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• New! 3.6 release of Coherence is now available.
  • The latest major release of Coherence available for download.
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  • View the documentation to learn about the details.
  • The Getting Started Guide may be particularly useful to you.
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and Application Grid
• What's new in Oracle WebLogic Server 11g?
• Introducing Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g | Video Podcast
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• On-Demand Webcast: Application Grid - Improving Efficiency Without Compromising Mission Criticality (video, 16 min.)
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• New BPM book!: Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook just published by Packt Press.
  This is a comprehensive book that will enable readers to learn BPM Suite 11g with the help of a real world sample process. It is designed to help readers delve into the BPM Process Implementation as a process developer.
• Oracle BPM Suite 11g BPM without Barriers: An Oracle white paper that introduces the key barriers to successful BPM adoption and discusses how Oracle BPM Suite 11g addresses these barriers. (12 pages)
• IDC MarketScape Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis Excerpt: Features Oracle in the MarksetSpace Leaders area (12 pages)
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite Data Sheet: Summarizes the typical BPM barriers that BPM Suite 11g addresses, lists the key features, covers the three themes (Social BPM, User-Centric Design and Unified Process Foundation. (2 pages)
• MWD Advisors Vendor Insight: BPM Technology - Vendor Capability Comparison, 1H10: Overview of the BPM marketplace and an interesting vendor comparison based upon functionality, support for mainstream scenarios and ownership (14 pages)
• MWD Advisors Vendor Insight: Vendor Capabililty Assessment BPM Technology: Oracle: Focuses on Oracle's progress in moving it's technology forward in the BPM Suite 11gR1 release. Includes a review of the key product features. BPM activity cycle coverage chart is particularly valuable. (10 pages)
• Ovum Opinion: Oracle BPM Process Accelerators are Ripe for Deployment: Positive review of Oracle's strategy to provide horizontal and vertical off-the-shelf templates. These templates can help accelerate the automation of common business process. Templates include process model, data model, service integrations, human workflow definitions, forms, business rules, screens and dashboards (3 pages)
• What's New in BPM Suite 11.1.1.6.0? This document lists the new features in the latest release. (5 pages)
• Oracle Process Accelerators. Introduction to high-value, pre-built process that can be customized to fit customer requirements." Also, see the data sheet
• BPM: Oracle vs. IBM -- This 45-minute, on-demand webcast compares and contrasts Oracle and IBM approaches to delivering BPM infrastructure products. The session discusses four types of solutions: system-centric, human-centric, document-centric and decision-centric. IBM has acquired and developed separate products to address each type of solution. Integration is a challenge. Professional services is often required. This is driving up costs. IBM is "stuck in the past" as a result of "a grab bag" of three, isolated product lines. Oracle is following a different path. With BPM Suite 11g, Oracle provides a single, comprehensive platform that addresses the full range of solution types.
• Gartner Ranks Oracle as a BPM Leader: In Gartner's October 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, Gartner places Oracle in the coveted Leaders quadrant thanks to its BPM Suite 11g product offering. See CMSWire's synopsis of the report.
• Oracle BPM Home Page: Main BPM product page where you can find helpful links to a variety of Internet resources including technical information, white papers and videos in addition to download sites for BPM Suite 11g software.
• Product Packaging: Selling "suites" is selling aggregations of products. To get a quick feel for what products come together to form BPM Suite and it's related SOA and BPA suites, see this quick reference page.
• Current Partner Enablement Update
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• OPN PartnerCasts Check out these podcasts designed especially for Oracle partners.

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Education

• Enablement 2.0 offers Oracle Partners training resources and tools to support specialized knowledge and ensure in-depth expertize on their chosen path to Specialization. Partners can make the most of the enablement benefits in their drive to extend market reach and expand revenue opportunities. Learn more about Enablement Benefits.
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find:
  • Oracle Unified Business Process Management 11g Sales Specialist Guided Learning Path
  • Oracle Unified Business Process Management 11g PreSales Specialist Guided Learning Path
• OPN Boot Camps are "jump start" training covering Oracle’s growing portfolio of product lines and solutions areas and has been built in addition to the standard curriculum offered by Oracle University.
  • Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Sales Boot Camp
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Events

