Washington Area IBM Informix Database User Group

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IBM's Information On Demand Comes To You - Unlocking the Business Value of Information WHEN: Tuesday, November 17th 8:00 am - 3:00 pm

Trusted information is the lifeblood of a well-run enterprise

Unlocking the business value of information enables organizations to use information more effectively for competitive advantage and to leverage trusted information to optimize business performance. Join renowned BI leader and CRM industry expert, Claudia Imhoff for an interactive discussion on leveraging information as a strategic asset for true business impact.

To register to attend, register online.

• WHAT: IBM's Information On Demand Comes To You - Unlocking the Business Value of Information
• WHEN: Tuesday, November 17th 8:00 am - 3:00 pm WHERE: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC
• WHO: Sr. IT pros and LOB execs interested in data quality, MDM and leveraging data as a strategic asset
• COST: FREE!
• SPONSOR: IBM

Attend this seminar to gain insight into how IBM's Information Agenda approach addresses critical business needs by helping companies access intelligence to identify new opportunities, improve efficiency and maximize performance to outsmart the competition. For more information - including event agenda, speaker bios and complimentary admission, visit the seminar Web site.

Our last meeting was at the DC IBM Informix Dynamic Server Road Show - September 14-15

Presentations from our meeting on June 18, 2009

• Informix Road Map - Fred Ho, Program Director, IBM - download presentation
• Business Intelligence with Informix Warehouse - Fred Ho, Program Director, IBM - download presentation
• Data Warehousing with Informix - Lester Knutsen - download presentation
• Data Fragmentation Strategies for Loading and Reporting Performance in your Data Warehouse - Warren Donovan - download presentation
• Graphing Informix Data using PHP - Tom Beebe - download presentation and download files
• Fastest Informix DBA Contest II - Lester Knutsen - link

IIUG Informix Conference 2009
26 - 29 April, 2009 - Overland Park, Kansas, USA

The IIUG Informix Conference 2009 was a great event. 5 tracks with 85 sessions (83 distinct and two repeats), 14 tutorials (2 full day and 12 half day) and 4 keynotes. In addition to the sessions, there were many offerings, demos, contests and raffles at the exhibition hall. We had a lot of fun too in our 3 great parties. Click here for the Conference Web site

Meeting - Wednesday January 28, 2009 - What's New in Informix

In spite of the ice and snow we had a great meeting, here are some of the presentations.

Agenda: What's New in Informix

• What's New in Informix - by Carlton Doe, IBM -  Come and see the latest trends and technology in IDS version 11. We're talking exciting new stuff that is less than 2 months old trends and technology. - download presentation
• Enterprise Replication trouble shooting and lessons learned by James Edmiston, Quest Information Systems - download presentation or download Quick Reference Guide
• Informix on the Mac - by Lester Knutsen - See a combination of the fastest and easiest to use OS and database in one bundle - click here for more info!
• Apple Trends and Directions - James L. McMahan Jr., Systems Engineer, Apple Government

WAIUG Meeting, January 28 at IBM Tech Center, Washington, D.C. by by Nick Nobbe

It was an icy day in DC and our meeting started a bit late as members straggled in from the suburbs, but it soon turned into a lively, full morning.

Carlton Doe, well-known leading IBM author and Informix expert led off with an update on IDS and its future in the IBM firmament. In this time of a shrinking market, the good news is that Informix’s market share is expanding, with two digit growth, quarter to quarter continuing up through the end of 2008.

This latest version of “Cheetah” (IDS 11.5) packs enough features to be considered a new version. With the introduction of OAT, a truly cool web & PHP-backed admin and diagnostic tool allowing a high level of drill down, admins can do most of their management through the OAT. At the same time, SQL and the command-line utilities are keeping apace to support management and all enhancements to the database, including replication. Also featured in this release – huge improvements to high availability data replication in MACH 11 and the introduction of an automatic failover and load balancing feature through its new online connection manager (“oncsmsm”). And that’s not all; you can read Carlton’s full presentation on the WAIUG website, www.iiug.org/waiug , or learn more about “Cheetah” – IDS 11.5 – at www.ibm.com/informix.

Our next speaker, James McMahan, a systems engineer representing Apple Computers, Government, announced that his company and IBM have collaborated on the recent port of IDS 11.5 to Apple’s servers, as Apple grows its share in the 64-bit server market. With this, Apple is also opening up the desktop for a full-fledged, efficient database system, and Informix is the tool of choice. Lester Knutsen, WAIUG president, reported that he had demoed a beta “Cheetah” on “Leopard” at last summer’s Kansas IBM-IIUG conference and it ran with blazing speed.

James Edmiston, of Quest Information Systems, and long-time IIUG and WAIUG board member, closed the meeting with a complete fly-by of Enterprise Replication, which highlighted all the critical points. His latest experience with E.R. and debugging an E.R supported application, forced him to take a deep look under the hood and to determine the problems were caused by the application and that E.R. was rock solid.

Thanks to IBM and especially Warren Heising and Michael Moody for hosting a very enjoyable and profitable meeting.