Informix Twitter chat: Why NoSql and why Informix NoSql?

 

Do you want to share your views or know more about the following questions : 

1. What is #NoSQL?
2. What are the Industry #trends that are driving #NoSQL adoption? 
3. What challenges are companies currently embracing #NoSQL database models facing? 
4. How does #NoSQL help in providing enterprise-class capabilities and support?
5. How can customers leverage new business patterns with hybrid #SQL /#NoSQL applications? 
6. How critical is lowering time-to-value and rapid application development with #NoSQL for customers?
7. How important is leveraging skills to lower development costs and application development flexibility with #NoSQL? 
8. How you can leverage #relational and #non-relational data from a single application? 
9. How does the #NoSQL capability help in #analytics with existing #data and new data? 

Here is great opportunity for you, as we at IBM Informix are organizing a Twitter chat, with James Kobielus (Senior Program Director, Product Marketing, Big Data Analytics solutions), Keshav Murthy (Senior architect for IBM Informix NoSQL & SQL) and Art Kagel (Informix Database consulting and training partner) on the topic of “Why NoSQL and Why IBM Informix NOSQL.”

Get more details here : http://buff.ly/NEwcaH

Hoping that you will join us for this twitter chat and share your views!

Until next time, 

Louis 

Webcast on Combining SQL and NoSQL Data for Powerful, Big Data Enterprise Applications

These days, many organizations are flooded with data coming from multiple sources, locations and devices. And in the process, in order to maintain efficiency, the adoption of NOSQL database model takes front seat, which enable the organizations to manage their unstructured data and existing structured data.

Keeping this requirement in mind, our engineers at IBM Informix have been working on improving the NOSQL capability of Informix and to a level where you combine the two technologies in a smart way. In simple words, helping our customers bring NoSQL to SQL database.

With IBM Informix you can leverage relational and non-relational type of data from a single application using familiar methodologies and APIs. IBM Informix is also optimized for embedded data management, including support for ARM processors, to support the growing trend of mobile computing, machine-to-machine applications and the “Internet of Things”.

With this background, we are happy to invite you to join our webcast titled “Combining SQL and NoSQL Data for Powerful, Big Data Enterprise Applications”.

Date/Time : Wednesday, March 05, 2014, 12:00PM ET / 9:00AM PT

Register today : http://www.information-management.com/web_seminars/combining-sql-and-nosql-data-for-powerful-big-data-enterprise-applications-10025260-1.html?st=Cust&s=ibm1

 

Until Next Time,

Louis 

IBM Informix 12.10.UC2 on ARM processors

This blog post summarizes my conversation with Mr. Sandor Szabo (who manages the IBM Informix Development team in Munich) about the role of IBM Informix 12.10.UC2 in ARM processors

In conversation with Sandor Szabo, manager of the IBM Informix Development team in Munich.

Can you please explain more about ARM Processor and the role of Informix?

ARM Processors have reduced costs, heat and power usage compared to more complex chip designs, traits which makes it desirable for light, portable, battery-powered devices like smartphones, laptops, tablet, and notepad computers  and other embedded systems. Alternatively the use of a simpler design allows more efficient multi-core CPUs and higher core counts at lower cost, allowing higher levels of processing power and improved energy efficiency. You can also read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

The role of Informix:

Informix 12.10 is an industrial strength, relational SQL99-based database with features that is ideal for deep embedded applications. Here is a list of features that make Informix an ideal choice:

• self tuning
• self monitoring
• self healing capabilities built-in,
• small disk footprint configurations are supported, Data/Index-compression built-in
• low memory operations are supported
• remote monitoring, tuning and configuration
• proven track record for deep embedded applications
• built-in industry leading high performance support for Time Series based Sensor Data
• to top it all, Informix FlexibleGrid technology can support thousands of Informix servers in heterogeneous cluster topologies with built-in flexible data replication

So, in a nut shell, the role of Informix is primarily to store and retrieve sensor data, 24/7 in a very efficient and autonomous manner, without the presence even a single DBA.

Can you talk about the technical details of this ARM Processor?