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  • Solutions catalog
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    • Tutorial: Meet Your Match Search
• Resources
  • Data Sheets: For quick, customer-ready overviews, see Oracle Business Process Management and Oracle Business Process Management Suite data sheets.
  • BPM Defined: If you are new to BPM, you'll appreciate Wikipedia's BPM synopsis to get a quick feel for how the field is defined.
  • Oracle BPM Suite 11g Webcast: Watch Introducing Next-Generation Business Process Management: Oracle BPM Suite 11g to experience a 45-minute overview of BPM Suite 11g that dives into these product feature areas in some depth: social and collaborative elements, user-centric tools an unified architecture.
  • Oracle BPM Suite Book from Packt Publishing: Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 - A Hands-On Tutorial is a great way to get started with Oracle BPM. It is written by five members of Oracle's product management team and contains excellent, step-by-step exercises to introduce you to the vast breadth of BPM Suite 11g. You may initially find Chapter 6, Product Installation, most helpful as installing the product without some hand-holding can be a tricky and time-consuming chore.
  • Bruce Silver's First Look at BPM Suite 11g: Read Silver's Industry Trend Report subtitled "BPM Without Barriers" that provides an insightful look at Oracle's product shortly after it was announced in June 1010.

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• New BPM book!: Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook just published by Packt Press.
  This is a comprehensive book that will enable readers to learn BPM Suite 11g with the help of a real world sample process. It is designed to help readers delve into the BPM Process Implementation as a process developer.
• SOA & Process Management Discussion Forum: An excellent resource to learn from technical questions that are being posed to product management and engineering. This is also a great place to post your own questions to gain insight into a problem that you may be facing
• New Features in SOA Suite 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.0): Collection of description of updates made to this most recent foundation for the BPM platform
• Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 (11.1.1.5.0): Excellent hand-holding document to help you install and configure the SOA Suite 11g platform along with the BPM 11g features that sit atop SOA (65 pages). Also see the Quick Installation Guide for SOA Suite and BPM Suite for 11gRelease 1 (11.1.1.6.0) for additional insight
• Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle BPM: The official 11.1.1.6 documentation that covers the modeling and simulation based features of BPM Suite 11g
• Oracle BPM Implement the Process Model - Pilot of course that has been update to the PS5 software release. Extended now to 4 days. May 15-18, 2012. In San Francisco. Interested Oracle employees contact Gary Barg. Interested partners contact Tom Barrett. Partners may attend at a reduced tuition rate
• Mastering BPM Webcast Series. A seven episode series giving a deep dive on all things BPM. Topics include: BPM Overview, Mastering BPMN 2.0, Ruling with Rules, Empowering the Buisness User, Process Analytics-Intelligent Decision Making, BPM APIs, BPM Deployment and High Availability
• Oracle BPM Suite Team Blog. Here the latest updates from the BPM Product Management team.
• Call for Nominations: Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2012 - Service Integration (SOA) and BPM category. If you consider yourself a pioneer, using these solutions in innovative ways to achieve significant business value, submit your nomination for the 2012 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards by Friday, July 17th, 2012, for a chance to win a FREE registration to Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, California. Top customers will be showcased at Oracle Open World 2012, get a chance to mingle with Oracle executives, network with their peers and be featured in Oracle Magazine
• Oracle Process Accelerators. Introduction to high-value, pre-built process that can be customized to fit customer requirements." Also, see the data sheet
• BPM Suite: OTN Home Page
• Gartner Ranks Oracle as a BPM Leader: In Gartner's October 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, Gartner places Oracle in the coveted Leaders quadrant thanks to its BPM Suite 11g product offering. See CMSWire's synopsis of the report.
• Is Social BPM an Oxymoron? Sample what bloggers are saying about the confluence of Web 2.0 features and BPM in this summary. Perhaps Social BPM is a lot more than just technology. As one blogger ponders: "Proper use of social software will be about individuals producing, publishing and running their own processes."
• MWD Reports on BPM Suite 11g
• Current Partner Enablement Update
• Subscribe to a variety of Oracle Newsletters – see what’s available (You may be asked to register). Scroll down to the e-newsletter section, and check the boxes for newsletters you'd like to receive.
• Subscribe to RSS news feeds Learn more about RSS feeds – find out what they are and how they might be useful to you!
• OPN PartnerCasts Check out these podcasts designed especially for Oracle partners.

