As Published In July/August 2004

Partner News

In This Issue:

CipherSoft
Tata
Dell
BearingPoint
Oracle Web Services Management and Development Partners

Oracle Validates CipherSoft Migration Technology

Tata and Oracle Collaborate on RFID

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), of India, is partnering with Oracle to support Sensor-Based Services, Oracle's initiative for radio frequency identification (RFID) projects.

"TCS's capability in RFID, backed by Oracle products, will offer best-in-class solutions to customers across the globe," says Debasis Bandyopadhyay, head of the TCS RFID Center of Excellence.

TCS and Oracle have collaborated for more than a decade. TCS is an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner and maintains Centers of Excellence dedicated to Oracle Server Technology and Oracle E-Business Suite.

Dell and Oracle Expand Partnership, Reach Out to SMBs

With the goal of bringing enterprise-class computing to the small and medium-size business (SMB) market, Dell and Oracle have expanded their partnership and are rolling out joint solutions globally.

Already available in many markets, Oracle Standard Edition One is now being sold on Dell PowerEdge servers running Windows or Linux worldwide. Dell provides tested and supported dual-processor server configurations with Oracle software installed at the factory and will also serve as the single point of contact for customers who purchase these configurations. Customers can choose between pricing on a per-processor or a per-user basis.

Dell and Oracle also extended their agreement for Dell to resell licenses for Oracle products on Dell servers running Linux in China. Dell is a Special Event sponsor at Oracle OpenWorld Shanghai, July 19 to 22, 2004.

BearingPoint and Oracle Provide Portal View to Multiple Systems

Large corporations with multiple divisions and disparate systems often struggle to provide accurate operational and business information to decision makers. To address this problem, Oracle and BearingPoint—one of the world's largest business consulting, systems integration, and managed services firms—are partnering to create a powerful enterprise information portal solution. The joint product delivers predefined operational metrics on a continuous basis from multiple back-office applications in an easy-to-use portal.

BearingPoint's understanding of best business practices, acquired over years of serving leading global companies, is the centerpiece of the offering. The enterprise information portal currently provides prebuilt key performance indicators (KPIs) for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i applications and will expand coverage to other applications.

The enterprise information portal also provides single sign-on capability to all the back-office applications it accesses.

Oracle Web Services Management and Development Partners

Oracle works with several partners in the area of Web services management and development. Here are just a few of the many important partners in this area.

BMC Software (www.bmc.com) is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions for all systems, applications, databases, and service management. Oracle's Global Support Group uses BMC Software's Patrol Perform/Predict product for capacity planning as a part of Oracle's cost-savings initiative. Many of these products support heterogeneous environments providing common tools to data centers with Oracle and non-Oracle solutions and have the capacity to monitor Web services performance.

Borland (www.borland.com) produces software that helps companies develop, deploy, and integrate software applications, including Web services. Borland's JBuilder X speeds EJB, Web, Web services, XML, mobile, and database application development with two-way visual designers and rapid deployment to leading J2EE application servers, including Oracle Application Server. The Borland Optimizeit Suite of performance tools provides J2EE diagnostic metrics right down to deep code-level granularity.

Web Locator CipherSoft otn.oracle.com/tech/migration/mti www.ciphersoftinc.com Tata Consultancy Services oracle.com/technologies/rfid/index.html? partners.html www.tcs.com Dell oracle.com/start Keyword: EasyAsDell BearingPoint www.bearingpoint.com

Computer Associates—CA (www.ca.com) provides software solutions for enterprise management, for storage management solutions, for security, for application lifecycle management, for data management and application development, and for portal and business intelligence. Among the many products that work seamlessly with Oracle technology in the area of Web services is Advantage Joe, an Enterprise JavaBeans development environment integrated with architecture design and component modeling capabilities.

Compuware (www.compuware.com) delivers software tools and professional services that help companies build enterprise and Web-based environments, including Web services, and deploy them in an Oracle environment. For example, OptimalJ is Compuware's model-driven, pattern-based development environment for building architecturally sound J2EE applications. Models simplify development by raising the level of abstraction so software designers can concentrate initially on the business challenges of the application, not the code complexity.

Mercury Interactive (www.mercuryinteractive.com), a leader in business technology optimization (BTO) offerings, provides the only integrated product portfolio for IT governance, application delivery, and application management. Its products work seamlessly within the Oracle environment, and many of its application delivery and management products work in the context of Web services.

Quest (www.quest.com) is a leader in application management solutions, including solutions that work to help manage Web services. As an Oracle partner, Quest uses Oracle Application Server to develop large database-based, Web-service-enabled applications for clients.

To learn more about these and other Web services partners, visit the Oracle PartnerNetwork (oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com).