to hear from our executives why the Virtual Compute Appliance is different from other converged infrastructure solutions in the market, see how to create a private cloud with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c on the Virtual Compute Appliance, and hear testimonials from a partner and a customer. Speakers: Mark Hurd, Wim Coekaerts and Scott Genereux

Oracle Partner Event: Virtualization For The Cloud

Want to provide your customers with additional choices & interoperability while taking advantage of the efficiency, performance, scalability & security of Oracle Linux and Oracle VM? Join our UK partner event on July 8th, 2014. Register now.

Reminder: Oracle Openworld And JavaOne

New: Oracle Learning Streams And Unlimited Learning Subscription

Oracle University just launched 2 new learning subscription offerings (Oracle Learning Streams and Oracle Unlimited Learning Subscription) that make learning and staying current with oracle technology easier.

New Resource Center For Specialized Partners

OPN is committed to the Specialized partner community. Going into FY15, we are announcing a new exclusive Resource Center which includes a Specialization Marketing Kit, updated presentations and collateral to help partners position the value of being an Oracle Specialized partner.  Also check out the supporting video that can be shared with both Partners and Customers promoting the value of being Specialized.

Top Oracle Validated Integration Partner Headline – Week Of June 30

Deloitte’s Technology for Work Opportunity Tax Credit Software Achieves Oracle Validated Integration. Read more!

New Marketing Kit: MySQL For Oracle Linux

This new marketing kit highlights the huge benefits of using MySQL on Oracle Linux. The two products together give you unparalleled performance, reliability and ease of use along with ultra-low TCO. The world’s most popular open source database running on Oracle Linux delivers market-leading performance and reliability– while remaining very cost-effective to operate. Intrigued? Download this ready-to-use marketing kit and find out how you can win more with MySQL and Linux.

Announcing Oracle’s ZFS Storage OS 8.2

New enhancements to Oracle’s ZFS Storage ZS3 Series provide a fast, efficient way to accelerate virtual machine (VM) deployment and monitoring, while virtually eliminating boot storms. Additionally, cloud capabilities have been extended in ZFS Storage OS 8.2 adding the OpenStack Cinder driver for simplified cloud provisioning and orchestration, and integrated RESTful management APIs to enable customers to use common methods to deploy public and private clouds and provide IT as a service. Check out the record breaking announcement in this week’s press release!