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For far too long now the Oracle User Community has been provided with sub-standard Consulting, Training, Managed Services, Recruitment and Change Management Solutions.

The larger consultancies have over charged and under-delivered. To make this matter worse it is very difficult to identify an alternative Partner who will deliver.

Vertex Fusion is a solution that has been “fused” together by Tony Cook and his team by channeling their combined 60+ years Oracle Recruitment experience into developing niche alliance partnerships with the experts that our extensive industry knowledge tells us can best assist our customers, no matter what the business need or complex technological challenge.

Tony CookDirector

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We are MORE THANrecruitment consultants.

Aligning the Vertex IT Solutions recruitment service with our network of highly-regarded Oracle Implementation, Support and Training specialists provides a

unified, comprehensive and seamless service specifically tailored to client needs

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The Oracle Install Base Challenge…

Understanding the ORACLE products and the business benefits they provide…

Understanding

Services, especially niche product services from traditional SI’s come at a premium

Costs

Identifying Experts: within the ever increasing and vast ORACLE software landscape? Traditional methods:Referrals from Oracle or OPN?Major SI or OCS?

Indentifying

How do they know that the consultancy can deliver?

Referenceability

The need for a multitude of services such as health-check’s, troubleshooting, support, implementation / up-grades, managed services and training requiring cost effective resources for ad hoc, short-term or long term assignments

Agile Resourcing

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The Oracle Install Base Solution…

Network of like minded specialists

CollaborationCompetitive resourcing provided by expert agile consultancies or the contract market.

Costs

Referenceable and vetted experts provide a full solution within their specialised Oracle niche.

Niche Experts

Long-standing trusted business relationships

Relationships

Shared by partners for mutual customer benefit

Intelligence

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The Fusion Solution…

Fusion: The merging of different elements into a union aligned with Oracle’s software landscape

Niche Experts: Referenceable and vetted experts provide a full solution within the niche

• Costs: Competitive resourcing provided by expert agile consultancies• Collaboration: Network of like minded specialists• Intelligence: shared by partners for mutual customer benefit• Business Relationships: form long-standing trusted business

relationships

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Our specialist Oracle Alliance Partners cover:

Middleware

JavaSOA/BPMBusiness IntelligenceWeblogic ServerContent ManagementIdentity ManagementExalogic Elastic CloudEnterprise 2.0 & PortalsEnterprise Manager

Database

Oracle Database 11gDatabase SecurityMySQLReal Application ClustersEnterprise ManagerActive Data GuardData WarehousingEmbeddedAdvanced Compression

Applications

Oracle Fusion ApplicationsOracle HCM / PayrollOracle Supply ChainOracle FinancialsOBIEE / OBIA / EndecaOracle CRMOracle ProjectsOracle ManufacturingJD EdwardsHyperionValue Chain Planning Peoplesoft HCMAdvance ProcurementSiebel CRMPrimavera

Server/Storage

Sun Server & StorageOracle SolarisOracle Linux

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Fusion Alliance Partners coverage:

Applications

• Oracle Fusion Applications (Fusion ERP, Fusion CRM, Fusion HCM, Rightnow CX, and Eloqua)

· Oracle E-Business Suite (Financials, HCM, CRM, SCM, Manufacturing and Projects)

· Oracle ETax

· Oracle Advanced Procurement/Advanced Sourcing

· Oracle UPK

· Oracle Retail Solutions

· Oracle Primavera

· Oracle EPM – Hyperion

· Oracle BI – OBIA, OBIEE & Endeca

· Oracle Demantra

· Oracle Applications Testing

· SAAS Applications

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Fusion Alliance Partners coverage:

Middleware

• Vertex Fusion Alliance Partners Coverage

• Oracle Fusion Middleware, BMP and SOA suite.

