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OPN Specialized – Recognized by Oracle.  Preferred by Customers.

8/11/2014

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The Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized program assists customers by identifying the most qualified partners in one or more Oracle product disciplines. 

To achieve Specialized status, partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customer and partner community.

Partners are required to educate and certify a pre-defined number of staff members in each of the following four disciplines: Sales, Pre-Sales, Implementation and Support.  Additionally, sales activity and client references are validated by Oracle, skills attainment and required certifications are validated by a third-party. 

Oracle Specialized Partner – Always The Smart Choice  

A word from Oracle:

Oracle formally recognizes partners that have invested time and resources in developing significant expertise in specific Oracle products and solutions. 

The OPN Specialized status designation is achieved by partners that demonstrate a high level of competency and business success in a specific area through a rigorous assessment process. 
Partners may select from a wide range of specializations from Oracle’s growing product portfolio. 

Companies that have achieved specialization are:
  • Verified as having certified skills and competency achievements across all areas of their businesses
  • Recognized by Oracle for their in-depth product and industry knowledge and proven value-add for customers
  • Preferred by customers and Oracle’s own sales team, with validated references for each area of specialization
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All Things WebCenter Conference Survey

7/11/2014

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Are you a WebCenter customer? Are you interested in learning more about the WebCenter product suite? Are you interested in attending a conference focused on the WebCenter product suite to get information, training and networking with your peers?
 
The WebCenter Special Interest Group (SIG) is considering creating a conference solely for WebCenter product suite. However, we need to know what your (the WebCenter Community) interest in attending this conference would be. So we are sending out this message and asking all customers to take this short 5 minute or less survey. Your participation will help us to decide whether or not developing this conference will benefit the WebCenter community.
 
You are not obligated to disclose any contact information unless you choose. We simply want your opinion about the conference.
 
Thanks for taking 5 minutes to fill out this survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T7ZVMTG

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What's being said about Redstone's WebCenter Training?

5/22/2014

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Written by: Michael Lawrence

“Major strength of the course was that it was customized for us.  The materials were very specific to our needs. Where appropriate, the instructor even made videos for us that touched on many different topics for us to review later.”

Saidul I., Senior Team Lead – Supply Chain Management  

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“Our instructor was very knowledgeable. He had a lot of relevant experience with the product that enabled him to give us great advice. I also liked the individual cloud-based WCC environments that we did our labs in. The additional Redstone resources were nice to have around and did a great job helping us with any technical issues that came up.”

Nathan S., WebCenter Developer – Supply Chain Management 

“The course contained many dynamic and relevant examples. The instructor also offered good explanations of course topics and how they related to something the class participants already understood.”

Brittany M., WebCenter Developer – Supply Chain Management   

“Even the simple “Gotcha” tasks were taught with extensive explanations, resulting in a better and more complete understanding of the material.”

Jonathon H., WebCenter Developer – Supply Chain Management   

“I really enjoyed the ‘on-your-own’ labs and thought the content was very well organized.”

Whitney L., WebCenter Developer – SMB Communications & Marketing Provider 

“There were many things I enjoyed about the course - depth of knowledge, clear high-level overview of the subject, on-the-fly demos and Q/As were just a few of my favorites.”  

Kent F., WebCenter Developer – SMB Communications & Marketing Provider 

“The one word I would use to describe this course is - Clarity.  The course material and delivery of that material from the instructor was clear and easy to understand - leading to a better understanding and retention of material for me.”  

Cesar C., WebCenter Developer – SMB Communications & Marketing Provider 

“Our instructor was very knowledgeable of the course material, and very accommodating in attending to students questions and lab work assistance. The additional resources were also very helpful in assisting during labs and answering questions. Lab work was very helpful. The entire Redstone team was very professional and very knowledgeable on the content of the training.”

Corina B., Application Developer – SMB Communications & Marketing Provider 

"The instructor had a plethora of knowledge and was able to answer, or layout a plan to find the answer, to every question thrown at him.  The course also consisted of excellent lectures that were followed by labs to help ensure the information is retained."

Carmen T., Technical Architect – SMB Communications & Marketing Provider

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Standardization and Simplification of Content Ingestion at IOUG Collaborate14

4/1/2014

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Written by: Michael Lawrence

Redstone Content Solutions invites you to stop by our joint presentation with Emerson Process Management.

