Ingres announces OEM partnership with Infoflow to improve capability for BI and reporting systems
Infoflow’s automated report production and delivery system now available through Ingres
Slough, United Kingdom, 9th October 2007 – Ingres Corporation, the leading open source information management company for enterprise applications, today announced the signing an OEM agreement with Infoflow to enhance its presence in the BI and reporting market. Ingres can now bundle Infoflow into its BI and open source technology stack. This allows customers to schedule, publish and deliver key business information across their organisations.
The availability of Infoflow will bring significant benefits to Ingres customers. Not least amongst them is the ability to add the latest technology to their current platform and so improve the management of information within their business more cost effectively.
Ru Kumar, VP Alliances, Ingres Corporation: “We are very pleased to enter into a strategic alliance with Infoflow because it helps users maximise their existing BI investment and proves again the value of Open Source technology for mission critical, enterprise class applications. This partnership will enable us to jointly offer high quality business solutions to both existing and new customers.”
Infoflow sits on top of existing databases and corporate applications and manages the generation and delivery of information. It does this by intelligently combining and filtering information from every report before delivering it to the user – either by name or by their role.
At the same time, it provides a single point of reference for controlling the information flow across the enterprise. It can deliver more relevant information to a larger audience - without the cost and complexity of alternative applications or manual delivery.
Equally important, Infoflow provides a universal, corporate data and report management platform that is agnostic of the original sources of the information.
It also eliminates the need for the recipients to know anything about the technology used to generate these reports. Therefore it removes the training and support costs associated with what are most likely many different and unconnected reporting systems.
Infoflow also allows for report bursting. This ensures that each recipient receives only those parts of a report which are pertinent to his or her job - an important factor in maintaining security.
Commenting on the decision to partner with Ingres, Stuart Beet, Managing Director, Infoflow Ltd, said: “Aligning with an established vendor such as Ingres will raise awareness of the scalability and reliability of Infoflow in the corporate market. It will also make it easier for large companies to deal with the new technology. Now we not only have a global presence, but we can also provide 24/7 back-up around the world.
“Having Ingres as a partner will allow us to offer improved support, especially at the set up stage. Infoflow doesn’t require a lot of support once it is up and running.”
Kumar also pointed out that Infoflow was perfectly aligned with Ingres' BI appliance strategy – and that it would work with or without the BI appliance, adding that it was the ideal application to run on a customer's existing Ingres installation – or on the Ingres Icebreaker appliance, which consists of Linux and Ingres combined.
“We believe that customers who demand enterprise-ready backup, security, performance and the rich functionality of an industrial strength proven database repository will now choose Ingres over other open source alternatives.”
