"Ingres provides a robust, highly available solution for our enterprise customers," said John Newton, CTO and chairman, Alfresco Software. "They understand the importance of providing real time backup and point in time restore to ensure our customer's data is always available."

"Ingres delivers an enterprise-ready platform for our business intelligence customers," said Jose Morales, vice president of business development, Jaspersoft. "Jaspersoft is working closely with Ingres to optimize our products for version 9.2, which together will deliver an optimal solution for mission-critical business intelligence applications."

Key Features in Ingres Database 9.2
In addition to delivering on reliability and affordability, Ingres Database 9.2 reduces the time, complexity, and database administrator (DBA) requirements by simplifying and automating many tasks traditionally associated with maintaining a business-class database. Upgrades from previous releases are a simple, highly automated task with no requirement to reload data. In addition, the release focuses on improved application development, with enhanced availability and supportability. Key features include:

Internationalized Applications
Today, more and more organizations expand globally. It has therefore become even more important that business applications support all languages involved in the organization's business. Ingres Database 9.2 provides unparalleled multi-language support with expanded Unicode features.

Improved Availability
Ingres customers have long delivered high availability for their business critical applications by leveraging its proven high availability features and robust operational capabilities. Business systems have to be up 24 x 7 to serve customers and employees in all time zones. With Ingres Database 9.2, new features focus on increasing the availability of the server, such as enhancements to point-in-time restore and online backup.

Improved Application Development
Ingres continues to support the latest standards including Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC), open database connectivity (ODBC), and .NET Data Provider. Ingres has always been a leader in application development using Eclipse with its data tools plug-in. Now, Ingres Database 9.2 simplifies the development of web-based Java applications and continues to support a wide range of development platforms including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C++ and .Net.

Easier to Use, Less Expensive to Support
Shrinking IT budgets translate to fewer resources to support more systems. Ingres Database 9.2 introduces features to reduce the amount of time needed to keep your systems running smoothly.

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