This session is a case study that focuses on the issues Emerson faced, the solution Redstone implemented and the benefits realized. Attendees will gain valuable knowledge in the following three areas:
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  • Understand the issues driving the need for a new solution
  • Learn the benefits of a standardized, modern, and supported solution
  • Learn about an alternative solution to a custom batch loader
For more information on Content Synergy Hub and Emerson's use case please visit our CSH Page. 
Date: Tuesday April 8, 1:45 AM 

Location: Level 3, San Polo 3501A

Category: Case Study

Product Line: WebCenter Content, AngularJS Groovy, Grails, Jersey and JAX

Track: Middleware
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Level 3, San Polo 3501A
If you have any questions prior to Collaborate14 in Las Vegas, please ask them in the comments below.

For all your Oracle WebCenter needs, Contact Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver.

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Creating a Good First Impression: Must-do's for Every Homepage at IOUG Collaborate14

3/11/2014

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Written by: Michael Lawrence

Redstone Content Solutions invites you to stop by our SEO and Social Media Manager, Michael Lawrence's Quick Tip Session: Creating a Good First Impression: Must-do's for Every Homepage. 

Michael's session will focus on creating an engaging experience for site visitors.  During this Quick Tip session attendees will gain valuable knowledge in the following three areas: 
  • Key homepage elements and assets 
  • Homepage design and layout best practices 
  • Homepage do's and don'ts 
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4 Years of Inbound Marketing experience, web design, and Search Engine Optimization possessing both Google Analytics and AdWords Certifications
Getting the bulk of incoming site traffic from new and returning visitors, the homepage is arguably the most important page on a website.  Converting traffic into sales leads through an engaging and informative homepage is pivotal for inbound marketing success. During this Quick Tip Session Michael will identify key elements necessary to create a quality homepage and best practices for implementation.

Be sure to add this session to your conference schedule for more information on how to maximize the impact of your homepage.
Session: #727

Date:
Tuesday April 8, 12:45 PM 

Location: Level 3, San Polo 3502

Category: Web Experience Management (Content Management, Portal, Social Network)

Product Line: Oracle WebCenter 

Track: Middleware 
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Level 3, San Polo 3502
If you have any questions prior to Collaborate14 in Las Vegas, please ask them in the comments below.

For all your Oracle WebCenter needs, Contact Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver.

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Bootstrap Your Portal at IOUG Collaborate14

3/11/2014

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Written by: Michael Lawrence

Redstone Content Solutions invites you to stop by our Quick Tip Session: "Bootstrap Your Portal"

Adam Stortz' session will focus on how to use Oracle's Application Development Framework (ADF) for web development.  During this Quick Tip, attendees will gain valuable knowledge and insight in the following three areas:
  • Understanding the differences between ADF Skinning and CSS 
  • Learn how to modify skins to enable Bootstrap 
  • Identify potential risks
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11 years of Information Mgmt. experience, Enterprise Architecture, Integration, Research & Development
If you are interested in learning how to exceed design requirements by implementing Twitter Bootstrap with your WebCenter Portal & ADF applications, this session is for you! 

Session details below. 
Session: #678

Date:
Thursday April 10, 12:15 PM

Location: Level 3, Murano 3201A

Category: Web Development 

Product Line: ADF Framework 

Track: Development
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If you have any questions prior to Collaborate14, please ask them in the comments below.

For all your Oracle WebCenter needs, Contact Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver.

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WebCenter Content Folios! Real World Content Solutions in an Interactive Educational Web Environment at IOUG Collaborate14 

3/10/2014

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Written by: Michael Lawrence

Redstone Content Solutions invites you to stop by our joint Oracle WebCenter Content Folios presentation with School Specialty Inc (SSI).
 
In this presentation Josh Hearn (Redstone) and Scott Smith (SSI) will discuss the benefits of WebCenter Content Folios and how to leverage them to create a truly interactive web environment.
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During this session, attendees will gain valuable knowledge and insight in the following four areas:
  • Learn how to leverage WebCenter Content Folios
  • Understand how to implement Content Folios 
  • Watch two unique WebCenter Content Folios demonstrations 
  • Learn useful tips, tricks and best practices for implementing WebCenter Content Folios
Session: #489

Date: Tuesday April 8, 5:30 PM

Location: Level 3, San Polo 3502

Category: Web Experience Management
(Content Management, Portal, Social Network)

Product Line: WebCenter Content 

Track: Fusion Middleware
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Level 3, San Polo 3502
If you have any questions prior to Collaborate14, please ask them in the comments below.