Local Information

• EMEA Alliances and Solutions Corner
• Search for upcoming Boot Camps and Partner classes within your country!

Education

• Enablement 2.0 offers Oracle Partners training resources and tools to support specialized knowledge and ensure in-depth expertize on their chosen path to Specialization. Partners can make the most of the enablement benefits in their drive to extend market reach and expand revenue opportunities. Learn more about Enablement Benefits.
• Competency Center: Leverage this unparalleled enablement resource to train your staff on how to develop, sell, and implement Oracle solutions. Within the Competency Center you will find:
  • Oracle Unified Business Process Management 11g Implementation Specialist Guided Learning Path
  • Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Essentials (1Z1-560)
    This exam is part of the Oracle Unified Business Process Management Implementation certification.
    Pass this exam and you will gain credit towards meeting the Oracle Unified Business Process Management Specialization Criteria!
  • Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Essentials - Exam Study Guide
    Access this study guide to get the training information meant to help you pass the above exam!
• OPN Boot Camps are "jump start" training covering Oracle’s growing portfolio of product lines and solutions areas and has been built in addition to the standard curriculum offered by Oracle University.
  • Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Implementation Boot Camp

Events

• Oracle PartnerNetwork Events Calendar
• Oracle Global Events Calendar

Tools and Resources

• Tools
  • Marketing Kits
    • Business Process Flexibility
  • BPM Defined: If you are new to BPM, you'll appreciate Wikipedia's BPM synopsis to get a quick feel for how the field is defined.
  • BPMN in a Nutshell: Wikipedia does its typical good job of providing an overview of the Business Process Modeling Notation topic.


• Resources
  • Oracle BPM Suite 11g Webcast: Watch Introducing Next-Generation Business Process Management: Oracle BPM Suite 11g to experience a 45-minute overview of BPM Suite 11g that dives into these product feature areas in some depth: social and collaborative elements, user-centric tools and unified architecture.
  • Oracle BPM Suite Book from Packt Publishing: Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 - A Hands-On Tutorial is a great way to get started with Oracle BPM. It is written by five members of Oracle's product management team and contains excellent, step-by-step exercises to introduce you to the vast breadth of BPM Suite 11g. You may initially find Chapter 6, Product Installation, most helpful as installing the product without some hand-holding can be a tricky and time-consuming chore.
  • Oracle BPM Home Page: Main BPM product page where you can find helpful links to a variety of Internet resources including technical information, white papers and videos in addition to download sites for BPM Suite 11g software.
  • Social BPM: View an informative, 35-minute webcast that explores the use of Enterprise 2.0 features in BPM Suite 11g to enhance effectiveness of BPM through portal and collaboration technology. The key is bridging formal workflows implemented by technology and information collaboration driven by people interactions. You may be most interested in the three collaborative spaces that are provided by BPM Suite 11g use of WebCenter technology: modeling space, workspace and instance space.
  • Bruce Silver's First Look at BPM Suite 11g: Read Silver's Industry Trend Report subtitled "BPM Without Barriers" that provides an insightful look at Oracle's product shortly after it was announced in June 1010.
  • BPM Suite 11g Data Sheet: A short 3-page PDF presenting the highlights of the BPM 11g release. Pay special attention to the excellent diagram on page 3 that summarizes the top three differentiators for the product: social BPM, user-centric design and unified process foundation
  • Things to Love about BPMN 2.0: Read Bruce Silver's synopsis of the 5 things he loves most about BPMN 2.0. To steal his thunder a bit, here they are: model interchange between tools, non-interrupting events, user actions, business rule tasks and easier event implementation.
  • Bruce Silver's Blog: Stay up-to-date on what one of the BPM industry's luminaries is saying about BPM vendors, tools and techniques at BPMS Watch.
  • Sales Quote Demo: This is a sophisticated demo that spans Oracle Business Process Management, Oracle Human Workflow, and Oracle Business Rules. You must install this demo into BPM Suite 11gR1 or higher. Download the 5.9MB zip file containing the Business Studio project.
  • BPM 11g Documentation Library: Quick access to the seven guides in the documentation set. You may find the Modeling and Implementation Guide most helpful.

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