Oracle Magazine - May/June 2012

Oracle PartnerNetwork Launches Oracle Applications and
Industry Partner Summit

Oracle PartnerNetwork hosted the first Oracle Applications and Industry Partner Summit January 9–11, 2012, in Scottsdale, Arizona. More than 350 senior sales and practice leaders from 80 leading systems integrators in North America were on hand for presentations from Oracle customers, partners, and executives.

Keith Block, executive vice president of Oracle North America, shared Oracle’s strategy and momentum and gave his perspective on the competitive landscape. Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development at Oracle, shared roadmaps for Oracle Applications and discussed how partners can capitalize on Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle’s cloud offerings.

Sonny Singh, senior vice president of Oracle’s Industries Business Unit, outlined the company’s go-to-market strategy, detailed collaboration opportunities, and offered best practices for industry-specific selling.

Attendees learned that more than 47 application- or industry-specific specializations are now available to partners; 1,800 partners have earned nearly 6,000 Oracle Applications or industry specializations; more than 59,000 Application and Industry Boot Camp Training Days have been conducted, including 12,200 in F Y 2012 alone; and more than 11,000 certified implementation specialists have achieved application- or industry-specific accreditations.

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Acolade Achieves Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Quality
Management Specialization

Acolade Consulting, an Oracle Gold Partner based in Sydney, Australia, has achieved Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Quality Management specialization. Acolade is proficient in providing Oracle’s application quality management solutions to organizations for use in thoroughly testing their packaged and Web- and SOA-based applications to ensure the quality, scalability, and availability of the applications and their underlying infrastructure.

Oracle Enterprise Manager application
quality management solutions consist of
three distinct offerings. Oracle Application
Testing Suite includes Oracle Test Manager
for test management; Oracle Functional
Testing for automation testing; and Oracle
Load Testing for stress, volume, and per-
formance testing. Oracle Real Application
Testing is a change assurance solution
that enables businesses to fully assess the
outcome of a system change on Oracle
Database in a test environment. Oracle Data
Masking Pack maintains a high level of data
security by scrambling test data and yet
maintaining end-to-end data integrity.

Intel Sets Benchmark Records
with Oracle Systems

Oracle Gold Partner Intel and Oracle recently achieved two benchmark records based on the two companies’ joint engineering collaboration.

The world’s fastest x86 online transaction processing database performance on the TPC-C benchmark was delivered by Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 M2 server based on Intel Xeon E7 processors running Oracle Database, Enterprise Edition 11g with Oracle Linux. 1

The SPECjEnterprise2010 world-record benchmark for Oracle Fusion Middleware

11g was set on a Sun Blade X6270 M2 server module based on Intel Xeon 5600 processors. 2

Intel technology is also the basis for
several of Oracle’s engineered systems:
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine,
the first engineered system for analytics, is
based on the Intel Xeon E7 processor family.

Oracle Big Data Appliance, an optimized solution for acquiring, organizing, and loading unstructured data into Oracle Database 11g, is based on Intel Xeon 5600 processors.

Oracle Database Appliance, an easy-to-deploy system engineered for midmarket customers and departmental database instances, is based on Intel architecture.

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Process Weaver Achieves Validated Integration

Process Weaver is used
to process shipments,
update freight cost
and shipment tracking
information, and print
shipping documentation such as carrier-
compliant labels. The product works with
multiple carriers (such as FedEx, UPS,
DHL, and USPS) and freight forwarders.
Integration of Process Weaver’s ECS solu-
tion with Oracle E-Business Suite increases
productivity and improves customer service;
validated integration ensures that the two
products work together as designed.
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Oracle Gold Partner Process Weaver’s Enterprise Centralized Shipping (ECS) 3.0 solution has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite 12. 1.

This solution from

LINDY GROENING

ReadSoft PROCESSIT Achieves
Several Oracle Ready Statuses

Oracle Platinum Partner ReadSoft AB has earned Oracle Linux Ready, Oracle Database Ready, and Oracle WebLogic Ready designations for PROCESSI T 7. 1. ReadSoft software and services address document automation needs, including data entry, information verification, document workflows, and e-invoicing.

ReadSoft has R&D experts dedicated to Oracle-related consulting and development and makes those experts available to customers during implementation of ReadSoft solutions. The company is headquartered in Sweden, operates in 16 countries, and has partners in an additional 70. Some 5,000 customers use ReadSoft software.