FROM THE ISV RESOURCE CENTRE TEAM...
We extend a warm welcome to all new members who have joined us over the past few months and look forward to welcoming more in the months ahead. Please pass this newsletter and details about the Resource Centre to any of your colleagues and encourage them to sign up and support us.
Moving forward
As announced in the last newsletter, we are in the process of enhancing the ISV Resource Centre. We will continue to add timely information about events and news of interest to ISVs and the portal will continue to provide links to technical resources. In addition, we will be expanding the content to place more emphasis on solutions and to give members the opportunity to share information about themselves and their specialist interests. To this end, we will be rolling out a number of changes over the next few weeks. We have started by adding a page that groups together information about partnering with Oracle and we will be adding pages for solutions and other services for ISVs in the coming weeks. Please make a point of visiting the portal to view the new features and provide feedback.
Can you help?
Are you a developer working with Oracle technology or an Oracle database expert with relevant knowledge and experience you can share? If so, we would like to hear from you. Please contact me if you're able to contribute articles, a case study or can help in any other way.
NEWS
February 24th: Quest Software Announces Oracle Database Schema Provider for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010
A new solution from Quest Software will provide Oracle support for the upcoming release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010. This will enable Oracle developers to fully participate with other VSTS team members throughout the entire application lifecycle. The Oracle Database Schema Provider for VSTS 2010 will support both Oracle and SQL Server databases. Click here to read the Quest press release...
January 22nd: Oracle Placed in Leaders Quadrant in Latest Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant
Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms positions Oracle in the leaders quadrant. Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision. According to Gartner, “leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and which can deliver on enterprise wide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a global basis. Oracle BI Applications are complete, packaged BI solutions that deliver role-based intelligence across an organisation to enable better decisions, actions and business processes. The applications help organisations realise rapid deployment, lower Total Cost of Ownership and take advantage of built-in best practices. Click here to read the press release...
January 21st: Oracle Database 11g Powers Customer Production Environments Worldwide
In this press release, Oracle provides recent examples of worldwide customers that have deployed Oracle Database 11g and options to improve application performance, availability and scalability. Click here to read the press release...
January 21st: Oracle Named a Leader in Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems Vendor Share by Leading Market Research Firm
Leading market research firm IDC states in its latest report, "Worldwide Embedded Database Management Systems 2007 Vendor Shares," that Oracle is the leading vendor with 26.3 percent of worldwide embedded DBMS software revenue. Additionally, IDC notes that Oracle increased its vendor share lead over the previous year with annual growth of 26.0 percent. This growth rate is nearly double the overall growth of 13.8 percent for the industry as a whole. Click here to read the press release...
ORACLE OPEN EVENTS
2009 Mar 5th: Oracle Day 2009, London
Join Oracle for a day of briefings encompassing every layer of the IT stack, from the database to Middleware or more specifically SOA, Enterprise 2.0, Business Intelligence or security. The event will take place in London at the Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel from 9.30 - 15.00h. To register, please click here...
2009 Mar 11th: Oracle Business Intelligence Symposium 2009, London
Attend the Oracle Business Intelligence Symposium and find out how you can use BI to gain power through knowledge. The event will take place in London at the Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel from 9.30 - 15.00h. To register, please click here...
PARTNER EVENTS
FREE Oracle Database 1-to-1 Clinic for ISV Partners
Oracle UK is once again running a series of Oracle Database ISV 1-to-1 Clinics to help overcome any issues you have surrounding Oracle Database technology. These highly successful clinics are being run by leading Oracle technology sales consultants and will be held at various regional locations throughout the UK. The clinics are taking place as follows:
17th March 09 - Demo Room 3, Oracle Manchester Office, Cheadle
21st April 09 - Arden Suite, Blythe Valley Park, Solihull
19th May 09 - Cookham Suite, Thames Valley Park, Reading
For further details, please click here...
FREE Oracle BIEE 1-to-1 Clinic for ISV Partners
Oracle UK is running a series of Oracle BIEE 1-to-1 Clinics. These highly successful clinics are being run by leading Oracle technology sales consultants and will be held at various locations throughout the UK. The clinics are taking place as follows:
21st April 09 - Blythe Valley Park, Solihull
For further details, please click here...
ORACLE PARTNER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE (PTC) EVENTS
Events are held regularly at Oracle's PTC facility, Hatfield. For details of the location, please click here...
2009 Mar 3 - 4: SQL Server to Oracle 2-Day Migration Workshops
Migrating from one database to another is often a high risk, expensive and time consuming process. Migration needs to be fully understood. To mitigate this risk and any potential problems, Oracle is running a series of migration workshops with a focus on SQL Server. To book your place, please email lisa.renals@oracle.com
2009 Mar 24 - 26th: Oracle RAC Adoption - Do It Live 3-Day Workshop
Oracle invites you to attend a FREE RAC Adoption - Do It Live Workshop. This workshop and the PTC environment will allow ISVs to validate their application against Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). ISV end customers are demanding more and more high availability and scalability. Oracle RAC is a solution that helps address this. To book your place, please email lisa.renals@oracle.com
2009 May 12 - 13: SQL Server to Oracle 2-Day Migration Workshops
This 2-day "Do It Live Workshop" covers the concepts and architecture of the Oracle database and proposes a detailed methodology to migrate from a SQL Server database to the Oracle environment. It gives the attendees the opportunity to start migrating their solution to the latest Oracle database with the support of Oracle migration experts during the event. To book your place, please email lisa.renals@oracle.com
UK ORACLE USER GROUP EVENTS
For the full UKOUG meeting schedule, please click here... Here are a few that will interest our members.
2009 Mar 5th: Oracle Day 2009, London
Join Oracle for a day of briefings encompassing every layer of the IT stack, from the database to Middleware or more specifically SOA, Enterprise 2.0, Business Intelligence or security. The event will take place in London at the Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel from 9.30 - 15.00h. To register, please click here...
2009 Mar 10th: OUG Ireland Conference and Exhibition, Dublin
2009 Mar 25th: UKOUG Partner Forum, London
This event has moved to April 28th.
2009 Mar 26th: Development Engineering, Modelling, Analysis and Design and Oracle and .NET combined SIG meeting, Slough.
This SIG meeting will take place at Baylis House, Slough from 9.30 - 16.00h.
2009 Apr 2nd: Oracle on Windows SIG Meeting
This event has moved to May 12th.
2009 Apr 28th: Northern Server Technology Day, York
This event will be held at the Park Inn, York from 9.00 - 16.00h.
2009 Apr 28th: UKOUG Partner Forum, London
This event will be held at Oracle's City Office from 9.30 - 16.00h.
2009 May 12th: Oracle on Windows SIG Meeting, Reading
This SIG meeting will take place at Oracle's Thames Valley Park offices, Reading from 9.30 - 16.00h.
2009 Jun 16th: RAC and HA SIG Meeting, London
This SIG meeting will take place in London at One Great George St from 9.00 - 16.00h.
2009 Jun 18th: Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools SIG Meeting, London
This SIG meeting will take place in London, from 9.00 - 16.00h.
MANAGED EVALUATIONS PROGRAM
Is your interest in Oracle related to a requirement to complete a formal, managed evaluation or perhaps a development and deployment project? If so, the articles, tutorials and downloads provided by the Resource Centre will assist with this. In addition, we can allocate an 'account manager' to help manage the provision of the resources you need. This could involve answering questions, pointing you in the right direction or helping to enlist assistance from Oracle or third parties. If you have a serious Oracle requirement or would like to find out more, please contact me
Regards
Graham Keitch