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Sierra Atlantic: Oracle Migration Center of Excellence

Contact Information Gokula Mishra Sierra Atlantic, Inc. 3333 Warrenville Road Suite 200 Lisle IL 60532-1157 USA Main: 630-955-378 Cell: 630-235-2306 Fax: 630-799-8101 References McKesson Quadramed The Boeing Company Petersen Publishing Presentation View Value Proposition		Background
		At Sierra Atlantic, we help our customers optimize their investments in enterprise applications, with a primary focus on Oracle. We have deep skills in Oracle databases, development tools and E-Business Suite, all derived from strategic product development projects over many years with both Oracle itself and Oracle software partners. We have 500 employees with offices in the US, Asia Pacific, and EMEA, along with an offshore development center in Hyderabad, India. Sierra Atlantic has been the leading Oracle migration services partner for 10 years, we have executed over 100 successful database and application migration projects for Oracle, its software partners and its end customers. We leverage our hybrid onsite/offshore delivery model to provide superior cost-effective migration services. With a renewed focus on migrations to the Oracle platform, Sierra Atlantic has created an Oracle Migration Center of Excellence to service partners and customers migrating their applications to the Oracle technology stack.

Oracle Relationship
Sierra Atlantic is one of Oracle's premier R&D, engineering and strategic implementation partners. We began ten years ago with migration projects for Oracle software partners, moving their products to the Oracle database from competitive databases like SQL Server, Sybase and Informix. Next, we executed a major migration project for Oracle Applications, migrating the GEMMS process manufacturing product set acquired from Datalogix from the JYACC tool set to Oracle Developer tools. Based on this success, we launched the Genie suite of migration tools to facilitate the migration of various legacy applications to Oracle.We continue to sustain an ongoing product development relationship with Oracle for E-Business Suite today. Our Oracle E-Business Suite Center of Excellence (CoE) leverages our R&D experience with Oracle to provide full application life cycle services for Oracle customers. The CoE is a knowledge hub utilizing processes and technology to implement, integrate, upgrade and support Oracle E-Business Suite customers with high value offshoring services.
Offshoring
Sierra Atlantic leverages its offshore Global Development Center (GDC) in Hyderabad, India and a global deployment model to provide timely, cost effective and high quality solutions, enabling customers to focus on their strategic business objectives. We offer three kinds of outsourcing models: Outsourced project model Offshore Development Center Model and its variants Build-Operate-Transfer model These have given us, proven offshoring experience, to make this a viable option for customers.
Migration Service Offerings
Many software products and corporate applications deployed today were developed using legacy technology that cannot benefit from the stunning value of Internet computing. As the world leader in databases, application servers, development tools and business applications, Oracle is THE platform to use for enabling and deploying Internet solutions.Increasingly, software companies and organizations are migrating their older applications to an Oracle environment. This is where Sierra Atlantic can help. Sierra Atlantic offers services, coupled with our tools and utilities, for both front-end application and back-end database migration. Our migration expertise involves both applications and data. Our front-end expertise leverages our Genie suite of migration tools to shorten migration time. They automate application migration to Oracle from the following tool sets: Forms Genie, SQL*Forms InGenie, Ingres ABF JamGenie, JAM/JPL PowerShift, PowerBuilder We use our parsers and code generators to accelerate migration from other popular applications, as well, including C++ and Java-based applications, along with the database migration.Our expertise includes J2EE migration to Oracle 9iAS. Our database migration expertise leverages Oracle's Migration Workbench coupled with tools and utilities developed through our experience with earlier projects.Our migration experience on the database front includes: DB2 Informix Ingres SQL Server Sybase Our objective is to deliver migrated solutions with speed, consistency, quality, high usability and excellent performance. In addition, Sierra Atlantic has ISO 9001-2000 and BVQI certifications, with CMM certification scheduled for the first half of 2004.