For all your Oracle WebCenter needs, Contact Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver.

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10 Homepage Necessities of a Successful Website - WebCenter Whiteboard

2/5/2014

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Written by: Michael Lawrence

WebCenter Whiteboard is Redstone Content Solutions’ new web-series focused on maximizing the value of your Oracle WebCenter investment. 

In this episode of WebCenter Whiteboard Redstone’s very own SEO Manager, Michael Lawrence, discusses best practices for maximizing the effectiveness of your websites homepage. 
10 Homepage Necessities of a Successful Website, accomplishments, testimonials no-cost content, features, calls-to-action, benefits, image/video, introduction, company tagline, intuitive navigation, inbound marketing, seo
10 Homepage Necessities of a Successful Website
Video Transcript:
Hello everyone and welcome to WebCenter Whiteboard “Drawing out WebCenter Solutions” with Redstone Content Solutions. My name is Michael Lawrence and I’ll be your host for today’s video. This is our new web series focusing on maximizing the value of your WebCenter investment. Today we’re going to talk about “10 Homepage Necessities for a Successful Website”. This is a list of 10 items that we feel belong on every single homepage of every website – to maximize the impact of that homepage. It’s typically the first page your visitors are going to land on. 

So without further ado, let’s get on to number one, Intuitive Navigation.  It’s important to have a navigation bar, whether you feature it at the top or along the side to inform users of your high level pages, products, services, about the company, a contact us form. Anything that is going to move them closer to the information they are after, because, that’s what they are on your site for - whether it’s a product or actual intellectual knowledge that they are trying to find. 

Number two is a Company Tagline. This should be something catchy that is going to resonate with and get remembered by visitors. It’s going to eventually be what draws them back to your website. 

Next is the Introduction. It’s important to introduce yourself just like when you do when you meet somebody new for the first time. You have new site visitors coming to your website and you’re going to want to introduce yourself, say “Hi, I am Redstone and I am a Gold Level Partner of Oracle. We specialize in WebCenter Portal, Content, Sites and Training.” This helps them identify what it is that you do, who you are and if they’re in the right place or not.  

I think it is very important to support that with number four, which is an Image or Video. A picture is worth a thousand words - I believe that to be true. So, it’s very important to support your introduction with a supporting video or image because you don’t want to be too long in your introduction. It should be just about a thirty-second elevator speech.  

Number five is Benefits. Let them know what they’re going to get out of it – whether that’s your products or services. You’re always going to hear in the sales discussion, “What’s in it for me?”  The benefits are what’s in it for them and this is an easy way to fish-hook them in - to find more information.  If they know they can lower storage cost or offer personalized content to their site visitors that might be enough information to get them to forge deeper into the website for more information.  

Number six is Calls-to-Action. You can do this with a free trial, sign-up for our newsletter and download one of our whitepapers - anything that’s going to get them take action where you can gather their name, contact information and learn more about your customers. Then reach out to them and ask them if there is anything you can do for them.  

Number seven is Features. I think it is very important to support your benefits with features. Typically, your features are what produce the benefits. Reusable and granular analytics are some features that promote the personalized content and give that to the client. Let them know the tools and features that they are going to be using to produce those benefits for them and their company.  

Number eight is No-cost Content. I mentioned just a second ago free-trials. I think that its great to offer more than free trials. For example, we offer free downloads for WebCenter. If you’re a developer please check those out. People like things for free and were in business to make money, but offer little tid-bits of information whether it’s white papers, webinars or no-cost downloads. That will give them information they want, but also build your reputation up as an industry leader and prove to them that you do know what you are talking about.  Everything that you’ve said thus far, they can try it themselves to confirm that. 

Number nine is Testimonials. It is easy to brag about yourself. In marketing and the business side of things – promote, promote, promote. - this is what we do, we’re capable of this.  But, hearing it from somebody’s clients in a testimonial, they obviously used your services, they benefited from it and are willing to go on the record publicly. I think that says huge amounts of positive things about your company. To have public testimonials like that – so definitely feature those on your home page. 