• Minimum Informix 12.10.uc2 on Linux  ARM System Requirements
• ARMv7 CPU  (v7l)  with Hardware Floating point support
• 512 MB RAM (for Linux and Informix)
• Storage space for the database files (e.g. SSD, SD, microSD etc.)
• Minimum product deployment diskspace (w/o database files, customizable): < 100 MB
• One of the following supported Linux distributions for ARM Debian 7.1, Ubuntu 12.1
• Support for other Linux distributions upon request

Hardware Specifications :

• A20ïŒ ARM  Cortex-A7 Dual-Core ARM
• 1GB DDR3 @480M
• 3.4GB internal NAND flash, up to 64GB on SD slot, up to 2T on 2.5 SATA disk
• 1x 10/100 ethernet, support usb wifi
• For more details please visit : http://docs.cubieboard.org/products/start

What benefits will the consumer of this device get?

Super value for money, along with Informix Database which has industry’s widest sets of options for keeping data available at all times including:

• zero downtime for maintenance
• continuous local collection and processing of critical vehicle monitoring parameters (e.g. engine parameters, environmental parameters)
• Informix 12.10 time series data capabilities
• continuous local recording of positional data (e.g. the current vehicle position)
• Informix 12.10 geospatial data capabilities
• on-board data analytics on the collected time series based data and generation of alerts, either constant replication of those kind of data to a central instance (if a network connection is available) or local storage until a network is in reach

What is the future plan with this device (Upgrade, market etc)?

With the latest release of Informix 12.10.UC2 to our OEM partners, we hope to find many new partners who are looking for a new platform where all the attributes above are important. And for any further information on this topic please do not hesitate to contact us!

Sandor Szabo, a short Bio:

Sandor Szabo,  manages the IBM Informix Development team in Munich. He has been developing Informix products since 1987. Sandor’s main focus areas are Informix Warehouse Accelerator (BLU Acceleration for Informix), IBM Informix Dynamic Server under Linux and now the ARM port of Informix.

Until Next Time,

Louis

IIUG Conference 2013 : A huge success

IIUG 2013 was yet again a successful IIUG conference. This year’s conference had the General Manager of IBM Information Management Mr. Bob Picciano deliver an excellent key note to the Informix community, which reinforced IBM’s vision with Informix in the coming years. The other highlight was Jerry Keesee’s (IBM Informix Director) keynote which was focused on the latest version of Informix – V12.1. 

The launch of Informix in March made the IIUG Conference more exciting as there were a lot of sessions focused on the new enhancements in V12.1. With over 100 sessions in 3 days 2013 IIUG Conference was one of the most successful Informix events conducted and we look forward to an even more exciting 2014 IIUG Conference.

Here is an article by Stuart Litel (President IIUG) summarizing the conference.Hope that you enjoy reading it.

Until next time,

Louis

 

IBM Informix Round-Up : February 2013 is out!

Did you check out the February edition of the “IBM Informix Round-Up” newsletter?

The newsletter is designed to keep Informix Business Partners up to date on all of the latest Informix news.

This highlight of this edition of the newsletter is the upcoming webcast of the new Informix. Aren’t we all excited about it?
Read the newsletter to know more : http://informixroundup.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/ibm-informix-round-up-february-2013/

Regards,

Louis

Upping the Informix Ante: Advanced Data Tools

PS: Kindly note that this is a republished blogpost from Mastering Data Management

Upping the Informix Ante: Advanced Data Tools

A few weeks ago, when we spoke to IBM Champion for Informix Lester Knutsen, we realized that his company – Advanced Data Tools – is home to three Champions with a combined 82 years of Informix experience.

Cindy Lichtenauer has been working with Informix since she was at Southwestern Bell in 1988, and she also worked for Informix for 12 years. Art Kagel began his career as a developer and “found” Informix in 1983 when he was challenged to discover a new developmental environment and database. And Lester is a founding member of IIUG and one of our inaugural IBM Champions. Be sure to check out our full interview with Lester.

All three are very active in the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) – in fact, that’s how they met. So we talked to the trio about the value of user groups and the upcoming IIUG conference.

