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SAVE MART EMPLOYEES CLOCK IN TO INGRES OPEN SOURCE
A Leading Supermarket Chain Selects Ingres Database as its Open Source Standard
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - June 23, 2009 - Save Mart Supermarkets is shopping smart, choosing Ingres Database, the leading independent open source database that helps organizations develop and manage business critical applications at an affordable cost. Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that Save Mart, the second largest grocery chain in California, selected Ingres to manage the time and attendance application for its more than 20,000 employees.
Save Mart operates nearly 250 stores in California and Nevada. In business for more than 55 years, Save Mart prides itself for setting standards in its industry. Save Mart was one of the first supermarkets to offer customers pre-packaged meats, yard and garden supplies, plants, fresh-cut flowers, and gift items, all creative concepts for the 1950's, and relatively unheard of for the area until Save Mart introduced them. Now, Save Mart is extending its history of innovation to another area, its business, choosing a commercial open source database to manage the data that results from tracking the attendance and hours of thousands of employees. Ingres Database allows Save Mart to bypass significant upfront cost and install a product that is designed to scale easily as the company continues to expand.
"Where it provides significant advantages, Save Mart strives to be at the forefront of the next wave of innovation. In the 1950's it was using cash registers equipped with change makers, and today it is adopting a leading open source database," said James Sims, CIO, Save Mart. "As Save Mart doubled in size with the recent acquisition of Albertsons, we were looking for a way to use reliable and easily scalable software without challenging our budget. Ingres is the perfect solution. It has the reliability of a proven product, combined with the flexibility of open source which is vital for our business. Ingres enables us to do more at a lower cost and with more flexibility to adapt to the market conditions."
"In today's economic climate, companies that are doing well are concerned with pushing innovation without paying unnecessary premiums," said Deb Woods, vice president of product management, Ingres. "Companies like Save Mart that are adopting reliable open source software are positioning themselves for competitive advantage now and when conditions rebound. We are looking forward to the success of Save Mart and assisting them with their data management needs."
About Save Mart
Save Mart Supermarkets operates nearly 250 stores throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada under the Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx banners. The privately-held company was founded January 17, 1952 and has always been headquartered in
Modesto, California. More information about the company and its banners is available at
www.savemart.com, www.luckysupermarkets.com, and www.foodmaxx.com. Its consumer relations group can be called toll-free at 800-692-5710.
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres is a leading open source database management company. We are one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.
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