Ingres Global Partner Summit 2008 Brings Together Key Players in the Open Source Community
Leaders in Open Source Gather in Prague for First Annual Ingres Partner Summit
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 4 -- Ingres Corporation, a leading open source information management company for enterprise applications, today announced that its first annual Global Partner Summit will be held April 8 - 9, 2008, at the Hilton Prague, in Prague, Czech Republic. The summit will enable Ingres and its partners to come together to share experiences, strategies, and discuss ways for organizations to benefit using Ingres solutions. For detailed information and to register, please go to http://www.delegateselect.com/ingres.html.
"The 2008 Ingres Partner Summit is an excellent opportunity to learn first hand how organizations can apply open source practices to win in the competitive global marketplace," said Roger Burkhardt, president and CEO of Ingres. "Partnerships are essential to our success and critical for delivering value to our customers. This is why long-term strategic business partnerships are central to our company strategy."
This year's conference will address a variety of topics including how to use Ingres products to improve productivity, the role of open source solutions as a whole in a competitive marketplace, and the latest developments and innovations around Ingres software. The summit affords an opportunity for partners from all over the world to meet and exchange ideas and experiences about how to ride the open source wave, as well expand their network of colleagues.
Steve Shine, senior vice president of world wide sales and support at Ingres will open the conference with a presentation entitled, "Why Partners Are Key" which outlines the reciprocal benefits generated by an Ingres partnership. Partners such as Infor, Capita, Alfresco, JasperSoft, and others will also take the stage on a variety of subjects, including how they made their businesses more efficient using the Ingres database and the future of open source solutions as a way to increase revenue and compete more efficiently in a global economy.
Day two of the summit breaks into track sessions around commercial, server, and application interests. Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres, will present a session entitled "Embedding Ingres, Easy Peasy" which will outline how to do a silent, unattended install that can be configured and tuned to an application.
Register Today
To register for the 2008 Ingres Partner Summit and find out more about this year's speakers, and see what else the conference agenda has to offer, please visit http://www.delegateselect.com/ingres.html.
About The Ingres Partner Program
The Ingres partner program is at the core of Ingres. It builds directly on the substantial experience Ingres has working with and supporting partners. The Ingres partner program offers partners many different partnership solutions, based on their legacy relationship with our product and service offerings, or based on their business needs for using Ingres as the enterprise open source database to enhance productivity. The program's flexibility makes it simple for partners to fulfill customer requirements by using Ingres technology as a cornerstone of an integrated solution offering. For more information please visit http://www.ingres.com/partners.
About Ingres Corporation
Ingres Corporation is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company's partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally. For more information, visit http://www.ingres.com/.
Sherry Lowe
Ingres Corporation
Corporate Communications
sherry.lowe@ingres.com
650-587-5544
Leigh Anne Varney
Varney Business Communication
la@varneybusiness.com
415.387.7250
Source: Ingres Corporation
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