Hyundai Standardizes on Informix for Global, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Marts and Internet Applications

Business Wire, Oct 23, 1997

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 1997--

Auto Maker In Production on Informix High-Performance Scalable

Database Technology

Informix Software, Inc., (NASDAQ:IFMXE), the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced that Hyundai Motor Co. is powering its 600-gigabyte data warehouse -- the largest of its kind by a Korean manufacturer -- with Informix database software and ROLAP tools, and that the auto maker is standardizing its integrated enterprise data warehouse, data marts and Internet applications on Informix technology.

The contract with Hyundai, which was signed in June, is expected to be worth more than $1 million.

With Informix databases now in production, Hyundai is creating an enterprise data warehouse with architected data marts so that all corporate data can be freely shared and analyzed throughout the company. The win for Hyundai's enterprise warehouse -- over Oracle, IBM and Teradata -- is an endorsement of the company's INFORMIX(R)-OnLine Extended Parallel Server (OnLine XPS), which has achieved record- breaking TPC-D benchmarks in the industry, including on SMP, clusters, NUMA and MPP machines.

In addition, Hyundai chose INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server(TM), Informix's flagship database product, for the deployment of its data marts, which is being constructed simultaneously with its enterprise data warehouse on an IBM SP2 MPP system.

It also selected as its standard Relational OnLine Analytical Processing (ROLAP) engine and tools the INFORMIX-MetaCube(TM) product suite. With the INFORMIX-MetaCube product suite, Hyundai employees can analyze and correlate data wherever it resides -- in different department data marts or the enterprise data warehouse -- thereby fully leveraging all of the company's information for competitive advantage. Hyundai's 200 MetaCube users are expected to expand to 1500 next year.

In searching for the right partner for its ambitious corporate-wide data warehousing project -- which will be accomplished by migrating its legacy mainframe data to an IBM UNIX server -- Hyundai partnered with Informix because of "the excellence of the Informix database architecture optimized for various hardware platforms, and the clear superiority of its data warehouse technology," according to Mr. Sohn, DongSeong, program manager of the project at Hyundai Motor Co.

Hyundai anticipates significant productivity gains will come from integrating enterprise-wide data -- including customer, order and claims information -- into a massive data warehouse. "Enterprise level data integration will contribute to enhancement of data quality. Increases in employee productivity will result in substantial savings per person," said Mr. Sohn, DongSeong at Hyundai. "This will allow more time for the collection of new business information, improving IT's ability to contribute to the bottom line and increase our competitiveness." Hyundai plans to build five additional data warehouses by next year.

Mr. Lee, SungSoon, Informix's data warehousing sales manager in Korea, said the Hyundai project is the largest of its new 1997 data warehousing partnerships with Korean customers, which include Ssangbangul, a local clothing company, and Ssangyong Fire & Marine Insurance Company. "Our success is due to the fact that Informix and its partners have the most complete, highest-performance data warehouse solution, including superior customer service and technical support."

"Importantly, we also have the best price/performance compared to Teradata, DB2, Microsoft, Sybase and Oracle -- and with XPS, we have never lost a data warehousing customer benchmark to those competitors," Lee said.

About Informix's Data Warehouse Products

All of Informix's high-performance, scalable database products are based on its industry-leading Dynamic Scalable Architecture(TM) (DSA), which provides customers with a unique, secure application growth path.

INFORMIX-OnLine Extended Parallel Server (OnLine XPS) is a high-performance, scalable database server that extends to loosely-coupled or shared-nothing computing architectures, including clusters of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems and massively parallel processing (MPP) systems.

INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server is Informix's powerful, multithreaded flagship database server designed to exploit the capabilities of both SMP and uniprocessor architectures to deliver breakthrough database scalability, manageability and performance.

Informix's MetaCube product suite is a comprehensive family of decision-support software designed specifically to deliver high-performance, custom analysis of data from a data warehouse or data mart to the desktop. The product suite is based on an open, extensible architecture that leverages the high-performance and scalability of Informix's database servers.

Together Informix's database products enable organizations to apply the best available technology to better understand and manage their data resources.

About Informix

Informix Software, Inc., the company's operating subsidiary based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database technology that enables the world's leading corporations to manage and grow their businesses. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from workgroups to very large OLTP and data warehouse applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the Company to be at the forefront of many leading-edge information technology solution areas. Informix information is accessible via the World Wide Web at http://www.informix.com .