PRESS: Highlights of the 1994 Informix Worldwide User Conference
Come Join us in Tampa. Here are Some Highlights of the 1994 Informix Worldwide User Conference. * Our key note speaker, Mr. James Champy, is a leading author, expert, and strategist on the role of information and information technology in business. ChampyUs recent bestseller, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution lays out approaches that have enabled international corporations to reinvent themselves, and offers a vision of the re-engineered corporation and a road map for companies to follow in getting there. * Analyst, Donald Feinberg of the Gartner Group presents, "The Impact of Parallel Processing Database Technology". What are the benefits? How will this new technology be used? How should it change IS plans for the future? What parallel hardware should be targeted for implementing the new technology? What are the implications? * Analyst, Joseph Gottlieb of META Group will discuss the predominant industry trends impacting the evolution of database architectures and their relevance to end user requirements. How will organizations cultivate the team of "renaissance DBAs" needed to build and maintain heterogeneous information architectures? * Associated Spring ,through a strategic relationship with Informix Software and Man-Trak Inc., has automated their operation in Mexico City. Their case study, "Improving International Manufacturing Control" will present the corporate objectives for integrated, multi-lingual, multi-currency manufacturing, distribution, and accounting applications. * In Andersen Consulting's case study, "Informix in Finance", learn about the competitive pressures facing the retail financial industry and how a large Northeastern money center bank used client/server technology in conjunction with business process re-engineering to obtain competitive advantages. * Attend "Migration to INFORMIX-4GL and UNIX", and learn how the Navy, by converting from a paper-based process to one based on Informix technology, has increased data accuracy from 84 percent to 99.2 percent. * Motorola is in the process of implementing SAP on Informix. They will outline some of the business and IS challenges they are facing, how SAP and Informix address them and, will overview of the SAP implementation process. * Learn about the performance increases and benefits to crucial 911 service gained from Informix's DSA at AT&T Network Systems' case study, Implementing INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Scalable Architecture 6.0 to 7.0. * Beta Systems, Inc. will discuss moving to open systems in the financial marketplace, includeing rightsizing the system, justifying the process, and implementation of an actual system at Kemper Securities. * Sprint/North Supply's case study, "Rightsizing with INFORMIX- OnLine in a Mainframe Environment", covers successful implementation of large client/server-based Informix applications while migrating from a mainframe environment. Find out, why they selected Informix over competitors' products. For Registration Information Contact: The Conference Group Phone 1 800 247 0262 Phone 1 602 443 4090 Fax 1 602 443 4094 Our Worldwide Web address is HTTP://WWW.Informix.com/informix/ -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% William Daul Advanced Support INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC. 4100 Bohannon Dr. (415) 926-6488 - wk Menlo Park, CA. 94025 uunet!infmx!billd or billd@informix.com