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The Microsoft Enterprise ISV News Update brings our
Partners the latest news about Microsoft technology and marketing
offerings surrounding SAP and Oracle.
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Microsoft
Enterprise ISV News Update
Dear Partners,
Welcome to Microsoft FY08! This year holds a lot of promise for our
community of Microsoft Partners active in the SAP and Oracle space. As
the year unfolds, you will enjoy an increased focus on your business,
because the SAP and Oracle space will have a higher profile in
Microsoft than ever before. The main theme of the year will be Office
Business Applications (OBA). Expect to see a number of initiatives
around OBA enablement, lead generation, deal support, and
customer/partner evidence. OBA is all about extending line of business
applications such as Oracle and SAP through Microsoft Office and thus
making data and business processes available to users through a
familiar and productive graphical user interface. For additional
information on OBA, please visit www.obacentral.com.
The first change you will notice this year is that this news update now
addresses both SAP and Oracle Partners under the banner "Microsoft
Enterprise ISV New Update." Until now, we have had two separate
News Updates, but we have found that there are significant synergies in
combining the two. Hopefully you will enjoy the new format.
Also, I want to spotlight three significant initiatives coming up in
the first half of FY08:
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OBA events at SAP TechEd and Oracle Open World. We
are planning partner events that highlight the OBA opportunity at SAP
TechEd in Las Vegas and Munich as well as Oracle Open World this
fall. Please see below for specific dates. We will provide you with
details in coming issues of this alert.
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OBA workshop in Redmond. On
November 28th, we will host a one-day OBA hands-on workshop in
Redmond specifically for Partners who extend SAP and/or Oracle. More
details to come shortly.
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Lead generation through SAPInsider.
Last year we piloted a lead-generation initiative with SAPInsider
that resulted in generating an amazing number of leads. This year we
are mainstreaming the program, and I am happy to announce that we are
now "taking orders for a new initiative." Please visit our site for more
information on how to take advantage of this great offer. I will
share a quote with you from one of our pilot partners:
"As a new solution provider in the SAP market, SAP Insider's
Webinar Program surpassed our expectations. SAP Insider's web
concierge and moderator services ensured a high level of comfort for
our presenters and we were able to exceed both the quantity and
quality of leads we were expecting. Because of the reduced rate for
the webinar offered through the Microsoft ISV partnership with SAP
Insider, we will achieve a tremendous ROI for this campaign."
Liz Schofield
Group Marketing Manager
CODA Group International, Ltd
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Thanks for all of your support in FY07 and here's to
a prosperous FY08!
Best regards,
Stig Panduro
Senior Marketing Manager, Microsoft Corporation
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is no need to reregister, but readers who received only the Oracle News
Update in the past must register.
Advertise with TechNet Magazine and Microsoft
Will Match
We have worked with TechNet
Magazine to come up with a special offer that we think you will
be really excited about. Over 100,000 technology purchasers read TechNet
Magazine monthly, and we want to help you reach them. To do this,
Microsoft will "match" your advertising spend for three
advertisements during the remainder of the 2007 calendar year. This will
help you stretch your advertising dollars and provide a great opportunity
for you to generate more awareness for your company to a targeted set of
influential IT professionals. To find out more about this offer, the
qualifications needed, and pricing, please contact Michele Hurabiell at mhurabiell@cmp.com (415-378-3540) or
Patrice Hampson at phampson@cmp.com
(603-924-4430). This matching offer is on a first-come, first-served
basis so get in touch soon.