Lester’s user group experience dates to 1983. That’s when he attended his first user group meeting and came away with a “badly Xeroxed” copy of a program that became PC-Talk. But the people he met that night helped him overcome the bad handout and learn RS-232 communications, which inspired him to become a regular participant in user groups.

Each cites different reasons for investing time in IIUG. For Cindy, it’s about “making life-long connections and friends, and sharing knowledge and learning.” She found her last two jobs through IIUG contacts, and is active on the IIUG Conference planning committee.

Art sees access to IBM Informix executives and developers as a key reason to remain involved, as the group affects the direction of the product. “As individuals,” he explained, “we only have so much influence. As a group, we have power.” Through IIUG, Art says, users can help keep IBM focused on their needs while giving feedback on how well the software meets those needs. He also sees it as a way to “pay back” everything he gets from the community. “I type fast,” he joked when Lester noted how much time Art spends on the forums.

For Lester, IIUG’s value is in finding questions that he may not have considered otherwise. Sharing best practices and getting answers keeps him coming back for more. “You show up and participate… and you’ll find people faced with the same technical challenges you faced, who have solved them in interesting ways that you can learn from,” he explained.

All this learning comes together each April at the annual IIUG conference. As Stuart Litel told us recently, and Cindy confirmed, the conference has grown for 2012. Two new tracks will focus on development and how other IBM products work with Informix. In addition to the 80 planned sessions, full day tutorials and hands-on labs will give attendees plenty of knowledge and tools to take back to their work. This year’s registration is ahead of last year’s, with lots of new people planning to attend.

The team ups the ante on applying all that knowledge with their annual Fastest Informix DBA contest. Each year, about 30 attendees compete for bragging rights (and an iPad) to solve a real-world Informix problem. The contest has created quite the rivalry, and the time constraints – an hour to complete the challenge – keep it intense. Last year’s challenge sought who could get the most transactions in ten minutes on a 1000 user OLTP benchmark, using a very small machine.

Head to the IIUG Conference (April 22-25 in San Diego) to meet Art, Cindy and Lester and see if you have what it takes to be the Fastest Informix DBA. And listen to the podcast for more of our interview.

Inspiring “Aha” Data Moments: Lester Knutsen

PS: This is a republished blogpost from Mastering Data Management

One of our inaugural IBM Champions, Lester Knutsen, summed up his Informix work in a single sentence: “I like building databases.” While working at Aberdeen Proving Ground in 1983, one of the first Unix boxes arrived, bundled with Informix – and Lester marveled at how quickly he could get into it.

This passion drives everything he does. Lester is president of Advanced DataTools, an Advanced IBM Partner that focuses on Informix consulting, training, support and software. Lester is also a founding member of IIUG (the International Informix Users Group), president of the Washington, DC area Informix Users Group and an IBM Gold Consultant.

Lester and his Advanced DataTools team engage users in every step of the data warehouse process. Lester explains, “End users don’t really know what they want until they see it. Anybody who thinks you can just design a project on paper and then go implement it, unchanged, is dead wrong. You’ve got to have user involvement – and that’s the key part of agile development.”

Starting with user requirements, the team loads the data and builds a prototype that lets clients “kick the tires” and see how their data actually works within the warehouse. Clients are often surprised at what they find in the prototype. For the first time, they can identify their biggest customers or find missing transactions.

Even more important, though, is the ability to change direction as clients have “aha” moments about their data. Sometimes, seeing the prototype in action inspires an even better idea.

Besides building databases, Lester and his team spend a lot of time helping clients navigate an ever-changing regulatory environment. While regulations are important, Lester has noticed that some very large organizations use them as “an excuse not to get things done.” These organizations often lack a truly cooperative team or a clear mission.

In contrast, Lester is proud of his team, noting he’s built, “the best pool of Informix talent in the world, outside of IBM.” The team includes two additional IBM Champions, Cindy Lichtenauer and Art Kagel, with whom we did a follow-up interview. (Stay tuned.) Lester firmly believes that, “Good people attract good people,” and he’s committed to developing talent. Advanced DataTools has a unique internship program for high school seniors and college students who show promise in technology. Several participants have come to work for Advanced DataTools after graduation.

