Informix Builds Customer Confidence With Significant Fourth Quarter Business From Around the World.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1998-- New And Existing Customers Build Company's Progress In Strategic Enterprise Market Segments Informix Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced significant fourth quarter customer sales, signaling renewed customer confidence in the company's strategic enterprise segment focus in high performance OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and Web/content management. Fourth quarter customer wins include six leading financial institutions as well as continued solutions-based business with Informix(R) global partners, Baan, PeopleSoft, and SAP. "Our fourth quarter results signal the progress of our focused high-end market emphasis, targeting enterprises which seek competitive advantage through advanced database technology," said Bob Finocchio finocchio: see fennel. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Informix. "We are encouraged by the support of our customers and increased sales seen in our strategic enterprise segments for high-performance OLTP, data warehousing and Web/content management." Informix today also announced customer momentum in the telecommunications industry with a variety of companies who have purchased Informix technology for their strategic applications. (Editors: See separate press release issued today.) Informix targets three high-end market segments for strategic enterprise applications: high-performance OLTP, data warehousing and Web/content management. Informix Drives Hi-performance OLTP Database Applications Significant fourth quarter wins where Informix proved a leader in the high-performance OLTP market include: -- Arizona State Compensation Fund -- sells workers compensation insurance to businesses within the state of Arizona. Arizona State Compensation Fund is a first time customer who purchased Informix Dynamic Server(tm) and its application development tool, INFORMIX-Data Director(tm) for Visual Basic, to manage their imaging and workflow-based claims processing application. The host-based system runs on an HP9000 where nine districts will process claims information to be managed centrally. The application will manage all documents, forms, claims and information for a claimant, routed in a workflow environment all the way down to the payment of medical bills. "In our reference checks for Informix and Oracle, we chose Informix over Oracle for two reasons," said Pat O'Keefe, data resources and technology integration manager. "One, their product was technically faster, and two, Informix received high marks from other customers for their customer service and support." -- Cavendes Financial Group -- in Venezuela is implementing a centralized "Universal Bank" application that aims to increase sales and lower the cost of doing business while improving customer service. The application allows Cavendes' disparate financial groups to consolidate their products and services to be sold through one central bank location and to distribute information to eleven bank branches. The OLTP application will be running Informix Dynamic Server on Data General hardware with the financial package, SIF from Grupo PISA Pisa (pē`sä), city (1991 pop. 98,928), capital of Pisa prov., Tuscany, N central Italy, on the Arno River. It is now c.6 mi (9.7 km) from the Tyrrhenian Sea, which once reached the city. , at the central location. Branches will be running Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition(tm) running Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . -- Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais Minas Gerais (mē`nəs zhərīs`) [Port.,=various mines], state (1996 pop. 16,660,691), 226,707 sq mi (587,171 sq km), E Brazil. The capital is Belo Horizonte. Minas Gerais continues to produce more than half of Brazil's mineral wealth. -- in Brazil, CEMIG CEMIG Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (Brazil) is a public company that supplies energy to the entire state of Minas Gerais. They are developing a customer service center application with Informix Dynamic Server for Windows NT and HP UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . The application will allow customers to obtain information on their energy consumption. -- Core Pacific Securities Corporation -- in Taiwan is one of the top five securities and finance companies in the country. After a two year evaluation, Informix was selected as their key long-term partner for database management systems to Core Pacific's country-wide operation and business system. Core Pacific replaced Sybase with Informix Dynamic Server for their future commodity application in December 1997. Informix, together with partner Systex & ProYoung, provided a total solution, including application, database, consulting, network management, and technical services to Core Pacific headquarters and their five remote sites. The application is a full accounting system, general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. , accounts payable, receivables, balance checking, tracking, and billing system. The application also administers commission calculation, sales, and marketing and cost analysis. -- Banco Hipotecario Nacional -- located in Argentina, Banco Hipotecario has chosen Informix for their database to manage their home mortgage loan application. Banco Hipotecario is replacing their core system running on an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) host system and moving to Informix Dynamic Server running Windows NT. The new system will run their central office and 24 branches over each state in Argentina. -- Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy SA was a Poland based commercial bank, which offered the normal range of retail and commercial financial services through its branch network. Allied Irish Banks, it's owners, merged it with Bank Zachodni to form BZ-WBK. -- in Poland is an investment, commercial and retail bank who purchased Informix products in the fourth quarter to manage their central banking system. Other significant wins in the fourth quarter in the high-performance OLTP market segment include: Instituto de Seguridat y Servicios Sociales para os Trabajadores del Estado (ISSTE, Government Workers Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales Institute in Mexico); Fric Rot Tenneco in Argentina; JC Whitney J.C. Whitney is the largest direct marketer of auto parts and