Informix Business Solutions Ranked Among the Top Ten Business Intelligence Vendors By DM Review; Readers Select Informix Business Solutions as Top Business Intelligence Vender
WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000--Informix Business Solutions, an independent operating company of Informix(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:IFMX), today announced that it is ranked ninth among the top 100 leading business intelligence vendors worldwide by IT professionals and readers of DM Review magazine. Informix Business Solutions was selected based on the experience of IT professionals at Fortune 1000 companies with Informix Business Solutions' products. Informix Business Solutions has demonstrated its commitment to the business intelligence marketplace, by offering comprehensive solutions that meet today's market demands.
"The new economy has produced a hybrid company, one that must marry both traditional business practices with on-line initiatives. Now more than ever, the ability to access, analyze and share information from a variety of different data sources is essential for success," said Wayne Eckerson, director of education and research for The Data Warehousing Institute. "It is very fitting that Informix Business Solutions be ranked among the top ten business intelligence vendors as their comprehensive offering of technologies is paving the way for their customers by offering the solutions necessary to remain competitive."
"This ranking reaffirms our leadership role among the readers of DM Review, many of whom are our customers," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of marketing for Informix Business Solutions. "It is a testament to our best-of-breed solutions, customer service, and general understanding of the marketplace that Informix Business Solutions be ranked closely among its strongest competitors including Oracle, Microsoft and IBM."
Informix Business Solutions recognizes that the new economy is placing a burden on traditional brick-and-mortar companies implementing online services. Additionally, the Internet is dramatically increasing the value of information and requiring all organizations to expand business intelligence beyond their own enterprise to include partners, customers and suppliers. To best meet these changing market dynamics and address the convergence of content management, e-commerce and analytics, Informix Business Solutions offers a comprehensive e-intelligence solution that enables customers to best leverage existing business intelligence technologies and access information from virtually any enterprise data source. In doing so, Informix Business Solutions is demonstrating its commitment to helping customers recognize a "return on information" by creating and profiting from new information assets generated by traditional and Internet data sources.
About Informix Business Solutions
Informix Business Solutions, an independent operating company of Informix Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), offers an integrated 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 related press release "Informix Establishes Two Independent Operating Companies," Sept. 19, 2000, at Informix's Web site, www.informix.com.
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CONTACT:
Informix Business Solutions
Paul Collins
(508) 366-3888 ext. 3484
paul.collins@informix.com
or
Miller Consulting Group, Inc.
Jennifer Jandebeur
(617) 262-1800 ext. 264
Jenn@millergrp.com
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