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Meridian works with the best tools and infrastructure provided by partners to deliver its solutions. Like our relationships with Clients and our own team these partnerships are typically very long term.

Microsoft

Meridian has been a Microsoft Certified Partner since 1999. With most of our 'client' end solutions deployed on Windows platforms a comprehensive knowledge of these platforms is essential. Meridian staff have individual certification in Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified System Engineer programs.

In addition to the platform knowledge we have specific expertise in designing, deploying and supporting Microsoft SQL Server Databases especially the "Data Staging" and OLAP components used to build Business Intelligence solutions. Access to software, training and special support services via the certified partner program enables us to offer our customers enhanced service on Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and .NET client and server platforms.

IBM

Meridian has participated in IBM developer and partner programs since 1993. Initially as an extension of our Cognos PowerHouse 4GL relationship we developed and supplied software that was implemented on IBM RS/6000 and AS/400 platforms and were listed in programs for these platforms. In 1997 we were among the first in Australia to participate in the 'San Francisco' Java Framework program and this lead to our entry into the 'PartnerWorld for Developers' program as a 'commercial' member. Our Java solutions have been implemented of IBM pSeries, xSeries, and iSeries servers. IBM developer programs have provided various components that we have used in our solutions.

Sun Microsystemss

Meridian's relationship with Sun commenced in 1992 when the PowerHouse 4GL was ported to the UNIX operating system and first released on Sun platforms. Meridian's own solutions and those of it's application partners were offered on Sun workstations and Servers. Our involvement with Java since 1996 has greatly strengthened this relationship and Meridian is a member of both the Sun Developer Connection and the Java Developer Connection programs. Our Java solutions have been implemented on various Sun server platforms.

Cognos Corporation

Our oldest external relationship, first formed in 1985 when, as part of CSR Limited, we evaluated and chose the Cognos PowerHouse 4GL as our primary development language. Cognos became Meridian's first partner in 1990 based on Powerhouse and later we became 'Business Intelligence' partners based on PowerPlay and Impromptu reporting tools.

In addition to our business relationship Meridian staff have been active in Cognos International User & Partner Communities. Meridian's Bill Parker was the Australian representative on the Cognos Partner Council (94) and the Asia-Pacific representative on the Cognos International User Group Executive from 1989 to 1996 helping organise International User Conferences in Los Angeles (91), Dallas (92), Orlando (93), Sydney (94), London (95), Ottawa (95), and Sydney (96); Meridian staff have promoted and managed local user groups throughout the Asia-Pacific area.

2003 saw our last supported Powerhouse 4GL system superseded, having been the core application for CSR Treasury for 16 years. We continue to support Cognos tools for clients but no longer actively sell these products.

The CORE Community

The CORE Community is a group of individuals and small companies in the United States, Europe and Australia who are working to build and deploy the Java based CORE Business Object Framework. This international effort is lead by Jonathan House a veteran builder of java application frameworks used by Wells Fargo, General Dynamics and others. We have collaborated with Jonathan since 1999 on CORE and previous frameworks.

CORE is designed to meet a specific need - to allow developers to quickly and reliably build complex, business logic intensive applications. Dealing with development issues such as binding user interface to business objects, handling persistence tasks, enforcing business rules takes up a most of the time in all projects. CORE provides all of these services and more, so developers can concentrate on developing the core business logic. The CORE-Framework project is hosted on Java.net.

Meridian is a founding member and active contributor to the CORE community. The community forms the basis for a world wide resource pool to rapidly build such "business logic intensive" applications using CORE.

Open Source Community

The Open Source Community not only provides a vast and rich selection of peer reviewed tools, components and software but also encompasses the largest pool of peer reviewed resources relating to design patterns, techniques and methods. Groups such as the Agile Alliance inspire Meridian to continuously improve our delivery capability.

Meridian contributes to a number of Open Source Projects including the Jpivot Business Intelligence / OLAP Reporting project and the recently established openi.org (open intelligence) community.

Meridian acknowledges the debt it owes to the Open Source Community and our staff are active contributors to this community.