Through it all, Lester tries to foster an environment that’s “fun, interesting and challenging.” His team works hard, but they also list their passions on the company’s website. In Lester’s case, he travels extensively to scuba dive and take underwater photos and videos. You can view his incredible collection at http://www.lesterknutsen.com. Currently, he’s using his database skills to organize his growing video library before heading to Indonesia this summer.

Listen to our interview for more from Lester, and be sure to watch this space for our follow-up conversation with the trio of Champions from Advanced DataTools. You can also follow Lester on Twitter @LesterKnutsen.

The Secret of Informix: Stuart Litel

PS : This is republished blopost from Mastering Data Management

During our recent interview with International Informix User Group (IIUG) president Stuart Litel, he shared the best-kept secret about Informix. Working with Informix since the mid-1980s, Stuart is well-qualified to share such secrets. But we’ll get to that in a bit.

Stuart first encountered Informix when he was hired by Sheraton to replace the worldwide Sheraton reservation service. During testing, the team discovered that “this thing called Informix” worked best. Overnight, Sheraton became the world’s largest non-governmental user of Informix.

IBM’s 2001 acquisition of Informix changed the game, adding resources that have made Informix even more stable and useful. Stuart points to the prevalence of releases offering new features as a huge reason that users choose – and stick with – Informix.

“We buy technical products for technical reasons, or to solve a technical problem,” he explained, noting that he’s never met a person who left Informix for technical reasons – which says a lot. Informix is “too stable for its own good,” Stuart said, joking that the biggest job of an Informix DBA is to search the internet. “When a person gets a hold of [Informix] and has used it for awhile, they really dread using another database product.”

As president of IIUG, Stuart spoke highly of the users, saying, “The people who use it are a testament to the product.” He’s currently very busy preparing for the April IIUG Conference, which will be the biggest ever, and the first time the conference will be in San Diego. Stuart praised the host hotel’s wifi – it even works by the pool – and food.

But more importantly, the larger hotel will allow for more sessions. Organizers have added two educational tracks, bringing the total to seven tracks with over 80 sessions. Stuart is especially enthusiastic about David Barnes’ keynote on Big Data. David is Program Director, Strategy and Emerging Technologies with IBM.

Join Stuart and IIUG April 22-25 in San Diego for the IIUG Conference. While you’re there, get certified and attend the hands-on labs.

Oh, and what was Stuart’s best-kept secret about Informix? “It works.”

Jerry Keesee talks about his blog post on Informix future and IOD 2012

I had the opportunity to interview Jerry Keesee (World Wide Director, Informix Software, IBM Data Management) where he spoke about his blog post on Informix future and IOD 2012 during the Discover Informix event, which was help in Singapore (September 2012). He then touched upon the achievements of Informix in the past 10 years and also spoke about how IBM is continually making investments to Informix. He also highlighted the importance of attending the IOD conference and why it becomes an exciting proposition for an Informix user to be a part of IOD.

Watch the complete video to know more.

Link to the video : http://youtu.be/E-FdpxiT3U8

Until next time,

Louis

IBM Informix at Information on Demand (IOD) 2012

Dear Informix fans,

IOD 2012 is almost on its way, and I thought it would be good time now, to capture all the Informix sessions that will be presented at IOD 2012. Please have a look at the sessions below and plan your agenda for IOD 2012 using the agenda builder http://sample.iodsmartsite.com/

Monday, October 22

1. Session ID: IDS-1765A 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

Venue : Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Informix Warehouse Accelerator: A Year in Perspective: Customers have many technology choices that can accelerate their data warehouses. This session will examine technology trends, discuss why customers choose Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA), present customer use cases, review applications and summarize lessons learned across a diverse set of customer adoptions.

2. Session ID: IDS-2612A 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Venue : Mandalay Bay North,Convention Center -Tradewinds D

How Informix TimeSeries Differentiates the IBM Distribution Grid Monitoring Solution:

IBM Distribution Grid Monitoring (DGM) is a medium and low-voltage grid monitoring and device management system. It offers a visualization interface that can help socialize Smart Grid data with the rest of the enterprise. The extensible data warehouse has powerful analytics that can aid in grid operation and planning. This session will give an overview of DGM and how Informix provides a single platform solution that is designed to meet complex requirements. Informix with the TimeSeries feature strengthens the Historian module by managing operational data efficiently and establishing its referential integrity with context such as network models. The Informix Warehouse Accelerator adds analytical strengths that complement these features.

