Case Study
Cypress Semiconductor
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing and Distribution
Ingres Products: Ingres Enterprise Relational Database
“Ingres is at the heart of everything we do....It's embedded into our company's DNA.”
Robert Price
DBA Manager
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
For over 20 years, Ingres's technology has scaled to match Cypress's impressive growth
Cypress is a world-class leader in the fabrication of semiconductors and an innovator in the use of technology to improve business processes. It is also one of the largest and most successful suppliers of diversified, high-performance integrated circuits for consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar solutions.
In its first year of business, Cypress chose an Ingres database, running on a single VAX 750, to track its order-entry and manufacturing systems. Today, over 20 years later, Cypress continues to use Ingres technology. All of Cypress's manufacturing processes are managed by an Ingres-driven network of 20 databases located in fabrication plants around the world.
"We've grown with Ingres," says Dennis Bell, Director of IT Development for Cypress. As Cypress's portfolio of "high performance" products expanded-everything from wired and wireless USB devices to reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays-its need for a highly scalable and reliable database to manage its worldwide manufacturing network became even more critical for its continued growth and success.
"We wrote all our own code," says Robert Price, DBA Manager and a key Ingres developer for Cypress. "We must have hundred's of DBA years in this by now. Our database has a lot of rich features."
Ingres is reliable. "In over 20 years of using Ingres technology, we've never had a major loss of data," says Bell.
Premium Support-getting inside the box
Every quarter, Cypress produces over 200 million parts for its pipeline of products. Continued success for Cypress means never missing a beat. And to ensure its manufacturing processes are functioning with precision and speed 24 x 7, Cypress uses Ingres Premium Support Services.
With up to 1500 users working simultaneously in manufacturing sites worldwide, Cypress depends on Ingres day in and day out. If one of the databases is down for any reason, it can cost extremely valuable production time.
"The depth of Ingres support is amazing," says Price. "If we ever have a problem, no matter what time of day or night, Ingres is right on it with three experts who have in-depth technical knowledge of my system. It's like having three DBA's looking at my screen, knowing exactly what to do to recover."
Ingres handles it all. "Today, Ingres manages everything, from that first order by phone, to the manufacturing of our wafers and the making of parts for products, to shipping and invoice systems," says Price.
For more information about Cypress Semiconductor Corporation visit: http://www.cypress.com