Informix' Solutions Business Announces Complete Business Intelligence Solution for the Web
WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000--
-- i.Decide Web Success Enables Enterprises to Collect, Store and Analyze eBusiness Data--
Informix' Solutions Business, a soon to be formed wholly owned subsidiary of Informix(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:IFMX), today announced i.Decide(TM) Web Success(TM), a complete, integrated business intelligence solution for capturing, storing and analyzing Web and traditional data from sources including Web servers, email logs, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), legacy, and transactional systems. i.Decide Web Success enables businesses to track key metrics, including customer acquisition and retention, and marketing activity, providing fast, efficient access to and analysis of corporate data. i.Decide Web Success is the first in a series of i.Decide solutions, a family of pre-defined, pre-integrated, Business Intelligence (BI) offerings for eBusiness.
"To succeed in today's eBusiness economy, companies need to focus on reducing customer acquisition costs, increasing customer retention, and driving up transaction dollar values. Companies require decision support solutions that are highly scalable, powerful, Web-enabled, and support rapid development," said Wayne Kernochan, managing vice president, Platform Infrastructure, Aberdeen Group. "Informix' i.Decide Web Success includes all the major components of an ideal end-to-end Internet decision support solution including data import and cleansing, database management, querying and analysis support, and development tools. Using i.Decide Web Success, organizations can effectively leverage enterprise eBusiness-critical Web data."
i.Decide is a tightly integrated, flexible, scalable solution that grows with a company's data volume, enabling continued analysis of customer behavior and quicker response to customer needs, preferences and habits. i.Decide Web Success includes an intuitive analytical application, infrastructure software, and consulting services packages for implementation and customization. Going forward, i.Decide Web Success will support leading database platforms including those from IBM, Informix, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase.
"The Internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to extend brand awareness, add channels of distribution and reduce the costs associated with retaining customers," said Laurent Mayer, senior vice president, Business Intelligence Solutions, Informix. "i.Decide Web Success is the only end-to-end solution that allows a business to integrate online transaction, customer, and traditional data to provide a complete view of business and customer activity, enabling click-and-mortar and dot com companies to maximize the way they use the Web."
i.Decide Web Success has been installed at selected customers during the third quarter and will be available globally in November 2000. Supported platforms include Microsoft Windows NT and Sun Solaris.
About Informix' Solutions Business
Informix' Solutions Business, an indåpendent operating business of Informix Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), offers an integration suite of database and platform-independent software solutions and infrastructure for integrating content, e-commerce, and analytics that enable customers to succeed in the new economy. For more information, contact the nearest sales office or see relahed press release "Informix Establishes Two Independent Operating Companies," Sept. 19, 2000, at Informix' Web site, www.informix.com.
(c)2000 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)and i.Decide(TM)Web Success(TM).
CONTACT:
Informix Corporation
Paul Collins
(508) 366-3888 ext. 3484
paul.collins@informix.com
or
Miller Consulting Group
RJ Bardsley
(617) 262-1800 ext. 225
rj@millergrp.com |