3. Session ID: IDS-1888B 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM

Venue : Mandalay Bay South

Convention Center -Bayside Dining IM BoF,Tables 20&21

BOF – Achieving High Availability and Scalability Across Heterogeneous Environments: Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over lunch.

4. IDS-1889B 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM

Mandalay Bay South, Convention Center – Bayside Dining IM BoF, Tables 22&23

BOF – Enabling Cost Effective Applications that use Interval (Time Series) or Spatial Data Types: Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over lunch.

5. IDS-1402A 02:00 PM – 05:00 PM

Mandalay Bay South, Convention Center – Shorelines B Lab Rm. 11

Hands-On With Informix 11.70: New Features Can Be Implemented Wherever Appropriate: Attend this session to experience the many new futures that have been introduced in Informix 11.70. These features are designed to enhance the core strengths of Informix: high availability, reliability, scale out, ease of use, simple administration, security and performance.

6. IDS-1052A 02:15 PM – 03:15 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center -Tradewinds D,

Informix Warehouse Accelerator: Billion Rows Benchmark Demo: After one year of using the Informix Warehouse Accelerator there is considerable evidence of its amazingly fast performance. In one set of benchmarks it took 14 minutes to run queries that used to take 9 hours. This session will demonstrate current benchmarks with this exciting new database technology. It will include a demonstration of ad-hoc queries on a bookstore database with 250 million customer records and over a billion sales transaction records in the fact table. Attend this session and learn how to achieve very fast performance with your data warehouse.

7. IDS-2866A 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM

Mandalay Bay North : Convention Center -Tradewinds D

How Informix Clustering Technology Helps European Retailer NKD to Improve Operations and Reduce Costs: NKD is a rapidly-growing fashion retailer with roughly 1700 stores in central Europe. This presentation will show how NKD is able to use Informix to fulfill its growing availability and scalability demands. The session will explain how a cost-conscious retailer like NKD was able to move to a new Informix version on Linux, thereby improving its IT operation while reducing costs at the same time. The NKD solution combines state-of-the-art hardware technology such as SSDs with new Informix features. For instance, NKD has implemented high availability with a shared disk cluster that allowed them to reduce failover time to just a few seconds.

Tuesday, October 23

1. IDS-3659A 08:15 AM – 09:30 AM

Mandalay Bay North,Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Informix in the Cloud: Businesses are embracing the virtualization and automation of cloud computing to help decrease costs and increase the efficiency of their IT departments. Informix offers time-tested characteristics such as stability, low cost of administration and performance, in addition to recent new features. This combination makes Informix an excellent choice for cloud computing applications. Attend this session to explore how a business implementing a private cloud could benefit from Informix Flexible Grid. Attendees will also hear about the new Informix Hypervisor Edition and what it can mean for cloud computing.

2. IDS-1871A 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Mandalay Bay North

Convention Center – Tradewinds D

IBM Informix Innovations: Where We Are and Where We Are Going: Come to this session to hear the Director of Informix Development talk about how the latest Informix innovations are helping Informix win new clients and partners across industries. You will also hear how Informix is uniquely positioned with a critical role among the IBM solutions for big data. The discussion will include a glimpse of the Informix roadmap and strategy that will continue to enable smarter solutions.

3. IDS-1062A 10:00 AM – 01:00 PM

Mandalay Bay South, Convention Center – Shorelines B Lab Rm. 11

Hands-On With Informix Warehouse Accelerator: In March 2011 IBM introduced market-changing data warehouse technology that dramatically enhanced the ability of Informix to operate as a data warehouse or data analysis server. The accelerator technology uses compression and a columnar approach to storing and accessing data in-memory, as opposed to the row-based approach of most database engines. The IBM approach is designed to provide data response times that are hundreds of times faster than those achieved with conventional systems. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to use this technology.

