Sybase SA's BI Practice has been named winner of IBM's prestigious 'Best of the Best Business Partner Awards' for 'Most Outstanding Information Management Solution', due to its achievement of the highest revenue in the partner base for Africa for IBM's Information Management Brand.
"As the primary representative of this leading technology in South Africa, we are proud to be recognised for our dedication and performance," commented Sybase SA's CEO, Alan Cowley on winning the award.
"This award is especially significant because even though IBM's Information Management brand covers many products, Sybase's BI Practice got the award solely on the sales of the IBM Information Server product (IIS).
"Despite several supplier changes that we had to deal with, our commitment and investment in the product set has never changed," he added. "Sybase's BI Practice division has been selling and supporting this technology through IBM's acquisition trail since its days under the name of Ardent - DataStage."
With regard to why sales of the product have soared, he says DataStage has always been the global leader in the ETL (data extraction, transformation and loading) space. Following IBM's acquisition of the product and subsequent enhancements, Cowley said this technology has become the leader in the data integration space, that includes ETL, data profiling, data matching, and metadata.
"IIS completely addresses the current data integration requirements faced by all our local customers and sales still look set to increase," he says. "The local technical knowledge and skills-base is solid, giving numerous customers the confidence to continue investing in it while the product suite is being expanded to an even bigger integration applicability."
Cowley says the award also proves BI Practice is on its way to achieving its vision to become the best BI provider in Africa. It has more than doubled its business in the last two years, which Cowley largely attributes to the fact that BI Practice is an independent operating entity not only tied to Sybase products.
"This means our BI experts are able to design the best solutions for their customers," he concluded.
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BI Practice, a division of Sybase SA, deploys integrated business intelligence (BI) solutions with local expertise, experience and understanding. Using best-of-breed BI and integration technologies from leading software vendors, it provides a complete end-to-end business intelligence solution that offers a guaranteed return on investment (ROI). The comprehensive technology offering is extended to provide local support, certified training and specialised consulting.
Established seven years ago, BI Practice has undergone dramatic growth, to become one of South Africa's premier business intelligence (BI) service providers.
With the help of its team of highly skilled BI and integration consultants that are able to turn technology into the solutions and services that businesses need, BI Practice is well on its way to achieving its vision of becoming the best BI provider in South and southern Africa.
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