Independent Software Vendors are integral to Oracle's success in the marketplace. Whether your product competes with the Oracle E-Business Suite or provides industry specific value-add to the E-Business Suite, there is no question that all ISVs can leverage Oracle's dominant database market position and advanced functionality to develop market-leading applications.

The Oracle PartnerNetwork offers a variety of benefits to help you develop and go to market with your products based on Oracle technology. Examples of the benefits on offer are listed below.

OPN Interaction Center
Find out about Oracle

The OPN Interaction Center is staffed by a team of partnering experts who are available to answer your "partnering with Oracle" queries. Should you have any questions about the Oracle PartnerNetwork, its tools, services or structure, or any queries about navigating the Oracle PartnerNetwork portal, please direct your queries to us. From a programmatic perspective, Interaction Center staff can also guide you on how to build your relationship with Oracle.

Contact details can be found on the Oracle PartnerNetwork portal at partner.oracle.com. Simply click on "Contact Us" to retrieve your country specific number.

Oracle PartnerNetwork
Work with Oracle

Membership in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) can help you increase revenue and market share, expand your business and lower your costs. With three levels of membership and eight partner types to choose from, your OPN experience is tailored to fit your company's particular needs and level of commitment. Benefits include training, support, marketing services and resources, sales leads and development/technical assistance.

For more information: oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com

ISV Community on OTN (Oracle Technology Network)
Get Oracle information

Oracle's Technology Network is the technical resource centre for product details including software downloads, technology information including Grid, Java, XML and community information. There is now a specific community centre for ISVs as part of OTN. Not only does this enable ISVs to see information that is specifically relevant to them but if you sign up to this community there are many extra benefits.

For more information: otn.oracle.com/isv/index.html

Product Technology Services
Build on Oracle

Oracle Product Technology Services (PTS) can help ISVs move and upgrade their applications to the most suitable Oracle platform and can test and tune Oracle-based applications when they are up and running.

PTS offers four services: Technology Adoption, Design, Migration and Capacity Planning & Tuning. PTS is there every step of the way to ensure you make the best possible use of your investment in Oracle technology.

Training and Education
Learn about Oracle

A rich set of educational content is available to OPN members, starting with access to all of Oracle University's public classes offered at a 35% discount.

In addition to the standard Oracle University curriculum, we offer instructor-led classes exclusively for ISV partners. These classes are created in cooperation with Oracle Development, Oracle University and the Alliances & Channels organisation, and represent the most targeted training available to meet ISVs' needs for developing solutions with Oracle.

OPN members qualify for a 35% discount on all Oracle Certified Associate, Professional and Masters Exams. Oracle will also fully reimburse your exam fees when you successfully complete your OCP certification.

Featured classes for ISVs currently include a comprehensive set of courses about Oracle Application Server 10g. By providing all the middleware services needed to deploy, manage and integrate applications and Web Services, as well as automating business processes, Oracle Application Server 10g technology is critical. Oracle University offers courses to help ISV technical staff learn about the following:

• Effective administration, monitoring and security of an Oracle AS 10g environment
• The theory and practice of High Availability
• Configuring the Oracle AS infrastructure and the Oracle AS middle tier
• Deploying and integrating applications
• Getting to grips with Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure components

For more information about the Oracle Application Server 10g curriculum: click here.
For more information about Oracle University: click here.

Partner Development Funds
Go further with Oracle

Oracle has a number of funds available to help partners develop new Oracle-based solutions and take those solutions to market. Oracle PartnerNetwork members can apply for a variety of funds through the OPN portal site, to which partners gain full access upon acceptance of their membership.

For more information: oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com

OracleDirect
Get help with Oracle sales

From six locations across EMEA, OracleDirect provides sales support services to some 6,000 business partners. The range of services available to partners from OracleDirect includes joint customer solution demonstrations, customised prototypes of web-based software solutions, software licensing expertise and business development initiatives to generate sales opportunities for partner solutions running on Oracle technology. The sales division also has technical consultants fluent in all major European languages. Click here to contact your OracleDirect country team.