Blue Crystal Solutions: Oracle Partners since 2004
We have been Oracle Partners since our beginning in 2004. Our history has enabled us to become experts in Oracle technology and the innovations their tools can enable.
Our longevity in the market tells us that technology isn’t one-size-fits-all. That’s why as an Oracle partner, we always work together to leverage joint solutions for our clients.
We have been implementing solutions with every Oracle Database release since 10g, as well as with Oracle Middleware and Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS), on-premises and in the cloud.
An Oracle Partner since our beginning, we’ve grown into a specialised supplier of Cloud, Application, Database, Infrastructure and Operating System management, modernisation and transformation services, all fortified by our integrated outage protection tool – BlueDiamond.
Certified Oracle experts, delivering outcome focused technical solutions.
Navigating Oracle technology is in our DNA
Wherever our customers technology roadmap takes them next, we have tech partners like Oracle to lean on and in-house experts to help guide them through any and all technology transitions.
OUR ORACLE SUPPORT & SERVICES
24×7 Support: Australian-based service desk, aligned to ITIL/ITSM standards, all fortified by our outage protection and monitoring tool, BlueDiamond.
Oracle databases: 10g, 11g, 12c, 19c & more
Database hosting and Virtualization: Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, new OLVM, Solaris and x86 based solutions.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Complete cloud infrastructure & platform services for every workload.
Oracle middleware support, installation & upgrades across versions.
End-to-end database management: Performance Tuning, Data Warehousing, Backup & Recovery, Upgrades, Data ETL Operations.
Database High Availability & database clustering: Oracle RAC (10g,11g,12c and 19c), third party clustering solutions.
Database Continuity/Disaster Recovery: Oracle Data Guard and standby databases, storage-based DR solutions, and other replication based DR solutions.
Migration & configuration projects involving moving on-premise environments into AWS cloud including migrating from Oracle to Postgres.
Automation: Terraform in AWS & Azure – native automation used by Oracle.
Database Security Assessment Comprehensive review of your Databases using the Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT).
Roadmap to cloud: "Will my existing Oracle licenses be enough?"
Building your roadmap to the cloud but needing to understand what to expect? Explore how our data insight services can help you answer the big cloud questions, such as:
- “What might it look like?”
- “What would the cost be?”
- “Will more licenses be required?”
- “Will my existing Oracle licenses be enough when they are worth less in AWS or Azure?”
Your first move before your next move should always be to fully understand your current IT footprint. Primesize can help you understand your IT landscape to ensure you make the right decisions, especially when it comes to making the move to the cloud or optimising your current cloud footprint.
Our Primesize Data Insight Services can create Target Architecture Reports that determines resource requirements, provides advice for the optimum target architecture, and considers license constraints, consolidation opportunities and costs, e.g., On-Premise vs Hyperscale Cloud. This report determines the feasibility of alternative architectures and provides an environment roadmap to the cloud.
Once you’re in the cloud, we can help you focus on innovation, not maintenance, with a fully managed cloud environment.
Exadata Experts
Did you know we were one of the firsts to successfully move an Oracle Exadata environment to AWS EC2? Bypassing high I/O requirements and the need for additional licensing. The business benefits to the customer included:
- Increased operational efficiencies and overall business performance
- No additional investment in Oracle licensing
- Reduced migration time through automation.
Our Oracle Certifications
Investing in our team is one of our top priorities. Our specialists have achieved a variety of technical certifications.
Our team drive the thought leadership behind many technical innovations, which we document and make available to our community.
Our Oracle Certifications include, but are not limited to:
- Oracle 10g/11g/12c Database Administrator Certified Professionals
- Oracle Linux Administrator Certified Associate
- Oracle Database SQL Certified Expert
- Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Master
- Oracle Certified Specialist 11g Database Security
- Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud 2023 Certified Professional
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Foundations Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Architect Associate
- Oracle Cloud Data Management 2023 Certified Foundations Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Certified Multicloud Architect Associate
- Postgres 13 Associate
Learn more about what we can do with Oracle Technology below.
This article shows how to migrate an on-premises source database, tablespace, schema, or table to an Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment using the conventional export and import functionality of the Data Pump feature of Oracle Database.
Catholic Education South Australia (CESA) utilized Primesize to provide an environment review of their databases. CESA were able to identify IT resources that could be optimised; this enabled them to reduce the cost of operations and position themselves for a long term cloud strategy. Learn more about their experience with BCS, featuring Phil Proctor, CIO, CESA.
Hill Smith Family Estate (formely Yalumba), is one of Australia's most historic family-owned winery, was facing the challenge that their enterprise software solution was exclusively on-premise.
Patching is an important activity that needs to be done for security and functionality reasons. If you have Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19.8 with 19c databases, then you’ll want to know more about the new Zero Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching feature.
Database backups are essential in helping protect your data from corruption or deletion and should be a critical part of any business continuity or disaster recovery strategy. Backups enable your database to restore to a point in time within the configured retention period, being the perfect insurance policy.
For any company requiring auditing requirements for their Oracle databases they should consider using Oracle's unified auditing. And, accordingly to our Oracle Specalist and Client Delivery Lead Brad Smith, here's why:
Current tech industry challenges • Extremely large number of objects that are managed in LDAP directories. • Requirements for un-usually high write
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is a server virtualization management platform that is based on the open source oVirt virtualization solution. Oracle announced
When it comes to meeting their high performing business needs, speed, flexibility and being future focussed for Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA)’s data system is paramount. Their TAB wagering system processes a high volume of data requests across Australia and to keep up with the growing demand from their users the team needed it to work faster than ever without any latency. There was also the requirement to increase or decrease usage (and cost) based on need as well. And this is where Oracle & AWS Experts, Blue Crystal Solutions, came in.
Moving to the cloud is no longer just an idea, or something to worry about later. Here are our top 10 reasons
After managing Isoton’s mission critical database environments for over 10 years. Isoton needed to deploy their telecommunications platform over to a public cloud environment from their existing on premise hardware, BCS were engaged to lead an Oracle to AWS Proof of Concept to provide AWS cost estimates and architectural considerations.
Learn more about their journey to their Public Cloud destination with BCS in the video.
BCS implemented a fully automated and integrated PowerBilling RevenueCollection (PBRC) solutions to help Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre eliminate rejected claims and delayed or uncollected payments - at a cost saving of $1.4m annually.