MindPower International: FAQs

		COTS Packages
		• Have you conducted a full BPR of your current business? • How accurate is your GAP analysis? • Has your vendor conducted multiple full life-cycle implementations? • Are you seeing early results from your current implementation? • Are the consultants implementing your COTS package on their first assignment? • Are project costs and overruns eating away at your budget? • Do you know that it takes extensive experience to do it right the first time? • Do you need specialists in upgrading Oracle® eBusiness Suite from 10.7/11 to 11i?

		Oracle® Database Upgrades
		• Are you trying to determine when it is most appropriate to upgrade from 8i to 9i? • Are you knowledgeable about Linux SYSADMIN best practices and the Oracle-on-Linux stack specifically? • Are you versed in Oracle® 10g infrastructure software and manageability? (which is now a more important technology category in itself) • Do you need help in applying techniques for the development and deployment of Oracle® Application Server Wireless-based systems? • What do you know about Oracle® Application Server Portal? a complete and integrated solution for building, deploying, and maintaining a world-class enterprise portal? • Are you trying to upgrade Oracle® yourself? • Should you use the migration utility or export/import? • Are you using any of the features such as partitioning of tables? • Do you know how to implement certain features when creating data marts or data warehouses? • Do you know about de-supported features? • Do you know about new features of the Oracle® 9i database? • What is the impact to your organization? • Will the database perform well at peak loads after the upgrade? • Do you know that it takes extensive experience to do it right the first time? • Do you know what concept (introduced late in Oracle8i) lets Oracle® instances in the cluster send data back and forth to other instances without having to write the data to disk first? • Do you know what technology Oracle's grid strategy relies heavily upon for its implementation? • Do you know how long it would take to migrate to 10g from 9i? What is the minimum amount of memory you should have available before upgrading? • What is ‘DATA EXTRACT, LOAD and MASK SOLUTIONS’?

		Oracle® Development Tools
		• Are you trying to upgrade your Oracle® Forms/Reports 4.5, 5.0 to 6i or 9i? • Are you running into problems migrating Designer6i to Designer9i (thought it was a smooth transition, huh?) • Are you taking advantage of all the new advanced Oracle® Forms/Reports features? • Do your Oracle® Forms take a long time to return your mission critical information? • Do you know how to deploy your current applications on the web? • Did you know that Oracle® Forms 6i and 9i runs nearly 4 times faster on Oracle® 9i/AS? • Are your programmers knowledgeable in using the Oracle® 9i Developer suite? • Are your programmers knowledgeable in using the Oracle® 9i Designer suite? • Do you know that Oracle® 9i is compatible with the latest Java and XML standards? • Did you know that Oracle® Designer 6i / Designer9i generates scripts to build tables, indexes, security roles, Web-Ready Forms/Reports? • Did you know that Oracle® Designer 9i generates scripts to build tables, indexes, security roles and 100% Web-Ready Forms/Reports? • Do you want to learn more about PL/SQL?Oracle's procedural extension to industry-standard SQL that is easy-to- use, seamless with SQL, robust, portable, and secure? • Did you know that Oracle® Designer/2000 and 6i are used quite often for Reverse engineering of legacy systems? • Are you a beginner, intermediate or advanced XML user and need updated content to develop all types of Web Service app’s? • All applications developed with Oracle® Developer Suite are optimized to run on enterprise grids deployed on the Oracle® infrastructure. If you’re already using the Oracle® Database and Oracle® Application Server, why not choose the only set of development tools that support application development across both products?

		Security and Patch Remediation
		• Have your systems been infected by any viruses? • Many top corporations and government agencies have been hit by various viruses, such as Slammer, Netsky, where you? • Does it take a long time before patches are applied? • Did you know that downloaded patches are not based on your network architecture nor the business it runs? • Do you know that most patches require additional software and management tools be used before deploying? • Do you know that about 1 in 6 security patches fail the first time? • Are there more than 2 departments that coordinate patch upgrades to secure your network? • Do you know that there are more than 35 bulletin boards and email services providing patch recommendations for standard network vulnerabilities?