Embedding Informix

Deliver a complete, world-class solution
Demonstrate your technology leadership by providing your customers a complete and hassle-free solution that includes an invisible, pre-configured, pre-tuned data management solution. Whether you sell to large enterprises, or small-to-midsized businesses, you’ll ensure your customers receive a high-quality “out of the box” experience, with no need to buy database licenses or deal with manageability issues.

Achieve platform independence
Informix is available on multiple versions of Windows, Linux, UNIX, and MAC operating systems, so OEMS, ISVs, and VARs are not locked into a single platform and can pursue more market opportunities. Informix is standards-based, and supports a wide choice of integrated development environments and application development languages. The same installer can be used on all platforms and can be customized and hidden within the embedded solution very easily.

Accelerate time-to-market
Focus on your core business and let Informix take care of the data management requirements. When you embed Informix, you avoid unnecessary development time, and you do not have to compromise on database performance or functionality. Informix is faster to install, setup, configure, and fully deploy than other enterprise class RDBM systems.

Reduce your development costs
If you haven’t looked at the low cost benefits of Informix lately, it’s time to look again.
By embedding or bundling Informix, you can nearly eliminate upfront licensing costs typically incurred during the development phase. You’ll also benefit from the ongoing savings in operational expenses, since Informix autonomic features eliminate system failures and require less performance tuning, and eliminate many manual tasks normally required with other RDBM systems.

Deliver superior service levels
Informix is renowned for delivering blazing performance and continuous data availability, ensuring the highest level of service to your customers and avoiding the costs associated with downtime. It is not uncommon for us to hear that partners and customers have 99.9999% uptime annually.

Deliver innovative virtualization and cloud computing solutions
Informix is widely deployed in virtualized environments and has a profile and
feature set that lends itself to virtualization. Not only does this cut costs through server consolidation, but it paves the road for the benefits of moving to true cloud computing, achieving economies of scale while shifting users to a services-oriented relationship.

Cost-effectively scale up or scale out
Companies that need to add capacity on-demand will benefit from the flexible architecture of Informix that lets you scale up or scale out on-demand, using low-cost, commodity hardware that is easy to swap out or upgrade. You can scale your workload across servers and across locations to maximize performance and balance your workload while simplifying operational complexity.

Simple and cost effective for embedded deployments
Informix has a small footprint, a silent install, and self-managing capabilities that make it ideal as an embedded data management solution. Informix can be up and running in minutes, not days, and then requires virtually zero administration. The small footprint also allows for quicker download times across network lines.