Save Mart Selects Ingres Database as Open Source Standard

Save Mart, the second largest grocery chain in California, has selected Ingres to manage the time and attendance application for its more than 20,000 employees.

 

Save Mart Supermarkets operates nearly 250 stores throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada under the Save Mart, S-Mart Foods, Lucky, and FoodMaxx banners. The company was one of the first supermarkets to offer customers pre-packaged meats, yard and garden supplies, plants, fresh-cut flowers, and gift items, all creative concepts for the 1950's.

 

Ingres officials said that the company’s Database would allow Save Mart to bypass significant upfront cost and install a product that is designed to scale easily as the company continues to expand.

 

"Where it provides significant advantages, Save Mart strives to be at the forefront of the next wave of innovation. In the 1950's it was using cash registers equipped with change makers, and today it is adopting a leading open source database," said James Sims, CIO, Save Mart, in a statement.

 

Sims said that as Save Mart doubled in size with the recent acquisition of Albertsons, the company was looking for a way to use reliable and easily scalable software without challenging the budget. Ingres is the perfect solution. It has the reliability of a proven product, combined with the flexibility of open source which is vital for the compnay’s business. Ingres enables the company to do more at a lower cost and with more flexibility to adapt to the market conditions, he said.

 

"In today's economic climate, companies that are doing well are concerned with pushing innovation without paying unnecessary premiums," said Deb Woods, vice president of product management, Ingres.

 

Woods said that companies like Save Mart that are adopting reliable open source software are positioning themselves for competitive advantage now and when conditions rebound.

 

“We are looking forward to the success of Save Mart and assisting them with their data management need,” he added.

 

Ingres is a open source database management company. The company claims top be one of the largest open source companies in the world and the pioneer of the new economics of IT, providing open source solutions at a dramatically reduced cost compared with proprietary software vendors.