Analyst reports
IBM Informix in hybrid workload environments - A Report by Philip Howard, Bloor Research
How unique capabilities of IBM Informix make it compelling for analytical applications.
Last updated: 18 Aug 2012
OVUM Report Informix accelerates analytic integration into OLTP
Learn how Informix Warehouse Accelerator IWA slices operational data from Informix OLTP databases and creates a highly compressed, in- memory analytic datamart that can be accessed concurrently by multiple users firing off analytic queries without fear of performance degradation.
Last updated: 16 Jul 2012
IDC Report: IBM Informix TimeSeries software helps CIO address the challenges of meter data overload
With Informix TimeSeries software, organizations can reduce data load times, decrease the capacity needed for data storage, and dramatically improve query performance.
Last updated: 16 Mar 2012
IBM Informix: A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study
In this report, Forrester Consulting examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying IBM® Informix® database software.
Last updated: 16 Sep 2010
Cost/Benefit case for IBM Informix — Compared to Microsoft SQL Server for midsize organizations
This white paper summarizes the results of a comparison study in which the total cost of ownership of IBM® Informix® is shown to be at least 31 percent less than the cost of Microsoft® SQL Server.
Last updated: 01 Sep 2010
Announcement letters
IBM Informix 12.10 Information Center
This Web-based information center is the primary source for the information that you need to use the Informix 12.10 family of products and features.
Last updated: 26 Mar 2013
Informix 12.1 Announcement Letter
IBM Informix V12.1 delivers enhancements for operational analytics, specialized workloads, and the private cloud, while continuing to advance core database capabilities
Last updated: 26 Mar 2013
All Informix Announcement Letters
Get the latest release information for Informix products at the IBM Offering Information Web site.
Last updated: 21 Sep 2012
Books
Big data, big potential
IBM Informix is an ideal platform for enterprise and embedded application development, at any scale and with a wide array of tools. Informix delivers cost-effective high performance and meets critical enterprise needs for security, failure recovery and data distribution.
Last updated: 03 Apr 2013
Achieving timeliness and relevance for smarter retail
This eBook examines how IBM® Informix® software serves as the right data management framework to help retail organizations make the right offers to the right customers at the right time.
Last updated: 13 Nov 2012
Flexible Application Development with IBM Informix
IBM Informix is an ideal platform for enterprise and embedded application development, at any scale and with a wide array of tools. Informix delivers cost-effective high performance and meets critical enterprise needs for security, failure recovery and data distribution.
Last updated: 07 Sep 2012
IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator
Extreme warehouse speed for fast business decisions
Last updated: 26 Mar 2012
Achieve business continuity with heterogeneous IT resources: Informix Flexible Grid
With Informix Flexible Grid you can administer your Informix data servers as if they were a single entity and distribute workloads across all of them, no matter what hardware, operating systems or version of Informix they use.
Last updated: 01 Oct 2011
Brochures
IBM Informix powers OLTP and analytics for data-driven businesses
A single database platform delivers maximal performance for multiple workloads
Last updated: 16 Apr 2013
IBM Informix software product family: Version 12. 1 - Simply powerful data management software
Informix 12.1 delivers unprecedented advantages: superior performance, availability and efficiency, minimal complexity and lower computing costs.
Last updated: 27 Mar 2013
Build smart metering solutions with IBM Informix TimeSeries
To realize the full potential of smart meters, utility companies and their partners need a data management solution designed to reduce data load times, decrease storage capacity needs and improve query performance for time series data.
Last updated: 18 Jun 2011
IBM Informix Genero
Informix Genero is a unique application development and deployment environment tailored for producing mission-critical business applications rapidly
Last updated: 28 Mar 2011
Case studies
Camden Council ... Reducing heating bills by 30 percent with Hildebrand and IBM Informix TimeSeries software
Camden Council worked with Hildebrand Technology to develop a heat metering program for housing developments that use district heating. The program, which relies on IBM Informix TimeSeries for efficient storage of vast amounts of data, is reducing heat consumption and CO2 emissions.
Last updated: 06 Feb 2013
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) ... Providing efficient access to Germany’s 2-PB archive of Earth observation images with IBM Informix
Germany’s Aerospace Center (DLR) needs a reliable, highly scalable database server to provide access to 2 PB of data in an archive of images while fulfilling long-term data preservation policies. With IBM Informix database, the agency has lost no data in more than 10 years.
Last updated: 30 Jan 2013
Myers ... Utilizes IBM Informix to provide a complete, worldclass and affordable solution
TV and radio broadcasters use software from Myers to manage day-to-day operations. The Myers solutions provide the database functionality customers need, without forcing them to hire a database administrator, by utilizing an IBM Informix database.
Last updated: 19 Dec 2012
Pronto strengthens its clients’ systems with flexible analytics ... Adding a new dimension to ERP with integrated reporting
Pronto Software embedded IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence into its Pronto Xi ERP solution and developed several packages of standard reports to help its clients get up and running quickly with the new analytics tools. Pronto also uses the combined solution internally to manage its own financial, sales and CR...
