Oracle Magazine - September/October 2011

PARTNER NEWS
Syntax Earns Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies Specialization

Centric IT Solutions Earns Platinum Partner Level

Centric IT Solutions GmbH has achieved
Platinum Partner status in Oracle
PartnerNetwork and has achieved
Specialized status for Oracle’s JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne financial management appli-
cations. Centric is a leading I T company
in the Netherlands and has branches in
Belgium, Germany, Norway, Romania,
Sweden, and Switzerland. Centric IT
Solutions is part of the 9,100-employee
Centric group.
centric.eu
Temenos Leverages Oracle Exadata

PasswordBank Joins Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem

PasswordBank Technologies has joined
the Oracle Extended Identity Management
Ecosystem program. PasswordBank’s
identity and access management and
single-sign-on solutions are integrated
with the framework of the Oracle Extended
Identity Management Ecosystem. The
PasswordBank plat-
form provides secure
access to applications
in heterogeneous envi-
ronments by extending
single-sign-on func-
tionality to non-Windows desktops. The
PasswordBank solution works with Web-
based, software-as-a-service, client/server,
and legacy applications. Its features include
a password manager, virtual provisioning,
user activity audit, Web-based administra-
tion, workstation events monitoring and
support, a password self-service portal,
multifactor authentication, a time and
attendance markup system, privileged
identity management, and privileged
user management.

passwordbank.com

Strong Authentication Provider Authasas Goes Gold

Authasas, a provider of strong authentication solutions for virtualized desktop infrastructures, is now an Oracle Gold Partner. Authasas provides authentication solutions for Oracle Identity Management.

Specifically, Authasas Advanced
Authentication software provides several
forms of strong authentication, including
biometric fingerprint, contactless smart-
cards, and security questions, to Oracle

Enterprise Single Sign-On Logon Manager. authasas.com

Oracle Exastack Launches

The processing and performance benefits of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud are now available to independent software vendors (ISVs) via the Oracle Exastack program. Through the Oracle Exastack program, Oracle is working with ISVs to optimize their applications on these engineered systems.

With Oracle Exastack, ISVs can write applications once and have the flexibility to support both on-premises and cloud-based deployments.

ISVs can now develop applications more quickly and focus R&D investments on their core functionality.

oracle.com/partners/goto/exastack

SYSTIME Achieves JD Edwards
Advanced Specializations

Oracle Platinum Partner SYSTIME has achieved Oracle PartnerNetwork Advanced Specialized status for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne distribution and configurable network computing solutions. The specializations recognize SYS TIME’s capabilities in assessing and deploying JD Edwards solutions. To qualify for Advanced Specialized status, a company must employ 50 or more certified specialists in the relevant product area and meet the criteria for Specialized status.

systime.net

MICROS Systems and Subsidiary
Earn Six Specializations

Oracle Platinum Partner MICROS Systems and its subsidiary MICROS-Fidelio International, which provide I T solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, have achieved Specialized status in six areas: Oracle Database, Oracle Database performance tuning, Oracle Database security options, Oracle Database Real Application Clusters, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and