 

4. IDS-2154A 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

How the Malaysian Inland Revenue Board Improved Performance with an IBM Informix Genero-Based Framework: The Inland Revenue Board Malaysia (IRBM) is one of the largest revenue-collecting agencies of the Malaysian government. It is responsible for tax administration for the nation’s taxpayers. In 2006, Censof implemented the Standard Accounting System for Government Agencies (SAGA)-compliant Century Financials (Government) at the IRBM. This solution was built on IBM Informix Genero and IBM Informix. The functionality and performance of this solution helped Censof win the subsequent Electronic Revenue Accounting System (e-RAS) project. The e-RAS project was implemented to provide greater efficiency in dealing with the public sector as outlined in the IRBM Client Charter

5. IDS-1879B 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM

Mandalay Bay South, Convention Center – Bayside Dining IM BoF Tables 17&18

BOF – Informix Application Development: Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over lunch.

6. IDS-1875B 01:15 PM – 02:15 PM

Mandalay Bay South,Convention Center – Bayside Dining IM BoF, Tables 11&12

BOF – Accelerating Data Warehouses with Informix: Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over lunch.

7. ID-3428B 01:45 PM – 02:45 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Accelerating Data Life Cycle Management With Informix Warehouse Accelerator and Intel Xeon: IWA works with a snapshot of the data in Informix data mart. Once you have defined the data mart on IWA and loaded the data, you need to periodically refresh the data. You can choose to refresh all of the data or just the partitions that were added, dropped or modified. Whether you have hundreds of gigabytes or many terabytes, faster refresh will help you analyze recent data more rapidly and get closer to real-time  business. This session will explain the options for data refresh, review their performance and explain how  to correctly implement a refresh plan. IBM and Intel will demonstrate live data refresh on the Intel Xeon platform and examine the impact on performance.

8. IDS-3647B 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Informix 11.7 Performance Landscape: This session will present a detailed overview of Informix 11.7 performance, including new features, tuning and monitoring options, and best practices.

9. IDS-3459A 04:30 PM – 05:45 PM

Mandalay Bay North,Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Rapid Application Development With Informix Genero: Additional Benefits for New Applications: You have heard about the benefits of Informix Genero for modernizing 4GL, but what about using Genero for new application development? Genero provides all of the expected benefits of developing in a 4th-generation language, including simple constructs for working with your Informix database. This session explores the capabilities of the Genero graphical development environment, and how it streamlines the development process.If you are developing new apps for mobile, web or the desktop, Informix Genero should be on your shortlist.

Wednesday, October 24

1. IDS-1786A 10:30 AM – 01:30 PM

Mandalay Bay South, Convention Center – Shorelines B Lab Rm. 11

Modernizing 4GL Applications and Providing Web Services Using IBM Informix Genero: The lab will give users an understanding of IBM Informix Genero. Attendees will learn how to modernize existing 4GL applications with minimal user interaction. They will also see how Informix Genero is designed to help you develop applications once, and then deploy them over the web, on mobile devices, on desktops and more. The session will present case studies ranging from simple to complex, and will also explain the IBM experience and best practices for using Informix Genero.

2. IDS-3055A 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Using Informix Warehouse Accelerator to Accelerate Data Warehousing at Westfleisch: Data warehouses, must simultaneously provide fast answers to user queries while maintaining a low total cost of ownership. This presentation shows how one of the top five meat marketers in Europe, Westfleisch, employed Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) to achieve these two goals. The project followed a 2011 proof-of-concept and decision by Westfleisch to move their data warehouse to IWA. This session will describe how this task was performed and what lessons were learned.

3. IDS-3560A 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center -, Tradewinds D

Informix TimeSeries and Informix Spatial: What are Database Extensions and How Can I Use Them? Informix includes support for special data types such as interval (time series) data and spatial data. Applications utilizing these data types are becoming increasingly popular across industries. This session will discuss several use scenarios and answer the kinds of questions that arise when considering special data types. How can existing applications be enhanced to use location data or interval data? How much work is involved? What will it cost? What should we think about when designing a new spatial or time series application? Finally, the discussion will address the extensibility of the Informix database.

