PRESS: SAP and Informix Announce First Joint U.S. Site

SAP and Informix Announce First Joint U.S. Site Applied Micro Circuits Corporation to Use SAP R/3 System with the INFORMIX- OnLine Database Server Menlo Park, Calif. (October 18, 1993) Informix Software, Inc. (NASDQ:IFMX) and SAP America, announced today that they will provide a complete software system based on the INFORMIX-OnLine database server and SAPUs R/3 software system to AMCC (Applied Micro Circuits Corporation), a San Diego-based manufacturer of high-performance integrated circuit products for major telecommunications, data communications, computer, aerospace and defense markets. This is the first site in the U.S. to utilize the joint SAP and Informix solution. The SAP R/3 System will contain complete financial, materials management, order entry, sales, distribution, and MRPII applications software needed to run AMCCUs business and engineering operations. INFORMIX-OnLine, a high performance on-line transaction processing relational database server will be integrated with the R/3 System to manage the data. "This is the first result in the U.S. of a strong mutually beneficial worldwide partnership between SAP and Informix," said Steve Sommer, vice president of marketing at Informix. "We were looking for 90s technology that provided solid functionality, high performance, and a complete integration that could be used in a highly heterogeneous environment," said Buck Marty, vice president of business services at AMCC. "We felt confident going with Informix and SAP because they both have state-of-the-art technology and proven experience in the open systems marketplace." "AMCC needs to take very technical manufacturing data and incorporate it with other operational data in order to make important decisions about their business," said Sommer. "The integrated Informix and SAP solution will give AMCC greater power to share and analyze data among different departments and improve their competitive status in the custom chip business." "In order to stay ahead of the competition, organizations must focus on improving their business processes," said Klaus P. Besier, president of SAP America. "Our software combined with InformixUs high performance relational database technology, will help AMCC better manage all of their business and engineering functionsQ ultimately improving the quality of their business." Implementation of the Informix and SAP system is expected to be completed by June of 1994 on release 2.1 of SAP's R/3. About SAP R/3 System The R/3 System is designed to take advantage of open systems, client/server-based architectures. The R/3 System contains modules that span the scope of business operations from financial, production and materials management, quality assurance, sales order entry, plant maintenance, project management and personnel management (HR). R/3 also includes a comprehensive development environment and information models. About INFORMIX-OnLine INFORMIX-OnLine is a high-performance on-line transaction processing (OLTP) database server that provides high availability, data integrity, and multimedia data management capabilities. Features of INFORMIX-OnLine include stored procedures, which can reduce message traffic in a client/server environment; ANSI SQL-89- compliant declarative integrity constraints, which bring added security to a database by enforcing a set of safety checks on all applications accessing the data; and distributed updates with two-phase commit recovery. INFORMIX-OnLine supports InformixUs entire line of SQL-based application development tools as well as a large number of third-party application development tools and runs on a wide range of UNIX-based computer systems in stand-alone or networked environments. About SAP Since its founding in Germany 21 years ago, SAP AG has become one of the world's largest software companies. Today the firm, has more than 3,500 employees in over 28 subsidiaries and 24 country offices worldwide. SAP serves over 3,000 clients in 36 countries with its standard software systems. Its products include the R/2 system for mainframes and R/3 for client/server platforms. SAP America, with headquarters and the Northeast regional office in Philadelphia, has additional regional offices in Foster City, Calif., Chicago, and Atlanta. SAP America is a subsidiary of SAP AG. About Informix Informix Software, Inc., provides the most complete and productive database technology to build, deploy, run and evolve applications. Informix products include powerful distributed database management systems, robust application development tools and graphical- and character-based productivity software for delivering information to every significant desktop platform. With corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix has European headquarters in London, and Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore. # # #