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I wanted to pass along this press release which as you will read below, opens up opportunities for my company to offer complete Business Event Management solutions to my target markets. I would appreciate any warm introduction that you could make for me to introduce and demonstrate this product. Companies that have growing database volume and data driven applications like CRM, ERP or industry specific applications such as Attorneys, Investment firms, CPAs, Medical Practices, Manufacturing companies, Health Care Insurance/Hospitals are very good prospects.

Dobler Consulting Signs VAR Agreement with Corpus BEM

Dobler Consulting Adds SmartScore Business Event Management Tools by Corpus to its Service Offerings.

 TAMPA, Fla., September 10, 2008 –

Dobler Consulting is pleased to announce the addition of the Corpus suite of Business Event Management tools under the brand name of SmartScore to their Database Management Service Business Model.   The addition of the SmartScore by Corpus allows Dobler Consulting to offer not only this leading BEM product but also its World Class Data Migration services all within the same philosophy of meticulous process management and execution.

SmartScore is an enterprise level product that monitors business process performance and allows for early detection of potential issues that could negatively affect business performance.  By proactively managing business event details rather than reacting to them, SmartScore by Corpus helps business owners and CFOs save significant money.  The SmartScore product has been embraced post install in international settings for such companies as McDonalds, Toyota, Pepsico, Philips, Solectron, DHL, Shering-Plough and more. 

This feature rich Database Business Event Management system is highly versatile; it works with any of the major database products and almost any application or functional area.  The rules based architecture allows Dobler Consulting to quickly and masterfully perform the initial set up and install the event settings and escalation paths.  Once implemented SmartScore facilitates real time collaboration with customers, employees and vendors across the entire database, it even provides exception and event management reporting. 

It is not the technology that makes the difference – it is the preparation, the planning, and the skills to execute the plan that make the difference.  At Cross Country Home Services Dobler Consulting Implemented the SmartScore product for the Ft. Lauderdale Home services Firm and received the following testimonial: “Dobler Consulting made this project for CCHS a pleasure from the moment we engaged with them.  Peter and his team are super sharp and professional. The Dobler team ranks top in this Data Management field. I would highly recommend them.”

Peter Dobler, President of Dobler Consulting said “in my over 20 years of Database leadership in fortune 500 companies I have never seen a more versatile, easy to implement, easy to use BEM offering.  The fact that it is the best value in the market makes SmartScore by Corpus a must have business event management product for midsize business owners and corporate CFOs.  Anyone can offer technology to a prospective customer, SmartScore is offering the organization’s CFO the ability to leave the office, go home at night with more money in the bank and enjoy life including enjoying a good night’s sleep.”

For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release, contact Peter Dobler or visit http://doblerconsulting.com.

About Dobler Consulting

The company was founded by Peter Dobler who has over 20 years of database management and data migration experience.  Dobler Consulting is committed to provide turnkey data migration project management and data migration execution to delight its customers.  Its customer base spans all industry sectors with companies that have an annual revenue between $50 million and $750 million.

Contact:

Peter Dobler, Managing Partner
Dobler Consulting
813-322-3240
http://doblerconsulting.com

Here is a testimonial from a recent channel partner prospect about SmartScore ”Thank you for taking the time to show me the demo.  It really speaks volumes, I have already thought about several clients of mine that will really benefit – the money savings to even the mid-size firms is going to help sell this especially in today’s challenging economy.  I look forward to finding some opportunities for us to work together.”

Please contact me via email or phone when you have a few minutes to talk or to ask any questions.  I would like to tell you about the referral program that Corpus and I have in place to thank our associates that make an introduction that results in a contract.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Peter Dobler

If you are an avid social network user, you have heard about LinkedIn and/or Plaxo. These are the leading social network sites, especially for IT profesionals. So, what can you expect from these sites and which one is the better choice.

First up LinkedIn:

LinkedIn was founded by Reid Hoffman. He started LinkedIn with the distinct knowledge he collected during his stay at PayPal. When eBay bought PayPal, it was not because PayPal was a superior money transfer program, but because of its member base. Armed with this knowledge, LinkedIn quickly approached 9 million members shortly after its first release. Now it has over 25 million members and it is growing at a rapid pace.