4. IDS-1875B 01:15 PM – 02:15 PM

Mandalay Bay South Convention Center – Bayside Dining IM BoF Tables 11&12

BOF – Accelerating Data Warehouses with Informix: Exchange challenges, strategies and success stories during these informal discussions over lunch.

5. IDS-4202A 02:30 PM – 03:30 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Pronto Xi, Informix and IBM Cognos 10 – Designing integrated ERP and real-time BI for Mid-Market: Pronto Software was the first ERP vendor globally to release a fully integrated package of ERP and Cognos 10 BI. We’ll discuss how it was done and how we leveraged the IBM Informix Database to provide simultaneous transactional and real time business intelligence in a single seamless environment. The World has moved from simple, static reporting to dynamic, real-time dashboards, widgets and reports. Learn how Pronto has integrated the three pillars of this solution: Pronto ERP application, IBM Informix and IBM Cognos BI from a technical,change management and market perspective to provide a world leading solution in the mid-market.

6. IDS-1935A 03:45 PM – 04:45 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center , Tradewinds D

Getting the Most From Informix Compression and Other Storage Optimization Features: To get the most out of Informix Storage, you should utilize exciting new features such as data compression and index compaction. If you understand how to optimize data and index storage, your disk drives essentially work for you. Attend this session to learn how these new features can help you reduce backup times, improve query performance and lower administration costs.

 

7. IDS-2762A 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center -, Tradewinds D

Retail Management System With Embedded Informix Database: This session will discuss how the Avanti retail management system, with Informix as its underlying database, has helped many retail customers to implement a faster solution, save record maintenance costs and offer an easy-to-operate system.

Thursday, October 25

1. IDS-1504A 08:15 AM – 09:30 AM

Mandalay Bay North

Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Accelerating Business Process Management with Informix 11.7: IBM BPM 7.5 has a process instance repository, but sometimes it is necessary to interact with an external database. The Maricopa County Attorney’s office has integrated BPM 7.5 with Informix 11.7 and found the performance to be substantially faster than what their prior system achieved. This session will explore why.

2. IDS-1581A 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Mandalay Bay North Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Improving Performance With Query Rewrite and External Tables: This session will explore two areas of Informix that are important for achieving maximum performance: query rewrite and external tables. Attendees will learn various techniques for doing query rewrite and hear about its use in different customer environments. The session will also cover internals of external tables and why it is important to replace many existing tools. Attend this session to hear about the most important factors to consider when using external tables to make your environment better, faster and more efficient.

3. IDS-2717A 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center -, Tradewinds D

Delivering True Offline Capabilities to Mobile Devices With IBM solidDB and Worklight: The prevalence of mobile devices presents a unique challenge for businesses to deliver their capabilities by fully engaging their users. The fidelity of application interaction on these devices becomes extremely important. This presentation will cover how you can achieve this fidelity for any mobile app developed by utilizing IBM solidDB and the first-class MEAP (mobile enterprise app platform), IBM Worklight. This session will also explore how you can maintain interaction fidelity for mobile apps while achieving true offline capabilities such as security, maximum storage, a familiar programming model and sync when connectivity is available. You will witness a real-world scenario of a mobile app built using Worklight and utilizing solidDB.

 

4. IDS-1932A 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM

Mandalay Bay North,Convention Center – Tradewinds D

The Informix Graphical OpenAdmin Tool for OATs: This session will help participants understand the capabilities and architecture of OAT, the OpenAdmin Tool for Informix. The discussion will include an overview of the capabilities of OAT, highlighting such features as replication, query tracing, storage optimization, performance history graphs, auto-update statistics and space management, along with many other capabilities.

5. IDS-2397A 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM

Mandalay Bay North, Convention Center – Tradewinds D

Best Practices for Embedding Informix in a Constrained Environment: One of the primary strengths of Informix is its hands-free administration. This means Informix is often the best choice for an embedded application. In this session, participants can learn about the best practices for embedding Informix in a constrained environment where resources are limited. Informix customers could also reduce their overall administration cost by taking advantage of features that make Informix embeddable.

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Until next time,

Louis