Tough economic times call for a new approach to software development and demand that you find a better, faster, and more affordable way to develop new applications. Open source is the answer - much faster time to value, all the benefits of an on-demand business model, and speed of innovation. Organizations are seeing big advantages to using open source technology, with its collaborative development and affordable business model. There is a big contrast between open source and the proprietary technology of the past. Companies need help understanding when open source is a better solution than traditional closed technology.

Join Forrester Principal Analyst, Noel Yuhanna, along with Roger Burkhardt, CEO of Ingres for a practical discussion around deciding when and how to use an open source solution and the kinds of projects best suited for adopting open source technology.

Emma McGrattan and Jose Morales shares information about the Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance.

The Ingres Icebreaker Business Intelligence (BI) Appliance is an innovative business intelligence solution that is robust, comprehensive, and cost effective for organizations seeking to become more competitive, respond quickly to market demand, and ultimately impact the bottom line. Conventional BI implementations can be costly, often with limited returns. For that reason, organizations looking for an alternative solution to costly, traditional approaches can use Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance to address decision making challenges.

As the amount and complexity of data increases, the demand for easy, reliable and flexible enterprise content management (ECM) solutions from organizations of all sizes grows as well. An enterprise class open source stack powered by Alfresco and Ingres meets this demand and is at the forefront of innovation in enterprise content management.

Learn how Alfresco, Ingres and Rivet Logic can help you to develop, deploy and manage cost effective, open source Enterprise Content Management solutions that meet the mission-critical requirements of Enterprises. We will demonstrate how utilizing Alfresco as the content repository and Ingres as a scalable and secure database is enabling innovative document management, team collaboration, knowledge management, and other Enterprise 2.0 applications.

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Ingres 9.2, the open source database that's built for enterprise computing is now available!. Join Christine Normile, Ingres Senior Product Manager for an in depth look at the new features and functionality included in Ingres 9.2. Ingres Database 9.2 is flexible, simple, secure, reliable, and optimized for development of multi-language enterprise applications including business intelligence, content management, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and logistics management.

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Ready to migrate to OpenROAD 2006? Ingres has put together a Best Practices Guide to assist you in this migration that is available. Please join Sean Thrower, Senior Software Developer at Ingres, as he guides you through this simple and straightforward migration plan. Sean has worked with a number of users in helping them make this migration and in developing application on OpenROAD 2006.

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Wondering what OpenROAD2006 can offer your development environment? Please join Sean Thrower, Senior Software Developer at Ingres, as he shares information about the key new features that OpenROAD 2006 has to offer. Sean will walk you through some of the innovative modifications that have been made to the application as well as provide some tips and tricks he takes advantage of when writing applications. If you are new to OpenROAD, this is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the exciting features that a rapid application development tool can provide to your suite of development tools. Users repeatedly respond that by using OpenROAD they can save as much as 40-50% of developer productivity in comparison to other development environments.

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Doug Inkster, Ingres Optimizer Architect, shares his ideas on how to best take advantage of the the Ingres Optimizer, and offers a preview of what is coming in future releases.

Steve Bal goes over Performance Enhancements for Ingres 2006

Steve Ball, Director at Ingres for DBMS Development talk about Ingres 2007 Plans.

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Curious to what the Ingres development team has been up to lately? Join Steve Ball, Ingres Director Engineering as he shares insights from the team and the latest set of new features and functionality that are included in the Ingres 2006 update rls 3 product. Ingres 2006 update rls 3 focuses on bringing new ISV applications and new customers.