Microsoft and Oracle Consulting
PTC provides IT consulting services for both short term and long term projects, onsite and remote. Our Microsoft and Oracle consultants are skilled with Dell, HP, SUN, and IBM systems running Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server on UNIX, OEL, Red Hat Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, SUSE Linux and Windows operating systems. If you are not sure where to start, let our Microsoft and Oracle consulting team help you take the first step by performing an assessment of your current IT infrastructure.
Below is a summary of the consulting services we offer.
Architecture Design and Systems Deployment
- Infrastructure Planning and Assessments (includes application, OS, network, and hardware infrastructure)
- Virtualization Planning and Implementation (Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Server, VMware, MS Hyper-V, etc.)
- Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Development
- Enterprise Management (Grid Control, SCOM)
- Data Security and Content Management
Performance Optimization and Workload Analysis
- Database, Application & SAN Performance Tuning
- System Sizing and Capacity Planning
- Proof of Concepts, System Benchmarking & Application Workload Testing
- LoadRunner, JMeter, SilkPerformer scripting expertise
ISV Partnership - Client support
Most ISVs do not have resources or time to spend on in-depth database and system performance optimization of their application. And many ISV clients run their own customized version of the application. We can partner with you to make sure your clients get the most out of your application and make you look good! We can work alone or in tandem with your application support team to troubleshoot and tune performance problems, or to design a baseline of hardware/software configuration recommendations for your clients. When you suspect a client's system is not performing well due to hardware or database configuration, we can help provide the evidence you need to identify the exact problem areas, which are typically a combination of system hardware/database configuration and application performance issues.Some of the areas where we can help include:
- System and Database Configuration Recommendations (Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2)
- Application Load and Performance Testing
- Performance Assessments
- Remote on-call support for help when you need it
- Emergency support
- Data center hosting/cloud services assessment and optimization
System Deployments, Migrations and Upgrades
- Oracle RAC and Microsoft high availability solutions
- Migration planning and assessments (Windows, Red Hat Linux, OEL, SUSE, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris)
- Data migrations and conversions
- Oracle 11i Application upgrades and conversions
Backup and Recovery and Business Continuance
- Backup and recovery planning
- Disaster recovery (DR) audit
- Recovery solutions implementation (e.g. Oracle Data Guard, RMAN, Database Mirroring, Clustering)
- Replication (Oracle GoldenGate, Streams, SQL Server Replication)
Remote Consulting Services
- Database and Application performance troubleshooting and tuning
- Remote DBA Support - Oracle and SQL Server Database monitoring and maintenance
- Informal knowledge transfer sessions
- Technical Paper Development