Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition

Informix® Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition builds on IDS Workgroup Edition with replication solutions and access control

Create a failsafe, multi-site global availability plan while maximizing IT investment, combining capabilities included in IDS Enterprise Edition

• The optional Continuous Availability Feature also enables you to build a cluster of IDS instances around a single set of shared storage devices. Properly written applications can easily leverage this architecture for load-balancing or practically uninterrupted data services even in the event that one or more servers fail
• The new Advanced Access Control Feature offers cell-, column- and row-level label-based access control (LBAC). This means that access to data can now be controlled down to an individual cell of information, providing greater security for your critical data and sensitive customer information
• Quote: "Because reliability is our top priority, any outage to our network applications can hinder our ability to respond to our customers. The innovations of the new continuous availability feature of IDS 11 will assure Verizon's ability to provide uninterrupted service to our customers, day and night." —Geoff Poole, Lead Informix Database Administrator, Verizon

BM Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) is an exceptional online transaction processing (OLTP) database that offers outstanding performance, reliability, scalability and manageability for enterprise and workgroup computing.

With a full-featured relational database management system (RDBMS) platform, IDS offers extensive capabilities to meet unique business requirements with the speed of native database functions. In addition, IDS delivers:

• Solid, secure and reliable support for on demand environments
  
  
• Enhanced performance, availability, and database administrator and programmer productivity
  
  
• Reduced deployment and management costs. Customize the data server footprint with the Deployment Wizard and the SQL API and scheduler make it even easier to automate maintenance activities.
  
  
• The GUI-based OpenAdmin Tool for IDS provides a global view of remote servers, with flexible analysis and drill-down to the query level.
  
  
• High security for compliance with government regulations
  
  
• Support for integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse, Java and .NET, and your choice of languages such as PHP and Ruby, and other traditional language choices.
  
  
• Easy delivery of location information to web and SOA applications with the new Web Feature Service API.
  
  

Benefits

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) - Many typical database administrator operations are self-managed by the IDS database, making it near hands free. Administration activities can also be controlled within an application via the SQL API. Typically, IDS customers report using one-third or less of the staff needed to manage competitors' products.
  
  
• Shortened development cycles due to rapid deployment capabilities and choice of application development environments and languages.
  
  
• Flexible choices for business continuity with replication choices and the Continuous Availability Feature for shared disk cluster solutions, so you don't have to rely on a "one-size-fits-all" solution.
  
  
• Continuous availability.
  
  
• Fully integrated business logic through IBM´s parallel-everything Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA). The logic runs where the data is stored, dramatically increasing the performance and efficiency of customer applications.
  
  
• Uniform access to information, regardless of where it resides - via leading distributed database and virtual table capabilities.
  
  

Advantages for solving market problems

• Replication capabilities enable customers to link stores to distribution centers, distribution centers to corporate headquarters, or any information requiring reliable and quick dissemination across a global organization.
  
  
• The Continuous Availability Feature offers significant cost savings with support for cluster solutions, providing scalability to meet growing business demands and failover recovery from any server to ensure continuous business operations. It provides the ability for a secondary server to automatically take over in the case of a system failure, accessing the same data disk.
  
  
• Through the use of IBM Informix DataBlade™ technology, the capabilities of the database can be extended to meet specific organizational requirements. All types of data can be managed including text, images, sound, video, time series, and spatial data. You can develop applications that use this technology to gain competitive advantage in ways not previously possible or practical, and save costs.
  
  
• IDS is fully integrated with Web technology so that data can be easily accessed from the Internet or from the company intranet. This allows you to quickly build on demand applications that will provide competitive advantage, greater customer service, and reduced costs.
  
  
• IDS supports a broad range of information management applications with excellent performance and reliability.