accessories. The company began life in 1915 as The Warshawsky Company, a scrap metal yard on the South Side of Chicago. The company's founder was a Lithuanian immigrant named Israel Warshawsky. Company in Chicago; Point P, and Informatique & Communication in France; and the following companies in Germany: Bundesfinanzministerium and Deutscher Paket dienst DPD (Deutscher Paket Dienst GmbH & Co. KG and Direct Parcel Distribution (UK) Ltd.) is a German parcel delivery company. It has more than 500 depots in more than 35 countries. The company was founded in 1977 in Aschaffenburg. In its first year of operation, over 1. . Informix Leads The Way In Web and Content Management Informix continues to drive new and existing business in Web and content management with customers such as: -- Egghead -- Informix, along with partner Fort Point Partners Inc., a San Francisco-based electronic commerce consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , expanded their technology support for Egghead Computer's high-volume e-commerce Web site. Fort Point Partners will be adding Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option(tm) and the next generation of Informix's Web Integration Option(tm) to Egghead's current e-commerce Web site environment (www.egghead.com) in order to manage its rapid growth and increasing popularity. The Egghead Web site, designed and built with the support of Fort Point Partners and based on Informix's database technology, is among the most frequently visited commerce sites on the Internet, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Media Metrix, The PC Meter Company. -- Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI rai n. A form of popular Algerian music combining traditional Arabic vocal styles with various elements of popular Western music and featuring outspoken, often controversial lyrics. ) -- the Italian national radio-television broadcasting corporation is using Informix to create a digital archive of its extensive library of programming and related media. Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option will enable RAI to reconstruct an extensive catalog of all broadcast material and transfer film, sound, photographs and text from RAI archives into a large, easily accessible digital media library for consultation, production and post-production purposes. -- National Stock Exchange (NSE NSE - Network Software Environment: a proprietary CASE framework from Sun Microsystems. ) -- in India is the premier stock exchange and has been a pioneer in the area of information technology deployment. NSE has also been a pioneer in the implementation of Internet technology. NSE's requirements are to provide the investor community, its members and the companies being traded on the exchange with a world-class web site that will provide real-time quotes and other sources of relevant information. NSE strongly believes that the foundation of their Web site should be in a powerful, scalable and extensible implementation of Web technology, using an industrial strength RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database to enable the advanced requirements of NSE for servicing the broker and investor community. NSE chose Informix Dynamic Server with the Web Integration Option and Informix partner, DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite) A one-way TV broadcast service from a communications satellite to a small round or oval dish antenna no larger than 20" in diameter. Internet, to provide a total solution that meets NSE's requirements. "Informix continued to play offense, rather than defense, in the quarter," said Finocchio. "We aggressively built on our legacy of technology leadership and innovation in areas such as the Web. Our new Data Director for Web, a development tool that makes it easier for database and Web developers to create Web applications and manage Web sites, is an exciting new solution for this high-growth area of the database market." Other customer business wins in the fourth quarter for Web and content management include ANPE ANPE Agence Nationale Pour l'Emploi (French: National Employment Agency; also seen as ANPLE) and Mag Info in France. Informix Makes Strong Gains In Enterprise Data Warehouse Market Informix continues to make strong gains in the data warehouse market segment and won business in the fourth quarter with the following companies: -- Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. -- the leading provider of mutual funds and other financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , recently signed an additional agreement for 4,000 licenses of Informix Dynamic Server for a major call center project in Fidelity's retail organization. -- First Union Corporation -- based in Charlotte, N.C., is the sixth-largest bank in the U.S. First Union signed a substantial contract with Informix in the fourth quarter. The agreement expands First Union's use of Informix Dynamic Server with Extended Parallel Option(tm) and will expand the corporate data warehouse to a size of several terabytes of customer information. First Union's data warehouse will be used to more precisely target the bank's marketing efforts and customer relationship-building efforts. "We are pleased with the flexibility and capabilities that Informix gives us," said Al Sale, First Union's executive vice president of marketing and strategic planning. First Union's Executive Vice President of Automation and Operations Austin Adams said, "Informix's software is a key reason we are able to build a data warehouse of this size and scope." -- American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. (AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. ) -- is a voluntary membership organization of physicians which sets standards for the profession of medicine in areas such as education, and medical policy that affect the fabric of American medicine and patient care. In the fourth quarter AMA purchased Informix Dynamic Server and Informix consulting services to construct AMA's data warehouse as part of the organization's AIMS Project. The AIMS Project is a strategic initiative to provide the enabling technology that will allow the AMA to enhance service to their members and will be considered a strategic asset, helping to shape and support the activities of the AMA well into the 21st century. The data warehouse will initially be used for marketing analysis, data extracts, physician profiles, and mail list processing. "Informix has been