the following is a video that walks through the process of
creating an Oracle OCI Marketplace listing
before you get started, you'll need to have three things in place first you'll need to
be set up with your Oracle partner Network membership your OPN membership second you need
to make a publisher request and third you'll need to have a publisher agreement in place
each of those steps are documented in other areas and there's an Associated
blog that goes with this video that has the links embedded there as well
the focus of this video is to create a listing once you're set up with your OPN
partner membership and set up as a publisher you'll be able to access this site the Oracle
partner portal site I'm on the home section here and the element we're going to focus on
is the create listing option once you're logged in you can click on create listing and as you'll
see there are three listing types we're going to focus on the one here in the middle called the oci
application listing but before I get into that let me talk about a couple of the other things on here
including the other listing types but first talk about listing content options the default for my
listing is English but if you publish it listings in different languages you can select them here
the other listing types available are application listings and these are typically used by partners
that are creating listings for the Oracle HCM or CX or Erp Suites of products these
service listings are typically used by companies that are system integrators that are building
out Services offerings as I mentioned we're going to focus on this one here in the middle
each of these have the same option for learn more underneath if you click on the learn more option
what you'll get is a new web page that pops up that talks about the documentation and walks
through the partner portal instructions almost every scenario you can imagine is captured here
beyond the obvious things like creating a listing which we're going to show here in just a minute
it also talks about how you create installation packages how do you manage and capture leads how
are taxes process and also if you're creating a paid listing how you as the partner get paid
the idea and intent is that the create listing process is as much self-serve as possible however
if you do run into issues or have any questions or concerns there is a team available to help those
links are at the end of this video so let's switch back to the partner portal as I mentioned we're
going to focus on the OCI application listing so when you click on this and click on click on
create listing you'll get the first page of two the idea is that it's a straightforward process
there are two pages to create a listing the first page has four required fields
the first is the application name the second is your headline third are the categories
we'll talk about those in a moment and fourth you'll be required to enter pricing information
two fields that are optional but recommended are keywords and configure URLs let's go through
these to get started an application name can be anything you want you can call it my app is for
example just for this scenario here you pick a headline and this headline can be anything you
want it to be as I mentioned categories these are predefined fields for the Oracle Cloud
infrastructure and you get to pick and choose up to three of these so for example if you're
in the cloud management space and maybe you're building something with artificial intelligence
and maybe using the Oracle container engine for Kubernetes you can pick those if you
decide those aren't the fields you want you can unselect them and select something else as needed
for pricing information there are three options free buil or bring your own license and paid
free is just like it sounds some Partners want to provide free listings sometimes there for
trial periods sometimes they're for specific regions or a certain amount of data it's up to
the partner to decide how they want to set those up byol will come back to in just a moment paid
listings are something a lot of partners are also doing and that is where the partner provides an
image or an artifact within their listing that could be directly deployed to the end customers
tenancy where Oracle will pay the partner for the solution that gets deployed and the paid
listing will be covering the OCI usage and also the partner product for a paid listing there's an
added step that the partner will need to do and that is to set up themselves as a supplier and
that's a very straightforward process it's also documented in the accompanying blog we're going
to focus on bring your own license this is a case where the per the End customer may already have a
license from the partner or they may be buying net new or maybe extending existing licenses
we're going to pick BYOL click save the next things are keywords can be anything you want so
if you're working in the case or Kubernetes space Maybe with DevOps maybe with AI again these are
free form fields that you can fill out anything you want just separate them by commas
finally these last two fields and these are both optional if you have a demo site you can add that
link here and if you have self-paced training you can add that here and of course those will
show up on your listing as I mentioned these are optional Fields but if you have them of course
we recommend them the same with the keywords if you have keywords we recommend using them
once you're done with this part here you click on Save and it opens up the second page
the second page has all the information from page one so if you do decide that you mistype
something or you didn't like something you saw you can always go back in here and edit it and
it will let you change the name and change any of the other fields there are two things to point
out here on the second page you'll have a banner option that goes on the top of your listing and
an icon which could be your logo could be the product logo it could be anything that makes
sense for your business the most important Point here is these images need to be the exact size
both for the banner and for the icon if you try and submit it in a slightly different size it'll
throw an error and it'll basically tell you that you need to put them in in the exact size
the other information that's captured here is the top level info about what is the product
and what it does and this is a required field as noted by the asterisk when you
click on edit it pops up to two areas one is your short description so this can be a
description of what the product is and what it does and then within the follow-on field this
is a what you see is what you get field where you can capture all the information about the product
in as much detail as you want to and need to you have options for bold and underline also bullets
and numbering so you can make this look and feel the way you want additional information include
the markets you want to participate in the default is the worldwide commercial markets
if you sell into the US government or to the UK government you can select or deselect these fields
the roving Edge product is something that Oracle has built for government agencies if
you work with government agencies you might want to explore what roving Edge is for your business
additional information includes usage this can be things like where the product should be configured
and any specifics you want to highlight to a potential customer for how they would use it
we also recommend adding screenshots and videos we allow for the capability of adding versions
there are partners that that change versions on a regular basis and they track that information here
additional application properties any related documents it could be support
could be help could be something that will help an End customer to
understand your product or possibly deploy it in the way they need to
another required field is support it's very easy to add this you can type in support and
put in your company's URL and click save it's as simple as that and finally the last two fields are
languages if you are listing in different languages you can change this information
here and if you have recommended service providers you can include them here as well
so instead of capturing all this information and typing it in and making me watch
do that I'm going to make it as easy as possible and show you an example of what we've done with
another partner I'm going to show you what we did with GitLab this is a listing that GitLab
built on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace they've got their company name their logo product description
this also happens to be a BYOL listing they've got information about what is the application so
the headline and the content usage information screenshots and videos supporting documentation
and of course the required support information and version details I'm using this as an example
because it makes it easier to see instead of watching me cut and paste to see what
an example listing looks like GitLab's done a great job here so switching back to the portal
if you're entering all this information here the purpose of the partner portal is that the partner
is 100 in control at all times of the listing process for both the creation the publishing
and if need be changing and or withdrawing listings in the future and as I mentioned
with the help screens the idea is to make it so that it's a self-serve as possible but there is
support available once you've captured all your information you click on submit and it will pop
you up to a last page here and this is an option for partners so if you do want the listing to
be published automatically as soon as it's been approved by Oracle you check this box or uncheck
this box depending on what you want to do it will also capture any additional information about your
listing that the tool may have noticed you left out or maybe need to change you can also add any
comments and once you're happy with everything you've got here you click on I've confirmed I've
reviewed and then follow the guidelines and once you're done with everything you click
on submit again and that's it that's the whole process creating a Oracle oci Marketplace listing
the following page has a couple of links that are capture information about where help is
available where support is available and where additional information is so that you can make
your listing as complete as possible if you have questions please let us know thank you
for watching and we look forward to seeing your listing on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace