4. Informix Helps Build a Smarter Planet
We make sure you can buy
We know the best way
tickets online
from A to B
Ticketcorner delivers a Smart Ticketing Traffic Master delivers Smart Traffic
system powered by Informix systems powered by Informix
We deliver smarter We deliver packages faster
We see hidden
health care at
patterns
lower cost
Woman’s Health USA provides Unique Express manages driver and
physicians “back room” business vehicle resources with a Smart
support powered by Informix Freight solution powered by Informix
5. Informix Flexible Grid
for Smarter Availability and Scalability
“Informix Flexible Grid technology promises measurable IT cost
savings for any size business.“
Romana Opletalova, General Manager, d-Prog Ltd.
• Scale globally
• Manage easily
• Balance workloads
• Rolling Upgrades
• Heterogeneous
• Avoid platform lock-in
• Ideal for the Cloud
6. Smarter Transportation and Shipping
What’s smart?
• Enhanced customer service with user
insight into 500,000 shipment
checkpoints
• Improved staff efficiencies with 12X
faster system backups/administration
• Reduced IT costs through
compatibility with multiple platforms
Smarter Business Outcomes
• Reclaimed staff productivity enables
new customer services and
applications
• Rapid growth is matched by
performance and ease of scale-out
“By using the Flexible Grid feature of Informix 11.7, our IT department has saved administrative
time that can now be used to create new functionality and applications for our customers.”
~ Felipe Villegas, CIO, DHL Express Mexico
7. Smarter Gaming
Game Show Network meets growing user demand and enhances revenue
with around-the-clock game availability
What’s smart?
• High performance for tens of thousands of
players per day enjoying 750,000 games
per day with a single DBA
• Projected 50-percent increase in analytics
to match players based on similar skill-
levels and to prevent fraud
Smarter Business Outcomes
• No unplanned downtime for past two
years; avoidance of planned downtime
• Avoidance of $100,000 expenditure for
new server capacity
“The Flexible Grid feature of Informix enables us to perform rolling upgrades without any outages,
so players can go on playing with no interruption and no impact on our revenue. That’s worth its
weight in gold.”
~ Susan Marciano, Vice President of Technical Operations, Game Show Network
8. Smarter Cloud Computing with Informix
– Only database that can be utilized and provisioned in a cloud
model on heterogeneous, commodity hardware
– Easily manage the entire environment from a single console using
a comprehensive set of administration commands
– Modern development environment for cloud and mobile technology
deployments
– Provide around-the-clock services with virtually NO downtime, even
for routine maintenance and upgrades
– Manage workload utilization cost effectively for both OLTP and
Decision Support applications
9. Informix for Cloud Computing Use Case - Direct to database cloud scenario
Transactional App J2EE Operations App
BI App
Reservations Operations DB
Data Mart HR DB
Transactional DB
Informix Cloud
Console
•Manage Utilization •Time to Value
•Manage database provisioning •Time to Service
•Manage workloads •DC optimization
•Reduced Costs
10. Informix Warehouse Accelerator
for Smarter Business Intelligence
What is it? How is it different?
The Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) is a Performance. Unprecedented response
workload optimized, appliance-like, add-on, that times to enable 'train of thought' analysis
enables the integration of business insights into
operational processes to drive winning strategies. frequently blocked by poor query
It accelerates select queries, with unprecedented performance.
response times.
Integration. Connects to IDS through deep
integration providing transparency to all
applications.
Transparency. applications connected to
IDS, are entirely unaware of IUWE
Simplified administration. appliance-like
hands-free operations, eliminating
database tuning tasks
Analytics at the Speed of Thought!
11. Informix Warehouse Accelerator Proof Points
Analytics at the Speed of Thought
Current
Customer/Industry IWA Solution % Faster
Large retail customer 55 sec 700 min 76,000
Skechers 2 sec 45 min 135,000
Government agency 15 min 9 hr 40 min 3,800
European Agency 67 sec 90 min 8,000
12. Informix Warehouse Editions
Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition Informix Growth Warehouse
Edition (available Q4)
Components Informix Ultimate Edition Informix Growth Edition
Informix Warehouse Accelerator Informix Warehouse Accelerator
ISAO Studio ISAO Studio
Informix Compression
Limits Max memory available Informix Growth Edition
No core limits 16 cores, 16 GB memory max
Informix on 4 platforms: Informix on 4 platforms:
AIX64, Sol64, HPUX64, Linux-Intel64 AIX64, Sol64, HPUX64, Linux-Intel64
IWA on Linux-Intel 64 IWA on Linux-Intel 64
48 GB Max, 16 core limit
Target > 300 GB of raw data < 300 GB of raw data
13. Informix TimeSeries
for Management of Interval Data
• Time Series (interval) data is:
– A set of data where each item is time-stamped
• Think of an array where each element is indexed by time
• Most useful when reading a range of data
– “Give me Jan 1st thru Jan 10th elements from time series “X”
• Access to one time series is usually completed before moving to the
next time series
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14. A New Meter Data Management (MDM) Benchmark
• WHO
– IBM
– AMT-SYBEX (IBM Business Partner; provider of
solutions for Energy & Utility companies
• WHAT
– Joint benchmark test of AMT-SYBEX’s MDM
solution, Affinity MeterFlow, using IBM Informix
TimeSeries software to manage smart meter data
– Tests conducted using a single IBM POWER7®
system, utilizing 16 cores.
• WHEN and WHERE
– Performed at the IBM Power Systems Benchmark
Center; Montpellier, France
– August 2011
15. Unprecedented MDM Benchmark Results
• 100 million meters!
– End-to-end processing time < 8 hours (30-minute intervals)
• 10 million meters!
– End-to-end processing time < 36 minutes (30-minute intervals)
• Linear results!
– Overall processing time remained constant with increased historical
data
– Storage usage remained linear with increasing data
• 31 days of meter data used < 4TB of standard storage
16. Informix Genero
for Smarter Development of Mobile and Cloud-based Apps
• Deploy apps faster with easy, graphical tools
– Deploy in browser-based, GUI, Windows or mobile and cloud
environments
• Lower development costs
– Improve developer productivity
– Develop apps 5 to 10 times faster
– Modernize existing 4GL apps
Desktop, Web & Mobile
"Genero is enabling us to shift our entire business model to Software as a Service at a pace we simply could not
achieve with other tools. We have gone from green-screen to graphical desktop and now to cloud-based rich
internet applications, all while maintaining our core Informix 4GL business logic. ~ George Pepper, Senior Vice
President, Operations, SunGard Public Sector
17. Smarter Manufacturing
Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke meets growing user demand and enhances
revenue through modernization of their applications.
What’s smart?
• Two-week migration of 4GL
applications to Informix
Genero,
• 20 percent decrease in
errors and 20 percent
increase in productivity
Smarter Business
Outcomes
• Retained 100% investment
in years of business logic
• Faster development enabling
faster time-to-market
“Genero saved us from having to redevelop all our applications, which we would have been
forced to do with a Java or .NET solution.”
~ Ulrike Otersen, Manager of Software Development, Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke GmbH
18. Informix Deep Embed
• Self-Configuring
– Build a package containing:
• Informix Server,
• (Optional) pre-built database(s)
• (Optional) applications
– Package compression
– Deployment Assistant/Utility
– Deploy, decompress, and install the package
on multiple systems
– Can be used for media distribution, such as CDs
• Self-Maintenance
– Automated storage allocation
– Allows chunks to be extended automatically
– Adds chunks automatically when space is low
– Customized thresholds for events
• Self-Healing
– Internal error handling and retries
– Automatically timeout idle users
– Automated storage optimization per custom settings
– Automatically add CPU VPs to match hardware/licensing during start-up
– Automated DB Scheduler tasks
19. Informix is embedded in Cisco’s Key Products
• Informix was recognized as software vendor of the year at
Cisco for 2011
• Informix is currently included in over 25+ products at Cisco
• 100,000’s of customers run Informix – without Administration requirements
“Cisco is taking advantage of the fact that Informix is easily embeddable, and
also, the redundant capabilities that Informix has to allow us to use our
distributed architecture to scale for our customers.” Phil Harris, Senior
Director of Engineering, Cisco
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24. Informix Long Term Roadmap
2012*
Flexible Grid
Informix vNext* Modernization Performance
Warehouse/BI improvements
Benchmarks Applications Availability
Informix TimeSeries
enhancements Security
2014*
Informix for Cloud
Informix for Handhelds Informix vNext+* 2016*
Enhance Deep Embed Distributed
Informix vNext++*
Industry specific query processing on grid
enhancements Extend Grid to Continue to invest
Informix Genero non-database sources in Informix to
Enhancements Genero Enhancements increase its
SQL Enhancements for Grid Cloud/Hadoop Enhancements strengths and to
Continued IBM S/W integration open new markets
Continued IBM S/W integration
* Features and timeline Subject to change
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27. Informix Early Access Program
• IBM Informix Early Access Program
– Get early access to new capabilities
– Prototype solutions in your environment for faster
deployment
– Access to IBM resources through lab advocates
– Assist the IBM Information Management team in defining the
product roadmap
Sign Up Now
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/informix/beta/
28. 2012 IIUG Informix Conference
April 22 – 25, 2012
San Diego California, USA
San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
The Board of Directors of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) announces the IIUG 2012 Informix Conference, to be held at the San Diego
Marriott Mission Valley on April 22-25, 2012.
For more details visit the official conference web site www.iiug.org/conf
Attention Speakers: We are now accepting Presentation Proposals thru Nov. 1, 2012.
Details at the conference web site. http://www.iiug.org/conf/call_for_presentations/
29. Wherever you plan to go with
your data in the next decade,
IBM Informix software can help
you get there.
32. Informix Warehouse Accelerator Performance Tests
• Queries faster by 100 times!
– Large retail customer reduces query times from 700 mins to 55 secs
– Shoe retailer reduces longest running query from 45 mins to 2 secs
– Government agency reduces report time from 9 hrs 40 mins to 15 mins
– European government agency reduces query time from 90 mins to 67
secs
• Scales up on latest Intel Hardware!
– IWA scales up in SMP and scales out in cluster
– IWA takes full advantage of Intel chips
– Double digit performance improvement on newer chips with no change
in software
33. Benefits of Informix Warehouse Accelerator
• 3rd generation database management technology utilizing in-memory, columnar
approach
• Provides predicate evaluation on compressed data
• Requires no change to queries submitted either directly or via 3rd-party tools
• Utilizes low-cost commodity hardware
• Eliminates time-consuming query tuning
• Eliminates building of cubes/summary tables
35. Regulatory,
Asset, Device
Informed Decision-making
Risk and
and Service
Compliance
Monitoring
Management
Improved Informed
Customer Decision
Experience Making
Add ‘intelligence’ in the Intelligent Utility Network
Asset Business
Lifecycle Process
Management Automation
Security
Solutions
Morristown Status
Phase A Current (AMPS) Phase B Current (AMPS) Phase C Current (AMPS) Intraday Phase Current
Phase A Voltage Phase B voltage Phase C Voltage Morristown Status Neutral
Phase A Angle Phase A Angle Phase A Angle
Information management with InfoSphere Warehouse, Netezza, and Informix Time Series integrates
disparate data and systems
Provide meaningful information and insights to the utility’s various stakeholders with Cognos Business
Intelligence and SPSS Statistical Analysis
Optimize business performance, organization and planning with iLog Optimization
Business event monitoring with WebSphere Decision Server helps visualize, detect, evaluate, correlate and
respond to business events and improves utility operations and planning
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37. Fiber Optic Acoustic Security
Offering Overview
• TerraEchos ADELOS S4 Sensor Array provides covert Pain Points
surveillance capabilities to detect, classify, and act on
threats to critical infrastructure. S4 Security System
• Fiber Optic Acoustic sensor technology licensed from US • Reliability and Stability are paramount and need to
Navy and digital signal processing hardware built by S&K function for years without significant upgrades
Electronics • Advanced functionality of Spatial & Time Series data
• Built using IBM Technology (InfoSphere Streams, Informix required
with Spatial and TimeSeries) • Scalable, stream-based analytics required to handle
Gigabytes of data per second
Benefits
Critical Infrastructure Security
• Single strand of fiber optic cable buried covertly
• Ability to detect and track multiple targets along fiber
optic zones
• Zones are flexible and can be redefined
programmatically
• Advanced Signature Classification libraries
• Integrated detection into actionable workflow
39. Informix Performance Benchmarks and Testing
Meter Data Management (MDM) benchmark used Informix TimeSeries technology
built on top of high performing Informix database engine
MDM benchmark IWA performance tests demonstrate Informix can meet any
performance challenge across a broad spectrum of industries
Leverages Informix’s dynamically scalable multi-threaded architecture
Exploits efficient checkpoints, direct I/O, optimal disk fragmentation etc.
Exploits hardware capabilities (e.g. IWA benchmark) for maximum performance
The Benchmarks proved Informix database specifically solves a key data
management challenges which other database cannot solve without massive
hardware.
Expect to recruit new partners and win new business as result of interest generated
by these benchmarks
MDM Benchmark helped created visibility and re-vitalize Informix within IBM GBS
and S&D teams who are focusing on IBM’s Smarter Planet solutions
IWA Performance results are generating significant interest from Informix install base
for mixed workload applications
40. Smarter Cloud Computing
Doing more with less
Reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses
Reducing risk
Ensure the right levels of security and resiliency
across all business data and processes
Higher quality services
Improve quality of services and deliver new services
that help the business grow and reduce costs
Breakthrough agility
Increase ability to quickly deliver new services to capitalize
on opportunities while containing costs and managing risk
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