a primary vendor for us and we continue to purchase their technology because we feel it is state-of-the-art and surpasses the competition," said Kevin Lutz, director of data architecture at AMA. -- Hana Bank -- in Korea, selected Informix Dynamic Server with Extended Parallel Option for their Strategic Information System (SIS). The SIS data warehouse will manage the rapidly changing financial and credit information about Hana Bank customers worldwide. SIS will analyze customer data for marketing and sales purposes with the intent to deliver better service and increase bank profits. SIS is scheduled to be in production in the first half of 1998. -- Standard Chartered Bank Standard Chartered Bank (LSE: STAN, HKSE: 2888 ) is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in more than fifty countries. It operates a network of over 1,600 branches (including subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures) and employs almost 60,000 -- in the U.K. purchased Informix Dynamic Server and SUN Microsystems hardware for a Global Risk Management System. -- Health Care Hawkes Bay -- in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. is a Crown Health Enterprise or government body that is using Informix products to build a data warehouse to consolidate and report on disparate information from its different centers. The initial system is for the Emergency Department and will grow to include other cost centers. Other significant wins in the fourth quarter in the data warehouse market segment include Whitbread in the U.K. and France Printemps in France. Informix Goes After Solutions-based Business With Global Partners Informix pursued solutions-based business with its Global partners in the fourth quarter which included such customers as: -- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national public broadcaster, known previously as the Australian Broadcasting Commission. The ABC provides television, radio and online services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) -- in Australia is a media organization and national broadcaster. Its broadcast services include radio, television and, more recently, the Internet. The ABC is a new customer for Informix and was selected to run SAP's R/3 Financial and Human Resources Modules to help ABC improve the management and cost savings of its business support functions. The SAP/Informix solution will ultimately support all ABC staff of up to 4500 ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. users at approximately 56 sites. "We chose Informix for the current SAP project based on the products' price performance and reputation, but with a long-term view of making use of its audio and video storage capabilities to meet ABC's multimedia needs," said Christine Rogers, general manager, Information Technology Services at ABC. "In this area, the architecture of Informix was a deciding factor." -- SpeedFam International, Inc. -- in Arizona is a multimillion dollar leader in designing, marketing, manufacturing and supporting state-of-the-art flat surface processing technologies and related products. SpeedFam Corporation, a subsidiary of SpeedFam International Inc., purchased Informix to run SAP's full suite of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. modules. The SAP/Informix solution will run on HP9000 systems centrally supported out of SpeedFam's corporate headquarters in Chandler, Ariz. "We have used Informix in the past and were already familiar with the quality of their technology," said Michael J. Revenew, MIS manager at SpeedFam. "Essentially, we chose Informix over Oracle8 because we think it is technically a better product." -- Arcor -- in Argentina is a billion dollar worldwide supplier of confections products. They have chosen Informix for the corporate database running their internal systems including an intranet and distribution system using PeopleSoft on Windows NT. Arcor also is using Informix for their data warehousing applications. They replaced Oracle with Informix for managing their manufacturing data and they also replaced their Microsoft database with Informix. -- Votorantim Group -- in Brazil, is the largest national holding company for the mining, steel, energy, cellulose, and paper industries. This group has nine main companies from which one of them, Votorantim Mineracao e Metalurgia, recently purchased Informix technology. Votorantim Mineracao e Metalurgia purchased the Informix Dynamic Server with the Baan ERP Solution. "We bought the Informix database due to its superior performance, and also because we believe they have a strong partnership base with the leading ERP companies," said Robson Alves de Camargo, information technology consultant at Votorantim Mineracao e Metalurgia. -- Cerveceria y Malteria Quilmes -- in Argentina is a beer producer and distributor. Informix won new business with this customer in the fourth quarter over Oracle due to Informix pre-sales and post-sales support. The new system is planned to run SAP and Informix with more than 600 concurrent users on IBM hardware. Informix and ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Partner, EXE Exe (ĕks), river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. Leverage Key Deals Informix also continued to do substantial business with ISV partner, EXE Technologies, Inc., a world leader in global supply chain execution software. EXE Technologies helped Informix close several new transactions in the quarter, including PETsMART, a pet supply superstore; Tru-Serv, a hardware store chain; CompUSA, a nationwide computer retailer; and Provigo, Inc., a retailer located in Toronto, Canada. Mike Marvis, vice president of worldwide marketing stated, "Informix has been an integral partner in the success of the Exceed.ux platform (EXE's Unix platform)." About Informix Informix Corporation, the world's database technology leader based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database products that enable the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to beat the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, OLTP and Web/content management. For more information, contact the sales office nearest you or visit Informix's Web site at http://www.informix.com. -0- Note to Editors: The following are worldwide trademarks of Informix Software, Inc., Informix Corporation, or their subsidiaries, registered in the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. 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