Sysware to Assist With Growing Sybase IQ Deployments Across the Region

Sydney, Australia – 25 August 2006 - Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading enterprise infrastructure and mobile software company, today announced that Sysware Consulting Group (Sysware) has formed an alliance with Sybase NZ Ltd (Sybase)  to provide professional consulting services around the Sybase® IQ business analytics server solution in New Zealand and in Australia .

Founded in 1985, Sysware is an international business intelligence consultancy group with offices in Auckland, Wellington, Sydney and Melbourne. Its core business is to deliver a range of data warehousing and business intelligence services to the telecommunications, health, education, finance, manufacturing, retail and government sectors.

Sysware selected Sybase IQ due to the speed of access to data and scalability it offered compared to traditional cube-based business intelligence (BI) solutions. Its column- rather than records-based approach to analytics also enables Sysware to implement niche solutions that enable organisations to seamlessly migrate from operational to strategic BI for real-time analysis and reporting.

Sybase IQ is a highly optimised analytics server, designed specifically to deliver ultra-high-speed business intelligence and reporting on standard hardware and operating systems. It delivers answers to ad hoc queries up to 100 times faster than traditional databases, and enables organisations to compress data by up to 70 percent, reducing operating costs while scaling to handle hundreds of variable data sources, thousands of users and virtually unlimited data.

"As a niche consulting company, we are constantly developing relationships with new business partners like Sybase to assist us in our ability to provide solutions that meet client needs," said Charles Chinnaiyah, Managing Director at Sysware. “We will operate initially as a consulting partner with a view to expand the relationship with Sybase based on client demand. Sybase IQ provides us with a flexible, scalable business intelligence architecture that we can value-add with our highly-specialised skills and experience to ensure our clients can achieve improved and robust data infrastructures within their business.”

"Sybase is pleased to work with Sysware to be able to leverage their extensive experience and knowledge through this alliance,” said Steve Dolan, Director Channels and Alliances, Sybase Australia and New Zealand. Together we can better serve the increasing demands for business intelligence solutions that offer the mission-critical query processing speeds, industry-leading data compression and end-user scalability that organisations across a diverse range of vertical markets, including banking and finance, government, and telecommunications, currently require.”

Sybase is currently running an IQ roadshow with breakfast seminars in Australia and New Zealand. Remaining dates include Brisbane on 28 August, Canberra on 30 August, and Auckland on 1 September. For more information and registration details, please visit www.sybase.com.au/IQreporting

About Sysware Consulting Group

Sysware Consulting Group is an international business intelligence consultancy group with offices in Auckland, Wellington, Sydney and Melbourne. Founded in 1985, its core business is to deliver a range of data warehousing and business intelligence services for not only IT departments, but also for business and government. Sysware is capable of providing both vendor neutral consulting advice, and also of delivering hands-on solutions using different technologies through its subsidiary companies, including Datamax, which is the largest and longest serving SAS Quality Partner in Australasia. For further information, visit http://www.syswaregroup.com/

About Sybase, Inc.
Sybase is the largest enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilising information from the data centre to the point of action. Sybase provides open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, enabling customers to create an information edge. The world’s most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. Sybase ANZ is headquartered in Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, Canberra and Wellington, New Zealand. For more information visit www.sybase.com.au or www.sybase.co.nz.

Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc.

Special Note: Statements concerning Sybase’s new business relationships and related products are by nature forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include shifts in customer demand, rapid technological changes, availability and quality of third party products, competitive factors and unanticipated delays in scheduled product availability.  Some of the risks are detailed from time to time in Sybase’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, copies of which can be viewed on Sybase’s web site at www.sybase.com.