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CHANNELS: Partner News
Partner News
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Microsoft VSIP Program
Optiz
HP
Wave
Oracle's Business Intelligence Partners
Oracle Joins Microsoft VSIP Program
Oracle has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program as a premier-level partner.
The VSIP program helps ISVs ensure interoperability between their software and Visual Studio .NET, and by joining, Oracle will bring developers tighter
integration between the Oracle Database and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
"Oracle is committed to delivering the best products and technologies on the Microsoft Windows platform," says Christian Shay, principal product manager for Windows integration at Oracle. "Our tight integration with Visual Studio .NET will help make it easier for Windows developers to harness the full power of the Oracle database."
Oracle plans to offer a beta release for integration with Visual Studio .NET by the end of 2004. A production release is slated for the first quarter of 2005.
Opitz Consulting Delivers Product Data Management Solution
Opitz Consulting, in Gummersbach, Germany, now offers an Oracle-based product data management solution (Produktdatenmanagement-Lšsung, or PDM) designed to unite the silos of product data stored in marketing, sales, service, manufacturing, and other enterprise operations in a central, application-neutral way.
By centralizing product data, PDM reduces or eliminates redundant data entry and improves product data consistency and quality. It conforms to a variety of standards, including ISO 13584, DIN EN 61360, and IEC 65B/349/CD, and can tap into vendors' external systems
for supply-chain connectivity.
A variety of modules, including PDM Catalog, PDM XML Connect, PDM Translation, and PDM Interconnect, allow data in the Opitz PDM solution to be used for catalog production, supply chain applications, price lists, and other purposes. PDM data can also be accessed directly with HTML, Java thin clients, Java fat clients, or Oracle Forms.
HP Introduces Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
OpenView, HP's end-to-end multiplatform management architecture, now sports a plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control. The plug-in integrates Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control with OpenView Operations in the HP OpenView managed environment. Using the OpenView plug-in, an administrator can integrate multiple Oracle Grid Control servers in one console and monitor Grid Control for alerts and audit events.
Oracle Grid Control is Oracle's
solution for managing the complete enterprise Oracle environment—
hosts, databases, listeners, application servers, HTTP Servers, Web applications, and Oracle E-Business Suite—as one cohesive unit.
Wave Consulting Debuts RapidApps
Wave Consulting Group has rolled out its RapidApps
service, a combination of Oracle technology, certified hardware, standard
software configurations based on best practices, and automated data migration.
The new service is aimed at midsize businesses.
Based on its years of experience implementing Oracle databases and applications, Wave Consulting developed standard processes and configurations and built them into the Oracle installation process. The resulting implementations do not modify Oracle applications, so they remain completely supported by the Oracle Support Services.
Oracle's Business Intelligence Partners
Business intelligence (BI) is an area in which partners offer Oracle-based solutions that give customers insight into internal business operations, customers, and suppliers. BI systems combine data from various areas of the enterprise into a single source of truth, so business leaders can make informed decisions, gauge trends, and perform analysis and reporting.
Certified Partners
Business Objects integrates with Oracle technology to provide support for Oracle Application Server (including Oracle Portal), data integration for Oracle E-Business Suite applications, and a unique method for accessing OLAP data.
Cognos solutions enable all of
the key steps in the management cycle, including planning and budgeting, measuring and monitoring performance, and reporting and analysis.
Avanco specializes in intelligent data warehousing solutions for commercial clients
and federal, state, and local government.
Partners
MicroStrategy has a BI platform that generates optimized SQL for Oracle databases. The flexible platform handles five styles of business intelligence, from simple ad hoc queries to information delivery to enterprise reporting.
Avega provides healthcare organizations with decision support capabilities through its Alliance Suite.
Environmax offers its Hazardous Materials Management System (HMMS), incorporating Oracle's BI capabilities and running on Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Application Server. It enables data aggregation and ad hoc reporting to facilitate real-time decisions.
Actuate offers a reporting platform on which enterprises and packaged applications build reporting and analytic applications.
Hyperion provides Hyperion Planning, a Web-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that's part of the Hyperion Business Performance Management Suite.
Informatica Corporation provides data integration software that lets companies access, integrate, visualize, and audit their enterprise information assets.
SAS complements Oracle BI and provides integrated analytics and access to let Oracle users expand their BI options.
To learn more about these and other valuable business intelligence partners, visit the Oracle PartnerNetwork.
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