Sybase South Africa, the local arm of the global industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, has announced the availability of its SQL Anywhere 12 database and synchronisation solution.
SQL Anywhere is optimised for mission-critical database applications running outside traditional data centre environments, requiring little or no on-site IT support.
“The newest version of SQL Anywhere provides major new enhancements, including support for storage and synchronisation of spatial data, iPhone devices, and large-scale synchronisation environments; and new self-management features,” says Julie Tomlinson, director at Sybase South Africa.
Sybase continues to set industry firsts with SQL Anywhere 12, core component of the Sybase Mobility Platform - the industry's first and most expansive framework of best-in-class mobility servers, mobile applications and mobile services to empower enterprises to transform the way they connect to their customers and enable their employees.
Sybase is the first database vendor to offer database and synchronisation support for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile smartphone devices, as well as the first to offer spatial data support in its mobile database and synchronisation platform.
"SQL Anywhere is a best kept secret among more than 20 000 developers who relish its ease of embedding and minimal database administration," wrote Merv Adrian, principal analyst, IT Market Strategy. "With its already expansive following and existing strength in healthcare, retail, financial services and government markets, and marquee customers with large deployments such as the 2010 US Census, China Customs, and Pepsi Bottling Group, SQL Anywhere is poised to extend its leadership further."
More than 10 million users have benefited from applications that have been deployed by ISVs who rely on the SQL Anywhere embedded database server to power their business-critical systems. SQL Anywhere 12 continues to add self-management innovations, addressing the evolving requirements of solution providers across many vertical markets.
“PAR's PixelPoint POS Restaurant Software is one of the few hospitality applications that uses a commercial-grade SQL engine - SQL Anywhere - to drive the entire suite of applications. Our customers need software that is easy to use, has flexibility to fit their business model, and most importantly has appliance grade reliability,” says David Paiva, CTO at PAR PixelPoint, developer of a full range of independent to enterprise-size restaurant POS software solutions. "The scale-out components, migration process and multi-programming adjustments now available in SQL Anywhere 12 are second to none. While new features have been added, Sybase has made the features we already love simpler and easier to use. SQL Anywhere is absolutely key to the reliability, scalability and ease of use of our application. It's been rock solid.”
The new features and enhancements of SQL Anywhere 12 include:
* Spatial support to enable tracking, location-aware querying, data management and synchronisation of spatial data; support for OGC and SQLMM standards for spatial data types and APIs, native import for shape files and built-in functions to export to KML, GML and SVG formats;
* Scale-out support to allow high-transaction volume database servers to offload read-only and reporting transactions to a self-managing tree of scale-out servers;
* Mobility tools to effectively manage, monitor, diagnose and deploy large-scale sync environments on various device platforms. The addition of iPhone support in SQL Anywhere 12 makes Sybase the only database vendor to provide such capabilities for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and iPhone;
* Self-management innovations such as server thread auto-tuning that automatically adapts to changing workloads, self-healing statistics management and synchronisation dynamic cache sizing for environments where resources are changing in real-time and DBA intervention is not readily available; and
* Developer productivity enhancements, including new Oracle/MySQL compatibility; support for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010; and enhanced full-text search filtering capabilities.
“SQL Anywhere 12 is a culmination of research and development that serves existing customers while addressing emerging requirements for embedded database server and mobile applications,” says Dave Neudoerffer, VP of engineering at Sybase. “This SQL Anywhere release breaks new ground with innovations for growing data volume, diverse data types and new device platforms to further enhance Sybase's leading mobility platform."
SQL Anywhere 12 will be available in the third quarter.
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