Last updated: 04 Jul 2012
Doosan Infracore ... Achieving threefold business growth while boosting data accuracy by 40 percent
Doosan Infracore achieves threefold business growth while boosting data accuracy by 40 percent when it implements a highly customized ERP solution powered in part by Fitrix ERP from Fourth Generation Software and running on IBM Informix database technology.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2012
GreenIvory ... Fast performance and scalability deliver seven million web pages a day
GreenIvory needed a database that takes care of itself, never goes down and works consistently across multiple platforms. Its choice of IBM Informix to power its business has helped the company grow tenfold in four years.
Last updated: 14 Mar 2012
Federació Farmacèutica (FedeFarma) ... Gains 10 to 15 percent lift in sales and reduces hardware expenditures by 30 percent
A new ERP system based on IBM Informix database improved sales and strengthened customer loyalty while saving the company US$180,000 in salaries and 30 percent in hardware costs.
Last updated: 27 Dec 2011
Superior Manufacturing gets set to wipe the floor with the competition ... Using instant sales data to guide business decision-making
Working with IBM Business Partner One Point Solutions, Superior Manufacturing Group implemented IBM® Cognos® Express and integrated it with in-house applications built on its long-established IBM Informix platform.
Last updated: 07 Dec 2011
McLEOD RUSSEL INDIA LIMITED ... Eliminating downtime in the tea trade with IBM Informix
McLEOD RUSSEL INDIA LIMITED needed to improve systems uptime across its 50-plus tea gardens to enable accurate tracking of harvest, production and marketing of up to 100 million kilos of tea per year. The company chose IBM Informix with High Availability Data Replication (HDR) to enable continuous access to c...
Last updated: 09 Sep 2011
Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke ... Achieves 20 percent increase in productivity working with Adaptris and using Informix Genero
Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke, a trailer manufacturer, needed to modernize its text-based interface for its Informix applications with a modern, attractive GUI and turned to Adaptris to migrate its 4GL applications to Genero.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2011
ColCerámica ... Reduces time-to-market by 20 percent
With its warehouse management solution running on IBM Informix, ColCerámica can closely monitor the detail of each production step across its 16 distribution centers for faster and more efficient fulfillment of customer orders.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2011
Cleartech ... Saves nearly US$1.8 million with IBM Informix 11.5
Cleartech saves nearly US$1.8 million when it works with IBM Business Partner MC Software to upgrade to IBM Informix 11.5.
Last updated: 27 Jun 2011
Coldset Printing Partners ... The IBM Informix TimeSeries solution helps company track usage trends and analyze data over time
The IBM Informix TimeSeries solution helps the company track usage trends and analyze data over time.
Last updated: 27 Jun 2011
National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE) ... Educational non-profit company enhances testing services with IBM Informix
IBM Informix database software computerized all processes for faster, more informed business decisions, and provided online transaction processing to replace paper-based processes.
Last updated: 21 Jun 2011
Proving the concept for smart metering data management ... IBM Research works with AMT-SYBEX to develop and test Smart DTS
Working with IBM Research at the Hursley Innovation Centre, AMT-SYBEX developed and tested Smart DTS, a smart meter management solution built on IBM Infomix technology. During a proof of concept, the team simulated a system that received and processed data from 10 million smart meters, achieving excellent per...
Last updated: 11 Mar 2011
RealPlus accelerates online real estate listings service ... Gains 20 percent performance improvement with IBM Informix 11.5
RealPlus has had a trouble-free 25-year history running its applications on Informix. Working with IBM Business Partners One Point Solutions and Unique Systems, RealPlus today uses Informix 11.5 for high performance, reliable and hassle-free delivery of its real estate services.
Last updated: 10 Feb 2011
Croatian health ecology specialists and inspectors keep harmful microbes and chemicals at bay ... Pardus and IBM solution enhances the monitoring of thousands of food items, materials and water
Determining the health profiles of drinking water, waste water, meat, vegetables and other products headed for Croatian and European markets and being able to go back immediately to fix problems.
Last updated: 02 Feb 2011
Unique Express makes inroads to a smarter freight solution
Unique Express is widely recognised as one of Australia’s most efficient and technologically advanced transport management companies. Underpinning much of Unique’s efficiencies is the Omnix Transport Management Solution running on an IBM System x server and the IBM Informix® Database on the Linux operating sy...
Last updated: 10 Jan 2011
MCS (Mortgage Contracting Services)
Support all e-business functions demanded by customers by integrating data into large database that could provide better performance, reliability and scalability than the Microsoft SQL Server database previously in use. The company chose IBM Informix over Oracle because of its ease of use and the scalability.
Last updated: 30 Nov 2010
Taikang Life Insurance Co Ltd. (Taikang)
Taikang needed to improve employee productivity and enhance customer service and business development opportunities by viewing all its customer and corporate information together regardless of what department it came from. The company used IBM InfoSphere Federation Server to enable a single central view of in...