LinkedIn offers a free and a paid membership. The free membership is preferred for the casual user of the site. If you want to manage your connections more effective and possibily build new business via LinkedIn, the paid membership id recommended.

If you’re an Outlook user, LinkedIn offers a nice plugin that helps to keep your Outlook contacts up-to-date with changes in the LinkedIn information. This is especially useful if you have a large connection net and use LinkedIn as your personal address book. I really like to “Grab” function of the plugin. It allows to mark address information in an email and then automatically create an Outlook contact. It is very accurate and reduces manual typing.

My personal profile on LinkedIn looks like this:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdobler

Next up Plaxo:

Plaxo was founded by Todd Masonis and Camron Ring. They realized quickly that the success of a social network site is messured by its free tools and integration into as many email clients as possible. 40 million members are living proof that integration and superior tools are key success factors.

Like LinkedIn, Plaxo offers a free and a paid membership. Instead of more communication possibilities, Plaxo offers more tools to colaborate in the paid membership. You can upload your Outlook calendar as a free member, but you need to be a paid member to synchornize your online Plaxo calendar with your Outlook calendar. This is very useful if you want to combine your private calendar with your work calendar.

Personally I like to Plaxo Outlook plugin better than the LinkedIn plugin. It is better integrated and I like the feature that downloads the Plaxo pictures into your Outlook contacts. When you read an email from a contact that has a picture it shows in your inbox. Very nice.

Here’s how my Plaxo profile looks like:
http://peterdobler.myplaxo.com/

Summary

Both sites are very reputable social networks with millions of members. I use both. LinkedIn as the primary network for all my contacts. Plaxo as the added information resource with a nice Outlook integration.

One of the advantages in combining both systems. Plaxo keeps track on its member’s birthdays. LinkedIn does not. But if you have a connection in Plaxo it downloads the birthdate and the LinkedIn dashboard will remind you to send a card.

I recommend both sites equaly and a membership in both is a good investment.

I had a dream last night; ok to be honest it was nightmare. I actually awoke in a cold sweat. I was back working in a company with what my boss called a good problem to have. A new series of products aimed at a market that was growing like crazy. You know the kind I am talking about - 50% growth quarter over quarter. We were under pressure to keep increasing production and making our quarterly projections so that our publicly traded company could continue to grow market value and to remain in the position of darling in the eyes of the analysts.

As my subconscious mind recalled the challenges that I struggled with: lack of capacity planning and utilization metrics, training new management and operations associates, machine downtime and efficiency loss, material allocations from suppliers, changes in demand which causes increase machine change-over and more lost run time, design and testing issues which had to be worked out during the day time again causing loss of run time, IT down time causing production bottlenecks and well you get the picture…

It took me a few minutes to realize why I was putting myself through such an agonizing night. I had earlier in the day been introduced to the solution to all of my problems but only five years too late!

I had met my nightmare’s white knight: a closed loop Business Event Management Tool from one of my new alliance partners. Oh to be able to go back in time and apply a tool of this kind to my nightmare, I could have saved a headful of grey hair.

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In its latest effort to organize Sybase DBA, Sybase relays on the power of one of the oldest social networks Xing. This network was first started in Europe as a vehicle to connect business professionals. Sybase selected Xing due to its globale reach. Xing members are connected around the globe in over 16 languages.

Of course LinkedIn and its latest follower Plaxo are much larger regarding its member base, but both networks are US focused and do not appeal to non english speaking members.

Xing is the perfect partner for Sybase to support its global presence. I am a member of Xing Sybase DBA Group to connect with other Sybase DBA. I encourage every Sybase DBA to register with XIng and signing up to the Sybase DBA Group.

See you at Xing.

During my time at Nielsen Media Research I worked very closely Sybase. This close relationship continues with my new consulting company as well.

In 2004 I was asked to participate in a video trailer portraying Sybase’s relationship with Nielsen Media Research. I was the Director of Database Technology at the time and we just finished implementing the second largest datawarehouse in world at the time.

My part in the video was to explain the implementation of Sybase IQ and Sybase Replication Server in the Nielsen Media Research environment.

Enjoy!