Informix at a Glance

http://www.informix.com/informix/corpinfo/backgrnd/overview/execover.htm (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)

Leading-edge database technology
World-class service and support
Best-in-breed partnerships
Market leadership/company growth
Technology leadership and firsts

Innovative Database Technology to Manage and Grow your Business

Dynamic, forward-thinking organizations around the world are turning to Informix in order to better manage growth, exploit new business opportunities, and increase customer satisfaction. The reason behind this success is simple. Informix consistently delivers the technology and solutions companies need to get and maintain a competitive edge--not only with its leading-edge products, but also through the best partnerships available and a wide range of consulting, training, and support programs.

What sets Informix apart from the rest? Consider the following:

Leading-edge database technology:

Informix's advanced database and tools technology helps organizations get the most out of their investments in, and maximize the performance of, their business applications and the computers on which they run.
Informix's high-performance database technology is specifically designed to exploit the newest generation of client/server multiprocessor computers, allowing companies to take full advantage of current hardware investments, even as they move to newer, more powerful hardware platforms.
Informix's technology has consistently proven itself capable of addressing mainframe-caliber data management demands by accommodating very large databases and increasingly larger numbers of on-line users who need immediate access to business-critical information.
Informix's core database architecture is specifically designed to support new technologies and opportunities--like electronic commerce, world wide web, mobile computing, multimedia, and others--so companies can develop new, more effective ways to manage and grow their business around the world.
Informix's dedication to standards-based open systems technology is key for companies looking to take advantage of the price/performance benefits of open systems, or deploy their applications in a heterogeneous hardware and software environment.
Informix is unique in its efforts to build its products based on an enduring, underlying architecture--one that will scale from workgroups to departments to enterprisewide systems supporting thousands of concurrent users.
In the realm of decision-support applications, Informix is one of the recognized leaders in the highly strategic area of data warehousing--large information repositories designed to consolidate and manage the various and disparate forms of data within an enterprise--so that businesses can better profile their customers, identify trends, and ultimately make better-informed decisions faster than the competition.

World-class service and support:

With offices in over 41 countries supported by eight regional customer service centers, Informix is able to provide service and support programs that are specifically tailored to customers' as well as individual market needs.
In addition to technical support, Informix and its third-party partners provide a full range of services that include maintenance, consulting, and training, as well as on-line, Internet access to technical support.
Informix's customer service and support programs have garnered the reputation for the highest quality in the industry; in fact, in terms of responsiveness and reliability, Informix was recently named one of the word's best by independent analyst organization IDC.
As of November 1995, Informix has received nine separate ISO certifications for itsworldwide programs and services--your guarantee of high-quality customer support.

Best-in-breed partnerships:

Over 5,000 third-party partners team with Informix around the world--more than double the 2,000 partners listed in 1990.
Every major client/server hardware supplier--including Digital, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Siemens Nixdorf, and others--has established a strategic business relationship with Informix.
Informix's core database technology is powering many of the industry's leading application solutions--from vendors like Baan, Peoplesoft, SAP, and SSA, who are experts in delivering enterprisewide, business-critical applications.
World-class systems integrators--like Andersen Consulting, CSE, KPMG Peat Marwick, Delloite & Touche, Price Waterhouse, and SHL Systemhouse--work alongside Informix to deliver the right combination of hardware, software, and service.
Informix is the database vendor of choice for nearly every leading third-party data warehouse technology provider--so customers can be assure the vendors they select to help build their data warehouse are working in concert to meet their goals.
Informix is partnering with a number of innovative technology vendors--such as Netscape Communications, Hewlett-Packard, and Silicon Graphics--who are at the leading edge of providing solutions for electronic commerce.
Informix is the standard database server bundled with Netscape's entire family of Internet products--which means companies can build sophisticated on-line services and virtual storefronts or corporations running on top of the industry's most advanced database.

Market leadership/company growth:

Informix is the 1995 UNIX RDBMS installed license market share leader--34.7% (IDC, 1995)--and has the most installed UNIX RDBMS licenses worldwide--over 900,000.
Informix has the most installed client/server software licenses--26.29 percent of relational database management systems, and 31.29 percent of application development tools. (DBMS Magazine)
Informix's revenues have steadily grown every year since 1983.
In terms of company performance, Informix's RDBMS business is growing at a faster rate than any of its competitors.
In terms of company growth, Informixís stock market valuation has increased more 10 times over what it was just five years ago.

Technology leadership and firsts:

First RDBMS for UNIX.
First fourth-generation language (4GL) for UNIX.
First OLTP server architecture for UNIX.
First UNIX multimedia RDBMS.
First RDBMS evaluated to meet NCSC B1 and C2 government security levels.
First, and most frequently used, UNIX RDBMS for published TPC-C benchmark results.
First UNIX RDBMS to provide standards-compliant gateway (DRDA) to IBM's DB2.
First parallel database architecture to span from the range of hardware platforms--from single CPU to symmetric multiprocessing to massively parallel environment.

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