• Oracle Webcenter

• Oracle Policy Automation

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Training

• Weblogic Server

• Identity Management

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Fusion Alliance Partners coverage:

Database

• Oracle Database – Implementation, Customisation and Support

• Real Application Clusters

• Virtualisation

• License Optimisation

• Data Warehousing

• MySQL

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Fusion Alliance Partners coverage:

Operating System, Virtual Machine, Server, Storage

• Oracle VM

• Oracle Virtual Desktop

• Exadata (Exalytics, Exalogic)

• Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris

• SAN Storage

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Vertex Fusion Services:

• Recruitment

• Consulting

• Support and Managed Services

• Training

• License Audit & Optimisation.

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Across the Fusion

Landscape

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1.The Oracle Red Stack Solutions: Allows our clients to reach out to an extensive partner network across the Oracle landscape.

2.Vetted providers: Our clients know that when trying to find an Implementation, Support, Training or Managed Services partner; they are highly recommended, vetted and referenceable.

3.Agile Resourcing: Vertex is able to operate outside of the “normal” resource procedures and work against PO numbers or differing budgets, making the time to engage quicker and more fluid.

4.On demand: Our clients are able to turn “the tap on or off” as and when they need assistance, making our solution a very flexible and efficient engagement model.

5.Risk share: Vertex is also able to engage with its partners and associates on a more “risk based” approach.

6.Combined Services: Vertex partners engage with each other, combining expert services in many cases. Having this intimate working knowledge of each other enables the partners to drive delivery.

The Fusion Benefits…

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Business SolutionsThrough our selected partners we offer full end to end business and technology services from RFP support, to project delivery and through post implementation BAU support. We provide expert services from:PROJECT INCEPTIONChange Management, Project and Programme Management, Governance, Business Analysis, Data Migration, Training, Testing, Reporting and Analytics to Data Warehousing, Hardware and Networks, Expertise in Localisation and niche Business Processes.Point Release to Major Upgrades or Process EnhancementsAGILE RESOURCINGVertex and our partners can provide experts on an advisory, ad hoc or full time basis to own the solution or supplement your existing project teams.You can own the whole solution and de-risk your project by assigning specific work packages to our expert partners.

Recruitment• Vertex is an established expert

Oracle recruitment solution provider.

• Vertex has one of the most extensive networks of Oracle consultants across EMEA

• Vertex is more than just recruiters; we are Oracle technology, industry and business experts

• Based on your cultural fit and project budgets we can provide onshore, near shore, landed and offshore consultants both as individuals or ‘fully managed’ teams.

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Benchmarking

We offer all of our clients a FREE rate, pay and benefits benchmarking service.

Using our experience and knowledge of the industry we are able to help with recruitment drives, staff retention and budgeting.

All recruitment agencies are not the same

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All recruitment agencies are not the same

Project Budgeting

We offer all of our clients a FREE Budgeting Service.Using our experience, we investigate the potential challenges and costs of obtaining the right resources for their program based on:

• Current Market Trends

• Project Location

• Required Skills

• Contract Duration

• Current Market demand

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All recruitment agencies are the same, aren’t they?

We double check

Most agencies don’t check references,they specifically exclude any responsibility

for it.We check and then check again,

direct and indirect references

References

We cover 100 days

Most agencies rebate if a candidate leaves, typically 8-12 weeks. Thats not enough.

We cover 14.3 weeks, 100 days.

Replacement

Face 2 face

Most agencies just conduct phone interviews and ‘have a chat’.

Thats not good enough.We conduct structured interviews in

person.

Interviews

Interview

We pass on ALL the information we glean

from our structured interviews so you know exactly what we know

about the candidate. It saves time and effort.

De-brief

CV+

Most agencies simply pass on CVs.We analyse the candidates CV specifically

with reference to YOUR recruitment needs. We check facts and expand on pertinent

issues. This gives you a full picture and allows you

to concentrate on important issues.

Commentary

Loyalty

Most agencies take the money and run. We expect satisfied clients to return

again and again. We offer rebates and discounts based on volume of business. We

respect loyalty.

Discounts

iT industry

Most agencies have variable levels of competency. We insist on proven expertise

within the Technological arena. So our teams are able to identify

and match the core skills for each position.

Expertise Bespoke

Most agencies use standard, generic skills testing. We have designed and built

our own range of skills tests. These are then personally assessed

for each position.

Assessment

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