Community

This part of the ISV Resource Centre is currently under development.  It will provide registered users of the Centre with various services including case studies, forums, a directory to help connect with each other, managed evaluations etc.  July, 2009.

Your say!

This is where you can tell others about yourself, your company, experiences, solutions and services - and generally share your thoughts as an Oracle ISV.  If you wish to use the ISV Resource Centre to publish an article or letter, please contact us.

Managed Evaluations

Grey Matter, in conjunction with Oracle, is able to assist registered users of this portal with the evaluation of Oracle technology where this is part of a serious project.  Those in need of assistance will be  provided with a dedicated point of contact for advice and escalation.

If you would like to be considered for the Managed Evaluations program, please contact us.  It would be helpful if you could include a contact telephone number please and preferred time to be called so that your requirements can be established.

Licensing services

Grey Matter is able to assist ISVs and / or their customers with the budgeting and procurement of licenses.  With Oracle's backing, Grey Matter is able to assist with the procurement of Full Use and Application Specific Full Use licensing.  Grey Matter can also provide other services for your customers to ensure they are compliant and getting maximum value from their licenses.  For further information, please contact us.

 To access the lSV Resource Centre licensing material, please click here... 

Find a Partner

We are in the process of compiling an ISV directory.  This will allow registered users of the ISV Resource Centre to list their solutions, services and specialisms - enabling other Partners to locate specialist skills needed to undertake and complete a project.  Further details about this service will be available soon.  July, 2009.

Forums

The first of these will be launched shortly.  Unless demand dictates otherwise, we don't envisage these being of a technical nature as several already exist  for this purpose.  Instead, we propose these should be of a more general and ISV specific nature such as Licensing.

The success of forums depends on the participation of knowledgable individuals able to respond quickly to issues raised by forum users.  If you would like to be considered as a senior forum member that can help us monitor and run the forums, please contact us.  

Useful forums

Oracle Mix

Oracle Technology Network Forums

Blogs

Here are a number of blogs we think are of interest to the ISV community. 

Useful Blogs

Oracle's blogs homepage  This lists recent posts.

Oracle's list of bloggers  This includes employee, ACE and non-employee bloggers.

Justin Kestelyn  Justin is the OTN Editor-in-Chief / Community Evangelist.

Tom Kyte  Tom is a well known Oracle Database expert.  He also runs Oracle's askTom page

OracleAppsBlog  This web log documents the daily experiences and learnings of Oracle Applications consultants and implementors.

Mary Ann Davidson  Oracle's Chief Security Officer keeps an interesting and thought provoking blog.