IT CONVERGENCE Announces It Is Offering Oracle® Database 11g Upgrade Services

NEW YORK CITY, July 13, 2007 – IT Convergence is announcing today that it will begin offering managed services and strategic consulting solutions for customers seeking to upgrade to Oracle® Database 11g. Oracle Database 11g’s performance and scalability and its new Information Lifecycle Management capabilities will improve the control and access that Oracle end-users have over their mission critical data, and these enhancements will help organizations innovate faster.

As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, IT Convergence is proud to offer our clients access to strategic upgrade solutions that are both quick and cost-effective. Dan Norris, IT Convergence Technology Services Practice Manager, explains the added value that customers can gain by choosing to upgrade with IT Convergence:

“As a provider of strategic Oracle consulting services, IT Convergence assists many customers with Oracle deployments and related issues. In that capacity, we have significant opportunities to enhance the business of many customers by employing features like Database Replay, Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM), new partitioning techniques, automatic SQL Tuning, Oracle Fast Files, and Oracle Flashback Data Archive. The application adoption for Oracle Database 11g will be quite widespread. As we work with many customers using the Oracle E-Business Suite, we anticipate that some of the first experiences with Oracle Database 11g will be in conjunction with the Oracle E-Business Suite or similar enterprise applications.”

About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With the release of Oracle Database 11g, Oracle is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers. Oracle Database 11g 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 11g’s unique ability to manage all data from traditional business information to XML and 3D spatial information makes it the ideal choice to power transaction processing, data warehousing, and content management applications.

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com

IT Convergence is a global provider of consulting, education, development and support services for Oracle Database and Oracle Applications. Since 1998, IT Convergence has helped more than 500 companies in over 52 different countries improve business processes through better use of technology.

For further information please contact:
Santiago Marcó,
Marketing Communications Manager
Tel. 1+415-675 -7935, extension 2554
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