I have started to blog because I would like to offer a different perspective that I don't see in the other Oracle blogs yet. I work as a Sales Consultant, customers may think of me as being "presales" but I haven't had that title for more than five years. I hope to give an insight into the type of work I do on behalf of Oracle. Feel free to comment, cajole and suggest areas you wish me to discuss. I will include links to stuff that people are asking me about to see if that may be interesting for other people too.
This week has been a little different. There seem to be so many meetings with customers that it's a pleasant change to meet with some of my customer's partners. This week alone I have been involved with Accenture, Siemens, EDS, some private contractors, Microsoft, Sun and Fujitsu.
I have referred partners to white papers on performance and scalability design. I have looked at Severity 1 TARs that have since been managed so the panic is over. I have volunteered to do a User Group which has led me to a bit of diary juggling. I have attended webcasts on our new Database Vault and Identity Management products and I have looked into how our VMWare images could be used for my customer to show innovation in their own environment. Oh, and I have booked my car in at the garage because the red Air Bag light has gone on.
I have emailed, voicemailed, imed and even met face to face. I hate to think how many days this would have taken back in 1995 when I first joined and had to share a landline phone with a VT terminal as my eye on the world.
