Organisations must respond to constantly shifting market pressures while minimizing costs. Almost all business changes will impact the IT applications and infrastructure that support the business. This white paper explores how you can prepare your business critical applications for these change.

US supermarket chain C&K has grown from three stores to 60 in the last 20 years, with support from Ingres all along the way. The retailers recent migration to the open source version of the Ingres database has lowered cost of ownership, and delivered scalability with enterprise class support.

When developing its technology-based services, Algonquin knew it needed to invest in a high-performance, transaction-oriented database that would scale. Algonquin looked to Ingres for the solution.

This whitepaper looks at how the virtual data warehouse appliance dispenses with the need for proprietary hardware and combines the price/performance of Intel-based processors, industry standard, open source software and low-cost disk storage in a single cabinet.

If Gordon Moore’s law of performance improvement and cost reduction applies to processing power, why hasn’t it worked for data warehousing?

The challenged faced by organisations with complex data to implement Business Intelligence solutions is that traditional databases do not have the performance or scalability required. This white paper looks at a high performance, analytical database that serves as a robust data warehouse platform.

Thinking about an investment into a data warehouse appliance? This white paper will reveal the "Seven Things You Should Know about Data Warehouse Appliances That Other Vendors Are Afraid to Tell You"

Within the confines of the enterprise, there are significant opportunities to save money by optimising business processes and focusing decisions. This paper will review the importance of increased analytical performance, data management improvements and reduced cycle times.

Too often, data migration plays a poor second fiddle to more visible components of the rationalization program. This white paper will interest companies interested in understanding the risks and hidden costs of undertaking large and complex data migrations.

EnterpriseDB Advanced Server is an enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS) that is Oracle-compatible. This means that applications written for Oracle can run on EnterpriseDB without modification and Oracle-skilled developers can use EnterpriseDB without retraining. This reduced the cost, time and risk of migration in order to deliver substantial cost savings.

A guide to getting started with Embarcadero’s data modeling solution, ER/Studio, and its teamoriented modeling collaboration server (Enterprise Edition)

In this analyst report, Forrester Consulting examines the financial impact and potential return on investment (ROI) an organization might realize by deploying DBArtisan.

Migration, Compliance, Application Updates - You know why your company needs a reliable database change management strategy but do you have the right tools for your environment? This White Paper explores the need to develop a strategy and outlines the business value and ROI that can be achieved.

This demonstration will show you how you can run schema capture, compare and synchronizations across multiple platforms, protect against object changes, and automate tasks associated with change management.

This demonstration will show you how you can run data compare jobs, generate synchronization scripts, set configuration standards and run configuration compares across multiple platforms.

A complete set of schema, data and configuration tools for developers and DBAs to manage the change management lifecycle. Change Manager delivers automation, management, and tracking of database schema changes for greater application availability, security, and compliance.

Please join InQuira and Sun Microsystems to learn about Sun’s journey to revamp its customer service function to reduce costs, satisfy the self-service demands of its user community, and support the new open-source business model. Learn how to apply knowledge-centered support principles to ensure project success.

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the history of PHP and offer an overview of current status. It will then highlight the advantages of adopting PHP at the Enterprise level and how programmers and IT managers can benefit. Finally, we will give an outlook on the future development of PHP.

A technical White Paper that shows how to install a PHP framework and build a simple web application with it based on the HR schema that comes with every Oracle installation as an example database schema. A full technical summary is provided in a clear and easy to understand format.

People tend to think of Web 2.0 as a collection of websites and fancy web-based applications. What they don’t see is the shift of paradigm that Web 2.0 brings — and the emergence of new technologies under the surface. This educational White Paper examines what the key drivers are.