New Forrester Research: Microsoft a Leader in
Application Server Platforms
Two reports, released July 2007, from Forrester Research
deliver valuable information about the Application Server Platform and
service-oriented architecture markets. To read these reports and learn
more about the Microsoft role as a leader in application server
platforms, please visit:
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Microsoft recently released Office Business
Application (OBA) Reference Architecture Pack (RAP) for Price
Management. Price Management is a crucial aspect of any company's
product sales strategy. The Price Management RAP shows how to build
architectures that unify people, processes, and technology through
familiar Microsoft Office system user interfaces. It includes an
architecture framework for Price Management with an OBA-based scenario
and BizTalk for the quote-creation process. This class of applications
is emerging as new business applications that connect existing
line-of-business (LOB) systems with the people that use them every day
through the familiar user interface of Microsoft Office. These OBAs
bridge the gap between how business process systems work and how people
work. Visit MSDN
to read white papers and view videos and presentations on this new
offering.
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Partner EDGE (Enterprise Demand Generation Engine)
is a turnkey telesales-based program that is designed to deliver
qualified sales opportunities for Microsoft managed enterprise partner
solutions. The EDGE program is uniquely constructed to assist our
enterprise partners in generating qualified sales leads for their
solutions through strategic call campaigns. For more information on the
Partner EDGE program, including an Interactive Playbook, please
go to http://www.msenterprisepartners.com/edge/.
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Get Ready for SQL Server 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the next release of SQL Server, will help
companies access and manage rapidly increasing volumes of data for
mission-critical applications, increase their ability to better
understand the organization and reduce difficulties associated with
managing complex systems. SQL Server 2008 builds on the success of SQL
Server 2005 as a proven platform that is crucial to the completion of
business projects, delivering increased functionality to a comprehensive
range of applications from the desktop to the data center. To learn more,
visit the SQL Server
2008 site on microsoft.com.
Of
Special Interest to our SAP Partners
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Microsoft is committed to empowering information
workers with simplified access to key business data and processes
through the Microsoft Office system. This new white paper describes how
organizations can extend the benefits of SAP to information workers
through integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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This new white paper provides information about how
to use SAP Business Server Pages with Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007. The paper provides an overview on the technologies and
contains a detailed walk-through of how to configure the SAP system and
SharePoint Server in order to use Business Server Page Packages from
SAP such as the SAP Learning Solution from within SharePoint Server
2007.
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New Blogs for Your Reading Pleasure
Take a look at these news blogs written by Microsoft veterans who have
worked with Microsoft and SAP technologies for years.
Of
Special Interest to our Oracle Partners
Oracle Applications Unlimited: New Releases Certified
and Available on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server
As part of its Applications Unlimited commitment, Oracle has announced
new releases of PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JD Edwards product lines. All of
these applications are certified and available on the Microsoft Platform
and SQL Server 2005. Today, Siebel Release 8.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise
9.0, and JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.12 are certified and shipping on
Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server on a variety of platform choices.
Visit the Microsoft
Oracle Customer Information Center where you will find a variety of
technical resources and evidence to assist you and your customers.
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MCI, one of the world's largest global
communications firms, provides voice, data, networking, and other
services. The company had more than two-dozen systems supporting 8,000
sales and support personnel. MCI saw an opportunity to integrate and
increase the efficiency of its systems with newer technology, thereby
reducing the costs to maintain them and improving the firm's financial
and business management. To achieve these goals, MCI teamed with
Siebel, Microsoft, HP, and Accenture to test and deploy Siebel 7.5.3,
running on Microsoft software and HP servers. The new, simplified
system reduced costs and improved productivity in sales and related
areas, such as legal and business development, by up to 25 percent. MCI
executives gained a single, simplified view of the firm's entire
operations, a view that will give them critical information for making
informed decisions.
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This series is tailored to
Director and Technical decision makers and designed to provide GISVs
with a roadmap of specific Microsoft technology areas pertinent to your
business. Each series will take place at the Microsoft campus in
Redmond, WA.
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September 6 - 7: Schaumburg, IL
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October 1 - 5: Las Vegas, NV
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October 17 - 19: Munich, Germany
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November 7, 2007: Redmond, WA
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March 25, 2008: Redmond, WA
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November 11 - 15: San Francisco, CA
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OBA Workshop for SAP and Oracle
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Enterprise ISV News Update here. If you already
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Oracle News Update in the past must register.
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