Industries

MySQL provides organizations across multiple industries with affordable, reliable, and high-performance database servers, tools and connectors to cost-effectively implement applications that help them gain a competitive edge. In particular, MySQL offers organizations in the following highly competitive industries unique advantages:

• Biotech - The biotech industry is very research intensive and generates huge amounts of raw data in an effort to detect diseases early, develop new therapeutics and find innovative treatments. Biotech organizations need a data management solution to capture, analyze, and manage this explosive growth of data.
• Communications - Operators, services providers, and equipment providers that require a highly reliable and embeddable database can depend on MySQL to deliver networking applications, data warehouse applications, OSS and BSS systems.
• Content and Workflow Management - Content Management and Workflow Systems were only available to large organizations who could afford a large software and hardware investment. However, with MySQL and numerous high-quality open source infrastructure products available, organizations can quickly deliver cost-effective content management systems.
• Education - Schools and universities are under constand budget pressure and are turning to MySQL as a cost-effective database solution. Using MySQL, they can develop high performance, reliable applications that automate many of the academic and administrative processes.
• Enterprise 2.0 - MySQL defines Enterprise 2.0 as modern organizations implementing Web 2.0 technologies, architectures, and delivery models to offer browser-based, data-driven online applications to their business users. These applications are being developed using popular Web 2.0 technologies including Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP), plus modern frameworks, like AJAX and Ruby on Rails.
• Healthcare - The fundamental component behind major healtcare initiatives such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), is the Clinical Data Repository (CDR), which requires a high-performance transactional database for processing patient information. MySQL enables organizations to quickly deliver modern, flexible healthcare solutions.
• Network Management - Network Management products can be expensive and are difficult to implement. More importantly, they have trouble capturing the level of detail network managers need to effectively identify traffic bottlenecks and optimize the performance of large networks. MySQL enables ISVs and OEMs to overcome these limitations and build modern network management products.
• Retail - Retailers can turn the tremendous volumes of real-time data into actionable information to meet 6 key retail technology initiatives
• Security - CIOs are relying on automated security appliances and intrusion detection systems than can secure access to the network and detect security breaches. Leading Security Appliance and Intrusion Detection System vendors such as Enterasys, Sandstorm and SourceFire have selected MySQL to help network managers secure their IT infrastructure.
• Small and Medium Business - MySQL Enterprise is a proven business-critical database application that can give you every benefit you need to safely grow and thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. Benefits include: Low total cost of ownership; little-to-no addition resources needed, highly scalable platform, 24x7 problem resolution and consultative support.
• Travel & Hospitality - Hotels, airlines, and travel wholesalers can quickly modernize their systems and leverage the Web to build automated self-service applications.
• Web - MySQL has long been recognized as the number one database for highly demanding web applications. Not surprisingly MySQL powers many of the most advanced and high-scale web sites in the world including organizations like Google, Flickr, YouTube, Craigslist, Wikipedia and others. Find out what makes MySQL uniquely designed to provide session management and cost-effective scale-out.

Alcatel, Nokia, Suzuki, Axfood, Yahoo, Technorati, Sabre Holding and Lufthansa are among the leading organizations in these industries using MySQL to increase revenues and gain a competitive advantage. Learn how you can put MySQL to work to make your business more efficent.

Not only is MySQL popular in these industries, it's also used for many popular application scenarios including online applications, data warehousing, reporting and custom application development.