Oracle and Computacenter open ISV Migration Centre

New service will help companies significantly reduce implementation time

Oracle and Computacenter today announced the opening of their UK migration centre for independent software vendors (ISVs). The centre is dedicated to helping ISVs migrate to Oracle’s technology, as an increasing number of UK organisations in the private and public sectors call for industry leading Oracle-based solutions.

The facility, which is based at Computacenter’s unique Solutions Centre in Hatfield, will help ISVs and their customers take advantage of Oracle technologies more quickly and carry out low-risk, cost-effective migrations.

Simon Walsh, Managing Director of Computacenter Services, commented: “By drawing on our extensive infrastructure expertise, we have been able to create a series of reusable Oracle migration plans for ISVs. This will not only help reduce waste and expense, but also significantly cut migration times. The migration centre will deliver clear value to the ISV community, and we are delighted that Oracle has chosen to partner with Computacenter on this initiative.”

The centre will enable ISVs to migrate their existing environment from a competitive platform to the Oracle technology stack, or to upgrade to the most recent version of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Fusion Middleware. 
“Oracle is dedicated to providing its partners with all the tools and resources they need to serve their target markets effectively,” said Darren Atkinson, CTO from Formscape, an Oracle ISV based in the UK. “We welcome the opening of this migration centre, which ensures that ISVs are enabled with Oracle’s world-class technology and have access to Computacenter’s expertise in designing and optimising IT infrastructures. As a result, ISVs gain optimum value from their migration experience.”

As well as providing the facilities and IT infrastructure to underpin the centre, Computacenter will also supply ISVs with on-site technical consultancy and a service desk.  To help ISVs maximise their IT resources, the centre’s infrastructure has been enabled for remote access, so the migration can be finalised at a company’s own site.

The migration service is the latest initiative in Oracle’s strategy to engage increasing numbers of ISVs. Oracle currently partners with 5,100 ISVs in EMEA, and has welcomed nearly 600 new ISVs into its fold since September 2005. In addition, more than 410 ISVs have signed up to migrate their solutions to the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform. Oracle’s strong relationships with the ISV community are enabling the company to grow its share of the UK enterprise market, the fast growing SME sector, and the public sector where the company is experiencing particular demand among healthcare organisations.

“The UK migration centre has been launched in response to strong demand for Oracle solutions in the ISV community,” said David Callaghan, Vice President, Channels and Solutions, at Oracle UK. “We are committed to fully supporting ISVs as they move from competitive platforms or upgrade from old platforms, and we enable them to do this in the shortest time-frame and most cost-effective manner, all within a controlled environment that provides expert technology support.”

The initiative is expected to help more than 40 ISVs migrate to Oracle platforms in the next 12 months. “The centre is a valuable resource for helping UK ISVs to migrate their applications in a structured, low-risk environment,” said Simon Gay, Consultancy Practice Leader at Computacenter. “ISVs can optimise their platforms to leverage Oracle’s global recognition and resources, while we provide them with opportunities to extend the range of infrastructure services solutions they offer to customers.”

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Oracle Fusion Middleware software is a comprehensive middleware product family comprised of the company's industry-leading SOA and middleware products including: Oracle Application Server 10g; related Oracle Application Server products and options such as Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, Oracle COREid Products, Oracle Portal and Oracle Integration; Oracle Data Hubs; and Oracle Content Services 10g, Oracle Real Time Collaboration 10g and Oracle Unified Messaging. This family of proven middleware products helps organisations achieve greater agility, make better-informed business decisions and more easily integrate data and processes across disparate IT systems - including technologies from Oracle and other vendors. Oracle Fusion Middleware software also provides customers with comprehensive lifecycle support for service-oriented applications and delivers unparalleled interoperability with enterprises' existing IT infrastructure due to its unique hot-pluggable architecture. Additional information can be found at www.oracle.com/middleware.

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The only database designed for grid computing, Oracle Database 10g delivers the highest performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything from small blade servers to the biggest SMP servers and clusters of all sizes. It features automated management capabilities for easy, cost-effective operation. Oracle Database 10g's unique ability to manage data from traditional business information to XML documents and spatial/location information makes it the ideal choice to power online transaction processing, decision support and content management applications.

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About Computacenter
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We advise customers on their IT strategy, helping them to design and implement technology from a wide range of leading vendors, and manage their IT infrastructure on their behalf. At every stage we assist them with minimising the cost and maximising the business value of both their capital and operational expenditure.

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Computacenter’s unique approach to removing risk from technology change is underpinned by its investment in a heterogeneous Solution Centre facility and a range of testing services, which together ensure organisations can prove change programmes with the lowest possible risk to production applications.