Likelihood to Recommend IBM Informix creates an effective and secure channel for easy and quick data management and transfer across other major Cloud platforms and other data storage systems. The analytical ability is also the best and most effective visual functionalities and the encryption and the data archiving functionalities are great and easy on reporting.
Read full review Teamdesk is perfect for any operational tracking requirements for companies small or large, and any situation where you need to integrate with other systems since it can be set up to do that flexibly via its API and Webhooks. For example, you could track contacts, time and expense, projects and tasks, schedules, web leads, check-ins, order entry, quotes and invoices, support ticketing, and use the more advanced features to integrate with other systems to pull in currency exchange rates, various lists of data from other databases, send faxes, send bulk emails and so on. It does not do offline storage, so it would not be appropriate for a situation that offline work.
Read full review Pros Industry leading OLTP performance. Excellent Data Warehouse performance from the basic engine. Outstanding Data Warehouse performance from the Informix Warehouse Accelerator module. Best embedability among major RDBMS systems. Scalable from the smallest Raspberry PI up to the largest monolithic systems and out to dozens of distributed nodes. Hybrid data capabilities to merge relational data with time seriesv, geospacial data, JSON data and other non-traditional data types with performance comparable or better than systems dedicated to those data types. Read full review Provide a very good, customizable user management system. Gives a lot of flexibility to customize database to your needs without requiring coding skills. Even allows to customize interface if you can code in html. Provides unlimited space and records. Gives an opportunity to have a database on EU servers to comply with GDPR Offers very good pricing options comparing to competitors (Salesforce, Quickbase, etc.) and offers unlimited space. Gives an opportunity to share your ideas how to improve the platform, many of which are being implemented Customers service if very helpful and friendly. All my questions were answered within a couple hours. Read full review Cons It is very difficult to find a missing functionality in Informix, technically is great. I will again criticize the business side and how it has been managed over the past, I hope this could be improved with HCL's help. I know they are working hard, but we need to start letting the world know and revert their concept about its existence and that it is one of the best competitors within the data treatment, in the market. We need to start telling the world about success cases and stories showing this and backing up its strong technology. Read full review The only down side that I see, is that you have to be willing to spend some time creating your database. You start with a blank canvas and all the tools you need to design a custom database. But, you have to take the time to do it. If you take that time, it is well worth it. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Informix is the best RDBMS on the market. Period.
Read full review Usability Server management is easy enough to be able to embed the engine in a device and let it run for years without maintenance.
Read full review Support Rating The Informix product support team has won awards and is appreciated by the entire Informix user community.
Read full review They are simply amazing. Very fast, like I have a personal support person standing by for me and always solves my problem in one go.
Read full review Alternatives Considered IBM Informix creates effective solutions for big data extraction and data transportation functionalities across the entire Cloud services and the Automation ability is the best. The security that IBM Informix provides for all our business data and other project information and contacts is effective and the reports are very clean and easy to understand.
Read full review Quickbase is a good product which I have been using for 5 years (powerful, nice interface) but - not so powerful as TeamDesk - started to move toward large companies (>50 people) - more expensive than TeamDesk Zoho was not as flexible as TeamDesk
Caspio was not as powerful as TeamDesk
Read full review Return on Investment Although I do not own nor have visibility on my company's figures: Informix generates consistent savings on DBA staffing, no need for many DBAs as other DBMS require. The replication architecture allowed consistent savings in the infrastructure as well as developments and maintenance, the job is already done, no need to develop complex and costly solutions, it's just a matter of configuring it. The advantages of hybrid development (i.e mixing SQL and NoSQL in the same database) is not just a marketing hype: it allowed us to solve with a brilliant solution, in one afternoon of coding, a functional problem we have been having for more than 10 years! The biggest drawback is that IBM pricing may be constraining, it has too important gaps between the mid range and highrange in terms of pricing Read full review The per user cost is significantly lower than any prior option we have tried. The time spent getting things set up was time well spent for the overall long-term savings. Read full review ScreenShots