Last updated: 30 Nov 2010
Egyptian Ministry of Interior halves cost of apps with EGL
As antiterrorism laws tightened, the Ministry of Interior of Egypt had to improve the information collection process and enhance responsiveness. By using Enterprise Generation Language (EGL), IBM Informix and other IBM middleware products, the team converted its legacy system to a Java and web-based solution ...
Last updated: 29 Oct 2010
Famous Smoke Shop increases online presence and enhances security with IBM Informix
An IBM Informix user since 1994, Famous Smoke Shop upgraded to Informix 11.5 to gain the scalability and security necessary to support its 10 percent year-over-year growth in online sales since 2000 and to help staff protect customers’ credit card information.
Last updated: 30 Apr 2010
NetworkIP supports expansion with IBM Informix and System x
IBM Informix Dynamic Server 10 and 11.5 upgrade and migration to IBM System x hardware enabled increased efficiency, security, safety and cost savings
Last updated: 23 Dec 2009
Data sheets
Extending the enterprise to mobile
IBM Mobile Database offers a secure, memory-optimized, full-featured enterprise mobile data management solution
Last updated: 16 Nov 2012
Information centers
IBM Informix 12.10 Information Center
This Web-based information center is the primary source for the information that you need to use the Informix 12.10 family of products and features.
Last updated: 26 Mar 2013
IBM Informix 11.70 information center
This Web-based information center is the primary source for the information that you need to use the Informix 11.70 family of products and features.
Last updated: 15 Mar 2013
IBM Informix 11.50 information center
This Web-based information center is the primary source for the information that you need to use the Informix 11.50 family of products and features.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
IBM Informix Products Information Center
This information center contains product documentation for mature releases of IBM Informix products (versions 7.x, 9.x, and earlier). Some of the products represented in this information center are no longer supported.
Last updated: 21 Mar 2011
Magazines
IBM Data Management
This magazine provides an actionable mix of in-depth technical content, practical advice, and real-world examples demonstrating how the smart use of data improves performance and reduces costs.
Last updated: 18 May 2012
Product documentation
IBM Informix product documentation
Product documentation for the Informix family of products is available by accessing the Informix Information Center online, or downloading documentation in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Last updated: 01 May 2013
Redbooks
All Informix Redbooks
Access all Informix Redbooks here
Last updated: 01 Oct 2012
Embedding IBM Informix
This Redbook highlights the capabilities for embedding Informix® into applications and software.
Last updated: 06 Mar 2012
IBM Informix Developer’s Handbook
It discusses the skills and techniques for building Informix applications with Java, ESQL/C, OLE DB, .NET, PHP, Ruby on Rails, DataBlade®, and Hibernate.
Last updated: 06 Mar 2012
IBM Informix Flexible Grid: Extending Data Availability
Solutions for making data highly available in the MACH11 cluster
Last updated: 23 Jun 2011
Videos
Business Analytics in a Blink
The Blink project’s ambitious goal was to answer all Business Intelligence queries in mere seconds, regardless of the database size and without having to define any performance layer.
Last updated: 18 Aug 2012
IBM Informix Genero Accelerates a New Generation of Applications
Learn more from this short flash video!
Last updated: 18 Aug 2012
Informix Warehouse Accelerator Accelerates Warehouse Queries up to 100X or More
Learn how Informix Warehouse Accelerator Accelerates Warehouse Queries up to 100X or More!
Last updated: 18 Apr 2012
Informix TimeSeries for smart meter data
Learn how IBM Informix TimeSeries database software can help your IT infrastructure process smart meter data 25-70 times faster than a traditional database.
Last updated: 18 Aug 2011
IBM Informix Reliable Global Platform
Informix customers discuss Informix as a reliable, scalable, real time information management solution
Last updated: 25 Jul 2011
IBM Informix manages data to create business agility
Informix customers discuss the Informix high availability, reliability and flexibility features which creates business agility
Last updated: 07 Jun 2011
White papers
Put your analytics applications into overdrive
Get more from IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator with the Intel Xeon processor E7 family
Last updated: 04 Feb 2013
Cisco and IBM Informix Database Software: Enhancing Collaboration
Cisco chose to embed IBM Informix® database software in their solutions because of the robust embeddability, high reliability, and extreme performance of Informix.
Last updated: 16 Dec 2011
IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator: Performance is everything
IBM® Informix® Warehouse Accelerator boosts the speed of warehouse queries to the IBM Informix database server.
Last updated: 25 Oct 2011
Informix TimeSeries Benchmark Results
How IBM TimeSeries software breaks the bottleneck of meter data management
Last updated: 18 Aug 2011
Converting Informix 4GL Applications to Informix Genero
Your Informix 4GL applications are fundamental to your business; too important to disrupt, too costly to rewrite and packaged applications simply don't cut it.
Last updated: 30 Mar 2011