Beta Site Nomination Form

BizTalk Server 2006 JumpStart Partner Nomination Form Instructions This form is to be completed by the prospective JumpStart partner. Please fill out the form as completely as possible and return it to your Microsoft PAM or PDM for submission. Microsoft personnel should reference nomination information at our internal JumpStart site.  Visit the internal BizTalk Server 2006 JumpStart site (for Microsoft employees only) Nominations must be submitted by a Microsoft employee to be accepted. Customer nominations (see separate form) will also be submitted for review and approval through this process. If you have specific questions about the JumpStart nomination process, please submit your inquiry to btsjump@microsoft.com. How to Fill Out This Form Please type in the provided fields only. Select the appropriate answer from the drop-down list box when necessary. Partner Contact Information Partner Contact Partner Name: Address 1: Address 2: City: Zip/Postal Code: Industry focus: Choose Partner’s Locations: # Employees: Primary Contact First Name: Last Name: Title: Phone #: Alternate Phone #: Internet Email Address: Primary Technical Contact First Name: Last Name: Title: Phone #: Alternate Phone #: Internet Email Address: Primary Microsoft Contact First/Last Name: Email Address (@microsoft.com): Microsoft Partner Account Manager First/Last Name: Email Address (@microsoft.com): State/Province: Country: Partner Web site: Middle Initial: Extension: Fax #: Middle Initial: Extension: Fax #: Page 1 2/26/2009 Partner Type ISV Please fill in the rest of the information below where applicable. The more information you provide, the better we will be able to asses your fit for the program. SI Please obtain the JumpStart Customer Nomination form. Complete the form for each customer you are considering for the program. Submit all documents in a single e-mail or note prior to nomination, if already submitted. Please itemize the individual customers that you are nominating into the JumpStart program. (Each nomination must have an associated Customer Nomination form.) JumpStart Program Involvement Levels There are three levels of possible involvement in the JumpStart program, to enable partners to choose the type of engagement style that best meets their objectives. Each level has a different set of requirements and benefits. A GTM and Business Development. This program level provides opportunities for partners who are seeking to make sales and business development level investments around growing a BizTalk Server 2006 business. By committing to a certain level of joint marketing and business development activities (in addition to technical readiness preparation), this qualifies the partner for an expanded level of participation during the go-to-market campaign activities in H1 CY 06. Technical Readiness Development. This program level provides an opportunity for partners who are seeking to make technical readiness investments in building early proficiencies on BizTalk Server 2006. By committing to a certain level of technical readiness preparation, this qualifies the partner for an expanded level of product team support during their customer engagements and recognition at launch. Basic Program. This program level provides an entry level for partners to participate in JumpStart. The Basic Program enables partners to begin to develop customer solutions prior to RTM. B C For more information on the benefits and requirements by each level, please see the separate BizTalk Server 2006 JumpStart FAQ document. Preliminary Information  Has your company ever been involved in other Microsoft EAP/JDP programs? Choose If so, please list the programs:  Does your company currently have regulations preventing it from participating in a written or video case study of your successful implementation? Choose Page 2 2/26/2009  Does your company currently have regulations preventing it to articulate publicly that BizTalk Server is o o o Choose a strategic integration solution for the company; one of the integration technologies of choice available for new strategic implementations; and fully supported in the mission critical data center?   Do you foresee challenges if it becomes necessary to utilize Microsoft Consulting Services? (Cost may be associated with such an engagement.) Choose Are you able to commit necessary resources for planning, testing, migration, and development? Choose Project Information  What is the business justification for the application utilizing BizTalk Server 2006?* *Please provide the rationale from the customer’s perspective as to why they are investing in this application. This may include various high-level business drivers, such as cost reduction, improved product cycle times, reduced exception processing times, etc.  What is the financial anticipated ROI to customer’s company? List estimated cost savings or increases in productivity. Provide a high level description of the application, describing what the application does or will do.* * This needs to be stated in business terms as well as functional/technical terms. (For example, “a messaging infrastructure ’middle-ware’ that will pass messages reliably between disparate systems.”) Application should also be described in terms of what the exchange of messages “do.” (For example, “enable various applications such as expense reporting, procurement and employee benefits management to generate payment transactions through a common payment application, and thus to simplify corporate cash management.”)   