Step 1: Define Your Strategic Goals
What success looks like may differ across your organization. Set clear business goals for your modernization project, distinguishing must-haves from nice-to-haves.
What Is HCL Informix®?
What Is HCL Informix®?
HCL Informix® is the same Informix database you know and love, licensed by Actian, a division of HCLSoftware. HCL Informix has product parity with IBM® Informix® Advanced Enterprise Edition, including the popular 4GL and Informix SQL offerings. With a per-core licensing model, experienced customer support, and no cloud vendor lock-in, there is more to love with HCL Informix.
Your off-Support Apps Are at Risk
Don’t let outdated software jeopardize your business continuity and security.
Your Database Is Not Secure
Unpatched vulnerabilities cause 1/3 of data breaches, costing an average of $4.45M USD.1 Unsupported databases miss critical updates, risking data theft, attacks, and system crashes.
1 IBM, “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023”
Non-Compliance May Cost You
Unsupported software spells compliance disaster—risking GDPR and CCPA fines of up to €50,000 ($55,000 USD) per breach.
You’re Waiting for Disaster
A security breach on an unsupported database can lead to exorbitant costs and extended recovery times, exposing your vital data to risks for prolonged periods.
You’re Unproductive, Inefficient, and Not Prepared for the Future
Using outdated software stifles innovation, inflates costs, and limits adaptability to explore new use cases.
Build Your HCL Informix Modernization Plan
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Step 1: Define Your Strategic Goals
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Step 2: Audit Your Applications
Step 2: Audit Your Applications
Audit your applications to determine the best modernization approach, comparing them to current standards in security, scalability, automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery best practices.
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Step 3: Determine Strategic Importance
Step 3: Determine Strategic Importance
Prioritize modernizing applications with the highest business-criticality or those aligned with your strategy, focusing on revenue drivers or those critical for security and data privacy.
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Step 4: Establish Your Data Landscape
Step 4: Establish Your Data Landscape
Choose your deployment method and OS. Build a comprehensive architecture diagram, including critical integrations and connectors, and compare them to your business requirements.
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Step 5: Get Ready for a Cultural Shift
Step 5: Get Ready for a Cultural Shift
Create role-specific training programs for developers, architects, and IT. Rest assured that HCL Informix has product parity with IBM Informix, so database courses will require minimal training.
Step 1: Define Your Strategic Goals
What success looks like may differ across your organization. Set clear business goals for your modernization project, distinguishing must-haves from nice-to-haves.
Step 2: Audit Your Applications
Audit your applications to determine the best modernization approach, comparing them to current standards in security, scalability, automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery best practices.
Step 3: Determine Strategic Importance
Prioritize modernizing applications with the highest business-criticality or those aligned with your strategy, focusing on revenue drivers or those critical for security and data privacy.
Step 4: Establish Your Data Landscape
Choose your deployment method and OS. Build a comprehensive architecture diagram, including critical integrations and connectors, and compare them to your business requirements.
Step 5: Get Ready for a Cultural Shift
Create role-specific training programs for developers, architects, and IT. Rest assured that HCL Informix has product parity with IBM Informix, so database courses will require minimal training.
Modern HCL Informix Application Use Cases
Gaming
At peak times, always-on gaming services must process millions of transactions per second to respond to player actions across thousands of users. HCL Informix enhances the gaming experience by offering the capacity to process 2 million+ transactions per second with a half yottabyte of storage per instance–equivalent to four times the estimated size of the entire internet.
Quality Management
Manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies must quickly and accurately assess whether their products meet quality standards and identify those that do not. HCL Informix automates quality management decisions by quickly interpreting SQL and NoSQL data--like photos, weight, and temperature--to determine if a product meets quality standards and remove outliers.
Supply Chain Management
Embrace the unpredictable with HCL Informix. Supply chains are constantly shifting due to changes in supply, demand, disease, and climate. Those who adapt, thrive. With a light-weight footprint for edge deployments and the ability to integrate SQL and NoSQL data, HCL Informix builds agility and resilience into supply chains by detecting the slightest changes in weather, supply, and demand.
Financial Accounting
Maintaining accurate financial records for taxation and investor reporting is critical to efficient business operations. HCL Informix makes it easy to provide a reliable audit trail for financial transactions, seamlessly integrating SQL and NoSQL data types. If audited by tax authorities, it’s easy to share a consistent and time-bound record of transactions to back up your practice.
Retail
Large retailers must process customer transactions, manage supplier invoices, and place orders to ensure smooth operations across thousands of stores and online. HCL Informix simplifies this by automatically integrating various data types, enabling retailers to predict and plan demand. This allows them to order more supplies when demand increases and pivot to new products as consumer tastes evolve.
Capabilities
Multi-Model Native
HCL Informix is a versatile, high–performance database that excels at integrating SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time series, and spatial data.
Multi-Model Native
High-Performance Transactional Processing
Processes 2 million+ transactions per second with full consistency, concurrency, and resource utilization to support hundreds of thousands of users.
High-Performance Transactional Processing
Always-on Availability, Clustering, and Replication
Enterprise-grade availability, active clustering, and cross-region replication for applications with remote secondary standby database servers and shared disk secondary servers to support mission-critical environments.
Always-on Availability, Clustering, and Replication
Effortless Data Management
Utilize “smart triggers” for event-driven processing and instant database push notifications without altering the schema. The InformixHQ dashboard streamlines database monitoring, management, and administrative tasks.
Effortless Data Management
Lightweight Footprint
HCL Informix offers silent installation, requiring just over 100 MB of memory, making it ready to deploy in minutes.
Lightweight Footprint
Simplified Deployments
Flexible deployment options based on a per core pricing model enable easy setup at the edge, on-premises, or within your preferred cloud environment.
Simplified Deployments
Highly Flexible Cloud Deployment
Leverage a range of cloud deployment choices that align with your unique strategy, timeline, and budgetary considerations.
Public Cloud
Recommended for businesses that need fast deployments, high reliability, and usage flexibility.
- Unleash data throughout your business or organization.
- Initiate analytics to enhance informed decision-making.
- Amplify value by embracing heightened agility and scalability.
Multi-Cloud
Recommended for businesses that operate globally with distributed workloads requiring resilience.
- Select services from a range of public cloud providers.
- Distribute data and mitigate risks across multiple public cloud platforms.
- Decrease expenses by capitalizing on negotiations among competing providers.
Hybrid Cloud
Recommended for businesses balancing real-time analytics with strict data privacy regulations.
- Safeguard on-premises data and infrastructure investments.
- Retain precise command over security and performance.
- Employ the optimal tool for each task, considering all factors.
