Ingres and Contemporary Software Concepts of New Jersey Ink Strategic Partnership – Eye Manufacturing and Public Sector

Upcoming Webcast Focuses on How Companies are Surviving in a “Post Economic Recovery” World

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & PENNINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of the New Economics of IT, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Contemporary Software Concepts of New Jersey, Inc. (CSC of NJ). As part of the agreement, the companies will jointly market Ingres Database and CSC of NJ’s application and data integration and professional IT consulting services to the manufacturing, public sector, and other industries. Ingres provides both marketing and technical support to ensure that its partners are successful.

“Manufacturing & Distribution Technology: The New Horizon”

The partnership between Ingres and CSC of NJ underscores a commitment from both companies to eliminate vendor lock-in and ensure that a client’s financial resources are strategically solving critical business issues, rather than being used to acquire the software infrastructure to do so. For more information, please plan to attend a webcasts titled “Manufacturing & Distribution Technology: The New Horizon” scheduled for Wednesday, April 21, at 11 a.m. (PT)/2 p.m. (ET). To register, please go to info.ingres.com/g/?KUK03CPV1T.

CSC of NJ is affiliated with Contemporary Software Concepts, Inc. and Ingres-based TelesisMFG, the totally integrated, enterprise-wide, MRP II manufacturing management system. Contemporary Software Concepts, Inc., located in Fort Washington, PA, provides small and medium-sized companies with professional consulting and solution integration services, software, hardware and network solutions, and related network, desktop support and help desk services. These strategic relationships provide CSC of NJ’s prospects and clients with access to affordable and timely solutions, not normally accessible to smaller firms.

“With this agreement, we are formally acknowledging the work we have done for over a decade that stems from our partnership with Ingres,” said Sandra L. Gromball, president, CSC of NJ. “More importantly, we can continue to provide access to a cost-effective, open source solution that allows our clients to reap the benefits of an enterprise-scale solution with mission-critical reliability. Previously, this type of functionality was only accessible to large firms who were willing to absorb the high cost and high risk of other proprietary solutions. This is a big advantage for us and a gigantic opportunity for the organizations we work with.”

The economic downturn impacted and changed the manufacturing industry long before any other industry and CSC of NJ has seen the effects on its clients. Moving forward, experts feel that out-of-the-box thinking from the manufacturing industry will help it to recover later in 2010 and previously unexplored solutions and options will be on the radar.

“Realistically, the work we’ve done over the last 30 years has always been one of the information technology services industry’s best-kept secrets,” said Joseph Flesch, senior consultant and principal, CSC of NJ. “We continue to strive to better expose the strategic advantages we bring to our clients through our experience, range of technical capabilities and skills along with our 100 percent focus on solving our clients’ business problems through innovative, integrated, and cost-effective technologies. Ingres continues to be one of the cornerstones of this strategy, which will impact our clients almost immediately – manufacturers, state and local governments, and business service providers. It’s a very exciting time for everyone.”

“The New Economics of IT is driven by the convergence of a few key tech trends, one of which is that open source provides faster innovation through a model that eliminates license and internet access fees,” said Deb Woods, vice president of product management, Ingres. “Our partnership with CSC of NJ ensures that this continues by further promoting open standards that have helped drive down costs so that the right product is sourced for the right job, while reducing vendor monopoly in favor of commodity pricing. Open source is the clear choice for an organization’s enterprise database strategy and we believe Ingres Database meets this requirement as the leading open source database available today.”

To learn more about the changing landscape of manufacturing, how technology opportunities can help influence and even expedite these changes, as well as the partnership between CSC of NJ and Ingres, please plan to attend the webcast titled “Manufacturing & Distribution Technology: The New Horizon” on Wednesday, April 21, at 11 a.m. (PT)/ 2 p.m. (ET). To register, please go to info.ingres.com/g/?KUK03CPV1T.

About Ingres Corporation

Ingres is the leading open source database management company. We are the world’s second largest open source company and the pioneer of the New Economics of IT, providing open source solutions at dramatically reduced cost than proprietary software vendors. As a leader in the New Economics of IT, Ingres delivers low cost and accelerated innovation to more than 10,000 customers worldwide.

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