Application Services
Ingres provides application services though Luminary - a wholly owned subsidiary of Ingres Corporation. These application services are based on a well-established reputation producing quality solutions in three major areas:
In software services, businesses are now looking for the kind of genuine and rapid return on investment that only an experienced yet highly flexible and agile software house can provide. It demands no-nonsense professionalism and the flexibility to accommodate existing IT infrastructure and legacy systems.
Application Services specialize in systems integration, renewing legacy applications, and developing custom applications. By working with Ingres customers for many years, Luminary has earned a reputation of being able to realise the full potential of the Ingres technology in its delivery of applications.
Projects covering all aspects of Ingres and its associated toolset include:
- Assisting customers with modernising their legacy Ingres applications
- Modernising the architecture of an existing application by re-factoring it into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA);
- Incorporating new, modern user interfaces, such as a PDA or Java clients into existing applications;
- Reviewing the customer's application code and assisting with identifying and implementing efficiency and performance improvements;
- Designing and developing new applications, or enhancing an existing application on behalf of its customers;
- Providing support and maintenance for a customer's application;
- Providing additional resources to supplement a customer's own team during times when the customer has a peak in demand to meet. This might be as part of an application development team or to cover for a key individual's holidays.
Systems Integration
Many customers have a need to integrate their Ingres based applications with systems built on architectures based on other technologies, such as Java and .NET. Application Services' has extensive experience in developing new applications, enhancing existing applications, and working with full systems development lifecycles - from requirements capture through to implementation. All underpinned by using consistent methodologies, procedures, standards, forms and templates, in the solution delivery.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Application Services have a wealth of BI experience, from delivering BI Appliance proof of concepts (PoC) to full implementation of BI solutions delivered against an Ingres database.
The BI Appliance PoC has provided customers with a non-intrusive, low effort implementation that highlights the early ROI that can be achieved from such a solution.
Implementation of a full BI Icebreaker Appliance solution provides customers with an enterprise class integrated solution for BI, providing a cost effective price point, easy installation, and single maintenance and support for the entire software stack.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance
As the amount and complexity of data increases, the demand for easy, reliable, and flexible enterprise content management (ECM) solutions for organizations of all sizes grows as well. The Ingres Icebreaker ECM Appliance enables innovative document management, team collaboration, and knowledge management applications.
Basing the ECM solution on Ingres Database guarantees unique high availability features that make compliance with auditing requirements an easier task. Let Application Services; through Luminary - a wholly owned subsidiary of Ingres Corporation show you how.
For more information, visit the Luminary website.