And, the last thing on our homepage is Accomplishments.  If you have been awarded an industry accomplishment, whether it’s a Training survey response, you were the first to do this or the only one to that’s ever done this. For example, Redstone we were the first WebCenter Sites Specialized Partner of Oracle. In 2013 we are the preferred WebCenter Training partner due to survey data. So, let people know about your accomplishments because those are things you do want to brag about and can be confirmed by a third party. 

That wraps out our top ten homepage necessities for a successful website. I hope you have enjoyed it.  If you have any questions, comments, concerns, just want to talk about the video, or if you want to be a potential guest host for our web series, WebCenter Whiteboard, please comment below. And, I look forward to speaking with all of you.  Have a great day and remember, Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver.  

For all your Oracle WebCenter needs, Contact Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver.

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Oracle WebCenter Case Study: Enterprise Infrastructure

1/27/2014

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Written by: John Klein

See how Redstone Content Solutions delivers value to employees, customers, partners and suppliers through Oracle WebCenter: Enterprise Infrastructure.
Contact Redstone for all of your Oracle WebCenter needs. 

Video Script:
"Mark is employed by a worldwide leader in process automation services and technologies. 

Mark’s company was previously unable to locate relevant information required for sound business decisions. 

Mark understood that in order to improve compliance with ever-changing regulations, he needed to: 

• Convert paper-based documents into an electronic format for secure sharing across the enterprise 
• Eliminate manual approval processes by leveraging automated workflow 
• Dynamically publish internal and external-facing websites with accurate information

Mark employed Redstone Content Solutions to implement WebCenter to consolidate, manage and effectively share his company’s unstructured corporate data. 

Mark’s company no longer suffers from ‘information overload’ and is now managing content as a strategic asset. Additionally, he has been able to lower software licensing, implementation and on-going support costs, improve productivity, reduce risk while increasing security, and increase business agility.

WebCenter has allowed Mark to run the business while changing the business! 

To learn more about how we can help you get the most from WebCenter, just click the ‘Contact Us” link, below, and we’ll be in touch soon. Redstone Content Solutions: We Deliver."


For all your Oracle WebCenter needs, Contact Redstone Content Solutions “We Deliver”

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Redstone Content Solutions First Oracle Partner Worldwide to Achieve WebCenter Sites Specialization

1/22/2014

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Written by: John Klein

PictureOracle WebCenter Sites Specialized
Redstone Content Solutions, a Gold-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), is the first partner to achieve Specialized status for Oracle WebCenter Sites. By achieving a Specialization distinction, Redstone has been recognized by Oracle for its expertise in delivering services specifically around Oracle WebCenter Sites through competency development, business results and proven success. 

To achieve OPN Specialized status, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customer and partner community. 

Redstone was required to educate a pre-defined number of staff members in each of the following four disciplines: Sales, Pre-Sales, Implementation and Support. Additionally, sales activity/client references were validated by Oracle, skills attainment and required certifications were validated by a third-party. 

“To be the first worldwide OPN Partner Specialized in Oracle WebCenter Sites illustrates our commitment to clients, Oracle and the Oracle WebCenter community,” stated John Klein, Redstone Principal. “As a company we have invested heavily in our Oracle WebCenter practice and as a result our clients are reaping the benefits. Our proven ability to architect, implement and successfully deploy Oracle WebCenter Sites solutions has now reached new heights!” 

“Avnet is dedicated to assisting partners achieve and promote their Oracle Specializations. Redstone has a proven track record of expanding their Oracle WebCenter competency through Specialization. OPN Specialization in Oracle WebCenter Sites uniquely positions Redstone to address a broad range of Web Experience Management issues and challenges. We look forward to supporting their continued success.” Said Chuck Scalia, Avnet General Manager 


For further information regarding Oracle WebCenter Sites, please visit Redstone Content Solutions at www.redstonecontentsolutions.com or call John Klein at 563-355-1558, ext. 21.

About Redstone Content Solutions 
Redstone Content Solutions is a Gold-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Systems Integrator & Value Added Reseller focusing exclusively on Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle WebCenter Portal and Oracle WebCenter Sites technologies. Redstone is OPN Specialized in Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle WebCenter Sites and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) and regarded as the premier WebCenter Content training partner based on annual survey results.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is an Oracle program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Partners differentiate through Specialization. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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