Sydney, Australia – November 14, 2007 – Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that Sybase® IQ analytics server has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the 2007 Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant report authored by Donald Feinberg and Mark A. Beyer (October 10, 2007). The report evaluates vendors that supply database management system software to power enterprise data warehousing.

“Our customers tell us that Sybase IQ analytics server is the ideal solution for analytics. Its innovative column-based architecture helps customers accelerate the time to value for applications such as risk analysis and analytics-as-a-service. We consider our position in the visionaries quadrant a strong validation of the role this next-generation of data warehouse plays in mission-critical analytics systems,” said Dr. Raj Nathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase.

Sybase IQ is a highly optimised analytics server, able to handle the most challenging data warehousing requirements with ease—improving query times by as much as 100 times. Organisations with very large data warehouses benefit from the significant reduction in hardware and energy costs due to Sybase IQ’s compression capability. In a recent independent benchmark on a world’s record one petabyte of raw data, Sybase IQ compressed data 85 percent resulting in a “green” data environment with 90 percent less CO2 emissions over the data warehouse’s life time. http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1054011.

Designed from the start as an analytics server, Sybase IQ produces its incredible results because of a unique architecture combining a column-based data structure with patented indexing and a scalable grid. Compatible with standard hardware platforms and leading analytics applications, Sybase IQ offers extraordinarily high performance at a lower cost than a traditional row-oriented database. Sybase IQ also reduces storage and server requirements compared to traditional database management systems. Sybase IQ has been tested on trillions of rows of data and is the TPC-H price-performance record holder in the 1 terabyte and 300 gigabyte categories.

Nearly 1,000 organisations worldwide use Sybase IQ including over 200 of the major financial institutions. Customers include leading global organisations such as Metropolitan Health Group, Superpharm, Wangfujing Department Store, Alvion Technologies, Pick 'n Pay, S&H Solutions, Taiwan Lottery, Korea Customs Service, LoanPerformance, IXIS Bank, Statistics Canada, Telstra, comScore, Allianz, China Telcom, Shopzilla, Nielsen Media Research. For more information on Sybase IQ, please visit www.sybase.com/bi. To view the 2007 Gartner Data Warehouse DBMS Magic Quadrant on the Sybase website, please visit www.sybase.com/2007GartnerDWMQ.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 10, 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Sybase, Inc.
Sybase is the largest global 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. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com.

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