Ingres VIP Program
The Ingres VIP program is a collaborative program made up of Ingres customers and partners from highly diverse markets spanning the globe.
Monthly webcasts for VIP members target the technical user or partner and is an excellent way to get involved with the Ingres community. Webcast cover various product topics ranging from upcoming functionality to how to develop applications that utilize the products.
Your feedback on product and programs is important to us. The program provides a forum for customers and partners to share ideas from their own Ingres experiences as well as to seek recommendations for enhancements. We strive to facilitate:
- Opportunities to hear directly from developers about Ingres products
- Engagements with Ingres developers and product managers
- The ability to contribute to the Ingres solution
- The capability to influence the Ingres product direction
If you would like to know more about the VIP program, please email vip@ingres.com.
All webcasts will be aired at 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time to accommodate as many people as possible. To view previously recorded webcasts, please visit our VIP Webcast Archive page.
These presentations may contains forward-looking statements that are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or functionality and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future functionality, features, results and trends may differ materially from what is forecast in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors.
This presentation is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on when making a purchasing decision. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.
Webcast Schedule for 2008
| Date | Topic |
May 7 |
How to set up Ingres to work with your application Cristian Ianculovici There are many ways to connect to an Ingres database. This session is an introduction to Ingres connectivity using various Ingres native and standard options, from tools that allow you to run ad-hoc queries to various standards and programming languages like ODBC, Java/JDBC, .Net, Embedded SQL, OpenROAD. Time: 6am - 7am Pacific Daylight Time: Register here Time: 5pm - 6pm Pacific Daylight Time: Register here |
May 14 |
Content Management with Alfresco and Ingres Mike Boyarski, Director Ingres Partner Product Management Mike Farman, Product Management Luis Sala, Director of Solutions Engineering Organizations are experiencing an explosion of information in a variety of formats. Whether it's the storing of reports, spreadsheets, documents, or images, getting control of information growth and organizing it for business use is a big challenge. Enterprise Content Management(ECM) is the way forward for many corporations large or small, however, these solutions have often been too expensive to procure and implement. This has now changed. Ingres has recently been certified on Alfresco, the worlds leading open source Enterprise Content Management solution. Please join this webcast to listen to Ingres and Alfresco talk about open source content management. Learn about Alfresco the company, its product capabilities, and why Ingres and Alfresco are well positioned to help customers large or small solve their content management issues. Time: 6am - 7am Pacific Daylight Time: Register here Time: 5pm - 6pm Pacific Daylight Time: Register here |
May 21 |
How to improve your Ingres performance Chip Nickolett , Director Ingres Services Are you getting the best performance from your Ingres database? Are queries taking longer than you would like, join Chip Nickolett as he shows you shares some of his tips in boosting performance from your Ingres database for todays enterprise applications. Time: 6am - 7am Pacific Daylight Time: Register here Time: 5pm - 6pm Pacific Daylight Time: Register here |
May 28 |
How to Succeed in Business by Not Really Failing - the Ingres High Availability Option Mike Touloumtzis This session will examine the Ingres High Availability Option for cluster failover. This configuration allows automatic relocation of data services for a failed primary node to a designated secondary node. With the exception of a brief interruption for client reconnection, the physical server on which Ingres runs is transparent to the end user, and application continuity is maintained. This session will examine this facility in detail, and will describe this option in the context of other strategies for robust information handling, such as data backup and recovery and data replication. Time: 6am - 7am Pacific Daylight Time: Register here Time: 5pm - 6pm Pacific Daylight Time: Register here |
June 4 |
How to manage Ingres using VDBA Emma McGrattan , SVP Engineering New user to Ingres or an experienced user looking for some help in managing Ingres? Visual DBA is a powerful tool that comes with Ingres and allows the user to manage an Ingres instance on any platform from a windows client. But did you know that the VDBA suite also includes tools for configuration management and analysis, journal analysis as well as robust import and export utilities? Please join Emma McGrattan, SVP Engineering as she walks you through how to maximize your use of the complete VDBA suite. Time: 6am PT/ 9am ET/ 2pm GMT Register here Time: 5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 1am GMT(June 5) Register here |
| June 11 |
How to Put Together a Disaster Recovery Plan with Ingres Replication Chip Nickolett, Director Ingres Services Would you like to learn more about how to setup and configure Ingres replication for your environment. Please join Chip Nickolett as he guides you through setting up your disaster recovery plans using Ingres Replication. Time: 6am - 7am Pacific Daylight Time: Register here Time: 5pm - 6pm Pacific Daylight Time: Register here |
| June 18 |
Ingres for Oracle DBAs The Rosetta Stone and Architectural Overview Mike Sale Experienced on Oracle and looking for an open source alternative that gives you enterprise level functionality and support? Check out Ingres! Please join Mike Sale, Director Ingres Service Product Management as he helps guide you from using Oracle to Ingres. Mike who is a certified Oracle DBA understands both worlds and will be able show you the helpful tips in understanding Ingres from an architectural perspective. He will map the terms and give you a roadmap you can follow to get up to speed quickly. If you're an Ingres user, you can see how Ingres maps to Oracle, making it easier to explain to an Oracle audience the benefits and strengths of your chosen open source information management solution. Time: 6am PT/ 9am ET/ 2pm GMT Register here Time: 5pm PT/ 8pm ET/ 1am GMT(June 19)Register here |
June 25 |
How to Move Data From Another DBMS to Ingres Daryl Monge This presentation will cover various technique and tools for moving data from other databases into an Ingres database. Considerations include the types of data, quantity, and the applications available. Performance considerations will also be covered. Time: 6am - 7am Pacific Daylight Time: Register here Time: 5pm - 6pm Pacific Daylight Time: Register here |