Informix Software Meets the Broad Array of Data Demands of its Telecommunications Partners.Business Editors/Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Verizon, Intrado, Unica, Telelogic and Gravitate grav·i·tate intr.v. grav·i·tat·ed, grav·i·tat·ing, grav·i·tates 1. To move in response to the force of gravity. 2. To move downward. 3. Join Informix Software at SuperComm 2001 Informix(R) Software, the database company(TM), a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Informix Corporation (Nasdaq:IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ) announced today that telecommunications technology leaders including Verizon, Intrado (formally SCC SCC - strongly connected component Communications and Lucent Public Safety Systems), Unica, Telelogic and Gravitate will be participating with Informix Software SuperComm 2001, June 5-7. Informix Software will showcase the versatility of Informix Software databases across a wide array of telecommunications solutions, including mobile, geospatial, broadband and enterprise applications at booth No. 1116. "With 9 out of 10 of the top telecommunications companies using Informix Software databases, Informix Software has demonstrated a strong commitment to the telecommunications industry and the distinct challenges facing our diverse partners," said Brian Staff, vice president of marketing, Informix Software. "With our telecommunications division focused solely on the industry, Informix Software is able to meet the specific challenges of our customers by offering databases that are highly scalable, extensible with great ease of use." SuperComm is the premier annual communications and information technology exhibition and conference for the telecommunications industry. Informix Software will be highlighting the versatility of Informix Software's databases working with the following leaders in mobile, geospatial, broadband and enterprise applications. Verizon and Informix Software Streamline Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets The Assignment, Activation and Inventory System (AAIS AAIS American Association of Insurance Services AAIS Advanced Airborne Interceptor Simulator AAIS ACE ACCIS Implementation Strategy (NATO) AAIS America Association of Italian Studies AAIS Administration Automated Information System ) provides a next-generation suite of systems to automate infrastructure and service provisioning for Verizon. "AAIS is the centralized vault containing all of Verizon West (former GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) ) facility and assignable inventory data. Putting this data in a relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. has removed a huge bottleneck in Verizon's business operations," said Milan Gupta senior vice president of network and national operations systems at Verizon. "Informix Dynamic Server gives us the transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. power to manage our ever growing and more complex transaction volumes." Intrado and Informix Software Work Together to Save Lives Last year more than 100 million E9-1-1 calls for help were answered by Intrado (formally SCC Communications and Lucent Public Safety Systems.) A vast majority of those emergency calls were identified and properly routed using Intrado and Informix Software databases. The Award winning E9-1-1 Informix Software database, known as ALISA -- Automatic Location Identification Service Adjunct, enables dispatchers to instantly access potentially life-saving information such as caller's name, telephone number, location, and supplementary data that promotes safety and expedites police, fire, and ambulance responses to E9-1-1 calls. "The Palladium data management system is responsible for real-time responses for selective routing and ALI queries," said Doug Kroupa, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Intrado. "This combination of systems support nearly two-thirds of all wireline and wireless telephones in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ." http://www.palladium911.com/ Unica and Informix Software Automate the Process of Sophisticated Database Marketing Unica and Informix Software have recently become joint marketing partners. As part of this new partnership, Unica's Affinium(TM) complete analytical CRM (business) analytical CRM - Software which helps a business build customer relationships and analyse ways to improve them. solution enables companies to better understand their customers and personalize marketing campaigns based on the information within Informix Software's customized data warehouses. The joint offering to customers closes the marketing automation loop, resulting in loyal customer relationships and more profitable marketing campaigns. Customers will be able to map simultaneously to Informix Software's databases, as well as to information in other legacy or propriety systems through Unica's Universal Dynamic Interconnect (UDI (1) (Unified Display Interface) A digital interface from the United Display Interface SIG that is designed to replace the analog VGA interface common on CRTs and flat panel monitors. UDI is expected to provide backward compatibility with DVI and HDMI interfaces. ), a feature of Affinium. The combination of Unica's Affinium and Informix Software's databases provides a solution that meets the challenges within the dynamic environments of the most sophisticated marketing organizations. "Unica is committed to offering the most functionally rich and scalable applications for analytic CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ," said Kevin Keane, vice president of Business Development, Unica Corporation. "Through our alliance with Informix, we can deliver our joint customers a solution that meets the needs of the most demanding customer-centric marketing organizations." http://www.unicacorp.com/ Telelogic and Informix Software Allow Users to Operate and Store Visual Symbols Telelogic is a leading provider of software tools that provide a graphical development environment for programmers of telephone exchanges, mobile phones and a plethora of other communication applications. Over the past year Informix Software's databases have powered Teleogic's Configuration and Change Management (CM), empowering customers with off the shelf object oriented See object technology and object-oriented programming. databases rather than proprietary systems. Telelogic, integrated with Informix Software Object Relation Database, to deliver the tools that make it possible for the user to work with visual symbols instead of more traditional text programming. "Telelogic embeds the Informix database to handle the critical information managed by Telelogic CM Synergy which provides customers the advantage of optimizing queries and improving performance. The embedded Informix database allows CM database administrators to easily maintain and backup the CM repository whether or not they know Informix," said Paul Van Den Berg Van den Berg is the surname of:
www.telelogic.com Gravitate and Informix Software Bring Mobile Users Together As a leading platform and applications provider, Gravitate is pioneering Location-Precise(TM) services for mobile2mobile, mobile2static and static2mobile communications. Gravitate and Informix Software have partnered to offer a combined solution that will solve the complex problem of managing moving point data and give customers the ability to manage geospatial information on wireless mobile users referenced by latitude-longitude coordinates. Using Informix Dynamic Server and its spatially enabled technology, Gravitate has demonstrated the ability to manage the updating of large numbers of moving data points and process impressive concurrent queries over a very large set of mobile users. "Working with Informix Software, a leading provider of spatial database A spatial database is a database that is optimized to store and query data related to objects in space, including points, lines and polygons. While typical databases can understand various numeric and character types of data, additional functionality needs to be added for databases products for the telecommunications industry, is a natural fit for Gravitate, as we are dedicated to serving the wireless industry by addressing the technology problems associated with indexing the location information of moving point data," said John Trobough, chief executive officer of Gravitate. "We have received exemplary support and enthusiasm for this venture from our new partner." http://www.gravitate-usa.com/ About Informix Software Informix Software, the database company, is a leading provider of database-management systems for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , transaction processing and e-business applications. With more than 100,000 customers worldwide, Informix Software delivers high-performance database systems in markets including retail, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, media and publishing, and telecommunications. For more information, visit the Informix website at www.informix.com. Informix Corporation and 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) recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire the assets of Informix Software in a cash transaction valued at $1 billion. The acquisition is subject to Informix shareholder and regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2001. (c)2001 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates, one or more of which may be registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions: Informix(R), the database company(TM), Informix Dynamic Server(TM). |
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