Is this application a new system, a major upgrade, or a replacement? Please state what system you are upgrading (BizTalk Server 2000/2002/2004) or what system are you replacing. Describe any project integration requirements and dependencies. What is the anticipated timeline of the project?* *Please list major Milestones and planned dates such as the start of the project, planning phase, discovery phase, development, test, integration testing, and anticipated production date.   Page 3 2/26/2009 Process and Operations Information        Briefly describe the customer’s current deployment scenario(s), including information about the customer’s server(s). Does your IT department/group administer multiple organizational groups? Choose Do you package and deploy your application using MSI? Choose Do you use MOM as a monitoring mechanism for BizTalk? Choose Does your IT department routinely perform remote installations? Choose Have you created custom admin tools from the APIs for configuration (starting/stopping, for example)? Choose Which of the following artifacts will require deployment/staging? BT assemblies Rules Web services (SOAP adapter) Certificates BAM Custom pipeline components BAS Ad hoc files Non-BT assemblies that must be installed to the GAC  Do you update your applications by adding new artifact versions or overwriting artifacts with the same version? Choose Technical Information Please answer the questions that follow based on your knowledge of the customer’s current solution and planned implementations. You are not expected to answer all questions, but the more information you provide, the better we will be able to evaluate your fit for the program. Infrastructure  Do you have clustered SQL: Choose  How many message boxes does your solution have?  How many production BizTalk boxes does your deployment have?  How many applications do you currently have in your BizTalk deployment?  How many multiple host instances exist in your deployment environment?  How many orchestrations do you currently have in your BizTalk deployment? Performance  Average size of messages processed (KB/MB):  Max Size of messages processed (MB):  Volume of Messages processed per day:  What is the typical size of your Tracking DB?  How often do you archive your Tracking DB? Migration  Are you planning to upgrade your current BizTalk 2004 solution to BizTalk 2006? Choose  Size of your databases (GB): Messaging  Do you [plan to] use batched interchanges? Choose  Do they process interchanges transactionally (all documents published or none) or nontransactionally (all good documents published while all bad documents suspended)?    Do you have a need for ordered delivery of the messages? Choose Do you have a need for outbound batching? Choose Do you [plan to] handle and transform large documents (size in MB)? Page 4 2/26/2009    Do you use or need to use custom or proprietary flat file message formats? Choose How do you [plan to] handle failed messages? What language sets and encoding are or will be contained in messages? EDI  Do you currently use EDI? If so, what is your EDI integration software? Inovis Gentran GXS Sterling Ascential  What EDI standards do you use? X12 EDIFACT    Other: BTS02 BTS04 Covast Other: What type of EDI applications are you using? Choose What is the peek document throughput for EDI transactions (count/sec or count/minute)? What is the sustained document throughput (count/sec or count/minute)? BAM  What are the sources of business events in your processes? Orchestration Messaging Off-the-shelf software:    Web services Custom applications Who will be the primary consumer of BAM data (Business User, IT pro, Operations)? Do you intend to define business alerts on BAM data? Explain. Do you plan to use BAM’s out-of-box UI or build a custom UI? BAS  Do you [plan to] use BizTalk for B2B solutions? Choose  Do you [plan to] surface B2B messages to end users? Choose  Do you have a need for business users to configure business agreements or manage process parameters? Choose  Would you like to exchange messages between BizTalk and SharePoint? Choose Orchestrations  How big are your largest orchestrations (in pages)?  Do you use role links in orchestrations? Choose  How long do your long-running processes last?  Do you use web services with complex data types? Choose  Do you require array support for Web services? Choose Maps/Mapper  Do you have documents with NIL field values? Choose  Do you have maps that use ValueMapper (or ValueMapperFlatten) functoids? Choose Page 5 2/26/2009  Do you have maps that use scripting functoids with exceptions for debugging purposes? Choose If yes explain: WSE  Do you [plan to] create or work with WSE enabled (non-BizTalk) Web services?Choose  Do you [plan to] utilize the SOAP adapter? Choose Adapters  What adapters do you [plan to] use? HTTP FTP FILE SOAP SQL MSMQ-t SMTP MQSeries WSE Windows SharePoint Services    SAP PeopleSoft Oracle Application Suite JDEdwards OneWorld or Enterprise1 Siebel Amdocs ClarifyCRM Oracle DBMS Tibco Rendezvous or Tibco EMS Did you implement any custom adapters? Do you plan to use e-mail receive capabilities in your scenario (POP, IMAP, Exchange)? Choose Do you need to access remote file shares across untrusted domains? Choose Industry specific What accelerators are you interested in? HL7 HIPAA SWIFT RosettaNet RFID UCCNE Page 6 2/26/2009